Dene
Premium Member
Hey everyone,
I had a story from World Champs I wanted to share, so I figured I'd make a thread about it and open it up for other people to come out with their own cool stories from World Champs, whether at the competition, in Las Vegas in general, or even from people who didn't attend.
My story is something that happened to me a couple of days after the competition. I was wandering around Las Vegas and found myself at Aria completely by accident. While there I decided to book a ticket to see the Zarkana show by Cirque Du Soleil, which I had seen advertised on the tram. When I went to the counter there was only one other family there being served by someone else. There were three boys with their parents, and the youngest two (maybe 11 and 13 years old) had Rubik's Cubes on them. While I was waiting to get my ticket I said to the boys something along the lines of "so were you guys here for the World Championships over the weekend?" As it turned out they weren't, nor did they have any idea the competition was on. I started talking to their parents, and it turned out the boys had only recently started playing with the cubes. They didn't know how to solve them yet, but they were already addicted to playing around with them. I ended up talking to them for about half an hour, showing them some of my other cubes and giving them information on where they can get better cubes and learn how to finish them (including this forum). If they've stuck at it, they've probably already visited here, and that would be two new cubers to add to the community!
I just thought it was such a crazy coincidence that I happened to be in Las Vegas (on the other side of the world) for the World Champs, in a hotel I didn't even mean to go to, getting tickets to a show I didn't even know existed about 10 minutes earlier, and I happen to run into some kids with Rubik's cubes who didn't know a thing about the World Champs or the cubing community in general. What are the chances?!
I had one other cool little story: I went on a helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon, and the pilot for the helicopter which I happened to be on just so happened to be a big Doctor Who fan! Super cool
So those were a couple of my stories, what about everyone else?
I had a story from World Champs I wanted to share, so I figured I'd make a thread about it and open it up for other people to come out with their own cool stories from World Champs, whether at the competition, in Las Vegas in general, or even from people who didn't attend.
My story is something that happened to me a couple of days after the competition. I was wandering around Las Vegas and found myself at Aria completely by accident. While there I decided to book a ticket to see the Zarkana show by Cirque Du Soleil, which I had seen advertised on the tram. When I went to the counter there was only one other family there being served by someone else. There were three boys with their parents, and the youngest two (maybe 11 and 13 years old) had Rubik's Cubes on them. While I was waiting to get my ticket I said to the boys something along the lines of "so were you guys here for the World Championships over the weekend?" As it turned out they weren't, nor did they have any idea the competition was on. I started talking to their parents, and it turned out the boys had only recently started playing with the cubes. They didn't know how to solve them yet, but they were already addicted to playing around with them. I ended up talking to them for about half an hour, showing them some of my other cubes and giving them information on where they can get better cubes and learn how to finish them (including this forum). If they've stuck at it, they've probably already visited here, and that would be two new cubers to add to the community!
I just thought it was such a crazy coincidence that I happened to be in Las Vegas (on the other side of the world) for the World Champs, in a hotel I didn't even mean to go to, getting tickets to a show I didn't even know existed about 10 minutes earlier, and I happen to run into some kids with Rubik's cubes who didn't know a thing about the World Champs or the cubing community in general. What are the chances?!
I had one other cool little story: I went on a helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon, and the pilot for the helicopter which I happened to be on just so happened to be a big Doctor Who fan! Super cool
So those were a couple of my stories, what about everyone else?
. I think the Mystere prob. would have been more interesting to me. We also saw Crazy Girls at the Riviera, which was only $30, and was well worth it.
