US Nationals 2010

[ben1996123]

was the 2x2 single WR on video?

Yes.

Please upload!!!!!11111one

 

[StachuK1992]

maybe it was said in the thread, but I didn't read it all...

could someone explain how the final happened? I'm kinda curious

One person at a time.

They all waited in the back room, waiting to be called up, not being allowed to know how others did.

Music played, chosen by each competitor.
They came in.
They did their five solves.
They sat down.

repeat.

It was very very nice - I think it should be used again.

 

[ChrisBird]

Did you know:
Tool time with MeMyselfandPi would make a GREAT weekly show?
Jules Waffle Manalang set the world record for 1L of Orangina chugging?
His best time was sub-50?
He puked after the 2nd Liter?
Sarah pronounced it "Oh-ran-jy-nuh"?
We couldn't let her live it down?
"Sexy" Marco caught on much more than I thought it would?
I met shiz loads of awesome people that I only talked to online?
Chris Tran and Andrew Kang make awesome room mates?
Kang pwnd Tristan at Star Craft just about every single time?
Tristan is hella tall?
Tristan is a really cool guy who needs to make it to more comps?
While the finalists were competing one at a time there was a livecast on the projector with the other finalists practicing?
Waffle writes epic notes about YouTube noobs?
I was part of that?
I laughed and knew it was all true?
Statchu slept on the ceiling for about 10 minutes?
He left a broken magic in our room?
I got Nathaniel Knopf's 7x7 back out (that I got a while ago), restickered it, and got a new PB on it?
Sky's 7x7 was really weird and goopy feeling but I got a 6:13.xx single and 6:3x.xx average with it?
Stefan totally pwnd me in Illusion?
I lost $100 because of it?
Sarah got a load of her stuff stolen?
She beat me by .17 seconds in the illusion contest?
I have more but am too lazy to type them up now?
See you next post?
Nationals was awesome?

 

[blade740]

Well, the competition is over, I'm at the airport waiting for my flight, and there's only one thing left to do. That's right, it's...


DID YOU KNOW?

-I ended up next to another cali cuber on my flight, completely by accident.
-my flight in to boston got delayed due to weather and we had to land in providence because we ran out of fuel.
-this has been a ridiculously successful competition for me. I broke a total of 13 competition pbs. That's 3, 4, 5, sq1, megaminx, pyraminx, single and average, as well as 2x2 average. Basically everything I competed in except fmc and 2x2 single.
-I owe my success to two things: the book "zen in the art of archery", and some advice dan cohen gave me: "don't suck"
-Team # as a whole took home 28 medals in the awards ceremony this year, out of around 65 total. No group of cubers dominates so hard. We've rocked US nationals for 3 years straight and we'll do it again next year.
-Team # swept 2 events: clock and feet.
-team blindfold is awesome.
-team blindfold variants are awesomer
-I did a 44 second square-1 team bld with dan, a 2:3X yes/no team bld (solver can't speak, caller can only say yes and no) with tim sun, and a 4:xx yes/no team bld using working corner with peter greenwood.
-after my sq1 single I was angry because I got to ep at 8, and was hoping for a sub10. I didn't realize it was the world record until david told me. (As soon as I get the scramble I'll do a reconstruction)
-this competition marks only the second time I've beaten takao at sq1, in 13 competitions.
-there were no average world records, but 3 broken singles and one tied.
-I met some awesome foreign cubers: jude and rowan from the UK and a few canadians that didn't make it last year.
-there is still a card stuck to the bottom of one of the elevators in the hyatt.
-we learned the dirty truth about dan cohen
-after many setbacks, the brits came through unexpectedly.
-Kian brought a total of 9 rutgers hats.
-maru lube is amazing, although lubix made my maru 4x4 godly.
-there were vending machines on even floors of the hotel between 4 and 12. Throughout the course of the weekend, floors 12,10,and 8 were wiped clean of mountain dew.
-I had a great time, saw a bunch of old friends and made a bunch of new ones, and I can't wait for next year.

I'll post more as I think of it.

 

[ianini]

anyone still at the Hyatt? im bored....

 

[Chapuunka]

-we learned the dirty truth about dan cohen

:confused:

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Anybody have a picture of the "dirty truth?" Haha

 

[blade740]

The truth will come out soon enough.

 

[Gavin]

-Team # swept 2 events: clock and feet.

Didn't we also sweep 4x4?

 

[qqwref]

Depends whether you count someone who doesn't go to the chat anymore as part of the team.

 

[Anthony]

Just a few...

DYK...

- I progressively got worse at 3x3.
- imo, I did much worse in all the 2x2 rounds than the 3x3 finals.
- I'm one of the first 16 people to ever compete in four rounds of any event at one competition. xD
- Entrance music was epic.
- Weston can't walk and cube at the same time, apparently.
- 250+ people being almost totally silent while you cube on stage for them is scary. lol.
- Cameron grew 6 inches since last Nats.
- I'm glad Michal came even though he beat me in everything. >_>
- Everyone knows how sexy Rowe's chest is now. haha.
- JT
- Waffo is fluffy.
- Chris T. even trolls irl.
- Dan is the only person in the world that gets booed after getting a 1:10 5x5 single. lmao.
- The crowd goes wild every time Joey gets a sub 2 5x5 single. :3
- Both Andrews learnt how to not fail.
- I finally accomplished one of my longtime goals (top 50 in 2, 3, and OH avgs.).
- I'm FINALLY going to practice to improve my truly pathetic 600+ 4x4 rank.
- Kevin Hays turns fast, even on big cubes. Very fast.
- Dbax needs to do clock irl now. ;D
- Woner.......
- Racing Rowan makes me get fast times. :3
- We tied while racing. (9.91)
- Jude has more poker friends than cubing friends.
- Chris B. is nocturnal.
- I came out in a few pictures in the Boston Globe.

 

[StachuK1992]

-Team # as a whole took home 28 medals in the awards ceremony this year, out of around 65 total. No group of cubers dominates so hard. We've rocked US nationals for 3 years straight and we'll do it again next year.

Yeahhhhh!
#

 

[waffle=ijm]

Did you know....

- Danger Jameson is epic early in the morning
- Ryan Reese's idea to bring a giant monitor was well worth it.
- Orangina
- Protein is important to women who just came out of a gym
- Double _noun_ across the _noun_
- There was a indoor pool in our bathroom. and no one was a good swimmer
- Ohio
- Kate Sosik = Hoedown Throwdown
- There were so many vegetarians
- I was in bed with a half naked anthony brooks and I liked it
- Weston didn't sign my ass
- I met the guy who taught me Roux
- Andrew Kang purposely puts pressure on Roux solvers to make sure he doesn't get beat.
- Creative use of table is creative.
- Junk food and tons of soda equates to room 309
- Tristan isn't good at SC2.
- And I beat him my first try playing starcraft 2
- I'm scared of andrew kang's SC2 skills
- I put too much stuff about starcraft2
- NLcuber is actually pretty chill.
- Failed at getting sub-30 OH single...3 times...
- Rewks
- Stachu likes backtrace black people
- Andrew Kang DEMANDS ANOTHER ROUND OF BLIND!
- Dan Cohen LIED TO US!
- MIT weather loves us. Rains when we're outside. Sunshine when we're chilling in the lobby
- MIT backwards is TIM...Tim Reynolds
- Maru Maru Maru Maru
- I liek 6x6
- Asians+anthony like to Troll black guys
- 4 Green cross users + a jap scheme user + another CFop user + A Roux user = epic team solve.
- Patrick Kelly wants to give me a premium membership
- I wish I saw Chester doing more drunk things
- I took in 2000 calories worth of soda and orangina...in a day
- Short Joey is short, but is well loved
- I love Sarah like Nakajima
- Double Melons
- There wasn't a single taco bell around the place.
- Muffins...
- More orangina
- Weston has multiple partners
- Chris Tran is a white supremacist
- John Tomatoes and I tied each others shoes.
- Gwen Steffani still uses Roux
- Walking 1 mile for 3 24-packs of soda, 2 sandwiches, 5 bags of chips, and a **** load of candy was well worth it.
- Danger woke me up with erasure.
- The day we decided to stop using one of our roommates annoying alarms to settle with a less annoying one was the day we were late to the comp.

more soon...

 

[RyanReese09]

you forgot to mention stachu got wr oh..without a cube

builds off the concept of me bringing the monitor...

 

[blade740]

Depends whether you count someone who doesn't go to the chat anymore as part of the team.

Oh yeah, we counted both you and rowe, even though neither of you is actually in # much. You're still team #.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Thanks to everyone for coming, nationals was great. It was well worth the work to spend a weekend cubing with everyone and see all the great times that were set. I enjoyed myself thoroughly the whole weekend.

I've been getting ready for nationals on-and-off for the last eight months, starting November 30 when I booked the venue. Seeing it all come together and be a success was great.

I also got to talk to Chris Tran about ZBLL finally. His algs are terrible

- MIT backwards is TIM...Tim Reynolds

NO WAI!

Oh, funny story. So, Thursday, we were doing setup and the judges were competing in the first rounds. Then this big group of Japanese tourists comes in and lines up in the back of Kresge, watching. None of the people present speaks Japanese, and nobody in the tour group speaks English. We try to get in touch with Macky to help us out, but we can't. Then they all come up right in front of the stage to watch. It was incredibly awkward since we had absolutely no way of communicating with them and telling them what was going on, and they were just standing there looking confused. Then they just kinda wandered out.

 

[nlCuber22]

Did you know....
- Orangina

ORANGINA

- Junk food and tons of soda equates to room 309

I left my Mountain Dew and chocolate pretzels in there. Hope you had fun with them :3

- NLcuber is actually pretty chill.

- Stachu likes backtrace black people

Ya dun goofed up

 

[Gavin]

Did You Know?
Joey is from Australia
Joey is better at 5x5 than Dan according to the crowd
You can pop a cube by kicking it against a wall
Team # pwnd.
Square-1 finals scramble 3 was impossible to scramble right
I almost canceled Andrew Nelson's hotel reservation
Chester can reverse moon walk

That is all.

 

[blah]

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[Andreaillest]

Did you know....
-I was in bed with a half naked anthony brooks and I liked it

LOLWAT?