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After several glitches and tests and software wrangling and one false
start, we managed to pull off the first ever hyperspeedsolving contest
this morning (for those of us on US west coast time).
And without further adieu, the winner is........ (insert fanfare here)
Mateusz Burnicki, with a round-trip time of 15 minutes, 57 seconds! A
very respectable time for the 3^4 with prepared macros allowed. Hurray
for Mateusz! Your prize t-shirt will be on it's way shortly.
Here is Mateusz's winning log file
closely by Matthew Sheerin, Andrey Astrelin, and Remiguisz Durka in that
order, each a minute or so apart, and finally our young Raymond Zhao
(AKA deustfrr) who was unhappy about coming in last even though he
easily broke his 30 minute goal. So congratulations to all the brave
competitors. I was extremely impressed with every one of you, and not
just by your stellar performances but especially by your collective
sense of humor and fair play.
Here is the chat log
wants to reconstruct the excitement.
Poor deustfrr was so excited that if he hadn't been so young I would
have been worried that he might have a heart attack when I had to call a
false start!
girlfriend Mikayla on hearing my updates throughout the event told me to
tell him that she is now officially his fangirl. How sweet is that!
Once the excitement of the main event was over, Remi spontaneously
suggested a 2nd round just for fun, and most of the contestants decided
to join in. I suppose they just needed to burn off excess energy
generated by the main event, or maybe they wanted to prepare for the
next contest. Everyone agreed that it would be great to make it a
regular event. I'm generally happy to run these but I was a little
surprised that they all wanted to make it a monthly thing. Maybe we
could arrange for just a season of monthly events leading up to final
competition between the best performers for a cash prize? I could
probably handle that. I'll even keep upping the prize in proportion to
the number of contestants that finish in the allowed time. We can do
whatever the community wants, so please send your suggestions to this
list. I especially encourage the contestants to send in their personal
descriptions of the event along with suggestions for future fun.
We've been hoping to hold this contest for years but now we finally have
enough people ready to jump in, so I'm completely happy. Thanks and
congratulations to everyone involved!
Happy cubing,
-Melinda
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After several glitches and tests and software wrangling and one
false start, we managed to pull off the first ever hyperspeedsolving
contest this morning (for those of us on US west coast time).
And without further adieu, the winner is........ (insert fanfare
here)
Mateusz Burnicki, with a round-trip time of 15 minutes, 57 seconds!
A very respectable time for the 3^4 with prepared macros allowed.
Hurray for Mateusz! Your prize t-shirt will be on it's way shortly.
Here is Mateusz's
winning log file. He was followed very closely by Matthew
Sheerin, Andrey Astrelin, and Remiguisz Durka in that order, each a
minute or so apart, and finally our young Raymond Zhao (AKA
deustfrr) who was unhappy about coming in last even though he easily
broke his 30 minute goal. So congratulations to all the brave
competitors. I was extremely impressed with every one of you, and
not just by your stellar performances but especially by your
collective sense of humor and fair play.
Here is the
log for anyone who wants to reconstruct the excitement.
Poor deustfrr was so excited that if he hadn't been so young I would
have been worried that he might have a heart attack when I had to
call a false start!
girlfriend Mikayla on hearing my updates throughout the event told
me to tell him that she is now officially his fangirl. How sweet is
that!
Once the excitement of the main event was over, Remi spontaneously
suggested a 2nd round just for fun, and most of the contestants
decided to join in. I suppose they just needed to burn off excess
energy generated by the main event, or maybe they wanted to prepare
for the next contest. Everyone agreed that it would be great to make
it a regular event. I'm generally happy to run these but I was a
little surprised that they all wanted to make it a monthly thing.
Maybe we could arrange for just a season of monthly events leading
up to final competition between the best performers for a cash
prize? I could probably handle that. I'll even keep upping the prize
in proportion to the number of contestants that finish in the
allowed time. We can do whatever the community wants, so please send
your suggestions to this list. I especially encourage the
contestants to send in their personal descriptions of the event
along with suggestions for future fun.
We've been hoping to hold this contest for years but now we finally
have enough people ready to jump in, so I'm completely happy. Thanks
and congratulations to everyone involved!
Happy cubing,
-Melinda
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Wow I'm surprised you've counted. Kinda makes me wanna solve more puzzles
in that program.
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