US Nationals 2014 - Jersey City, New Jersey - August 1-3, 2014

Just checked my bag and it looks like an extra stackmat timer ended up there. This must have happened on the third day, because I packed by cubing bag that morning and there wasn't an extra timer then. I only timed my solves at one or two tables that day, so this wasn't picked up off of some random table. There isn't a name on it, but there are a couple distinctive marks on the timer screen, and the timer is set in a certain time zone. If you are missing a timer, and the description matches up with what I see and where I was, I would be happy to reunite you with it!
 
Overall thoughts on Nats:

3x3 finals were crazy, when Faz did his last solve, the whole place went into mass confusion, and we found out Collin won! Biggest upset I've ever seen in cubing recently. Great job to Collin!

Venue had some strong points and weak points. Although it seemed like the light was bad, I could see just fine and could barely notice while solving. Overcrowding was a big problem on the first day, with all of the camp kids roaming around. On several occasions they would cut lines, block competitors from getting places they needed to be, etc. As many times as Kian said NO FLASH PHOTGRAPHY, people did it anyway, and that really bugged me. People also couldn't fathom the idea that this is important to people, Louis Cormier's dad had to get through the crowd to record his son, and one guy (non cuber) got angry. The LSC people would not let the cubers sit at the tables of the competition area, they said it was for cafe guests only, yet they had a huge cafeteria and other rooms where people could sit. I (and other cubers) didn't pay a hefty sum of money to have people who have many other seating options take our place. Also it was pretty noisy during 3BLD.

Now for the strong points:

The long event area was nice, it was very well lit and quiet. The setup for the main and side stage was good as well, they had plenty of seats and stations, there was almost never a backlog. They were able to scramble and run cubes to the stations really fast, my 2x2 round was over in a matter of about 3-4 minutes (maybe more, maybe less, I wasn't paying attention). There were lots of other aspects in which the competition was well organized, so I applaud the judging team on that.

Honestly though, the shortcomings of this competition had nothing to do with the organizing team, they did a great job.


EDIT: also Sammy is actually pretty cool in real life, he told MMAP that Vcubes bought out Shengshou and apparently he was telling his fanboys that. Funniest part of the comp I have to say xD
 
Last edited:
Sessinator said:
Just checked my bag and it looks like an extra stackmat timer ended up there. This must have happened on the third day, because I packed by cubing bag that morning and there wasn't an extra timer then. I only timed my solves at one or two tables that day, so this wasn't picked up off of some random table. There isn't a name on it, but there are a couple distinctive marks on the timer screen, and the timer is set in a certain time zone. If you are missing a timer, and the description matches up with what I see and where I was, I would be happy to reunite you with it!
Click to expand...

I think the stackmat timer may be mine, considering that we were sitting at the same table quite a bit. Is the timer a v3? If it is, it is probably mine.
 
Rubiks560 said:
I'll write more up later, but I'm incredibly unhappy with many competitors from this competition. I've never seen such bad sportsmanship/bad attitudes at one comp.
Click to expand...

Wait, what happened? Did I do something? What did others do?

Sessinator said:
Unfortunately it is not, though I wish you the best in finding your timer!
Click to expand...

Pro timer? Might be mine.

E: 2x2 semis didnt have garbage scrambles. They were bad, but not impossible to sub 2.2 or something
 
Last edited:
PhillipEspinoza said:
lol 3 - 11 sec avg's in final round when there were no sup-10 avgs for top 16 in semi-final.

EDIT: And wow @ Vincent Sheu's 25 FMC avg WR. WOW. 22,23,30.
Click to expand...

The first one was easy - everything came together. Tim mentioned that 8 different people had the same 27-move solve. That 27-mover differs from my solution past the 2x2x3 block - a 2x2x3 block that Jim mentioned virtually every competitor had started with in the solutions handed in before mine.

The second one was really lucky.

The third one... I'm ashamed I made a scene. I had talked to Brandon beforehand, and thought I needed "anything in the 20's". I had written down a preliminary 30, and found a FURUR'F' + PLL skip as time expired. I also hadn't checked my 30, so I thought that I had either missed it by 1, or DNF'ed the last solve and missed everything.

I only found out otherwise 4 hours later (from most of Team KOII). It was a very emotionally draining day - I didn't get any sleep and completely bombed 3x3x3 Round 2 the next morning.

There's now a video of me absolutely destroying a cube, leaving only a core with 3 out of 6 center caps still attached) on the last solve.
 
Vincents said:
The first one was easy - everything came together. Tim mentioned that 8 different people had the same 27-move solve. That 27-mover differs from my solution past the 2x2x3 block - a 2x2x3 block that Jim mentioned virtually every competitor had started with in the solutions handed in before mine.

The second one was really lucky.

The third one... I'm ashamed I made a scene. I had talked to Brandon beforehand, and thought I needed "anything in the 20's". I had written down a preliminary 30, and found a FURUR'F' + PLL skip as time expired. I also hadn't checked my 30, so I thought that I had either missed it by 1, or DNF'ed the last solve and missed everything.

I only found out otherwise 4 hours later (from most of Team KOII). It was a very emotionally draining day - I didn't get any sleep and completely bombed 3x3x3 Round 2 the next morning.

There's now a video of me absolutely destroying a cube, leaving only a core with 3 out of 6 center caps still attached) on the last solve.
Click to expand...

I like that 4:17 time, true dedication to finish the solve :)

Congrats on the FMC WR
 
Evan Liu said:
http://i.imgur.com/jkJbToO.png

gj evans


I was nervous for all solves, especially since I had gotten 5 sub-5s in <50 solves while practicing before round 1, which is crazy even for me. :o
The first scramble just happened to be the best/luckiest one; could have easily gotten lower 5 / subWR... I'm still very happy that I won this time though!
Click to expand...

Wow. Well you definitely deserved it. Congratulations!
 
RobertFontaine said:
A twitch.tv stream and someone actually acting as a spokes person. A few interviews. Reviews of the vendors... Could have easily been done well.
Click to expand...

The public Internet connection was really bad at the venue throughout the entire time, and not even the private one that was used for data entry was good enough to do a live stream. I made a twitch account and had my webcam ready to stream finals, but it buffered for 15+ mins, so we figured it wasn't going to work at all and we stopped trying.

Even if we got it to work, the view wouldn't have been great since there was a cameraman and an overhead camera on a crane that were constantly blocking the view for everyone sitting in the area. Hopefully all the videos that were taken of the finals and the awards make up for it. It was a really exciting final and it really sucks that we couldn't stream it live for people who weren't there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Wilhelm
[Official] Wilhelm Kilders 7x7 3:52.32 Mo3 [New Zealand Nationals 2014]
Replies
4
Views
1,623
Wilhelm
Wilhelm
jbrungar
New Zealand Nationals 2014
Replies
14
Views
2,780
D4vd
D4vd
Aussie
[Official] 5:53.81 6x6 Solve @ the US Nationals 2014!
Replies
9
Views
2,167
Aussie
Aussie
SpicyOranges
What happened after Nationals 2014 finals
Replies
1
Views
936
Deleted member 19792
D
P
US Nationals 2014 [video]
Replies
1
Views
944
tomatotrucks
tomatotrucks
Back
Top