Westchester Fall 2008 competition

[Ethan Rosen]

Hi guys
First off, sorry about 4x4 and 5x5. I literally took Tim's schedule from Pleasantville, changed the order of stuff, and added clock. That schedule worked well with 40 people, but not so well with 65.
The results should be up pretty soon
Nice job everyone!

 

[AvGalen]

That is a lot of cancelled events!

 

[Boopyman]

How did I leave before the world record!

 

[DavidWoner]

Let's not talk about Clock

Oh lets talk about it, seeing how I won. But I dont see a need to bring times into this. Oh and thanks again for letting me use your clock.

I definitely think that like sq1 and 3x3 finals could have been removed in order to have 4x4 and 5x5, or we at least could have had top 5 after 2 solves take an average.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Some awesome stuff:
- 14.86 avg in 2nd round. (4th place)
- 25.33 OH single
- Figured out and solved a pyraminx for the first time
- Dan Cohen put my 4x4 ES back together


Some not-so-awesome stuff:
- my judge would not stop talking to me during my 1st BLD attempt...

Judge: "8..."
Me: "...This is a BLD solve..."
Judge: "12..."
Judge: "15..."
Judge: "18..."
My friend: "He's doing BLD!!"
Judge: "Why didn't you start solving it yet?"
Me: "I have to memorize it first..........."
Judge: "Did you memorize it yet?"
..........

Bob let me redo the solve (different scramble)

 

[Faz]

Some awesome stuff:
- 14.86 avg in 2nd round. (4th place)
- 25.33 OH single
- Figured out and solved a pyraminx for the first time
- Dan Cohen put my 4x4 ES back together


Some not-so-awesome stuff:
- my judge would not stop talking to me during my 1st BLD attempt...

Judge: "8..."
Me: "...This is a BLD solve..."
Judge: "12..."
Judge: "15..."
Judge: "18..."
My friend: "He's doing BLD!!"
Judge: "Why didn't you start solving it yet?"
Me: "I have to memorize it first..........."
Judge: "Did you memorize it yet?"
..........

Bob let me redo the solve (different scramble)

LOL! - what a noob judge.

 

[cuBerBruce]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

 

[PCwizCube]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

Yeah that solve was cool. The audience reaction was REALLY big, bigger than Rowe's WR solve of 52.27 seconds.

Awesome man. I got DNFs on all three of mine

 

[cuBerBruce]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

Yeah that solve was cool. The audience reaction was REALLY big, bigger than Rowe's WR solve of 52.27 seconds.

Awesome man. I got DNFs on all three of mine

Yeah, I feel kind of sorry for Rowe - I think he deserved a bigger applause than me. I was just about to start my attempt when he finished his WR solve.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Congrats Bruce! I guess that explains it...I'm bad luck for you at BLD. The first solve you try in competition when I'm not there is the first one you get!

Wish I could have made it, looks like a pretty fun competition. Glad to see Rowe finally got a WR, he's deserved one for a while.

 

[AvGalen]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

Yeah that solve was cool. The audience reaction was REALLY big, bigger than Rowe's WR solve of 52.27 seconds.

Awesome man. I got DNFs on all three of mine

Yeah, I feel kind of sorry for Rowe - I think he deserved a bigger applause than me. I was just about to start my attempt when he finished his WR solve.

Stopping a 10 minute timer after 9:59.43 while not knowing how long it has been takes a lot of skill. Solving a 3x3x3_bf while you wait for the timer to almost reach 10 minutes is just a nice way to pass time

I want a video

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

I live in Acton, just a few miles west of you. My son lives in Wakefield or with his girlfriend in Malden. I hope by the next competition in our area I can do BLD in under 10 minutes in order to steal your #3 position from you! I was born December 10, 1954, shortly before you.

 

[cuBerBruce]

Today (at Westchester), and 19000 days after I was born, I've finally achieved my first official BLD solve! This I believe will put me at the #3 spot on the oldest BLD solvers list.

It was my first attempt of this competition. I just barely got it done before the timer ran out, stopping the timer with my blindfold still on at 9:59.43.

This beats my personal former highest official time in any event of 9:58.28 in 5x5x5 that I got at US Nationals 2006. And today I was wearing the same T-shirt I got after that 5x5x5 solve.

I live in Acton, just a few miles west of you. My son lives in Wakefield or with his girlfriend in Malden. I hope by the next competition in our area I can do BLD in under 10 minutes in order to steal your #3 position from you! I was born December 10, 1954, shortly before you.

rjohnson_8ball,

Yes, I've seen a lot of your posts and knew you lived "in the area," that you're a little bit older than me, and that you claimed to be able to do BLD solving. I also met someone in Atlanta who was older than me that claimed to be able to do 4x4x4 BLD, not just 3x3x3 BLD. (Both of us failed at BLD in Atlanta.)

So I've been anxious to get a successful BLD solve as soon as possible, because I was figuring my chances (in the near-term) to get the #2 spot (prior to Mats Bergsten's successful solve), and then the #3 spot would likely not last very long. And I expect I'm not going to hold the #3 spot for very long, but at least I'll always be able to say I had it for a little while.

I also look forward to meeting you soon, and wish you well in your quest to bump me down the list.

By the way, at some competitions I've been to, they used stopwatches to time 3x3x3 BLD solves lasting over 10 minutes. So you don't necessarily have to be sub-10. However, I suspect going forward, there may be fewer and fewer competitions allowing BLD solves over 10 minutes. And it seems that organizers don't seem to generally give out such details about the format of the event in advance. So it's definitely worth trying to get to sub-10.