ACPT 2024
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:42 pm
Anyone planning on attending this year? Please let me know (including your real name if you are willing!). Hope to meet some new Muggles!
Adam
Adam
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ACPT 2024
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Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:24 pm
I was planning to, but the events were full when I went to register. I'll try again (earlier) next year! I've only participated once before, in 2022. I really enjoyed it. Even if the Muggles aren't out in force, you'll meet a lot of wonderful people.
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:29 am
Yes, it is a great time for sure! This will be my 5th time going, and I've made some great friends doing so. I just wish I had started attending long ago!
Sorry you won't be able to make it this year...
Sorry you won't be able to make it this year...
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:39 am
Please post more videos of you winning speed-solving competitions on stage at an easel!
Muggles, Adam @docison is incredibly fast! For those who've ever doubted anyone can solve a 15x15 grid in 3 or 4 minutes, you'll believe.
Muggles, Adam @docison is incredibly fast! For those who've ever doubted anyone can solve a 15x15 grid in 3 or 4 minutes, you'll believe.
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:48 am
Haha, thanks for the ego boost, Joe!
Sadly, the nature of the ACPT ranking system is such that I will not be back on stage for many years, even under the most optimistic scenarios! The silver lining of this is that I don't need to think at all about what to wear to the tournament
Sadly, the nature of the ACPT ranking system is such that I will not be back on stage for many years, even under the most optimistic scenarios! The silver lining of this is that I don't need to think at all about what to wear to the tournament
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:30 pm
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:34 am
Hi, I will be there wearing my real life name Bill Wilkins. I'll be the bald guy holding a clipboard, ha ha. Hope we can say hello. Went for five years 2015-2019, this will be my first time back since Covid.
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:26 pm
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:07 pm
Hm, I wonder if the Friday Zoom will work from Amtrak. Based on previous experience, probably not…
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:17 am
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:25 pm
Golly, I hope I've solved by then.. BTW I have no idea how to share a photo on the Muggles Forum but getting a Muggle photo seems like a good idea. Maybe with a celeb (looks like Gaffney/Schenck not attending but Muller/Mack and Peter Gordon are....)
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:40 pm
I don't think Gaffney has been there - at least in my recollection. Peter Gordon is a competitor (and quite fast!) and Pete Muller has said he will be there to MC the talent show, thankfully. I expect that Shenk will be there also - he usually is as a judge (and so he can wave when past champions are named
.Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:21 pm
Yeah, just randomly, based on the place I like to sit, I have had Peter Gordon, David Plotkin, and Dan Feyer as my next door neighbors in past years. So I quickly got over fretting too much about the fast people. BTW, Peter solves in ink.
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:30 pm
All the bald-ish guys at the tournament were probably wondering why I was checking out their name tags! Sadly I never ran into you, but hope you had a great time! (Passed by docison a couple of times, but he was always engrossed in conversation.) It was great to see Will Shortz and Pete Muller sharing hosting duties!
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:54 pm
Next year! I did get to chat with Docison briefly as we both happened to catch great seats next to each other at the bar for a few minutes of the Saturday night basketball broadcast. I had fun and came in 14th! (That is, 14th in the age 70-79 category...)Leslie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:30 pmAll the bald-ish guys at the tournament were probably wondering why I was checking out their name tags! Sadly I never ran into you, but hope you had a great time! (Passed by docison a couple of times, but he was always engrossed in conversation.) It was great to see Will Shortz and Pete Muller sharing hosting duties!
Re: ACPT 2024
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:27 pm
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I had fun and came in 14th! (That is, 14th in the age 70-79 category...)
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22nd for me! (In the 60s age category.)
I had fun and came in 14th! (That is, 14th in the age 70-79 category...)
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22nd for me! (In the 60s age category.)