Very very happy with how this competition went. Starting at 3 am and ending at 7 am I abso-freaking-lutely didn't expect anything close to sub21, and would've been happy with a sub23, but the scrambles decided otherwise. Free 19 on a1 at 20 minutes, and then a free 19 on a2 at 15 minutes, which had me absolutely freaking out before a3. I was intending to write down a 24 or better as soon as possible, and then the 11th eo i check is a dr in 9, which turned out to be 2c5 and i was ready to jump into checking it anyway, but the eo variation gave a 4a3 in 9 with an immediate 4b2 2e reduction. The 4th htr i checked from that reduction gave a slice in 22 and that moment i knew i had a sub21, it was +1 sadly but still good enough for 20.33 at around 25 minutes of a3. I had an htr for 22 on the same dr but I believe I made myself think I was checking the other side of it while checking the same one once again when returning to it as my shortest htr. Sucks a bit of course to miss a 20.00 from htr, but that's 6 am FMC + nerves from crazy pace for you. I would gladly take the 4th place at FMC World with only 1 move missed on all scrambles any day, wherever that 1 move comes from
Thanks to everyone who competed and especially to everyone who helped organise this, an amazing experience to compete against so many people.