The chaotic multi-blind attempt that won 2nd place at Worlds 2023 

TINGMAN

It’s so sad when comps are run like this. Especially Worlds. Great job on overcoming these obstacle though 🎉

CubingUSA is hosting. I'm really exited because they are good. And a 2000 competitor limit is just crazy

cubingusa hosted nats a few weeks before worlds, with 1100 competitors and the furthest behind schedule it was was about an hour tops, we are definitely going to be ok at worlds

ryan

ayden

ron

So was it the distraction that made you dnf😢

This venue had water leaks due to the typhoon of the previous week, I guess that's why it was late and kinda chaotic, there are errors that make no sense at all but I can understand some of them

Looks like I need to go and practise at some of your comps before next major championships 😂

wild dinosaur appears :o

@@GrahamSiggins I was summoned here only for this video to raise my blood pressure. I am too old for that. Roar.

​@@GrahamSigginsgood one 😂

Yeah

thank you!

Yes

I think with judges vs. harmonica holder it depends on the competitor. It highly depends on how much the judge moves, but also how used to the competitor is. In terms of being on a phone, for me it's probably fine if I can't see the phone screen, in this case I could which was distracting but at least it was far enough in my peripheral where I could block it out. (But also this adds to stress because I'd be wondering whether the attempt could be DNFed because the judge could in theory be showing me something on his phone.) In the UK, they always use harmonica holders for full multi-bld attempts, and the only downside is the 5-10 seconds lost from putting it on, but in this attempt I already lost those 10 seconds on just the memo on one of the cubes. If I had known that someone was going to be sat next to me it also would have helped a lot. At Swiss Nationals 2022 I had a judge and it went very well and I was happy to not have to use a harmonica holder. From what the other mblders were saying at the start of the attempt, most of them prefer harmonica holders because the distractions of a judge aren't worth it.

And if the judge is on their phone or doing something else, why are they sat next to me and not just at the front overlooking several people?

I think it's probably best to give each competitor the choice, and then if there are any individual judges make sure they distract the competitor as little as possible

Thanks for your answers! I think a judge being on their phone isn't unexpected when they are waiting more than 30 min without doing anything else, but it's indeed not ideal. I guess we could have judges waiting somewhere else waiting for the competitor to memo so they don't disturb them, and then coming to put the paper when you're starting (since you won't be distracted by someone coming if you don't see anything, unless they make a ton of noise)

I don't even know, and I didn't want to find out during Worlds where there's a cutoff

I was getting consistently 50+ points at home that week, so maybe, I also did badly because I sleep terribly before important comps. The second attempt had virtually no distractions, and it felt a lot better, but nerves crippled my exec accuracy

You have to bring all your own cubes to compete

The guy who touched me (my actual judge) was to tell me to stop because it had been 1 hour

@@ezrahirschi ahh thanks