The World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships are surprisingly intense. (Part 2 - Pairs & Teams)
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2022
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This is Part 2 of my recap of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships, covering Pairs & Teams. Watch Part 1 here to see the individual division and learn how a puzzle competition works:
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The 2023 Championships will be happening on September 20 to 24, 2023 in Valladolid, Spain. Registration will open on January 1.
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I cannot believe that this video is finally finished 😭 Make sure to read the description for links to all the puzzles and for all the info about the upcoming puzzle competitions I talked about!
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Thanks for the great video, it's easy to see the passion and hard work you put into this! All the stats and breakdown were truly awesome!
Definitely worth the wait!! All the stats of every puzzler throughout was top notch and made it so much more interesting to watch! Thank you!!
Hi Karen. Just subscribed to your channel, been watching your videos for the first time just this week. Love watching them, as you have such a warm genuine energy, it keeps me watching each puzzle that you take on as a challenge. 🙂 -& I do watch to the end, so INCREDIBLE was the puzzle championship tournament/recap you made on it. I'm not able to become a patreon or a friend on Instagram right now unfortunately, but i thought i would drop you a message to say hi on here anyway. All the best. -Daniel. And i'm really pleased you are taking part yourself soon too! Excited to see you tackle the championship puzzles! Take care. 🙂
You did an incredible job editing these videos of the world championships. I'm definitely going to look for a few of these puzzles to try.
For the real ultimate group competicions you shoul check up the ‘24 hour of hannut’. This IS madness, soooo much fun'!!
Fun fact: the French pair actually met at the French jigsaw puzzle championship in the 90s where Sophie and her partner always won, so Patrice realised the only way to beat her would be to partner up with her to win alongside her. They've been married and puzzling partners for over 2 decades!
No way, that's such a great story! I hope I get to meet them next year!!
Well, an astonishing 1 hour 10 minutes of speedpuzzling report. A dream. Thans a lot for your work from the "another Alejandro". Like the other video, as an active participant in spanish and this World Championship, I'll try to answer questions written in other comments. Hoping to see you next year in Valladolid!
Thank you so much for watching and helping answer questions! I definitely hope we get to meet next year!
Gracias por la diversión. Una pregunta: ¿Qué dice el primer Alejandro a 58:51, después de ‘pero’?
@@icturner23 "pero bien llevados"
I always travel to these big events, in those 4 or 5 days of World Championship surely you can meet all of us!
He says “muchos nervios pero bien llevados” which is like “i was very nervous but i managed my nervousness well”
So happy that the organisers appreciated your reporting! There are probably many more than me who had no idea this even existed before!
Yup! I had no idea. Yet i’ve watched every minute 😅
The German teams name is "corner pieces" in English, so a very fitting name for a 4 player team :)
I loved these incredible videos! Makes me wanna compete in a puzzle competition someday!
Ich wusste nicht,dass es leidenschaftliche professionelle Puzzler*innen in Deutschland gibt! Wobei ich hätte es mir eigentlich denken können da Ravensburger eine deutsche Marke ist hahaha
that’s so cute
@@user-id5yg9fc9k Ich auch nicht! Aber das freut mich total :) Bin grade richtig angefixt, ob ich da auch irgendwann mal mitmachen sollte 😅🤔
@@Marie70707070 mein toxic trait ist zu denken, dass ich das schaffen würde 😅
@@Xpschwester1 Oh mein Gott, geht mir ganz genauso 😂 Ich habe letztens zum allerersten Mal auf Zeit gepuzzlet, ohne mir vorher irgendwelche Gedanken zu machen. Die Enttäuschung war groß, als ich festgestellt habe, dass ich im Vergleich zu den anderen deutlich schlechter war 😅 Aber vielleicht hab ich ja Potenzial wer weiß :D Wir könnten uns ja vielleicht zusammentun 😁
Translation of Alejandro's interview section:
"The truth is that I am still assimilating it because it was absolute tension, a lot of nerves but well managed"
He served what needed to be served, INCREDIBLE competitor 🥰
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I love that Kristin and her mom did the puzzle together! And everyone who did the puzzles with family members and loved ones. I can imagine them doing puzzles together as a bonding experience and that's just the sweetest thing.
I just cannot get enough of people with niche hobbies talking about said hobbies, especially in the competitive world. Amazing. Thanks for what you do, I love these
Karen you are single handedly going to make so many people show up to next years championship
Karen, you need to understand that so many of us do not watch these videos just because of the jigsaw puzzles. You are an infectious personality and you have a positivity about you that is incredible. I have bought three puzzles this week all because of your videos. I forgot how much stress relief it is and how much I enjoy the relief of just putting together a puzzle. You have brought me such comfort and joy and I will never get tired of watching you put a puzzle together or teaching us a new strategy. Do not be surprised, my angel, you are amazing and we all love you dearly ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Yeah. Absolutely agree 👍. This girl has very infectious personality, positive and absolutely passionate about what she does 😍. Found her on The TryGuys and Just subscribed yesterday, already watched many many videos. Truly love her channel, so authentic, relaxing, motivational and super educational 🙏👏👍. Also love her smile and giggle 🤭.
Some have Super Bowl, Some have F1 and we have World Jigsaw Championship! So happy to see coverage on it lol
Karen should be a live commentator of the puzzle championship
@@mondavilalba I was going to say that lol
@@mondavilalba Yeah.
@@mondavilalba Nah, she should be competing 🙂
Have zero interest in jigsaw puzzles, but that first competition video popped up in my feed probably because I like twisty puzzles (rubiks cube etc). I thought "I wonder how a jigsaw competition works", and I've watched loads of your videos since. You have a great channel.
Thank you!
Same
I feel like the Czech team probably took the hardest puzzle in the prelims as a challenge, since it didn't matter anyway!
I thought so too
That's what I thought! They looked so relaxed and like they were just doing it for fun even though they were so far behind, so it made me realize they probably just picked that puzzle for fun. I think that's brilliant!
indeed, I can confirm that this is the case, since I know two of them
That is also a very Czech thing to do. Doesn't matter, let's just have fun doing the one we want to do.
I feel that for the team's final it was a good strategy to leave the most difficult puzzle to the end, since you'd most likely not be able to finish, and starting with the easiest you'd get higher piece count.
Anyway, it was so trilling to watch, but also a bummer that Kristin was not there for the final.
Thanks for you giving us such entretaining editing, stats and voiceover, Karen!
I agree! And you can see that most of the teams at the top started with the smaller one.
the preliminary round was just for fun and didn't affect the finals. so if I was competing I would have purposefully done that leisurely to not waste energy on it and run out of mental and physical stamina. it isn't in the spirit of competing, but you could almost just ignore it and not really do it to make sure you're really fresh for the finals.
@@itirnitii I see as kinda a warm up for the final plus some of the team members were just mixed and match together. This would help them see what their strengths were so when they’re in the finals, they know how to work with each other and the strays made from the preliminary.
@@itirnitii I was actually talking about the final round, about starting with the easiest puzzle since in the end most people didn't finish, so it was all abou the piece count.
59:26 "tak zdravim vsetkych z České republiky co nas sledujete hlavně Prahu, Ostravu, zdravime domu"
"so I greet everyone from the Czech republic who are following us, mainly Prague, Ostrava, we greet our home"
I don't speak Czech only Polish Slovak a bit but translation should be correct. Awesome video Karen as always!
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Yes they say to greet Prague, Ostrava, also Brno, the boys at home and also all of the fans from Czech republic.
Hey Karen! My name is Rafael and I am 14 years old, compleeting 15 at the end of this year. I absolutely love your content, as much as I love doing puzzles! If possible, I plan on participating on next year's Jigsaw Puzzle Championship. Your channel is awesome and your videos give such a positive energy. This one hour went by really quickly! I am really looking forward for your next video!
They should get you to commentate and curate the livestreams. It would make and INCREDIBLE difference.
When Karen introduced the format of the teams competition I immediately thought to myself “I wonder what the breakdown of which teams chose which puzzles was” and then cheered out loud when she immediately followed up with mention of many charts to come. Thank you Karen for this amazing coverage!
I looove her making and showing a bunch of charts 😂👌🤩
Alejandro was *clearly* the mvp at this championship no question about it congrats to him he was INCREDIBLE! also holy shit the next world competition starts on my birthday :O !
Considering this is their second time ever big props to the people who organized this. Yea it would have been great for a different puzzle in the end, but I'm just glad they decided do this! This is amazing
I wonder if any of the teams chose puzzles they just wanted to do in the prelim since their rankings didn't matter at all. Might be why a top team would choose a slower puzzle.
Maybe someone who was there can weigh in on that theory here in the comments.
Hi! I'm Katherine from the Jigsaw Junkies. We admittedly picked a slower puzzle in the preliminaries purely by bad judgment. We realized about ten minutes into the pop art puzzle that it was a bad choice and regretted it!
I'm convinced the Czechian team just chose the art puzzle to flex their skills
Hi, I am Ana Gil, from Non-stop. In our case, during the Teams “qualifying” round, since we didn’t risk anything, we decided to pick two puzzles that implied a different strategy and ability, so that we would have the experience of performing in two different scenarios. I hope this can help you in your analysis of this round.
Great work with the video, btw!
When Karen said "if you're missing Kristin, don't worry, she's back" I felt so exposed, so seen, cuz yes, I indeed was missing Kristin
This was really cool!
A small tip from a statistician. About the graphs of the pairs. Many of them showed huge amount of information with only a little explanation. I didn't know what I was looking at before you removed them from the screen again. I didn't understand what I was looking at. A great counter example was the final one, where you showed that only two teams existed of people in the top 20 of the singles. You highlighted those 4 people and explained what that small piece of data said. It was very clear. Do stuff like that more!
EDIT: Graphs after the teams qualifier were much clearer. Less data per chart AND clearly explained what we were looking at
In general on RUclips, since people have access to pause buttons, leaving charts up for less time is more appropriate than on TV or in a presentation: people can look for as long as they want. (And many do pause and look!)
Ι was wondering if there is a rule about nationality in the pairs and teams competition until I saw that mixed team at the end. I guess the language barrier and the friendships inside the community were the leading factors for most people teaming up with their fellow compatriots. Anyway, wonderful video as always! ☺️
Yes, if you have people from multiple countries, you just have to pick one for your team to officially represent. And most teams practice together ahead of time!
I wondered as well because of these two mysterious members of the French team with no stats from the other rounds (that intrigue me) and Spanish sounding names (of course, they could have dual nationalities)
I checked and I think they both participated, separately, in the pairs qualifiers, Juan Antonio Ávarez-Ossorio reached 73rd place (401 pieces) in qualifying round B with Antonia Mª García de Soria Aguirre, and José María Sánchez del Monte finished 78th (1:25:13) in qualifying round A with Sonia López Adrinal.
I didn't find them in the individual rounds, so I guess they would only have one rank out of the 4 possible on Karen's layout (they didn't make it to the pairs finals), but they didn't came just for the team event. Now I wonder if they chose not to compete individually or if there was a selection to limit the number of contestants (I haven't watched the first video yet, maybe Karen mentioned it there, it's my next stop on RUclips)
I think it is cool to see pairs and teams from different countries, or even just mix and matching of pairs for teams (even if it does make more work for Karen with the graphs). It might not be the most "efficient" way because of the possible language barrier, as you say, and the fact that it is harder to train together, but the image of people teaming up together anyways, united by their love of puzzles is really cool ! I wish there was a way to showcase that in the little name card for future editions, but I understand that it is easier to have a single nationality for each individual/pair/group because of the qualification rules, and also because of the lack of place on the name card.
So excited for this video! Karen, I know you spent countless hours editing this video.
Edit: Finished watching it. What an INCREDIBLE video and an INCREDIBLE job for all the puzzlers. Good luck at the USA Jigsaw Nationals.
I did! Thank you for watching so early!
@@KarenPuzzles You're welcome! I've been looking forward to this video since part 1 came out. It is so amazing to watch how fast people can put puzzles together. I've been slowly working on a 3,000 piece puzzle with all the DC superheroes for weeks.
Oh hey there Will! What a place to see a friend!
Astrid!! Long time no talk! I would never have expected to see any of my friends here!
I love this so much 🙌🏻🙌🏻😁 Also Eckteile is German for Corner Pieces and is pronounced like Ecktaile you really emphasise the e as an a and the e at the end like the a in air.
Came to the comments to say this! I'd pronounce it "Ekk- tile-a"
Great team name! Four corner pieces - four members - joining hands to hold together the whole puzzle
Good explanation!
Incredible editing, that was a lot of footage to condense! What a fun, wholesome event.
Obviously Karen is our Puzzle Kween but now I have a whole host of other puzzle celebrities to admire! 😀💕
This feels like such a wholesome competition. Your coverage of it has been such a relaxing way to start the weekend! I can't wait to see you compete!
Alejandro said: "The matter of fact is that I´m still dealing with it. It´s been absolute pressure. Very nervous but well handled."
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Supernenas in Spain is how they call The Powerpuff Girls.
Thank you for the translation!
Wait... Really? In Latin America is "Las Chicas Superpoderosas". "Supernenas" sounds so weird to me 😆
@@unouni2548 De verdad.
I can’t believe how invested in puzzling I feel… this is amazing!!
It occurs to me that the teams who chose to do the difficult/fun puzzles in the team competition preliminary, could have done so since they were guaranteed to compete in the finals. The timing didn't really matter, so practicing on harder puzzles makes an amount of sense. Especially if you expect the final team competetion to be more difficult than the preliminary.
For the Group qualifier the Czech team maybe purposely took the difficult puzzle to "practice" for the finals (because they couldn't lose anything no matter what happend)
Ps: The way you pronounced "Eckteile" made me smile
It’s surprisingly intense watching people solve puzzles at high speed! Thanks for all the time you spent putting this together 😍
I’m hoping to get some speed puzzling practise in before next year and maybe come and compete too! 😁
I know, right? I'm going to be so stressed when it's time for me to try it in the fall!
Good luck Karen. I’m sure you’ll do well 🧩😀
Karen I don't know if anyone mentioned, but I swear they were talking about you in the Spanish commentary of the live stream of one of the prelims (not in this video, but from the complete live stream). They didn't say the name but they were talking about a "famous youtuber [female] from the US"
🤯 They mentioned you! Guess you’re a celebrity in the puzzle world now, Karen!
Girl, you did an amazing job putting this all together with the help of your sister...thank you....it seems everyone loves our Aussie accent...Aussies are always proud when they wear the green and gold...yep I'm an Aussie....definitely agree that the final should be longer if they have puzzles of that difficultly 🇦🇺🐨
I am SO excited to watch this. Thank you for taking the time to edit and put these videos all together!!!
Awesome job covering this! I guess I'll be watching the streams next year, but also hope you'll be able to make similarly awesome videos as well :) The stats were perfect!
Also I had no idea CZ had so many people in this! What a pleasant surprise :)
59:26 For those who want to know, Tereza and Kateřina said:
"So (I) greet everyone in the Czech republic who's watching, especially those in Prague, Brno, Ostrava... Greetings home... The boys in Růžená... and (that's) all."
I have been so hyped for this video! Big congrats to all the participants and winners :) It was definitely crazy intense to watch, and I agree incredible! Super fun that they sent you all those goodies, I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes next year :D
INCREDIBLE! This was amazing and super easy to understand. I just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and I watched the whole video while puzzling and it was so relaxing!
This was amazing! Thank you for covering such an incredible event. Love your channel.
So excited for this video as I know you’ve spent a lot of time and effort on making these videos!
Absolutely loved this video! thank you so much for making it, you made the competition really fun to watch! ☺
I like to think that Team Puzzlici chose the art puzzle for fun, knowing they would make finals anyway!
I really loved part one and part 2! This was so much fun and I'm glad you shared all this because I had no idea this was a thing and getting the puzzles from the competition is just so cool!
I've been excitedly anticipating your Part 2 video recap of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships and now it is here ! Karen, thank you ever so much for your hard work to edit this video and for sharing it with us. I watched much of the puzzle championship and was only disappointed because I felt I missed so much because of the language barrier. I would love to see an English translation or English subtitles while the event, itself, is being aired. I loved seeing the contestants from so many countries. They are all incredible puzzlers.
It’s always been my opinion that having two people makes a puzzle easier and any more than that makes it harder because you’re getting in each other’s way. It’s crazy to see how coordinated and disciplines these groups are where they can work together efficiently and stay out of each other’s way.
Incredible! Congratulations to all the competitors! Thank you Karen for another great video. Your editing skills are fantastic, the video was exciting and informative and the graphs were on point. Good luck in the USA competition! Can’t wait to see how you do 😀
Thank you for posting this heartwarming wholesome content! Loved the incredible puzzle-speeds and also your incredible effort in editing this masterpiece of a video.
Incredible! I loved watching both of your videos on the competition. I'm already looking forward to the 2023 competition, both watching the event and catching your recap videos. Best of luck to you in October! Cheers!
This is such a great competition, I'm glad that there are so many people who love puzzles. Thank you for making this video so clear and fun to watch, i don't think i would have been able to watch the entire live stream. "incredible" job :D
Amazing work for this video!! So impressive 😍 thank you for the effort and passion you put to summarize the competition for us in this super engaging way! And a big thank you also to your sister, those graphs were clear and detailed and very informative (as an engineering student, I always appreciate some well done graphs ahah)
And, INCREDIBLE work of all the participants, congrats!
Wow! This is an absolutely fascinating watch. I am in awe of these incredibly talented puzzlers. Thank you again Karen for such a great video. It was really worth the wait 🤩😆😍
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, loved the full two video coverage!! all the stats
How incredible it is an one hour long video about a jigsaw competition to hold me entertained... Loved it.
OMG!!! I was looking forward to this video. It is interesting how you explain it. Also, I love and appreciated the stats. I was so into it because the way that you built the suspense on wanting to know who is going to win!!! 🥰
Everything about this is incredible! Your editing of amazing puzzlers, the statistical charts, the speed of the builders, the lack of arguments! I really enjoyed your recap and am amazed at all the various techniques to get the puzzles built quickly. Thanks!
I loved all your colour-coded charts, thank you for all the work you put into this! I knit to these videos and you give great enthusiastic commentary so it's usually in the background while I knit, but I actually stopped knitting to see all the details and I love seeing all the strategies that go into it
Thanks Karen for having this channel and doing such an incredible job summarizing this event! I learned a lot and now, I'd just like to puzzle away all day long haha
INCREDIBLE!!! Everything was INCREDIBLE the way you took all the footage and made a fantastic video forc all. INCREDIBLE individual, pair and team puzzlers so fun and fascinating to watch. I would love trying a speed puzzling event on a smaller scale to start, but would love to one day attend this event as a puzzle fan. Thanks Karen for your channel and look forward to your coverage of the USA jigsaw event this fall
Well done to all the incredible speed puzzlers. It was Intense to watch them work so fast and complete all these puzzles so fast with such concentration. I liked the relief and happiness they all felt at the end of each round. Thanks for a fun and informative video Karen. Good luck with your upcoming puzzle competitions 🧩😀
Great coverage! You really shine in explaining what sections to focus on and how well you gauge the puzzle difficulty.
Incredible video full of incredible puzzlers! I can’t wait to hear about your upcoming puzzle competition experiences!
Truly blown away at how much work you put into editing these videos! Truly professional quality and i loved all the storytelling that you did! Everyone as well as you are absolutely incredible!
Never knew puzzling had such a great and incredible community... So glad I watched both parts and can't wait for next year!
This was great! So exciting and I watched the whole thing. Thank you Karen you research and presentation are remarkable. You make concepts visual which is really helpful.
What an incredible video, Karen. Thank you for such an informative and entertaining recap of this spectacular world puzzling event.
Thank you for this beautiful labor of love! Everything was so entertaining, and your commentary took it to the next level!
It’s just before 2200 here in the UK and I’m looking forward to the long video to finish the week on. Thanks for the time dedicated to making such a lengthy video!
Thank you Karen for summarizing the event I really enjoyed and thanks to your sister too. I am Australian and loved how to love our ascent. Thanks again
Wow! You did an "incredible" job with your commentary for your final edit! Awesome! Loved it!
Karen, your enthusiasm for puzzling is infectious and wonderful. Thank you for sharing your joy. This video obviously took a ton of work and was a total labor of love.
I like to watch your videos while I puzzle. It's an INCREDIBLE feeling to hear epic music and cheering while I casually drink my coffee and putter on a 1000 piece puzzle alone in my living room. I highly admire the puzzlers who competed in Spain! I can't imagine performing under that pressure!
So much fun to watch! Congrats to all the INCREDIBLE puzzlers. I’m a super slow puzzler, do it to relax and don’t ever want to rush through a puzzle so competition isn’t for me but best of luck!
Karen you did such a great job! I can only imagine how much time you put into these recaps! Thank you so much this was such an adventure
Planning to start puzzling just because this video. It seems really fun and your commentary making the livestream seems more enjoyable to watch. Hope to see some competition like this in my country lol
This is an amazing video about an incredible event! Thank you so much for your hard work, insights, and unflagging enthusiasm for the competitors’ achievements, and to Katie Puzzles for the fabulous data crunching and graphics. You’re both champions in my book! 🏆🥇🎖💐
Alejandro was a star! Also, so sweet to see his mom looking proud from the sidelines.
A guide to the Spanish teams' names and how they're translated:
- Superpiezas -> Super-Pieces
- Cuatro piezas -> Four Pieces
- Rompepiezas -> The Piece Breakers (Luv this one btw)
- Supernenas -> It's the Spanish translation of the Powerpuff Girls, don't know if that's why they chose It! Anyway It literally translates to 'Supergirls' or 'Superchicks'
- El grup -> I think (not sure) this is actually Catalan, one of the several regional co-official languages in Spain. It means 'The group'.
From last years'
- La mesa de Al Lado -> The table next door. This is a reference to the movie 'The girl Next door'
- Nos falta una -> We're missing a piece! (I find this one funny)
- Piezas rotas -> Broken pieces
- Los despiezadores -> the piece rippers (It's Probably a reference to Jack the ripper which in Spain is known as 'Jack el destripador'. There's actually a song from a famous group which mentions him. Search for Estopa - Mi primera Cana)
Fun fact, sometimes we use 'pieza' to describe a person who is one of a kind, one who stands out, or who has a lot of charisma.
From Instagram
(cronicaspuzzleras) -> It means 'Puzzler chronicles'
P.d.: I think the way Karen says Superpiezas is super cute!
The amount of work you put into this video is INCREDIBLE! I loved it. I’m so impressed with all the participants too. Such a cool event. As much as I love jigsaw puzzles I don’t think speed puzzling is for me 😆 I do it for relaxing and forgetting about anxieties, and this would be the total opposite, so sadly won’t be meeting you there 😢
Thank you for these videos. They are so relaxing to me! I don't know what it is about them, but they put me at ease and I enjoy watching you folks puzzle things out.
Your enthusiasm is wonderful to see and makes it much more interesting no wonder the championship hold you in high regard you are great for the jigsaw community.
In a word: Fantastic. Thank you for the incredible dialogue. While I like puzzles and do put a few pieces in every now and then, I am going to have to look into joining the puzzlers at the senior center. I wish you had put more of your live comments in the video: the snippet you included showed how exciting this really is.
Thank you for your incredible work making this quirky world accessible to everyone. Spreading joy!
Amazing report about the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship, hope to meet you next year Karen, and thanks for the shout-out!
Great job, Karen.
I love your passion and knowledge about puzzles.
I do puzzles with my mom and i almost cry when i see teams of parents and sons. The lovely lady😍
These people are incredible, so fast.
Just a wonderful video you made, such a work, thank you. 😘
These videos (Parts 1 & 2) were an absolute joy to watch, in no small part due to your infectious commentary! I've always loved doing jigsaw puzzles, and had no idea of the competitive component until seeing the movie 'Puzzle' a few weeks ago. I immediately Googled "puzzle competitions in my area", and am delighted to report that I will be taking part in my first in two days! Who knows, we may compete at some point in time. Looking forward to watching more of your coverage in the future.
I enjoyed this video so much, I didn't even notice the hour passing. All the graphs were fantastic (thanks Katie!) I kept pausing the video to study them (I enjoyed seeing which teams from 2019 reappeared on 2022). Also your little graphs on the side telling us where each member qualified on previous rounds. You can tell how much effort you put in this video and it was worth it. At first I was baffled about why the Czech team chose the art puzzle and then I remembered that it didn't count, so they probably chose it for sheer enjoyment. The team final was so intense! I was at the edge of my seat. Congratulations to every winner! They were incredible. (Alejandro being in every single podium shows that he deserves that trophy). And you're right, the design of the medals and the trophy is great. Alejandro was mainly saying that he couldn't believe he had won it all, that everything was very intense and he is in disbelief. I can't wait for that collab with Kristin, our favourite one handed puzzler (actually collabs with any of the participants). I'm tempted to go to next year's competition (I'll probably be in the city during those dates anyways). I want to comment even more but this is already too long. Great video Karen!
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for the hard work! I hope you get to interview (and talk strategy with) some of the top players in the future. Kristin Thuv is my hero!
thanks for this monster recap, Karen! the graphics is really cool :O! I was watching live only pairs final and as a Czech i almost wasnt breathing when i watched Tereza and Kateřina race against the two spanish teams haha. my poor heart wouldnt be able to handle so much stress from other competitions haha
the teams final puzzle choice seemed to be like a night and day compared with the preliminary round and how easy those were :O. The winning team is really incredible!
Cant wait for the next video where you attempt those puzzles! i hope you wont get panicked as you do when you do puzzles on time ;)
That was intense! Thank you for putting in so much work! Your approach was incredible and so thorough!! Good luck practicing for next year!
You did an INCREDIBLE job editing and explaining everything. Thank you!
It was INCREDIBLE to watch such event!! Wonderful that you want to be there. Here we will be cheering at you!!!
Your commentary is what makes this so interesting for me. Never thought I would watch a puzzle championship like it were the Summer Olympics.
Well done on an incredible job compiling this for us. I think as it gets more popular that there will be english commentary. Keep puzzling! Sending love from Australia 🇦🇺 the land down under!
It took me a while to see part II - the teams were incredible to watch. I've followed you since you were a baby creator & I'm so happy that this version of you is getting recognize - on youtube & in the puzzling world.
These recaps were also incredible!
I was impressed by all the puzzlers in the competition, especially the "casual" ones, because what's better than doing puzzles just for the fun of it! I would love to try participating, but I wouldn't be aiming for the top, definitely more of a "Sunday puzzler" :D
I’d been waiting for this one! So happy you posted it
I watched this while sorting a mystery puzzle and I’m almost done. I can’t believe how incredible all those puzzlers are who move so quickly through their puzzles. And am always impressed by how fast you, Karen, always go through your own.
Incredible! Not often I sit for this long watching a video on RUclips but I enjoyed it, can't believe how fast some of those puzzlers were! I'd love to have a go in a competition like that one day but my life is so busy I rarely have the time (or the space) to do puzzles these days...
Above and beyond with those charts and statistics! I can't imagine how much time and effort that took. Know that it is appreciated. So fun!!