Washington DC Winter 2011

[EricReese]

What are you talking about Evan. Clearly 1:59 is the pinnacle of your 4x4 skills..

 

[RyanReese09]

thanks for the guhong ryan. its my new main.

No problem.

Big fail - 4x4. Typical that the event I practice the most at home is the only one I failed at in comp (aside from Magic). We'll leave it at that. My successes outweigh this failure by far though.

That happened to me with 3x3x3. I stopped practicing it, aka stopped caring (only a few solves to keep my speed) and boom, I got an acceptable average today.

Of course, I failed OH, averaged 35 at SJC, and got 35 (didn't practice to get the 35 average). Practiced and got my OH down to 26 or so, and my fastest solve OH today was like a 36. My average was lolslow. In my defense I was using a different cube from what I normally practice with, but whatever.

Any idea when resultswill be up?

 

[Evan Liu]

What are you talking about Evan. Clearly 1:59 is the pinnacle of your 4x4 skills..

Lol.

No problem.

That happened to me with 3x3x3. I stopped practicing it, aka stopped caring (only a few solves to keep my speed) and boom, I got an acceptable average today.

Of course, I failed OH, averaged 35 at SJC, and got 35 (didn't practice to get the 35 average). Practiced and got my OH down to 26 or so, and my fastest solve OH today was like a 36. My average was lolslow. In my defense I was using a different cube from what I normally practice with, but whatever.

Any idea when resultswill be up?

Yeah I should probably do that too... That pretty much happened to me with every other event today, all of which I practice sparingly compared to 4x4.
Maybe I should have done OH today, given how little I practice it (dropped it to speed up the competition). Though, I never practice Magic, but it hasn't worked, since it's so easy to mess up, haha.

The results will hopefully be up tomorrow night or sometime Monday. We are almost done with checking the spreadsheet for errors and such.

Edit - funny tidbit about 4x4 - my single hasn't been broken since June 2010, back when I averaged 1:25.
Here's the (admittedly vague) story - http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...in-competition&p=478916&viewfull=1#post478916
I guess that makes it more special that it still stands

 

[chris410]

Thanks to Evan and the rest of the staff for putting on a great competition. My times were a disaster however, with little practice I figured I would make mistakes. However, Nathan Kearny taught me BLD so learning some insights into BLD solving was very interesting. Now, I need to find some time to actually practice! Bob good seeing you as usual and congrats to all of the winners and everyone else who reached their goals. Good times!

 

[ben1996123]

orange vagina

he said this.

 

[bluecloe45]

loleditor

 

[bluecloe45]

im a lolgoelvanort.

he said this

 

[EricReese]

I said orangina at comp and everyone misheard me and thought I said orange vagina

5 minutes after my orangina attempt. me- "be back soon, gotta use bathroom, orangina's kicking in"

some 11 year old: "DID YOU SAY ORANGE VAGINA?"

 

[teller]

Hanging out with my cubing friends was the best!

Ryan: I hate you for surpassing me at speed, but you're always fun to talk to.

Ethan: I love watching you cube; you are killing it with raw TPS. We're going to have to meet up when I get to WV. And thanks for the OLL!

Sesi: You can take your blindfold off now. :wink:

Eric: It was great to meet you; I hope you get addicted to fingertricks.

Chris: Good to see you again. I think we're the only cubers left not using GuHongs. Good luck with BLD...it gives me a headache...

Evan, I chatted with a couple of your teachers; they are cool people. It did my heart good to see a teacher/sponsor that really wanted to be there. She really loves you guys. How awesome it must be to have a well-supported cubing club!

RE: The BLD fiasco. Nobody is really mad at Evan, running a comp is a learning process...but it was a good thing Haiyan was not there.

WCA-wise, I totally choked...didn't make the second round.

New PB for OH: ~0:44 avg. I am pleased with my improvement.

See you all next time!

 

[EricReese]

Thanks for the G perm fingertricks. They are pretty nice. I've already got one in muscle memory.

@Evan. Thanks for telling me to use maru lube for the outer layers of my Dayan. It feels so nice right now. Now I have motivation to practice

 

[nlCuber22]

Ethan: I love watching you cube; you are killing it with raw TPS. We're going to have to meet up when I get to WV. And thanks for the OLL!

Thanks and we'll make sure of it; my brother lives in Morgantown. Also: thank you. I only have one more OLL to learn now p) but I agree, it's quite nice.

Spoiler

OLL 12: M'R'U'RU'R'U2RU'M

The organization was a disappointment. 3x3 round 2 had to be cut, which I found extremely annoying. However, hanging out with other cubers and sharing tips was fun. I had a good time.

 

[RyanReese09]

From last DC comp, I cut my average in half basically . I think IIRC a bit more then half.

I expect you to be sub18 by WV teller so we can race .

This was one of the more fun comps.

 

[Evan Liu]

RE: The BLD fiasco. Nobody is really mad at Evan, running a comp is a learning process...but it was a good thing Haiyan was not there.

WCA-wise, I totally choked...didn't make the second round.

See you all next time!

I think I was actually solving megaminx or something when the other organizers were making the decision; if I had a say in it I would have been less strict
I also remember that one timer malfunction you had, I really felt bad that you had a good solve taken away by that. It seemed there were a lot of timer malfunctions, but not consistent enough for the timer to be replaced... (a separate timer was replaced, though)

Thanks for the G perm fingertricks. They are pretty nice. I've already got one in muscle memory.

@Evan. Thanks for telling me to use maru lube for the outer layers of my Dayan. It feels so nice right now. Now I have motivation to practice

Good to hear that it works well. It doesn't last very long though, and you'll eventually have to clean it out after a few times, I think my cube has become more gummy with successive lubing (but still better than without lube )

 

[DavidEBowyerJr]

This was my first comp and I really enjoyed it. I got to meet a couple of cool people. Shane Rowland and taylor were both pretty cool. Can't wait to hang out with Shane and learn the last steps of 4x4.

 

[OMGitsSolved]

Besides losing my timer and my elite I would say this comp was worth it. Really fun meeting everyone and I met my goal which was to beat Eric in 3x3. And as an added bonus I beat him and his brother at 2x2 so I'm happy. Thanks Eric for the Memory it's amazing. And Evan did you see a Lubix Elite and a timer where Eric, Ryan, Teller, Ethan, me, Baian and some other people? If you did could you tell me thanks!

 

[Evan Liu]

Phil Yu and I found 2 stackmats lying on our table after everybody left. They seem pretty standard, but one has a dent in the screen. He took both with him. Mr. Yu also had a low 18 second OH average.

Besides losing my timer and my elite I would say this comp was worth it. Really fun meeting everyone and I met my goal which was to beat Eric in 3x3. And as an added bonus I beat him and his brother at 2x2 so I'm happy. Thanks Eric for the Memory it's amazing. And Evan did you see a Lubix Elite and a timer where Eric, Ryan, Teller, Ethan, me, Baian and some other people? If you did could you tell me thanks!

Eric claimed the stackmat without the dent. The other one might be yours.
Unfortunately, no one has mentioned an Elite, and we did not see one either.

 

[EricReese]

Yea Mike mentioned it already. Phil Yu has it. Name is asmallkitten on this forum. Yea I failed pretty hard in 3x3. And in 2x2 I would have gotten like a sub 8 avg but I DNF's twice from doing a wrong PBL and second time I accidently hit reset button so thats a DNF. Phil if you read this. You also have one of mine. Ones is Nicks(above) and the other is mine.

Eric claimed the stackmat without the dent. The other one might be yours.
Unfortunately, no one has mentioned an Elite, and we did not see one either.

Yea the one without a dent has to be mine. Its basically brand new (christmas gift) and I have only used it for bld and 2x2 practice and timing my PLLs. No chance for it to even have had a dent. There was an extra elite at our table Nick, we didnt know who it belonged to, but I have no idea what come of it

 

[a small kitten]

Ok. I have Eric's and Nick's. Will you guys be at Cornell?

 

[EricReese]

Thats like a 5 hour drive for me. I think me and Ryan will not be attending

 

[OMGitsSolved]

Wait smallkitten what do you have of mine? Elite or timer?