In St. Andrew's car park
The World Cube Association Rubik's Competition, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich - 31st July 2022
It's Rubik's cubes everywhere as we tag along to watch Eliot from Brussells compete in a few rounds of WCA 2022 in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Despite having an average time that's quick enough to qualify, Fred's only been cubing for a few weeks so missed out on entering, but still gets to do some judging for Eliot. The whole thing proves to be quite interesting, and it's nice to be somewhere which is clearly and completely a "safe space for nerds", but it's also a long day as we have to be there for registration before 9 in the morning and don't to escape until Eliot's done the Skewb at nearly 5pm. In between, we escape up to the city for a bit of lunch, and Isobel teaches Harry to solve the standard 3x3.
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We walk down St. Andrew's Street
A pink dinosaur
The boys test out some cube merchandise
It's a proper nerd-fest in St. Andrew's
A mass of fancy cubes
Fred tries a 3x3 cube out
The competition kicks off
Fred's judging for Eliot
Cube muddling is required
Fred times the inspection phase
3x3 competition action
Harry gets himself a 'cube' banana
A view from the stage
One of the organisers does a video of his go
11.75 seconds is quite slow as it happens
Alice does some judging
Time for a sleep
Fred is pleased to have solved the apple cube
Stained glass in St. Andrew's Hall
A poster of Victorian superstar Clara Butt
Solving cubes on the stage
Everyone's at it
A chunky dog drools on the floor
Another organisers gets a good time in the 2x2
We head up to the city during the lunch break
A pair of K6 phone boxes
Fancy Art Nouveau architecture on the Royal Arcade
There's more graffiti on the windows of Game
White Lion House is still derelict
Graffiti on the windows of the old Game shop
We eat sushi at Yo! in Chapelfield
Harry's got a lemon cube to solve
Another dinosaur, in Chapelfield
A giraffe-patterned dino outside Chantry Place
Eliot climbs the bike racks
The big but simple Clarks hoarding is quite striking
The door to the defunct Norwich CEYMS
Another dinosaur, on Gentlman's Walk
Jarrolds has a load of Pride balloons going on
Another St. Andrew's Church, in Bridewell
The boys pose with their cubes outside St. Andrew's
There's a micro-cube challenge
The whole family is cubing
Eliot gets ready for another round
Harry's doing a 3x3 on the stage
Two pink dinosaurs
Repeated posters on Little London Street
It's looks dark over the cat murals
3x3 winner Ryan Wu looks around
Ryan Wu works on another 6-second solve
Out the back of St. Andrew's
The cloisters of St. Andrew's Hall
Jules looks on as everyone else does some cubing
A blur of action for a head-based Go-pro camera
Down in the crypts under Blackfriar's Hall
Beckett's hall
There's been some sort of wedding in Beckett's hall
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In St. Andrew's car park
In St. Andrew's car park
We walk down St. Andrew's Street
A pink dinosaur
The boys test out some cube merchandise
It's a proper nerd-fest in St. Andrew's
A mass of fancy cubes
Fred tries a 3x3 cube out
The competition kicks off
Fred's judging for Eliot
Cube muddling is required
Fred times the inspection phase
3x3 competition action
Harry gets himself a 'cube' banana
A view from the stage
One of the organisers does a video of his go
11.75 seconds is quite slow as it happens
Alice does some judging
Time for a sleep
Fred is pleased to have solved the apple cube
Stained glass in St. Andrew's Hall
A poster of Victorian superstar Clara Butt
Solving cubes on the stage
Everyone's at it
A chunky dog drools on the floor
Another organisers gets a good time in the 2x2
We head up to the city during the lunch break
A pair of K6 phone boxes
Fancy Art Nouveau architecture on the Royal Arcade
There's more graffiti on the windows of Game
White Lion House is still derelict
Graffiti on the windows of the old Game shop
We eat sushi at Yo! in Chapelfield
Harry's got a lemon cube to solve
Another dinosaur, in Chapelfield
A giraffe-patterned dino outside Chantry Place
Eliot climbs the bike racks
The big but simple Clarks hoarding is quite striking
The door to the defunct Norwich CEYMS
Another dinosaur, on Gentlman's Walk
Jarrolds has a load of Pride balloons going on
Another St. Andrew's Church, in Bridewell
The boys pose with their cubes outside St. Andrew's
There's a micro-cube challenge
The whole family is cubing
Eliot gets ready for another round
Harry's doing a 3x3 on the stage
Two pink dinosaurs
Repeated posters on Little London Street
It's looks dark over the cat murals
3x3 winner Ryan Wu looks around
Ryan Wu works on another 6-second solve
Out the back of St. Andrew's
The cloisters of St. Andrew's Hall
Jules looks on as everyone else does some cubing
A blur of action for a head-based Go-pro camera
Down in the crypts under Blackfriar's Hall
Beckett's hall
There's been some sort of wedding in Beckett's hall