Gilles' Rubik's Cube blog

After a very long delay, I finally uploaded pictures of this wonderful World Championship which took place in Budapest earlier this year (October 2007).

You can find them here : link

Unfortunately this time I will not post an extensive report. I hope pictures are enough.

I had a great time and I hope to meet all of you very soon !!!

Thursday 13 September

Reaching Wadowice overland is quite a big trip. Moreover you need good transportation vehicles. In this case, the travel would be done (once again) with Arnaud van Galen and his wonderful red Seat Ibiza (and of course its special accelerator system :D). This time Lars Vandenbergh and Clément Gallet and I would join him for the trip. First I went to pick Clément at the Brussels Midi train station from which we went to Brussels Airport. We had to wait for 2 hours so we ordered some pizza and started cubing. I showed him my new puzzle which is the “Rubik’s Delta Ball”. It is some sort of Impossiball but without the possibility to turn one layer completely. Later we were joined by Lars and we cubed some more until Arnaud arrived at the airport. We then quickly drove up to Rotterdam were a special task was waiting for us: (speed) building a bed! As his house is nearly empty, he got a new bed from Ikea which we had to build so that everyone had a bed to sleep on. After founding out that I was not a “speedscrewer”, we called Clément and Lars so they could show their skills in this particular domain. After that we ate some food and then went to bed immediately, the big trip was still to come…

Friday 14 September

Rotterdam -> Wadowice: This might seem quite simple but as you will see, many adventures can happen on a basic trip like this. We decided to wake up at 5 in the morning so that we could theoretically reach Wadowice around 7 in the evening and by doing so meeting other cubers in the evening. We left quite quickly at around 5:30 and started driving east. I took the first shift and realized that the lights were not working properly. In the Netherlands this was not a big problem as the roads are quite well lightened but it later we would have problems with that as you will see. We reached the German boarder at around 7 AM, ate breakfast around Hannover at 9 AM, had some lunch in Berlin and then went to the Polish border. The trip in Germany was quite straightforward and besides some traffic jams, it went very well. As Arnaud and I switched from the driving seat to the passenger seat every 2 hours or 200 kilometers, we could both practice cubing or take part in activities with Clément and Lars.
When we reached the Polish border, there was a passport control, as expected. Our map then showed that we would have to drive for around 70 kilometers on a “red road”, meaning not a highway but still quite a big road. Indeed, it was a big road but we quickly found out why it did not qualify for the highway category. The quality of that road was so bad that it was practically impossible to do anything. Drinking a bottle of water was impossible unless half of the water would be spilled all over you. Along the road, there were also some strange shops: people were selling live chickens and statues (not live statues of course ^^). I wonder how their business could survive there. After about 40 minutes of suffer and pain in the back, a proper highway would appear. As with all Eastern European highways, their quality is exceptional. The road is just perfect but more importantly there are very few cars and trucks on it which makes it very comfortable to drive on. I stopped driving before Katowice where Arnaud would take the driving steer for that last 200 kilometers, supposedly in about 2 hours…
The first problem we encountered was that we were running out of gasoline. As usual, when you need it, there are no gas stations around to help you. So we decided to get out of the highway and search for one in one of cities around. We asked for help to local people. Indeed, Polish people are very nice and really try to help you. Unfortunately, they try to help you in Polish. Among other things, this led us to a nearly abandoned gas station. Finally we reached one and could go for the last part of our trip. So we went back on the highway and drove a few more kilometers until we reached our exit. If you are familiar with Michelin maps, you know that yellow roads are already quite small. Now what happens if you want to drive 30 kilometers on “white” Polish roads? The answer is simple: you get lost. And by lost, I mean really lost. Those 30 kilometers not only turned into nearly 200 kilometers but they also provided us with the opportunity to visit a train museum, a very strange road with many S turns and also a bridge which turned out to be a boat system to cross a small river (which was closed at the time we were there otherwise it would have been fun to do it). Finally we decided to get back on the highway and use a longer way to reach Wadowice but with only big roads. Once we reached Wadowice, we thought our adventures would end there but no. We found Ron van Bruchem who was waiting for us at a restaurant (he came out of it to show us where it was), in response we used the bumper and the big lights. This was not counting on the police car which was right at the corner and promptly arrested us for bad driving. This “bad driving” took place in the last 50 meters of our 1400 kilometers trip. Too bad… After eating some Gyros we went to our hotel and Arnaud and I inherited a suite instead of a room (but for the same price) but this is the reward for the drivers.  We then went to bed as it was nearly 1 in the morning and had to wake up again early to be on time at the competition.

Saturday 15 September 2007

The registration was open from 8 to 9 in the morning so we decided to arrive around 8:30 there. Before that we had a very tasteful breakfast at our hotel where we met Ron, Ton, Grada and Peter Ooms and David Jones. They decided to go to the venue before us. When we went there we found David on the way because he could not find the venue. As Lars and I had already been there the year before it was easy for us to lead the group. Otherwise, I have to admit that the venue is quite hard to find especially if you can’t read or speak Polish. When we arrived there we proceeded with the registration and got our special free T-shirt. Quickly after, we went into the competition hall where a proper opening ceremony would take place. That ceremony had already impressed me the year before but this year it was almost comparable to an “Olympic Games opening ceremony”. Among other things, 2 groups of dancers performed a dance in front of us, the Polish national anthem was played by a full orchestra and a very nice flag was carried by 6 different people and was slowly hung (see videos).
Afterwards the competition started. 76 competitors took part in the first event: the 3x3 1st round. As only 24 of them would be allowed to go and compete in the 2nd round, it was important to do a top performance during those 3 attempts that each competitor received. As for me I hit 15.05 which is quite good and gave me the 5th place, well enough to go over to the next round. However, others were less fortunate. I am particularly thinking about Clément Gallet who came all the way from Lyon in the South of France to Wadowice and would only be allowed to solve 3 times in the 3x3. (The time to beat to be in the 2nd round was 18.96 seconds.)
Immediately afterwards all the fewest moves (FM) competitors had to gather and follow the organizers into another part of the school were the competition was held. The FM competition turned out to be very popular with 26 people taking part in it so we were separated in 2 different class rooms. This event really looked as if we were going to sit for an exam as each of us had to sit at one different table and that sheets and pens were already prepared for us. Most surprisingly 21 out of the 26 proposed solutions were successful and 8 of them were sub 40 (moves). Unfortunately I lost the record for the “longest fewest moves solution”: someone reached 76 moves whereas my record was 75. However I do not recommend anyone to try anything longer as it would make judges very upset to verify a 100 or 200 move solution. 77 might be acceptable though.
Then there was the 2x2 event where a completely crazy new world record was set: 3.92 seconds average of 5 by Lukasz Cialon. On a more funny point of view (depending which point of view of course), Arnaud van Galen who had won the Lyon Open in that category 2 weeks before only managed to rank 20th with an average of 5 of nearly 11 seconds. This also means that his times almost doubled during that time. Let’s see if he is still able double his times for the World Championship in Budapest. ^^
Then we come to the 5x5 1st round where every competitor was given the opportunity to solve that cube twice. On the way from the Netherlands, Clément and Arnaud were talking about this puzzle since both of them practiced a little on it and I thought where much faster than me. I was very surprised that I was able to solve it far under 3 minutes even though I had never practiced it in the weeks before. I even improved my best time by 2 seconds (2:33.66) and got to beat Arnaud even with his new edge pairing method (which is very good by the way). I have no idea what went particularly well for me during those solves but now I want to reach sub 2:30 (which I have already done once during the French Championship earlier this year but this was unofficial unfortunately). Clément Gallet was once again excluded from the final by just 1 place (8 competitors could proceed to the final).
After the lunch we received in the school (very good by the way), we went on with the 4x4 1st round. Besides the new world record average done by Mátyás Kuti (58.15 seconds), the most important moment of this competition was certainly Lars Vandenbergh who finally broke 1 minute on a 4x4 solve. But breaking might not be appropriate: exploding it might better. Indeed, 52.41 seconds is quite below 1 minute. ^^ Congratulations Lars!
Then the big event for me took place: the 3x3 one-handed competition. For some reason, I was called among the last cubers to go and solve the cube twice. This gave me the opportunity to see how my main competitors were doing (as you may know, in this competition the results are recorded after each solve and available for everyone who is in the room thanks to a beamer or in the world thanks to the live internet feeds). All I had to do was beat 30 seconds. This thought should have removed any stress from me as I literally never solve the cube in more than 30 seconds one-handed. However the stress overwhelmed me and I got a 26.56 seconds solve. Afterwards, I was feeling a bit better as I was certain to be in the final but this only helped me to get a 24.53 seconds solve. I was not very happy with these results but at least I was in the final.
Afterwards the “quick event”, namely the Magic, Master Magic and the Clock events took place. You don’t get to prepare yourself very well for that kind of events as it goes so quickly. However I managed to practice briefly the Magic and reached a reasonable average. Now looking at the results, I realize than only consistency allowed me to be on the podium (3rd place) because a lot of competitors reached times below 1.30 seconds but had DNF’s, among them the famous Mátyás Kuti. As for the clock, Mátyás did another demonstration of his “powers” and broke another world record.
Then the Square-1 event took place. Everybody knew that it would be a tough competition given the incredible level of some Polish competitors. Indeed, great results took place. However, it must be said that during this event all competitors did not get the same scrambles apparently. Indeed, one of the scrambles I had was a Square-1 which was already in the cube shape. I think the new world record single solve was done on this scramble but after asking Lars if he had had it or not, he said he did not. This shows that the Square-1 is a hard puzzle to scramble. However, it is good that other competitors than the fastest one got these scrambles. I think it must be a mistake of one of the scramblers, nothing else. I hope Lars will get one of these “cube Square-1” someday soon.
The Pyraminx was another event where Polish competitors showed all their skills. Another world record was broken but it happened so fast that I cannot say much about this event unfortunately.
As for the Megaminx, it was the first time that I saw the time limits properly enforced. Indeed, Arnaud for example was stopped during his solve because the time limit was over. Even if this seems a little harsh, I think it is good for the sustainability of the competitions. Otherwise anybody could go and solve the puzzle without respecting the time limits.
Now the time schedule predicted that the 3x3 Blindfolded event should have taken place at 17:45, which already very late. Indeed, everyone would be tired by that time. Unfortunately, this event took place at 19:00! So everybody was completely tired… Nonetheless and surprisingly, good results were obtained by the competitors. As for me, I was in a competition with Clément for the 4th place. Indeed, only 4 competitors were allowed to go in the final. We knew that Mátyás would have made it, that Kai Jiptner was also very fast (around 2 minutes) and that there must some Polish competitors below who could solve the cube blindfolded below 3 minutes. After the 1st solve, I was only 5th so I had to put extra effort for the 2nd solve. Luckily, the scramble was quite easy to memorize (very good for 3 cycles method solvers as a few corners only had to be oriented) but not good for me as I use the regular Pochmann method. Somehow I managed to solve it in 2 minutes and 40 seconds (my average at home being 2 minutes and 30 seconds) and I qualified for the final. I was extremely happy with this result and Clément was also happy as he would have something to do on Sunday because he did not qualify for anything else.
Finally some guys solved cubes with their feet (no comment :D) and we set off for dinner in a nice restaurant where a special room was prepared for our group (Belgian, Dutch, German and Hungarian cubers). We had a very nice evening eating, drinking, sharing tips and competing in various funny events. At nearly midnight we went to our room because the day with all the finals was still to come. ^^

Sunday 16 September 2007

After another nice breakfast at hour hotel we went once again to the venue. Only Arnaud had qualified for the 3x3 Fewest Moves event which was the first one of the day. This time it was held in the main hall at the back of it so it was still quite away from all the other competitors and the spectators. After 30 minutes the 3x3 semi-final started which probably did not make it easy for the FM competitors as it of course made more noise in the room. The level of this semi-final was extremely high and even with an average of 17.06, I was not so sure to be able to enter the final. Fortunately I finished 9th and I promised myself to do better in the final. Afterwards the Fewest Moves competitors finished and Arnaud showed us his incredible “nearly solution” in 20 moves. Indeed, after 20 moves his cube was solved besides 2 twisted corners. In total, his solution had 33 moves, enough to equal the best performance of the 1st round but Zbigniew improved his best solution with a 31-move solution. Arnaud was still very happy with all his solutions and his “block-building skills”. Moreover, I brought him a second national record! Afterwards, an event about which I really have not much to say: the Pyraminx. It was once again so fast. Somehow Arnaud had qualified for the final of this event but everybody else was extremely fast and Grzegorz Luczyna broke the WR with a sub 6 seconds average of 5. Quite fast. ^^
The 2x2 was also a demonstration of fast solves. The limit was quite high in the first round so only really fast competitors were allowed to compete in the final. But I have to say I did not focus a lot on that event so once again I do not have much to say. I was personally practicing some OH cubing.
The 5x5 final was, as expected, a Mátyás Kuti event. Personally we were looking forward seeing Lars breaking the other limit he wants to break: 2 minutes on the 5x5. Unfortunately for him he did not do it. At the same time I was practicing 3x3 OH very hard. I did not want to miss the opportunity to break 20 seconds for one solve during this championship.
Then the very big event for me too place: the 3x3 OH final. As usual, I was extremely stressed. I was shaking so much that not only my hand and my arm were shaking: my entire body was shaking. As you can expect, these are not very good conditions to do good results. The 2 first solves were quite OK given this condition. Then I got a bit lucky on the 3rd solve: while finishing F2L I controlled the orientation of the last layer edges and luckily all corners were oriented. A J-Perm then showed me it was time for to break 20 seconds once again. Even though it was lucky, I was extremely happy with this result. I thought I was now free of stress but the next solve proved the opposite and the very last solve was just awful. It would have been very lucky to win the competition under these circumstances and indeed Mátyás beat me by just 0.21 seconds on average. Since he practices and is also quite fast (indeed very fast when it comes to unofficial times, just like me), he deserved his victory. I will have to make sure that this does not happen again in the near future (at the World Championship for example ;-)).
Then we went for the lunch meal of the day at the school refectory. When we came back the 4x4 event started. I expected this to be another Mátyás Kuti event. In the end it was still true but I was relatively surprised by the “small” difference in average between him and Lars: just 5 seconds. This time there were not many extremely fast times (52.xx for example ^^) but it was still an impressive event. Congratulations Mátyás.
The 3x3 Blindfolded final was once again without any surprise as for its winner. The real competition would be for the other places. Mátyás first solve was extremely impressive. Clément secured a good solve with a time of more than 3 minutes but I and Rafal Guzewicw did not. We were now in a big competition. Unfortunately, the conditions would not turn out to be extremely good. Mátyás decided to do a One-Handed Blindfolded solve. As his time was just over 2 minutes, the public went completely crazy. There was just too much noise. I got really angry and shouted the French equivalent of “Shut up!” but nothing happened. All my memorization was gone and I had to restart everything because of this %£#$[§ audience who did not understand the principle of being quiet for a blindfolded event. As I was still angry, it was impossible for me to have a successful solve. Rafal, I suspect for the same reasons, did not get a good solve either. I was extremely angry and disappointed as I always beat 3 minutes at home with successful solves.
I decided to use all this anger for the 3x3 Final which took place immediately afterwards. My first solve was quite bad (18 seconds). Then I had 2 good solves: 15.61 and 14.77. I knew I could something good this time. Unfortunately my 4th time proved otherwise (another 18.xx) but my last solve showed me that I was on the way to become faster as I hit 14.91. I had never hit twice sub 15 in any previous official average. Moreover, I had just improved my best 3x3 average. So all in all, it was not a so bad experience. Next time, I will try to do it really well without any 18.xx times.
I knew Ron was “on fire”. Indeed he reached the 3rd place which is a good result given the extremely competitive level in Poland. Lars was also good and finished at the 5th place.
Then everything was dismantled and put in place for the ceremony. Last year’s winner’s ceremony was the best I ever had. This year’s ceremony proved also to be a must. First everyone who would not be called for a trophy or a podium later received a certificate. This took quite a bit of time but it certainly is important so that everyone felt that he or she was a real part of the competition and somehow “a winner”. Then came the podiums for all categories. As in very important competitions, there were several officials with whom you had to shake hands, receive gifts and of course a medal. The medals were extremely refined, certainly the nicest I have seen until now. During the ceremony and for each podium there were brought by hostess who carried a pillow on which the pedal was disposed. This made the ceremony look extremely official. The only thing that I regret and that actually happened the year before was a small trumpet-like music that made you feel like a Roman emperor when you stepped on the podium. However, this was replaced by fumes for the 3x3 podium. Every competitor who took part in the final was invited to stand next to the podium and the fumes provided a memorable memory (does this wording makes any sense? anyway :p).
Afterwards we started greeting everyone and saying goodbye. Then Marek Kurcyus gave me as a gift something I had until then only seen on some pictures: a fully functional 2x2x6 “cube” (“tower” may be more appropriate). I was extremely happy with this gift. I promised that I would send him something at least as great as that in the future (if you read this Marek, I already have some ideas ^^). Then he left and I went back to the group of Dutch Cubers (and Clément of course). We started to try to solve the puzzle which looked quite complicated at first sight. We were then invited to eat dinner at the school and we all went again in the kitchen/eating room where we did some team solves and exchanged some more tips and experiences with other cubers. We even tried to team-solve the 2x2x6 but this turned out to be impossible as the puzzle was completely new to everyone sitting around the table.
Then we left the venue and headed back to our hotel where we would spend some time before going back to the center where we would meet the Hungarian team at a bar-restaurant. Before that we went to the car to put all the chocolate we had won that day. In total, the 4 of us had won nearly 20 kilos of chocolate bars! We also tried to fix the lights of the car but unfortunately we could not fix the problem. Later, the evening was once again a great moment as I really enjoy that kind of meetings around a table eating or drinking good stuff and spending the time with fellow cubers.
Later in the evening we said good-bye and I poked Mátyás once again for beating him in the 3x3 event. ^^
We headed off again to our hotel and went quickly to sleep as another 1250 km road-trip was waiting for the next day.

Monday 17 September 2007

Around 7 o’clock in the morning we had our last breakfast and met David Jones once again. We then tried to put everything in the car (which turned out to be quite a challenge given the amount of chocolate we had won ^^). After this “puzzle-like challenge”, we headed off for The Netherlands. We decided to do the safe way (meaning longer but better roads) east to Krakow and then west to Germany and The Netherlands. We faced some traffic jams right at the beginning. Fortunately a car entertained us by trying to overtake the entire traffic jam by driving in the grass in the middle of the highway. Unfortunately there was a hole between the road and the grass so the car nearly fell in it but fortunately managed to get back on the road without any damage. After that we started driving on the highway. We stopped at a gas station where we decided to spend all our remaining Zlotys (Polish currency). The total amount we had left was 50 and without doing any kind of calculation we ended up with a sum of 49.xx zlotys. Another lucky case of life. ^^ We were then surprised to see that the bad road we had experienced on the way to Wadowice had an extremely better quality on the side we were driving on to go back home. This was quite a relief as we had suffered from pain in the back and impossibility to do almost anything on the way there.
In Germany we experienced the same road works and traffic jams that exist there. We also discovered at a gas station that women receive special treatment in parking as the picture shows: (Translation: Park place for women :D :D).
Clément had enough time to make up a method to solve the 2x2x6 tower blindfolded. After a few attempts he succeeded! (See the videos).
All these adventures delayed us in our schedule and we decided to drop at Erik Akkersdijk’s place to visit him and eat something there. It was also a good moment but as it was quite late and that we were quite tired (moreover we did not have lights for the car), we decided to leave 1 hour later and drove back to Rotterdam. Most of us (except Arnaud who was driving) slept during that part of the trip. We arrived at around 1 AM.
The next morning we woke up very early and took a train at 7 AM (meaning roughly 5 hours of sleep after this super week-end) back to Belgium and to France for Clément.

Pictures


All you need for 15-hour car journey. ^^


In case of traffic jams :D.


Somewhere in Poland, we visited this train museum while we were lost. :D :D



Glad to be in our hotel room... :)


The orchestra who played the music for the opening ceremony. Very good !!


The competition area.


The competition is now open... (just like the Olympic Games have the fire, the Polish Open has a speicla flag :))


Lars solving a big cube (I hope :D)


Arnaud...not yet successful :-(


Did I drink too much ??


Lars and Clément team-solving 2-gen scrambles.


At the restaurant on Saturday evening.


It's never too late to practice...even when you are very tired ^^


Nice face Clément ! (me and Lars on the right ;-))


Oliver, me and Istvan


The 3x3 finalists (and Winner: Piotr Kozaka)


The 3x3 finalists getting a lung cancer :D :D


Arnaud the super-star dedicacing posters


Clément trying to solve the 2x2x6 puzzle


Looks nice but...where are we going to put our luggages ?? :D :D


Kacper, Robert, Matyas, Oliver, Gilles, Lars, Clement, Istvan and Bertalan at the pub on Sunday evening


Definitely enough chocolate bars for 4 people :p.


Lars: Where are we ??? :D :D


Bye bye Poland !!


Let's get home quickly !!! (done in Germany ;-))


Welcome to Germany !!


I saw so many of these that I had to take a picture :p


Women have special treatment in some German parkings :p :p

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I want to thank everyone for this great competition and all the memories I will keep of this event.
Thanks and see you soon !

Last Sunday a cube meeting in Rotterdam was held at Arnaud's place.

To make a long story short, lots of cubers from Belgium and The Netherlands were present.
We held an unofficial competition and the results can be found here.
I recorded some solves from the OH competition and I compiled them into a video which you can download here (50 MB, .wmv).
Below is a group picture with cubers who were there. Unfortunately some were already gone and so everyone is not on this picture. :s
Sorry !

EDIT: Here are the results of this competition.

2x2x2
1. Erik Akkersdijk: 6.31, 4.68, 5.44, 4.47, 5.59 = 5.24
2. Joël van Noort: 7.63, 7.29, 5.83, 7.18, 5.93 = 6.8
3. Lars Vandenbergh: 8.42, 7.61, 8.13, 8.42, 6.12 = 8.05
4. Gilles van den Peereboom: 8.15, 8.46, 8.47, 14.35, 7.16 = 8.36
5. Rama Temmink: 11.25, 10.31, 6.08, 7.43, 10.33 = 9.36
6. Arnaud van Galen: 12.56, 9.3, 11.11, 9.29, 10.23 = 10.21
7. Ron van Bruchem: 11.53, 13.64, 13.5, 9.04, 7.47 = 11.36
8. Jaap Scherphuis: 30.49, 17.88, 15.45, 14.52, 20.48 = 17.94
9. Hans van der Zijden: 36.46, 10.43, 30.38, 18.51, 30.19 = 26.36
10. Daniël Hop: 27.02, 39.9, 22.75, 32.27, 35.27 = 31.52
11. Michael Fung: 24.7, 28.08, DNF, DNS, DNS = DNF

3x3x3
1. Joël van Noort: 15.06, 15.88, 15.49, 15.03, 13.65 = 15.19
2. Erik Akkersdijk: 18.13, 13.06, 14.71, 18, 16.08 = 16.26
3. Ron van Bruchem: 16.66, 15.45, 16.17, 18.01, 17.26 = 16.70
4. Lars Vandenbergh: 16.75, 17.71, 40.97, 16.5, 14.81 = 16.99
5. Rama Temmink: 16.9, 18.61, 20.28, 16.17, 18.45 = 17.99
6. Gilles van den Peereboom: 22.26, 17.28, 18.64, 17.05, 18.27 = 18.06
7. Sander Ooms: 16.93, 21.32, 20.09, 22.58, 21.72 = 21.04
8. Ton Dennenbroek: 25.52, 25.49, 22.78, 16.86, 23.28 = 23.85
9. Michael Fung: 25.75, 20.94, 31.3, 37.59, 23.75 = 26.93
10. Hans van der Zijden: 29.73, 31.21, 37.97, 32.35, 25.86 = 31.10
11. Arnaud van Galen: 25.44, 26.633, 34.25, 42.11, 33.78 = 31.55
12. Jaap Scherphuis: 36.34, 32.53, 36.61, 35.13, 49.36 = 36.03
13. Maria Oey: 46.56, 95.26, 46.05, 49.44, 56.53 = 50.84

3x3x3_oh
1. Rama Temmink: 25.47, 21.94, 19.1, 18.4, 27.31 = 22.17
2. Gilles van den Peereboom: 25.47, 25.15, 24.49, 24.04, 22.69 = 24.56
3. Erik Akkersdijk: 37.52, 26.27, 35.01, 27.65, 35.89 = 32.85
4. Joël van Noort: 32.16, 44.66, 23.97, 35.21, 37.5 = 34.96
5. Arnaud van Galen: 52.69, 48.35, 52.8, 54.61, 52.01 = 52.5
6. Ron van Bruchem: 55.29, 60.83, 48.73, 52.24, 74.62 = 56.12
7. Hans van der Zijden: 210.03, 213.43, 200.28, DNF, 90.02 = 207.91

4x4x4
1. Erik Akkersdijk: 1:13.02, 1:11.22, 1:10.09, 1:17.06, DNF = 1:13.77
2. Ron van Bruchem: 1:20.33, 1:50.25, 1:22.47, 1:09.87, 1:04.65 = 1:17.56
3. Rama Temmink: 1:46.68, 1:20.60, 1:24.49, 1:17.11, 1:14.09 = 1:20.73
4. Michael Fung: 1:17.37, 1:19.88, 1:07.09, 1:25.37, 2:15.47 = 1:20.87
5. Joël van Noort: 1:29.80, 1:17.68, 1:37.47, 1:25.38, 3:03.47 = 1:30.88
6. Lars Vandenbergh: 1:35.84, 1:11.37, 1:29.74, 1:30.01, 2:39.93 = 1:31.86
7. Gilles van den Peereboom: 1:44.76, 1:22.84, 1:19.34, 1:30.46, 1:50.75 = 1:32.69
8. Arnaud van Galen: 1:24.53, 1:59.05, 1:54.55, 1:31.11, 1:39.01 = 1:41.56
9. Sander Ooms: 1:24.64, 1:43.45, 1:38.19, 1:43.58, 1:44.43 = 1:41.74
10. Ton Dennenbroek: 2:14.22, 2:06.83, 2:25.40, 1:56.65, 2:09.22 = 2:10.09

5x5x5
1. Joël van Noort: 2:24.49, 2:27.48, 1:53.34, 1:54.10, 2:51.26 = 2:15.36
2. Michael Fung: 2:57.53, 2:32.35, 2:39.92, 2:26.03, 2:17.25 = 2:32.77
3. Lars Vandenbergh: 3:10.37, 2:29.62, 2:44.48, 2:45.78, 2:40.28 = 2:43.51
4. Sander Ooms: 3:03.25, 2:54.30, 3:07.89, 3:18.98, 3:01.72 = 3:04.29
5. Rama Temmink: 2:23.94, 2:50.07, 2:30.34, DNS, DNS = DNF

3x3x3_bf
1. Hans van der Zijden: 9:10.22
2. Arnaud van Galen: 14:17.99
3. Gilles van den Peereboom: DNF
3. Joël van Noort: DNF
3. Ton Dennenbroek: DNF
3. Erik Akkersdijk: DNF
3. Rama Temmink: DNF

Source: Arnaud - www.speedsolving.com