US Nationals 2010

[ChrisBird]

Did you know that...?

- Massachusetts is a name for the Algonquian native people who lived around the bay, from Algonquian Massachusett "at the large hill," in reference to Great Blue Hill, southwest of Boston.
-The 8.78 was a COLL alg (F' L F R' F' L' F R) but was done after a second of realizing it could be a PLL skip and then a y cube rotation.
-I had a counting 13 in the Final round which ruined my average.
-I brought only 3x3's to this competition.
-I pretty much sucked in every event I competed in besides 3x3 Speed. And even then I sucked.
-I liked the format of the final round, especially theme music aspect.
-I liked Lucas' original theme song for the final round better.
-David Wonder is taller than I imagined him to be.
-Justin Jaffray is too cool, but he has a weird AUF for 2x2.
-Rowan and Jude are also too cool.
-Rowan should've won.
-Chris Tran is too cool of a person. Him and his ZB trip me out.
-Chris Tran has cool reactions to things.
-Sarah Strong looks different than what I imagined her to look like.
-Sarah Strong is too cool and should've made it to the next round.
-There are too many Chris', Davids, Dans, Andys/Andrews, Tims.
-I thought I was master of the 3x3 sim until I talked to that Plescowicz guy and he told me he got a sub-9 avg of 12. I'll get him soon though with a significantly sub-9 avg of 12.
-Weston Mizumoto plays some crazy piano.
-That Waffle guy is nuts.
-Ian Jones helped me out a lot and I thank him for that.
-Someone cusses too much...
-I mean, I understanding the urge to cuss every now and then, but there's a limit goddamnit!
-The Italians think we eat too much junk food.
-Filipo is crazy at Magic.
-I missed my flight at 6am (after staying up the whole night) and had to wait until 5pm for the next flight to LAX (stopping at Salt Lake City).
-I ran into Michael Young on that flight.
-Something about Ohio...
-Oh oh! I talked with that Davidson guy and Chris Tran and sat in on their conversation about ZB and anti-ZB. Davidson is a trip and a half.
-Having a round of 3x3 first thing in the morning is a horrible idea.
-I still hold my title of 2nd in the Nation.
-Shoutout to Marco Mendoza, Data, Anthony Brooks, and Joey Gouly.

Who?

 

[Chapuunka]

-Someone cusses too much...

Who?

Like so next time. Unnecessarily long quote trees are no good.

 

[Sa967St]

Did you know that...?
-Justin Jaffray is too cool, but he has a weird AUF for 2x2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ana7bRfGGYY

-Chris Tran has cool reactions to things.

WHOAAAHHHH *pulls hair back and steps backwards*

-Sarah Strong looks different than what I imagined her to look like.
-Sarah Strong is too cool and should've made it to the next round.

thanks

 

[Weston]

Did you know:
- I helped clean up the broken glass in the lobby?

LOL I'm so sorry.
I was going to help but I had finals.

 

[Micael]

Did you know...

I drove 4.5h to Cambridge?
stay there for 3h?
failed in multi 8/14?
the first person I saw once I remove the blindfold is Stefan Pochmann?
that blows my mind?
drove 5h back home?

 

[Tyson]

You're lucky. I wake up every morning wishing to open my eyes to Stefan Pochmann.

 

[krnballerzzz]

You're lucky. I wake up every morning wishing to open my eyes to Stefan Pochmann.

Story of my life.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Did you know:
-The different people named David and Chris made things very confusing.

Oh please. There were 6 andrews and 3 andys.

Oh please. There were two Andrew Nelsons. One of whom almost had his rooms canceled.

 

[shelley]

You're lucky. I wake up every morning wishing to open my eyes to Stefan Pochmann.

You would have if you didn't insist on taking the right side of the bed.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

I've checked 1848 scorecards, and I can now announce that the final, official results are posted on the WCA page.

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...lts=All+Results&competitionId=USNationals2010

Tim, Dan, and Michael now have the top 3 highest number of solves in one competition.

US Nationals had the highest number of entries in Results (that is, counting each person once per round of each event). The ranking is

USNationals2010 1915
WC2009 1805
USNationals2009 1163
WC2007 1109
HungarianOpen2009 1002
Euro2008 917
GermanOpen2010 826
AachenOpen2010 803
IndonesianChampionship2010 744
GuangdongOpen2009 732
HungarianOpen2008 728
CologneOpen2010 726
USOpen2008 694
CzechOpen2010 627
WC2005 626

I'm too lazy to change this so that it counts the number of non-DNF/DNS solves.

Phew. I'm done.

 

[spdqbr]

Did you know...
-SQUID!

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Comparing to last year:

National titles defended:
5x5: Dan Cohen (3 years)
5x5 BLD: Mike Hughey (3 years)
Multi BLD: Mike Hughey (3 years)
3x3: Rowe Hessler (2 years)
3x3 BLD: Alex Yu (2 years)
FMC: David Woner (2 years)
Pyraminx: Felix Lee (2 years)
Clock: David Woner (2 years)

In 6x6, 7x7, and multi blind, the winning result was worse this year than last year.

In fewest moves, the winning result was equal to that of last year (and by the same person! [at least one of them])

In 2x2, the winning result was only .01 lower than last year.

All other winning results went down. [note: when I refer to "winning result", I mean the final round single/average that the national champion got, which in some cases isn't what won the competition]

 

[Tyson]

"USNationals2010 1915
WC2009 1805
USNationals2009 1163
WC2007 1109
HungarianOpen2009 1002"

So at least US 2009 beat WC 2007, and looks like US 2010 beat WC 2009. WC 2009 being over 4 days, I'd be curious in terms of number of entries per hours of competition. We had three days, doing about 9am to 5:30 or 6pm on each day I believe, not to mention we pretty much pissed away the last two hours for the dramatic final.

Good job team! I'd like to award Tim and Jim the 'efficiency' prize for most efficient competition ever run. I think we can do better of course, as evidenced by our pages and pages of notes right now.

1915 results / ~26 hours = 74 results per hour. What would be especially interesting is main stage efficiency. In terms of the first round of 3x3, we got through basically ~200 competitors in about... 2 hours? Maybe 100 minutes? Not sure. Past 16 timers on the main stage is not something we can support without a major increase in staff.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

4x4 BLD: Mike Hughey (3 years)

5x5 BLD?

 

[StachuK1992]

>_<
Why did everyone but Takao suck at Magic in the 2nd round?

 

[shelley]

Did you know...
-SQUID!

Crap, I forgot the SQUID! (wait, does that mean I succeeded?)

 

[Tim Major]

Did you know...?
- I should have trusted my feet.

Spoiler

I use r2 for big cube BLD and use my feet to keep track of the state of the r slice. Halfway through the wing edges of my first 5x5 BLD solve, I second guessed myself, counted through the cycle and concluded my feet were wrong. They weren't. I could have had a 27 minute success if I had trusted my feet.

- Holy crap earplugs are awesome. I knew people used them for big BLD events, but somehow never thought to try them myself. Thanks Shaden for helping me see the light.

Haha
This comp sounded awesome. :'(
That's actually a cool idea

 

[Vincents]

Did you know...?

- It is now under the umbrella and I still don't know why.

No it's not. Why would it ever be under the umbrella?

 

[MrData]

Did you know:
-Frotay is awesome at foot solving?

 

[Micael]

You're lucky. I wake up every morning wishing to open my eyes to Stefan Pochmann.

I use the method he invented (M2/R2), so it was special to see him.