Showing posts with label Toronto Open. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto Open. Show all posts

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Toronto Open, Fall 2010

Yet again another speed cubing competition held on November 27, 2010 at Seneca's Residence & Conference Centre.   This is the fourth and last competition of 2010 in Toronto.  It was a larger turn out, but the previous winners, Harris Chan and Eric Limeback did not enter the competition.  Eric did come by later in the day to help out the event as a judge.

Dillon and Ryan did very well for the Rubik's cube 2x2.  Both of them advanced to the second round, but unfortunately, only Ryan made it to the final and finished 8th with an average of 5.19 second.  Neither of them could advance to second round of the 3x3 event, as the there are so many great faster cubers.

Once again, Ryan won first place in Rubik's Magic with a best score of 1.11 seconds, and an average of 1.25 second, slightly better than the last competition.

The first place of 3x3 event was once again won by an American, Rowe Hessler, from New York.  Rowe had a fastest 3x3 solve in the event -- 7.06 seconds.  This would have been a world record few months ago, but now the world record holder is Feliks Zemdegs of Australia with 6.77 seconds.  This time bettered Harris Chan's 7.33 seconds.

It was a long day, but the kids (Dillon & Ryan anyway) enjoyed themselves.

Rowe Hessler at 7.06s. Click to enlarge.

Dillon Solving a 2x2. Click to enlarge.

Ryan with First Place for Magic.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Speed Cubing: Toronto Open, Summer 2010

The Toronto Open, Summer 2010 Speed Cubing competition was once again held at the Seneca College's Resident Conference room in Toronto.  The usual competitors showed up, except Harris Chan, who did not attend this event.

The winners 3x3 of last event were all overtaken by new winners.  Eric Limeback and Emily Wang didn't even get into the third place, though they made it to the final round.  Anthony Brooks from Texas won the 3x3 first place with a 10.79s average of five solves. Rowan Kinneavy won second place with average of 11.09s and Jai Gambhir held third place with average of 12.50s average.  The most amazing event was the 5x5 blind fold solve by Mike Hughey of Indiana.  Though he didn't finish the official event, but he did it later on his own in about 17 minutes.

Dillon and Ryan did better than last time.  Dillon achieved his best official time of 16.44s for a 3x3 solve.  Unfortunately, with the average of 20.89s, it was not enough to get into the second round.  Ryan on the other hand, won first place in the Rubik's magic solve with an average of five solve at 1.28s.  He's in the top 100 average world record holders.  Very proud of him. 

Best official Record. Click on enlarge.

Dillon Solving a Square-1 with Fairchild TV cameraman filming in the background. Click to enlarge.

Mike Hughey just completed an unofficial 5x5 blind fold solve in 17 minutes, with his daughter Rebecca making sure he's not cheating.

Ryan (middle) took 1st Place for Rubik's Magic. Click to enlarge.  Dave Campbell on the right is the organizer.