US Nationals 2011

Did you know that...　

-I baked 18 muffins in the morning before I left in order to attempt to live off of them for the whole weekend?
-The Megabus through Columbus actually stops at the building of the venue, but I didn’t know at the time so I stayed on it and got off 10 mins down the road from it?
-When I was waiting at a bus terminal a homeless lady was asking around for food and I offered her a muffin, and when I tried to give it to her she freaked out and said she only accepts meat and potatoes?
-The street that the main hotel was on was called Olentangy River Road?
-Olentangy is Bob’s new favourite adjective?
-Someone kept calling it omegle-tree?
-The planned cube meet the day before Day 1 happened outside on the grass in front of Bob Evans, because no one thought of going inside it?
-We couldn't figure out how to turn the washroom lights in the hotel room on, so I took one of the desk lamps and an extension cord and set it up on the washroom floor?
-I conveniently accidentally badly cut my left index finger the night before Day 1?
-"It's like... Haiyan going all Haiyan"?
-My Alpha 2 sounds like toast?
-I ate a bug because someone told me to, then I ate another three just for lols?
-More people commented on my pajama pants than my tattoo and piercings (including my cube earrings) combined?
-The hotel cleaning lady was nice and didn't destroy up my pillow fort?
-All the Canadians went to the Tim Hortons for breakfast on Day 1?
-At Tim Hortons I received warm iced tea with ice in it to cover up the fact that it was warm?
-Warm iced tea is absolutely disgusting?
-Hamsledger and Slamhedger are the RB slot versions of Hedgeslammer and Sledgehammer?
-There was a convenience store called “Insomnia Cookie”?
-It wasn’t all that convenient since it was closed when we walked past it?
-Giving an icon cube to a colour blind person would be a cruel joke?
-When I was doing Team BLD with Chester, something exciting happened and everyone started cheering and clapping so I had to yell moves so Chester could hear, and just as it was getting a bit quieter I was yelling ”ANTI-TOASTER U PRIME”?
-Chester remembered what an anti-toaster was, even though the last time we practiced team BLD was about 2 years ago?
-When I was calling during Team BLD and others started yelling random notation, I felt like just walking away?
-I made Gears and Jackson addicted to skewb?
-Skewbs make good air hockey pucks?
-I failed at 3x3x3 semi-finals because the competition was ahead of schedule and I lost track of time and was skewbing too much?
-I kept unintentionally trying to turn my 3x3x3 like a skewb during official solves?
-I thought I came in last place in the 3x3x3 semi-finals, but Michael Perkins got me covered?
-My last 3x3x3 BLD was a DNF because I got bored half-way through the memo and wanted to go back to playing with my skewb?
-I learned square-1 EPs algs in between official solves, and actually ended up using two EPs that I just learned a few minutes before each of the solves?
-It’s just too bad that both of those times I did the wrong AUF/ADFs, almost causing DNFs had I not noticed that something went wrong before I slammed the square-1s down.
-I mistook Rowe's 58 megaminx solve for a 6:58 (the 0 on the timer looked like a 6 to me) and I was confused why people were clapping and cheering at it?
-I did 5x5x5 and megaminx with a band-aid on my left index finger, so I had to do U' moves with my right thumb?
-This made it very difficult for my times to not suck?
-I just barely missed the megaminx cut-off, but I would have made it if I did the EPLL more efficiently?
-I had an epic 7x7x7 pop where a center corner flew way behind me off of the stage?
-Someone who was also 7x7x7 solving at the time thought that I tripped off of the stage because of the way he heard me yell NOOOOOOO and dive off of the stage?
-While I was sprinting back to the stage with the missing center piece, my hat fell off and I didn’t bother to pick it up?
-I could’ve easily made the cut-off by a minute if it weren’t for the pop, but instead I missed it by a minute?
-Whoever was filling out the square-1 finals score cards got lazy and wrote “sq1” or “sq-1” instead of “square-1” on most of the cards?
-Because of this, I was pronouncing square-1 as “sqwun” for the rest of the day?
-“On a scale between one and olentangy..."?
-Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaappes!
-The algs for double J perms on sqwun works on a 3x3x3? (if the U and D stay square)
-“Lucas Parity” is appearantly common knowledge?
-No one gave me good suggestions for a name for my cube colour scheme?
-“Because f--- you, that’s why!”
-I got two 24oz reusable cans of Monster with ossim re-twistable lids for only $5?
-Both of the two Rebecca Black songs were played as entry songs in the 3x3x3 finals? (Christopher’s and Ethan’s)
-Me saying the alphabet backwards quickly sounds like Japanese to some people?
-Dat Juggling O_O
-A group of cubers including me were at Bob Evans cubing, and some others were outside looking through the window frantically waving their arms at us?
-I thought they were just trying to catch our attention, so I imitated them and waved my arms around randomly at them?
-It turned out that were trying to tell us that they couldn’t get inside because the front doors were locked and they’ve been waiting for us to get out for 20 mins?
-Weston's mom watches Yu Nakajima's YouTube videos and thinks he’s fantastic?
-Chris Bird has 21 different alarm clocks that have different alarms and he has out-smarted all of them?
-A small kitten doesn’t like bacon?
-Phil Yu doesn't like ZZ?
-Phil Yu's OH PLLs? O_O_O
-Kevin Hays only practices pyraminx?
-Tristan was honoured that Breandan knew his name and added that he thought he was a great YouTube cuber since he’s been around for a long time?
-Tristan needs to trust his gut feelings when he's driving without a map... and then go in the opposite direction?
-There were 6 of us in Tristan’s car at one point, and Chris Tran had to lie down sideways in back seat on top of Anthony, Weston and Chris Bird’s laps?
-Tristan should’ve parked on the roof?
-If Tristan were born a girl he would’ve been named Brooke?
-He thinks that Brooke would have been suitable because he would’ve had tight t*ts?
-On my second FMC attempt I had a decent solution but I made it too complicated to write down so I just wrote "AMCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZDNF" on the answer sheet?
-Adam was spooning Macky?
-Ryan was spooning Adam?
-Adam threw a plushy at my face, so I grabbed Laser Bunneh and tried to throw it at his face?
-It missed, and it accidentally hit him in the nuts?
-Adam didn’t give me Laser Bunneh back for an hour or so?
-Chester wrote Nakaji’s name in kanji (Chinese chars used in Japanese) on his 7x7x7 score card?
-Breandan is not the man of srice?
-Tyson was very persuasive when he was advertising Rubik's plushies over the mic?
-He even convinced me to get three (one big, two smaller fuzzy dice things) of them for the small price of only $20?
-When I was crossing the border on the way back to Canada, my luggage was randomly checked, and when the border patrol person saw my Rubik's plushies, he said I could go?
-Denny started a new side event involving stackmatting turning a reversible plushy inside out?
-I was the first to sub10 with a 9.19?
-Gears later got a 7.xx?
-Neither of the winners of the Stefan Pochmann award (Stefan and Harris) knew what the Stefan Pochmann award actually was?
-Jackson was amazed that (rU’)*10 is an X perm on a 4x4x4, not to mention he loves H perms?
-James Cavanauh just blindly guessed that 20 people would attend an after-party at Bob Evans after Day 3 and some of us figured his guess was way too high?
-In fact, way more than 20 people came?
-James found a green center cap at Bob Evans and I looked at it and told him “It looks like one from a type A 3rd model…who would have one of those now-a-days?”, forgetting that I sold my old one to Jackson, who was sitting at the table behind me, a few days before?
-The cap turned out to be from Jackson's cube?
-Wonie gathered all the Canadians he could find and got a picture with all of us?
-Lucas decided to get cracking on full OLL since he realized he already knows about two-thirds of it anyway?
-Lucas likes to write OLLs in commutator and conjugate form if he can?
-Both Christopher Olsen and Ryan Reese (the best entries in Master Magic contest in Cubecast episode 14) don’t actually know the Master Magic song off by heart?
-At the Pittsburgh bus terminal, Ryan sang the master magic song again for us?
-Anthony didn’t know what Isaac Wappes looked like so he went around with Forte asking if anyone was Isaac?
-When people would answer ‘no’ to them, Forte would try to convince them that they were indeed Isaac?
-When Macky was interviewing Nakaji, Macky dropped the f-bomb when he accidentally spoke in Japanese to the camera instead of in English?
-When this happened, everyone else in the room went from complete silence to uncontrollable laughter in an instant?
-Dan Cohen is not a chicken?
-Muffin button?
 
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ianography said:
Holy fluff that's a long list. And I am proud to say that I lol'ed on mutliple occasions.
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And you felt the need to quote the whole thing so we could read it again.

Did you know...

-Waris likes turtles?
-Rowe should have won?
-I cba to think of anything else... I'm going to sleep. Great competition everyone. I hope to see you all next year.
 
Great competition, always (my fifth year in a row) a pleasure and great fun to meet you guys and gals and I'm looking forward to see some of you again in Toronto next weekend. I'm very happy with my BLD results, did the 4x4 because of the big time limit and the music stands (so I didn't have to bother a judge holding paper for so long). That was my first official and maybe third attempt ever, so 49 minutes is still a good time for me. After that, I dared to do the 5x5 as well, failed in 1:20 but I'm quite happy with the time and with having tried at all. As a last-minute decision I bought some 3x3s to do five cubes in multi, glad I did (thanks Mike for the advice) as I got third place behind Chester and Mike (who were far ahead, of course) after I had already lost all hope for making any podium.
 
Sa967St said:
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Neil~ did you tell him to work the shaft?
Chris birds 150 dollar keyboard cost 5?
Chris told the pizza guy to deliver to the pizza places address.?
skewb pwns.?
denny and chris are best friends?
Tristan knows everything.?
I demagnetized my card 80 times.?
Team BLD has a lot of y's?
Drunk people arguing cubers are smart?
sober people arguing theyre not smart?
who's.....?
ZZ is badass even though small kittens dont like it?
we were supposed to hang out at bob evans, but everyone went to wendys instead?
it took 30 minutes to figure out how to get sarah?
jumbys pepperoni sticks are amazing?
and so is their ranch?
 
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Sa967St said:
Did you know that...　

-I baked 18 muffins in the morning before I left in order to attempt to live off of them for the whole weekend?
-The Megabus through Columbus actually stops at the building of the venue, but I didn’t know at the time so I stayed on it and got off 10 mins down the road from it?
-When I was waiting at a bus terminal a homeless lady was asking around for food and I offered her a muffin, and when I tried to give it to her she freaked out and said she only accepts meat and potatoes?
-The street that the main hotel was on was called Olentangy River Road?
-Olentangy is Bob’s new favourite adjective?
-Someone kept calling it omegle-tree?
-The planned cube meet the day before Day 1 happened outside on the grass in front of Bob Evans, because no one thought of going inside it?
-We couldn't figure out how to turn the washroom lights in the hotel room on, so I took one of the desk lamps and an extension cord and set it up on the washroom floor?
-I conveniently accidentally badly cut my left index finger the night before Day 1?
-"It's like... Haiyan going all Haiyan"?
-My Alpha 2 sounds like toast?
-I ate a bug because someone told me to, then I ate another three just for lols?
-More people commented on my pajama pants than my tattoo and piercings (including my cube earrings) combined?
-The hotel cleaning lady was nice and didn't destroy up my pillow fort?
-All the Canadians went to the Tim Hortons for breakfast on Day 1?
-At Tim Hortons I received warm iced tea with ice in it to cover up the fact that it was warm?
-Warm iced tea is absolutely disgusting?
-Hamsledger and Slamhedger are the RB slot versions of Hedgeslammer and Sledgehammer?
-There was a convenience store called “Insomnia Cookie”?
-It wasn’t all that convenient since it was closed when we walked past it?
-Giving an icon cube to a colour blind person would be a cruel joke?
-When I was doing Team BLD with Chester, something exciting happened and everyone started cheering and clapping so I had to yell moves so Chester could hear, and just as it was getting a bit quieter I was yelling ”ANTI-TOASTER U PRIME”?
-Chester remembered what an anti-toaster was, even though the last time we practiced team BLD was about 2 years ago?
-When I was calling during Team BLD and others started yelling random notation, I felt like just walking away?
-I made Gears and Jackson addicted to skewb?
-Skewbs make good air hockey pucks?
-I failed at 3x3x3 semi-finals because the competition was ahead of schedule and I lost track of time and was skewbing too much?
-I kept unintentionally trying to turn my 3x3x3 like a skewb during official solves?
-I thought I came in last place in the 3x3x3 semi-finals, but Michael Perkins got me covered?
-My last 3x3x3 BLD was a DNF because I got bored half-way through the memo and wanted to go back to playing with my skewb?
-I learned square-1 EPs algs in between official solves, and actually ended up using two EPs that I just learned a few minutes before each of the solves?
-It’s just too bad that both of those times I did the wrong AUF/ADFs, almost causing DNFs had I not noticed that something went wrong before I slammed the square-1s down.
-I mistook Rowe's 58 megaminx solve for a 6:58 (the 0 on the timer looked like a 6 to me) and I was confused why people were clapping and cheering at it?
-I did 5x5x5 and megaminx with a band-aid on my left index finger, so I had to do U' moves with my right thumb?
-This made it very difficult for my times to not suck?
-I just barely missed the megaminx cut-off, but I would have made it if I did the EPLL more efficiently?
-I had an epic 7x7x7 pop where a center corner flew way behind me off of the stage?
-Someone who was also 7x7x7 solving at the time thought that I tripped off of the stage because of the way he heard me yell NOOOOOOO and dive off of the stage?
-While I was sprinting back to the stage with the missing center piece, my hat fell off and I didn’t bother to pick it up?
-I could’ve easily made the cut-off by a minute if it weren’t for the pop, but instead I missed it by a minute?
-Whoever was filling out the square-1 finals score cards got lazy and wrote “sq1” or “sq-1” instead of “square-1” on most of the cards?
-Because of this, I was pronouncing square-1 as “sqwun” for the rest of the day?
-“On a scale between one and olentangy..."?
-Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaappes!
-The algs for double J perms on sqwun works on a 3x3x3? (if the U and D stay square)
-“Lucas Parity” is appearantly common knowledge?
-No one gave me good suggestions for a name for my cube colour scheme?
-“Because f--- you, that’s why!”
-I got two 24oz reusable cans of Monster with ossim re-twistable lids for only $5?
-Both of the two Rebecca Black songs were played as entry songs in the 3x3x3 finals? (Christopher’s and Ethan’s)
-Me saying the alphabet backwards quickly sounds like Japanese to some people?
-Dat Juggling O_O
-A group of cubers including me were at Bob Evans cubing, and some others were outside looking through the window frantically waving their arms at us?
-I thought they were just trying to catch our attention, so I imitated them and waved my arms around randomly at them?
-It turned out that were trying to tell us that they couldn’t get inside because the front doors were locked and they’ve been waiting for us to get out for 20 mins?
-Weston's mom watches Yu Nakajima's YouTube videos and thinks he’s fantastic?
-Chris Bird has 21 different alarm clocks that have different alarms and he has out-smarted all of them?
-A small kitten doesn’t like bacon?
-Phil Yu doesn't like ZZ?
-Phil Yu's OH PLLs? O_O_O
-Kevin Hays only practices pyraminx?
-Tristan was honoured that Breandan knew his name and added that he thought he was a great YouTube cuber since he’s been around for a long time?
-Tristan needs to trust his gut feelings when he's driving without a map, then go in the opposite direction?
-There were 6 of us in Tristan’s car at one point, and Chris Tran had to lie down sideways in back seat on top of Anthony, Weston and Chris Bird’s laps?
-Tristan should’ve parked on the roof?
-If Tristan were born a girl he would’ve been named Brooke?
-He thinks that Brooke would have been suitable because he would’ve had tight t*ts?
-On my second FMC attempt I had a decent solution but I made it too complicated to write down so I just wrote "AMCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZDNF" on the answer sheet?
-Adam was spooning Macky?
-Ryan was spooning Adam?
-Adam threw a plushy at my face, so I grabbed Laser Bunneh and tried to throw it at his face?
-It missed, and it accidentally hit him in the nuts?
-Adam didn’t give me Laser Bunneh back for an hour or so?
-Chester wrote Nakaji’s name in kanji (Chinese chars used in Japanese) on his 7x7x7 score card?
-Breandan is not the man of srice?
-Tyson was very persuasive when he was advertising Rubik's plushies over the mic?
-He even convinced me to get three (one big, two smaller fuzzy dice things) of them for the small price of only $20?
-When I was crossing the border on the way back to Canada, my luggage was randomly checked, and when the border patrol person saw my Rubik's plushies, he said I could go?
-Denny started a new side event involving stackmatting turning a reversible plushy inside out?
-I was the first to sub10 with a 9.19?
-Gears later got a 7.xx?
-Neither of the winners of the Stefan Pochmann award (Stefan and Harris) knew what the Stefan Pochmann award actually was?
-Jackson was amazed that (rU’)*10 is an X perm on a 4x4x4, not to mention he loves H perms?
-James Cavanauh just blindly guessed that 20 people would attend an after-party at Bob Evans after Day 3 and some of us figured his guess was way too high?
-In fact, way more than 20 people came?
-James found a green center cap at Bob Evans and I looked at it and told him “It looks like one from a type A 3rd model…who would have one of those now-a-days?”, forgetting that I sold my old one to Jackson, who was sitting at the table behind me, a few days before?
-Wonie gathered all the Canadians he could find and got a picture with all of us?
-Lucas decided to get cracking on full OLL since he realized he already knows about two-thirds of it anyway?
-Lucas likes to write OLLs in commutator and conjugate form if he can?
-Both Christopher Olsen and Ryan Reese (the best entries in Master Magic contest in Cubecast episode 14) don’t actually know the Master Magic song off by heart?
-At the Pittsburgh bus terminal, Ryan sang the master magic song again for us?
-Anthony didn’t know what Isaac Wappes looked like so he went around with Forte asking if anyone was Isaac?
-When people would answer ‘no’ to them, Forte would try to convince them that they were indeed Isaac?
-When Macky was interviewing Nakaji, Macky dropped the f-bomb when he accidentally spoke in Japanese to the camera instead of in English?
-When this happened, the everyone else in the room went from complete silence to uncontrollable laughter in an instant?
-Dan Cohen is not a chicken?
-Muffin button?
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Ones that also applied to me:

WAAAAAAAPES
Guimond should be asian, so he could be man of srice
Dan Cohen should be named Douglas.... Dougcone...
Dan Cohen should be called man of bass
James Cavanaugh makes funny faces while solving magic
Regripless 2-gen H perm is the funniest thing to do evar!
I'm also now addicted to skoob
Jackson are solve 5x5 world-record style, he wants to be the winrar
Because he wants to be winrar, I said that he zips through solves, and extracts good solutions...desperate for another pun...I said "Jackson archive by five champion"...
Sarah sold Jackson a magic, and never restrung it...so I decided that it wasn't Sarah Strung...
People think they know of me, but don't know why...

There was more...but I'm too lazy and tired to type more...
 
Weston said:
22 record on the 12 cube.
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Sa967St said:
Did you know that...　

-There were 6 of us in Tristan’s car at one point, and Chris Tran had to lie down sideways in back seat on top of Anthony, Weston and Chris Bird’s laps?
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Good times, good times. Hahahahahah.

On the last day, Chester was wearing blue adidas shorts. I was also wearing the same shorts. I didn't notice until after the awards ceremony. O:
 
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