Welcome to Cambridge 2014: July 12th

[kinch2002]

Thanks to Joey for organising, Ando for hijacking the comp at times and James for doing stuff too.
Also Thom is a good 4x4 judge.

I had fun. Took until Sunday afternoon to get a PB so I was a bit worried about losing my streak. 36 comps and still going - shame that Evan no longer has the same number of comps.

Yay Ollie.

Anyone got the scrambles for 3BLD and FMC? I'd like to try them out at home...

Sure, I'll upload them when I get home tonight. James also has them so might get there first

 

[andojay]

Well I kept us a head of schedule that we could have an extra round of Skewb!

Thank you Daniel and James
Very fun competition, great meeting everyone. I feel very welcomed

I officially scrambled 2 cubes

 

[Tim Major]

Well I kept us a head of schedule that we could have an extra round of Skewb!

why did you leave Melbourne WHY. WE WANT SKEWB TOO.

I officially scrambled 2 cubes

I apologize on Ando's behalf.

 

[andojay]

why did you leave Melbourne WHY. WE WANT SKEWB TOO.

I apologize on Ando's behalf.

You can move to UK too, at the end of the year.

I checked those scrambles were correct! I've been practising

 

[Ollie]

Sorry to those I didn't say goodbye to, thank you Joey for organizing a super awesome comp I love seeing all of you, so it was an awesome weekend.

I haven't done this before, so:

DYK?
- zomg 5BLD WR.
- And it only took a year and a half and 20 attempts (counting from the competition I was actually good enough to get it.)
- Other BLD times = not bad. But should've gotten a 32.xx 3BLD single if I hadn't forgotten one word
- Rob sneezes during my solves?
- Cornelius makes great Pyraminx paper tubs?
- Andrea is the funniest judge
- James is the most patient judge and Maria is the luckiest judge?
- Freak rainstorm at the pub afterwards?
- Rainwater makes Rob's macaroni and cheese taste better?
- I left my suitcase containing all of my multi cubes and WR cubes on the train?
- But a freakishly lucky turn of events meant I got my suitcase back in under 30 mins?

May add more later when I think of some x)

 

[LucidCuber]

DYK

- I first registered to solve Square-1 at Cambridge 2013, I first got an official Square-1 Solve at Cambridge 2014.
- I was planning to simply drive down the A14/A45 to get home, but Adam suggested an alternate route, which took so much longer that I had to spend an extra £20 on diesel.
- Adam got his own back from Nottingham, lol.
- got 5 double parities in a row on 4x4x4 which has a 1/1024 chance of happening :/
- Almost 3x3x3 PB average, but got a +2 on a counting solve :/
- Probably worst luck of any competition I've been to, but still enjoyed it thoroughly.
- Missed another of Ollie's WR as I was out at lunch, but congratulations anyway!

 

[kinch2002]

Scrambles

 

[bubbagrub]

Scrambles

Excellent! Thanks Dan. Now I get to figure out how I messed up my one-and-only-ever-in-competition 3BLD attempt so badly...

 

[scottishcuber]

Scrambles

LOL

1.58 avg with round 1, group C scrambles (which I was in :fp)
1.92 avg with finals scrambles + 0.88 (6 move solution, super easy cancellation)

 

[Robert-Y]

Sq1 final, 2nd scramble: (0,-1) / (3,3) / (-5,-2) / (-1,-4) / (3,-3) / (-3,-5) / (-3,0) / (-2,-3) / (4,-4) /

My solution:
/ (-4,-2) / (-1,0) / (-3,0) / Cubeshape + preserve partial first block
(3,2) / (0,-2) Finish first block
(-2,0) / (-4,-1) / (-5,1) / (3,0) / Second block
(-3,0) / (-1,-1) / (0,1) Finish first layer
(6,0) PLL

Time: 10.65

EDIT: I've retried this a few times and got 5.51. If only I turned much faster in competition >_<
Also in case you're wondering, a PLL skip happens 1/144 times

 

[Mollerz]

My 9.86 in the final:

z' x2 // Inspection
U' D' R' x' D' // cross
U L' U L U y R' U R // 1st pair
y' R' U R // 2nd pair
y U2 R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U2' // 3rd pair
R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U' R // 4th pair
S R U R' U' R' F R f' // OLL + PLL Skip

~4.8 TPS

 

[Ollie]

Results are up!

 

[kinch2002]

FMC 26 moves