Also, you can view Lars Vandenbergh’s great photos here.

3x3x3 Podium

1st, 3×3x3) Rowe Hessler
2nd, 3×3x3) Mitchell Stern
3rd, 3×3x3)  Ravi Fernando

Results can still be viewed here.

US Nationals Organization Team

Also, Andy Tsao got very close to the 4×4x4 WR, with a single solve of 39.36 seconds (NAR).

Andy Tsao with his cube after his 39.36 solve

Eric Johnson, Miles Casanas

1st) Eric Johnson, DNF
1st) Miles Casanas, DNF

12:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #12 – Lars Poker

10 competitors played a betting game using serial numbers on $2 bills.

1st) Nick Young

12:35 PM – Mystery Puzzle #13 – Chopsticks/Fork & Spoon Solving

Asian cubers were given a fork & spoon, and others were given chopsticks, and had to solve a cube using only those utensils.

1st) Justin Adsuara, 2:3x (Fork and Spoon)
2nd?) Andrew Nelson, 6:18.03 (Chopsticks)

1:05 PM – Mystery Puzzle #14 – Trick Round Scrambles

Tyson Mao and Chris Krueger had to scramble an entire round of cubes (5 scrambles). They were given 5 cubes and told that the cubes must match the images on the scramble sheets.
Tyson’s scramble sheet, however, had an identity algorithm written instead of the correct algorithm.

1st) Chris Krueger, 1:00.22
2nd) Tyson Mao, DNF

2:20 PM – Mystery Puzzle #15 – Unfolded Cube Sudoku

Competitors were given a new, difficult puzzle based on Sudoku.

1st) Ravi Fernando, 5:20.56

2:35 PM – Mystery Puzzle #16 – Ring Puzzle

Shotaro Makisumi and Emerson Hermann were shown the two pieces of a linking puzzles, apart and together to form a ring. They had to figure out how to assemble them.

1st) Shotaro Makisumi, 16.50

3:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #17 – Triangle Assembly

Competitors were given 14 identical (right isosceles triangular) plastic pieces and were asked to assemble them into a single solid shape.

1st) Kristina Hays, 3:38.81

3:10 PM – Mystery Puzzle #18 – Bob Burton Event

7 questions about Bob Burton, a quiz.

1st) Tim Reynolds
2nd) Andrew Nelson
3rd) Ian Winokur

4:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #19 – Stefan Pochmann Event

5 questions about Stefan, a quiz.

1st) Bob Burton
2nd) Lucas Garron
3rd) Lars Vandenbergh

4:10 PM – Mystery Puzzle #20 – TouchCube

International competitors were given TouchCubes to solve, in dramatic dark lighting.

1s) Stefan Pochmann

• Darren Kwong (9.65)
• Andy Tsao (9.81, on tape)

(Philip Espinoza has done 9.73. Lucas Garron has also done a 10.00.)

Andy Tsao with his 9.81 cube

Round 1 (PDF of the sheet given to competitors)
(You can view the 27-move winning solution, found both by Michael Young and David Woner, posted here by David.)

Round 2 PDF

You can view the full results here.

11:30 PM – Mystery Puzzle #4 – Rubik’s Icon

1st) Jameson O’Connor

2:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #5 – Shed a Tear

Competitors had to shed a tear onto a scorecard.

1st) Devin Corr-Robinett, 5:31

4:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #6 – 3D Glasses Solving

Solving a regular cube while wearing 3D glasses.

1st) Cameron Brown,  27.xx

Round 2: Icon Cube with 3D glasses.

1st) Cameron Brown, 1:21.40

Round 3: Dan Dzoan, Solo Competitor, 3D Glasses TouchCube

5:20 PM – Mystery Puzzle #7 – 7-finger Solve

Youtuber Pestvic raced Emerson Hermann using 5 fingers of one hand and only 2 of the other.

1st) Emerson Hermann

5:25 PM – Mystery Puzzle #8 – Rubik’s Icon Match the Scramble

Arthur Adams and Josh Nagel were given a solved and a scrambled Icon, and told to match the solved one to the scramble on the other.

5:30 PM – Mystery Puzzle #9 – Rubik’s Icon BLD

Joey Gouly vs. Alex Yu.

5:35 PM – Mystery Puzzle #10 – Lightning Extreme Reaction

Competitors each held onto a handle for a device that tests their reaction by flashing a light. The slowest person gets shocked.