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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2003 |
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We arrive at the Ontario Science Center around 9 in the morning for regestration, as well as to scout out the area. We also got to pick up our promo package! A backpack, pin, name tag, a shiny cube and a 2003 RWC stand, very cool stuff! After being questioned and setting up times for interviews and stuff we went and dressed up our cubes in fancy new outfits! There was a room filled with stickers for your 3x3s 4x4s and 5x5s. |
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There I am sprucing up my cubes. What a stud, and that tye dye shirt is very sexy, come on ladies you know you like it! |
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Ton is hard at work making sure his cube is in top performance for the competition!
<---- There are the stars of the show! Looking good guys... lookin good! I was reluctant at first to sticker my 5x5, it is a Bandelow 5x5, not a rubiks.com one (even though they are pretty much the same), but it was all good because i changed the color scheme to white yellow, it was white blue and I hate that! |
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After the sticker extravagansa someone was gonna give a powerpoint presentation on some cube stuff. It was hard to listen to with everyone packed in the small room, and i was disapointed that i didnt get to see it, because the 5x5 competiters were called for cube inspection.
I was one of the first four to start off the tournament, and the first event was speedsolving the 5x5! Up on stage with me was David Barr, and a set of twin brothers from Canada. Each of us had to do 3 solves and I was aiming for 5:45 times. My 3 times were, 5:32.25, 4:53.84, and 4:45.35! All 3 times below my goal! YAY!!! I was happy, and the two judges were really nice at my stand. Nervousness was not a problem, I prepared myself more for meeting people rather then competitng and that helped me not crack under the pressure. My average time for the 5x5 was 5:03.81 and that landed me 7th place in the 5x5 category! |
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SMILE JAKE, YOU ARE ON STAGE!!!
The podiums were really cool, they look like giant cubes, but they are just giant boxes, and the sticker patern is impossible to solve :( |
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Look at me go! It was almost too quiet in the room. It would have been nice to have some music hehehe! |
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MORE>>>>> |
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Betty Tregay and Ron both 5x5ing. Grant Tregay (far right) is rooting on his wife |
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