Aachen Open 2009

Speed­cub­ing is some­thing that has been gain­ing con­sid­er­able pop­u­lar­ity over the last 2 years. Just re­cently Pro7, a big TV sta­tion in Ger­many, did a short piece (Part 1, Part 2) (be­tween “how to open a bra” and “how not to get a cold”) about fw and a few friends of him, call­ing him the “Keimzelle” (the one who got it all rolling) of Speed­cub­ing in Aachen.

So, with a big num­ber of peo­ple al­ready Speed­cub­ing in Aachen, and a very open and nerdy com­mu­nity of stu­dents, a Speed­cub­ing com­pe­ti­tion in Aachen was bound to hap­pen sooner or later. In Jan­u­ary of next year it will, and it’s called “Aachen Open 2009”. I’ll leave the de­tails to the web­site, but rest-as­sured this is not just a lit­tle pri­vate get-to­gether, but as of­fi­cial as it gets (they have WCA-del­e­gates) and the orga-team would like to see new faces, be it peo­ple al­ready pro­fi­cient or just start­ing out. I’m also gonna be there (doing my painful 2-3min. “solve” of the 3×3×3 ;), so you know there’s gonna be some­one who will suck more than you! ;)

You can sign up for the event until the day it starts, but it would be a lot eas­ier on plan­ning if you did it as soon as pos­si­ble.