Rubik's World Championships 2003
Pre-competition gathering at the Crowne Plaza
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At the online speeding group we'd organised to meet up at the hotel on Thursday and Friday night. This was a great opportunity for everyone to meet each other before the official competition began.
Jaap Scherphuis, Lars Vandenbergh and me. Dan Harris is sitting on my right. It's a bit hard to see who's on Lars' immediate left (is it Jess Bonde?). Further to Lars' left we see Jon and Jean Morris.
Everyone getting to know each other at the pre-competition gathering. At the foreground table are Jean Morris and Doug Li. At the next table are Jaap Scherphuis, Lars Vandenbergh, Dan Harris and me.
We were able to test out the stack mat timers on Friday night at the hotel. Here's me having a go, with Heath Litton looking on. We all found that it took some practice to get used to the timers, but the general consensus was that they were a good choice for the competition. These timers were developed by Speed Stacks. If you think speedcubing is geeky, you should check out the competitive sport of cup stacking!.
I didn't get a very good time on my first attempt to use the timer.
David Wesley testing out the stack mat timers, with instruction from Lars Vandenbergh.
Dan Harris teaching me a new algorithm.
Me attempting to remember the algorithm Dan Harris just demonstrated.
Photography by Peter Still | Page last modified Saturday 2 October 2004 by Jasmine Lee.