Press

You are a journalist and want to report about Aachen Summer Open 2012? Reporters are very welcome. Please read the following notes carefully.

General information

• Please contact us by mail (cube@hackvalue.de).
• Reporters do not pay an entrace fee.
• We would very much appreciate it if you could send us a copy of your article/report about Aachen Summer Open 2012.

Camera teams

• All close-up shots are to be agreed upon with by the competitors.
• Please take a minimum distance of two meters from every competitor, who is in the progress of solving a puzzle, otherwise, the competitor might get disturbed.
• Competitors, who are solving a puzzle during an official event, are not to be talked to while doing so.
• Please announce all bigger material (like tripods or camera cranes).

What's there to see?

• Many so-called "speedsolves", that is, different puzzles (the well-known Rubik's Cube, for example) are solved incredibly fast (less than 10 seconds in some cases).
• Many "speedcubing celebrities" will attend and be willing to give interviews, including the world record holder, holders of several national and international records, the organization team, delegates of the World Cube Association and many other cubers of different age.
• To get an impression about our competition, please have a look at the footage from 2011, 2010 and 2009.

Organizers

Aachen Summer Open 2012 is organized voluntarily by the following students of RWTH Aachen University:

• Robin Blöhm (Mathematics)
• Sébastien Auroux (Mathematics)
• Florian Weingarten (Mathematics and computer science)
• Monika Zimmermann (Mathematics and social sciences)
• Berit Brüster (Chemistry)
• Jens Diewald (Mathematics)
• Axel Häck (Mathematics)
• Caroline Paeßens (Political sciences)
• Sebastian Jack (Aerospace engineering)
• Norbert Kotthoff (Electrical engineering)
• Jörg Seidler (Computer engineering)

Additionally, we are supported by Prof. Dr. Aloys Krieg of Chair for Mathematics A (Analysis and number theory) of RWTH Aachen University, many volunteers, the World Cube Association and Jumbo Games.