What was your first competition like?

Mine was the san-diego 2009

I remember driving with my dad, scared yet excited to find out what a competition would be like.
We actually got there early and so we waited for awhile and met some other cubers while waiting. Amazing once I saw the room and how they had it all set up, best ever! honestly, nothing really beats my first competition! YET!
:)
 
My first competition was in 2008.It was disappointing,
I popped for two times and got average about 35seconds...
 
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Nisei Week 2009

Went in while they were still setting up

Went looking for Marco Mendoza because I had to buy a Sq1 and an Edison.

Ended up asking Dan Chan if he was Marco, he said "No, I'm not Marco. I'm looking for him too."

And that is when I joined their little cubing clique.

When I got my Sq1 from Marco, I popped the cube and incorrectly inserted the edge. It broke. That was within 5 minutes of having the cube.

Marco had another Sq1 that he doesn't even use. He gave it to me for free.

Steven Turner and I did a cube marathon.

In every one of my solves I said, "I'm nervous," and in every one of my solves my judge said, "It's okay."

It felt weird with the music playing as we did our competition solves.

It also felt weird being around a lot of other cubers that I didn't personally know. Though it also feels good that I met a bunch of nice people very quickly.

I used a stackmat for the first time when I was at competition.

I popped my A1 and the cube exploded in a 7 feet radius.

I learned that goo-gone smells funny.

Adam Zamora MCing.

I put Jig-a-Loo into a cube that already had a different lube in it. It got worse.

My parents were amazed at the sub14 people.

Mirror Blocks for the first time. It took my 9 minutes.

Gigantic snowcones. (i didn't get one though)

Lastly, the clique was going to go watch District 9. However, that was in Riverside. I live about 2 hours away from there. Therefore, my parents said no and I just had to skip that.
 
Indiana Winter 2010 was my first comp
I didn't get nervous whatsoever and i averaged about what i do at home
my first 4 solves were 27, 26, 25, 24
i was hoping to get a 23
i got a 31
it was really nice, and it had a very comfortable relaxed feel to it, and there were lots of little girls judging which was weird because they had the worst +2 detectors in their brains out of anyone i have ever met,
it wuz tuoalli ozome
 
First comp Dutch open 2009

Evryone was very friendly Ron told me to sit with some people that I didn't now
But they where really friendly and I competed in 2x2 and 3x3 and it was alot of fun.
And it was funny because my parents found it strange that evryone had like 30 cubes
I only had 15 or so they thought I had much cubes
 
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US Nationals 2009

Square-1 fail (but good for the time :4)
BLD success (only one to date in comp)
lots of cool people that I talked to (Justin, Felix, Guanyang, Dave, Kevin, etc.)
lots of cool people that I didn't talk to (David Woner, Dan Cohen , Rowe, Tim Sun, etc.)
lots of cool people that I kinda talked to (Joey, Steven Turner, Mike Hughey, etc.)

Was good :4
 
Vancouver Open 2009

My times.... sucked.
But I was able to meet tons of cool people: Forte, Ibrahim, Justin, Sarah, Brian, Deseree, Jameson, a bunch of people i forget, and some little kids that were way better than me at 2x2. Seriously, they were like 7 years old.

Overall, good competition.
 
Toronto Open Winter 2010

My times.... sucked. :p at least i got a sub 30 avg... (what i aimed for)

when i went into the room, i didnt really meet anybody. i was just practicing, with my cousin. then one other guy saw me suck, we did a couple solves, it was fun... i lost ever one of them :(

so when i went to compete in 3x3, the judge asked me if it was my first time, and i said "yes". then she told me i had 15 second inspection seconds, how she would say "eight seconds" when there were 8 seconds left, and she would say "GO" at 12 seconds. i then realized that the 15 second inspection is actually 12 seconds, in reality. after i finished, i started to look for daniel (he was going to sell me some cubes). i didn't have any luck looking for him just by looking at nametags. (100+ people :o) i eventually found him, and made some great friends.

awesome competition. i didn't expect it to be so fun :D

i can't forget the kid one year older than me. he avged 20 seconds and he knew 2look LastLayer (full oll and Pll)
 
Chicago Open 2010:

I remember feeling awkward when I walked into the room, there were cubers there who were much faster than me & such, & no one was talking (I arrived kind of early). After the room filled up it started to become a much more friendly environment. The competition started & I got pretty good times, I met some cool cubers, saw some awesome puzzles, & got to judge some pretty awesome solves. It was overall an awesome experience.
 
I had the time of my life at my first competition, Indiana Winter 2010. It was just 10 hours of pure cubing. I got to meet some really cool people, including Dan Cohen, Chester Lian, and Thrawst/Tristan Wright. I bought a type CII and a LanLan 2x2. They are now both my new main speedcubes. I saw some really cool puzzles. Fisher cube, super/non-super square 1, gigaminx, skewb(ultimate), mirror blocks, and more. I judged for Dan Cohen once, where he got a 9 second solve. That was exciting. The domino's pizza for lunch was good. Dan Cohen let me use his jig a loo, and I was able to check out his 11x11. I am extremely glad that I did not fail on my solves. I am terrible at 4x4, so i did not make the 3 minute cutoff. The bad part was that Dan Cohen's feet smell like CENSORED. It was fun to judge. If I had to rate competitions out of 10, I would give them a 100. It was more than I had expected. I cannot wait til august, when we have nationals. Cya there!
 
i barely sub 50... should i go to a competition?

EDIT: and are there 13 year olds at a competition?
 
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Cubetcha 2009

I got there 30 minutes early and basically failed 3x3. My first round average was 11 seconds higher than my at home average. Somehow, I managed to make the second round and got an average 4 seconds higher than usual.
and magic... ugh...
 
My first competition was the Cincinatti Summer Open 2008.

I began cubing exactly 2 years ago from today. I had really wanted to go to US Nationals that year, but things didn't work out. Towards the end of my summer vacation I realized how badly I wanted to attend a competition, but the only US competition that was going to take place before I went back to school was the Cincinatti comp. Ohio was pretty far away, but I managed to convince my grandma and uncle to take me; I had no idea that this was going to be the first of many comps my awesome uncle would end up taking me to.

I remember showing up outside the library the day of the competition and seeing someone doing insanely fast solves (Dakota Harris). I was in awe. Sub 15?! Ridiculous. Anyway, I was extremely nervous at the competition, but managed to get a couple good times (I was so proud of my 20.93 3x3 single :P).

If had to choose my 3 most memorable moments of the competition it would probably come down to..
  • Meeting Tyson
  • Dakota's sub 20 OH solve
  • Chillin' at Jim's house with other cubers after the competition
At the competition Tyson encouraged me to try to get in touch with a few Texas cubers he had met at a Denver comp (Alex Goldberg, Doug Reed, and Sapan Upadhyay) and see if we could organize a comp. The rest is history.

This past weekend I beat my first competition's 3x3 times in OH. :p
Overall, it was an awesome experience that I'll never forget. :)
 
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Melbourne Summer Open 2010.

Pros:
  • It was my first competition.
  • Meeting other cubers for the first time.
  • FINALLY finding out what a DIY is like.
  • Being the only person there who could solve the LanLan 12 side puzzle.
  • Being the only person there who could actually be bothered to solve the QJ (I think...?) megaminx.
  • Seeing what a blindfold solve actually looks like in real life.
  • Seeing 2 world records being broken and a 5x5 solve that was just milliseconds off.
  • Shaking Feliks' hand. :p
  • My sister leaving halfway through.
  • Trying out a Rubik's Master Magic.
  • Having one of the better cubes there... it's an unmodified Rubik's Storebought. (currently in disrepair)
  • Breaking my personal best on 5x5 in an official solve.

Now for the Cons:
  • Stuffing up my 3x3 average with a 45.xx second COUNTING solve.
  • Losing on a (I think...) Mefferminx (lol) to a PVC minx.
  • Stuffing up 5x5. (I could have gotten sub-3 with that last solve! DARRGH!)
Not many cons, it was that good. Really, really fun.

EDIT: I noticed my sister was (technically) on the news that night on Channel 9. Is that anywhere on YouTube? (the news, that is)
 
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