World Championships 2011 Bangkok

On phone with terrible WiFi and a dodgy spacebar due to water spill, but I'll do my best to make my usual post-comp DYK/blog. Details are a little hazy, I may name you doing something you didn't do, if so, sorry in advance :)

DYK;
-juggling?
-Helmut, Breandon, Yohei, plus a few others and myself did a lot of fun juggling.
-Throwing a ball into the ceiling when told to practise high catches is very embarrassing, Frank and Sanyo the apparent Aussie found it very amusing though.
-Yohei filmed me and Helmut's 6 ball team juggling, then took 5 balls and did some juggling.
-he and breandon then did team 5 ball juggling, where they acted as one hand each.
-nakaji?
-sitting at the Japanese table with Odder, Karina and Yohei, and Yu sat down and did some 5x5?
-I didn't recognise him at first as he was no longer Meep?
-I told Amos (or Amo Stay if you're Dene, or Deneh if you Tim, or chipmunk if you're odder, or...) to film his 5x5 because I saw him doing very fast redux in the first round and practicing. Amos didn't, that solve he got 58.(Amos filmed Faz and Koen)
-I saw a few 8.72s throughout the competition and instantly associated them with Yu.
-eh-than crislip?
-apparently its ee-than but idgaf its Èthan!
-OH pro, 2H nub fail.
-my results?
-ok,.skip down, this is where I bore everyone.
-lolfail everything. Literally everything.
-12.50 had super fail cross, 4-5s, but then awesome F2L and LL.
-4x4... why you fail.
-OH...25 21 22 21 25 rawr fail last solve.
-just got back from the times square, mind has blanked. Had lots more to post. I'll finish up.
-Team Australia?
-Tim, Tim, Zane, Faz, Cameron, (Dene), Jasmine, Peter, and Sanyo and Florian!
-Congrats to... Faz, don't need to list, Zane, on the 31 3BLD world champion and congrats and bad luck on 19/21 in 49, incredible time, unlucky that you missed out on WR because of the scramblers' fail.
-Cameron, 1st in round one, 3rd in final due to Michal's single being 0.04 faster, bad luck.
3 aussies in 2x2 final, so pro. I did a 3.14 a51 on the plane, I'll try to rank higher next time with EG1/CLL.
-people?
-thanks to all people I hung out with making WC great, sorry if I didn't mention you above, I'm mega tired, night y'all.

Oh and Hays is so unlucky :/ (and so American)

Edit: Watching Balint's last mega solve with simon, hays and others was definitely a highlight, we knew as soon as his timer passed 53 that simon had won.
 
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Yes said:
If anyone has videos of any of my solves, please message me! :)
I'd really like to see some / upload some to my channel.

Also, write DYKs, people!
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-Timmajor made final!
-Conny hates asian food :p
-Haystps
-oooooo (Mats)
-Simon is so good at golf
-After about 20 tries I got a putt in off 2 walls twice in a row, and so did Simon.
-I should learn to juggle 5 balls
-I lost a tile off my megaminx right before the final, went to go look for it upstairs, took about 5 lifts because my card didn't work, couldn't find my tile, ran back down, said I couldn't compete, stood in the crowd for a minute, then odder lent me his spare megaminx for my first solve. I ended up using Sanio's mefferts and almost got a pb average.
-Me and Conny 9.95 team step solve! (cross, f2l1, f2l2, etc.)
-Breandan knows so many cool algs
 
Had an awesome time. Getting 4 podiums is nice, but nothing compared to seeing friends again, and meeting loads of new ones :)

Also, my 29 move FMC is here

DYK...
- I'm 9th best in the world at magic? (My ranking of 603 say otherwise though :p)
- 5x5 WTF?
- I'm really happy with the results, especially 3bld (Zane), megaminx (Simon) and feet (Henrik)?
- Simon is golfpro?
- Feliks is puttingpro?
- Kevin doesn't know what rotations z,x,y are?
- He is famousexplodingrubiks?
- I got to meet the person who 'taught' me bigbld, and was one of my inspirations?
- The pyraminx final scrambles were terrible for me (and many others it seems)?
- Sometimes you stop practising for a couple of weeks before a comp to get a better result (less pressure), but other times it takes 18 months for it to work (me in clock)?
- Lowee Hessrer and Dini?
- Lucky draws are a stupid idea?
- Never go to the 5D show at the Aquarium? Never even think about going?
- What happens in Bangkok, stays in Bangkok? That applies to Dan, Sanio, Joel, Frank and myself.
 
Ooh btw, almost forgot I have Simon's winning megaminx average on video. He's quite far from the camera because he was in the back row, but since I haven't seen any videos of it, does anyone wants me to upload the vid?

If Simon has his own version then I won't upload mine :)
 
DYKs:
- FMC looked good but no good ending? Scramble: R2 F D2 L F' U2 F2 U' L' B' L F2 U2 L2 F2 R2 U B2 U2 R2 D2. My start: B2 R2 F L D' L' U2 D' L D' B U B (triple X-cross), but found nothing...
- Sebastien is battling with Henrik for most favorite world champion??
- Feliks is too friendly to not like?
- Hays is all like 'where are you, stupid piece? U U2 U U z2 U U2 U U U ... oh its in the E layer' and still gets like sub 2's on 6x6?
- Simon is golfing pro?
- Arnaud should get a haircut...?
- THAI FOOD ROCKS???? SOOO delicious
- WTF Conny magic?
- We love you Rowe?
- Poor Dan???? grr Feliks
- Poor Giovanni??? grr Feliks
- Poor Yu Nakajima?? grr Feliks and Dan
- Michal is awesome?
- Zane is so cute and innocent?
- Our mosaic should've won?
- Chang beer is way better than Singha????
- You can get wet and dry up 4 times in only a couple of hours with the Thai weather?
- Joel has the best Z-perm on earth?
- Feliks did some 8's on my feet cube?
- My main cube kinda broke before Semi's so I had to use my spare cube?
- This was a horrible idea? :(
- WTF 18.18 OH avg??????
 
Tim Major said:
-oooooooooooooo (whenever an Indonesian or Thai cuber was announced for something.
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lol, Indonesians were really one of the noisiest cubers, despite the low number of people coming the comp, but it's really fun to oooooooooooooo

edit:
DYK:
that watching the 5x5 finals was like watching the FIFA World Cup Finals?
Michal lost his OH avg WR cube?
that this guy failed in the clock finals very badly?
that only a few cubers can pronounce this guy's name correctly
that the table used by the Indonesian cubers was arguably the messiest table?
that juggling is kewl?
that the judge pronounce some names weirdly?
that the display (not sure how to call it) above the toilet once have RubiksCock written on it instead of Rubik's Clock?
that Jihan is really skilled on lucky draws that he won it twice (one was on the asian champs)?
the total amount of money won by Feliks is still lower than Michal's prize on one event?
 
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