US Nationals 2010

[ExoCorsair]

Are you learning using only that video? If so, why not use written lyrics in conjunction with the song (I don't hear a difference between the one you linked and the OP/ep24)?
For example (kanji, romaji, ignore the translation):
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/luckystar/motteke.jis.txt

Compare the time between "F R E E Z E!" and "Nankadaru." But I think that's the only difference.

Eh, being Japanese I prefer to rely on the original lyrics, with the stars, hearts, spaces, arrows, random katakanas, and kanjis that aren't usually used. Anything else means information loss.

Mm, fair enough. Hope to see this in action sometime soon.

 

[Bob]

Did you know that:

- I gave out over 50 tubes of Lubix, and 2 dozen shirts.

Thank you.

 

[Tyson]

Did you know:
Jules Waffle Manalang set the world record for 1L of Orangina chugging?

set, then broke

It is of course not the volume that's difficult, but the carbonation. Orangina mile anyone?

 

[RyanReese09]

damn that was painful for me lol. the carbonation killed me when i was halfway through. my stomache was completely full from the gas bubblse

mystery event next year ftw. team orangina chugging

 

[Tyson]

Yeah, you have to know how to burp. It's what makes this record particularly impressive in that the bottle never leaves his lips.

 

[flee135]

Yeah, you have to know how to burp. It's what makes this record particularly impressive in that the bottle never leaves his lips.

He claimed that he released the gas from his nose. I figured it was similar to circular breathing that some musicians are capable of doing.

 

[waffle=ijm]

hahahha we're discussing orangina techniques :3

 

[RyanReese09]

i love your sig waffles

srs techniques deserves srs discussion

 

[Rpotts]

dude don't learn zbll. i mean, c'mon.

 

[RyanReese09]

dude don't learn zbll. i mean, c'mon.

and why not? its what i want to do. cfop is boring me

 

[Tim Reynolds]

dude don't learn zbll. i mean, c'mon.

and why not? its what i want to do. cfop is boring me

Only noobs learn ZBLL.

 

[RyanReese09]

dude don't learn zbll. i mean, c'mon.

and why not? its what i want to do. cfop is boring me

Only noobs learn ZBLL.

perfect for me then

 

[aronpm]

Does Waffle know OranginaZB?

 

[Carson]

I am going to have to see if I can get this "Orangina" locally... gonna have to see if I can beat that record.

 

[RyanReese09]

i just got one today, 51.56, nonstop

im trying to learn to bld it, but its hard

 

[Dene]

olook now I know what waffle looks like.

 

[jms_gears1]

olook now I know what waffle looks like.

ya, he has a big orangina.

 

[pjk]

Thanks for Tim and the entire organization team for putting together such an amazing competition. Also thanks to Tim for letting me sleep on his couch for 3 nights.

Also, I am missing my stackmat timer. It is just the timer, and doesn't have the lower plastic piece with it that holds it to the mat (I have the plastic piece but no timer). The reset button is nearly gone on the timer. If anyone has it, please send me a PM, thanks!

Congrats to Rowe for being a back-to-back US champion, very impressive.

Did you know...
- I ran into someone on the bus from the airport to Boston who studied in England last year, just like I did?
- Tim's MIT frat house is huge?
- One of Tim's housemates went to high school very close to where I did in southern Colorado?
- We talked physics until 3:45am, and I slept less than 4 hours the first night I arrived?
- I beat Sam Boyle in foosball 3 times?
- The comp. venue was near to perfect?
- I didn't sleep more than 5 hours in a night the entire week I was on the east coast?
- Sam is quite good at contact juggling?
- Boston is a nice city?
- NYC is huge?
- Yankee Stadium isn't as nice as I thought it would be?
- The WTC were huge?
- Cubing in Time Square is awesome, especially when the fastest female solver (by single solve) shows up to race (we each won one race)?
- Donovan is an amazing driver, especially in downtown NYC?
- We slept in our car a block from Time Square after walking the city until 3am?
- We got a parking ticket, but ended up being void due to incorrect data on the ticket?
- Parking in NYC is a bad idea?
- the NYC subway sucks?
- Pollution in NYC is really terrible?
- Boston at 2am on a Tuesday night is dead?
- Kelley's Pub in Boston is amazing?
- Harvard is smaller than I thought?
- MIT has lots of nice architecture?
- We got another parking ticket 2 minutes after the meter went to 0 min?
- Toby Mao and Chris Dzoan are great magicians, especially to non-sober cubers?
- International phone calls on a pay phone is ridiculous?
- this trip was incredible, and I definitely want to go to NYC again to check out central park, empire state building, and Coney island?
- all the new people I met at Nats were awesome?

Thanks guys, another fun year at Nats.

 

[InfernoTowel]

Waffle uses Roux for Orangina.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Just got back home from Boston. That was my first competition. Thanks to all of the people that organized the competition. It was pretty awesome. It was pretty cool to get second place in pyraminx too.