US Nationals and Open

I'm 16, so a 1 A.M. curfew is set in my city. If you're caught outside past that and under the age of 18, the police can pick you up.

Also, my city (Lexington, Kentucky) doesn't have a metro/underground section. We're a lower-medium sized city, leaving us with a poor bus system, no metro, and mostly suburbs. I live a few miles from downtown, really the only place to see people late at night other than 24 hour restaurants. Someday when I do go to a large city I'd like to try out the metro system though. I've never seen a subway before.

I live in Somerset, Kentucky... (about 75 miles due south of Lexington). I have spent a lot of time in Lexington, but still manage to get lost everytime I go there.
 
Can any Atlanta natives recommend a decent hotel "near" Underground? I am looking for something cheaper than the recommended one. I don't mind driving a few miles, but I don't want a 30 minute drive each day either. I was looking at a Red Roof Inn for $81/night. Is that the best deal I'm going to find?
 
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"Only" in America you can join the army and kill people for your country, just as long as you are home by midnight
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You have to ber 18 to joint he army.
I knew that reaction would come, but that is really not true. I heard (no source found) that you have to be 18 before you can be sent on mission though.

I am just so amazed by the things you are allowed to do on age X in the US. When I was 17 I went on that hiking journey I mentioned earlier. I can't imagine an actual curfew and midnight/18 sounds unbelievable
 
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Ooookay, back on topic:

Can anyone who's coming bring a spare magic string(s)? I would appreciate it (and I'll pay the $0.50 or $1.00 it costed).
 
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"Only" in America you can join the army and kill people for your country, just as long as you are home by midnight
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You have to ber 18 to joint he army.
I knew that reaction would come, but that is really not true. I heard (no source found) that you have to be 18 before you can be sent on mission though.

I am just so amazed by the things you are allowed to do on age X in the US. When I was 17 I went on that hiking journey I mentioned earlier. I can't imagine an actual curfew and midnight/18 sounds unbelievable
Yeah, it is sad to way the USA has come, and is becoming. We have lost our privilege to do a lot of stuff, because of so many in-mature people. Just look at the drinking ages between the USA and Europe.

As far as curfew goes, I've never heard of there being a curfew. I've been out in Denver several times past midnight and never had any problems.
 
Can any Atlanta natives recommend a decent hotel "near" Underground? I am looking for something cheaper than the recommended one. I don't mind driving a few miles, but I don't want a 30 minute drive each day either. I was looking at a Red Roof Inn for $81/night. Is that the best deal I'm going to find?

$81 a night seems pretty good but also check out www.kayak.com. You might consider trying to room with someone.
 
Hey Hadley,

Can you post up information up here about Atlanta for us? I'm curious about actually... the following specific information.

From ATL, the airport, how do you get to the Underground? How do you get to the hotels? Are there signs for the MARTA at the airport? How much does the MARTA cost? Could you give us detailed instructions so we know what we're doing?
 
I'm signed up for everything except clock (don't have one) and pyraminx (would probably be disqualified because it tends to fall apart when scrambling, and I'm terrible at it anyway).

I'm beginning to doubt that I will be able to participate in fewest moves, though, since I'll probably be busy doing multiBLD at the same time. I really need to ask the organizers about that - if it will be possible to do both, if I wind up doing a 2-hour multiBLD. I was gonna just do 10 cubes or so with multi (so then maybe I would be able to join the fewest moves in progress after I finished), but with my very close near-success this week, I'm thinking I really need to do a few more than that. I'd love to do them both, but I'll have to see what their policy is. (I am always perfectly happy to abide by whatever the organizer policy is at competitions, so I will do whatever they allow.) Maybe they will allow me to do it first, or afterwards, or something. I wonder what their general policy for people doing both main and side events is? Last year at the US Open, I remember they let those doing side events participate early in the main events so they could do the side events, at least in some cases.

My daughters Marie and Rebecca will be there too; Marie will do 2x2x2, 3x3x3, Magic, Master Magic, and Rebecca will do 3x3x3, 4x4x4, Magic, and Master Magic.

Hey Mike,

I'm hoping the people who do a lot of events will be willing to help out with the competition and make things go faster. The faster things go, the more people we will be able to let advance, and the easier it will be for us to accommodate you should you want to do more events, or events that overlap in terms of scheduling.
 
I'm hoping the people who do a lot of events will be willing to help out with the competition and make things go faster. The faster things go, the more people we will be able to let advance, and the easier it will be for us to accommodate you should you want to do more events, or events that overlap in terms of scheduling.

I for one will be happy to help wherever I can. The only problem I have is paying attention to my kids, since they're rather young compared to most of the competitors. My wife will be there this time along with our 3-year-old daughter. Most of the time, my wife will be occupied with the little one, which will leave me sometimes having to watch out for Marie and Rebecca. But whenever I can otherwise help out, I'd be happy to. Marie and Rebecca will be done fairly early both days, (and I will undoubtedly be done fairly early the second day), so I should be available to help more towards the end of the day. But I suspect you'll probably need more help earlier, when so many people will be competing.

I already talked to Shelley and decided I'd better skip out of fewest moves. Just not possible to do both that and a big multi.
 
Hey Hadley,

Can you post up information up here about Atlanta for us? I'm curious about actually... the following specific information.

From ATL, the airport, how do you get to the Underground? How do you get to the hotels? Are there signs for the MARTA at the airport? How much does the MARTA cost? Could you give us detailed instructions so we know what we're doing?


There is a MARTA station at the airport itself, so it is very easy to find it. The airport station is the end of the line, meaning that you cannot go the wrong way.

It is $1.50 for 1 way trip, $3 round trip. After you get on MARTA, you will get off at the Five Points station. That is accessed from all dirctions of MARTA, as it is the North/South East/West intersection. At Five Points, just go up the stairs to the street and you are at Underground.

As far as the hotel, I am not sure. I'm not familiar with the hotel.
 
Also, Tyson, let me know if I can help out in any way. I won't get past any of the qualification rounds(Unless I get a lucky 2x2x2 solve), so after that I would be willing to help scramble, keep track of times, anything that needs to be done.
 
For MARTA, I also noticed they have a visitor pass:

http://www.itsmarta.com/howto/special/visitorfaq.htm

Once we get into the Underground, is it fairly obvious where the competition is?

There will probably some sort of sign up directing you to where it is, but I don't know for certain.

Tyson: Will multi bld, 4x4 bld, 5x5 bld be in a separate quiet room? That would really be nice.
 
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