US Nationals 2009

Sa967St said:
A lot of Thrawst's predictions were wrong :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhyQenJgjM
Multi-BLD -- Mike Hughey
5x5 BLD, 4x4 BLD-- Chris Hardwck
Magic, Master Magic -- Timothy Sun
7x7, 6x6, 5x5, 4x4, Square-1 -- Dan Cohen
Rubik's Clock -- David Woner
Pyraminx -- Edward Lin
Megaminx -- Tim Reynolds
3x3 Fewest -- Bob Burton!
3x3 OH -- Ryan Patricio
3x3 BLD -- Leyan Lo
2x2, 3x3 -- Rowe Hessler
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lol :p he got most of the obvious ones right.
 
Sa967St said:
A lot of Thrawst's predictions were wrong :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhyQenJgjM
Multi-BLD -- Mike Hughey
5x5 BLD, 4x4 BLD-- Chris Hardwck
Magic, Master Magic -- Timothy Sun
7x7, 6x6, 5x5, 4x4, Square-1 -- Dan Cohen
Rubik's Clock -- David Woner
Pyraminx -- Edward Lin
Megaminx -- Tim Reynolds
3x3 Fewest -- Bob Burton!
3x3 OH -- Ryan Patricio
3x3 BLD -- Leyan Lo
2x2, 3x3 -- Rowe Hessler
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David and Kian were a bit better, but also that that good.
If Bob wins FMC, then I might as well as eat a shoe. I was almost certain David would win.
If Lofty, Chris Hardwick, and qqwref were there, several event would end up differently.

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Tim Sune,
Never knew that you were good at that. I predicted you for top 3 in FMC, BLD, Sq-1, and 4x4.
 
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Congratulations to all competitors, and especially those who got first in each event.

Dan for breaking his own 6x6 WR by 4 seconds.
Rowe for 2x2 and 3x3 (beastly)
Tsao with his 39 second 4x4 solve.
8/8 for Hughey.
Dang, so many major accomplishments!

I know this may not be the place to talk about me, but being my first comp I might as well do it here.
I'm very proud of 3 things, making it to round 1 of 3x3, Sub-20 Official 3x3 solve, Official Sub-5 6x6 solve, beating Garron, Pochmann and only 30 seconds behind Morris. I was really not expecting the last one!
 
MonkeyDude1313 said:
Congratulations to all competitors, and especially those who got first in each event.

Dan for breaking his own 6x6 WR by 4 seconds.
Rowe for 2x2 and 3x3 (beastly)
Tsao with his 39 second 4x4 solve.
8/8 for Hughey.
Dang, so many major accomplishments!

I know this may not be the place to talk about me, but being my first comp I might as well do it here.
I'm very proud of 3 things, making it to round 1 of 3x3, Sub-20 Official 3x3 solve, Official Sub-5 6x6 solve, beating Garron, Pochmann and only 30 seconds behind Morris. I was really not expecting the last one!
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Try again.
 
tsaoenator said:
EPIC FAIL
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Yeah, they didn't even manage to do the one mystery puzzle I knew about.

Anyhow, this competition went really well. The other organizers I've spoken to agree: this was one of the best competitions we've ever run. I'd even call it "perfect" - nothing went too wrong, and we were constantly ahead of schedule. The only issues were regular sorts of things (mistakes in scores, etc.).

I spent most of my time competing, or taking photos/updating the blog (e.g. keeping track of mystery puzzles) or Nationals photo sets. Curiously, I didn't judge very much, because the timers were full whenever I might have been able to judge. But I judged a bunch of multis, and scrambled pyra & OH finals.

Anyhow, the competition went very badly for me.
I missed round 2 of OH because I kept doing stupid stuff (30, 30, 30 POP, DNF, 22).
I went slow on BLD in round 1, got a 2:30 DNF on #2 (memoed wrong, then corrected, but execed wrong again). I went VERY slowly on #3 to make round 2, and got 2:44. I needed sub-2:33 to make the cutoff. :(
I DNFed each round in clock despite trying to turn carefully. Cost me an easy third place on the podium.
Most of the other stuff was bad, too. Practically no NRs/PBs. My only plaque is for the Stefan Pochmann Event (second place).

The only thing I did decently in was 3x3x3 speedsolve. After barely missing the second round last year, I focused on consistency (somewhat ignoring other events). It worked reasonably well, and 4th place in the finals was kinda nice (If I hadn't hesitated so long after the cross on the 15, I woulda placed on the podium...). I wouldn't say I'm happy with the average, but it's a little bit to smile at, as a conclusion to this crazy weekend.


Overall, it was a lot of fun. I met a lot of people I'd heard about but hadn't met (Clemént, Ravi, PJK, ...), and some cool math/puzzle people came: Dave Litwin, Stan Isaacs, Tom Rokicki, Wei-Hwa... It was cool to have a great competition at Stanford (fun story: at one point we needed a printer cable, so I just walked to my former roommate and picked it up - along with a printer he wasn't keeping), and the weekend meant a lot to me.
I am totally looking forward to Worlds. :)
 
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