A couple other unofficial events/competitions are now scheduled.
Mosaic building: http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2015/mosaics.php
Smart Egg: http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2015/egg.php
More info on the website.
http://www.cubingusa.com/greatcubing/
In addition to hosting the Beyond Rubik's Cube exhibit, the museum itself is pretty neat.
The science center is also planning to host a mosaic building competition on Sunday.
Just a note for any last-minute registrants: the nearby Hampton Inn is providing us with some discounted rooms, available until 7/7.
http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2015/travel.php
PSA: the resort itself is currently sold out. Please see the website travel page for some alternative housing options:
www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2015/travel.php
8 if you want to cram in the 2-bedrooms (two 2-person rooms, 2 extra bunk beds, + sleeper sofa):
http://www.hhibeachandtennis.com/index.php/villas/two-bedrooms
http://www.papermart.com/Product%20Pages/Product.aspx?GroupID=5484&SubGroupID=5485
~1 judge per 3 competitors, not including a few scramblers. We got to the point where 1 judge would be responsible for watching ~4 competitors at 2 adjacent tables, and a couple judges would 'run', meaning...
For competition check-in and sorting purposes, it could be nice to have a "what name are you going to tell us at check-in / would you like to be sorted by" field, but I don't know if it is practical to get this information from every competitor.
Seminar schedules are up now:
http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2012/schedule.php
Check out the Saturday seminars for more information on competition organization.
html5 data storage:
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_webstorage.asp
The idea would be to just store data locally, then when a connection became available, sync results with a server. PDF and Spreadsheet generation and such would probably be really difficult to implement offline, but...
We used this at CMU spring 2012. It seems to work great :) Certainly a huge improvement over the workbook. Given the potential of this, and seeing how you have been very responsive, here are a few more things to consider:
A display designed for scoreboards would be useful. While the live...
You can email most people who have signed up if you click the envelope next to their name, either on the map or registration list. Neel hasn't registered yet, so I don't know if he's coming.
Why would I not?
Nice work, Lucas!
Suggestions:
* URLs that are associated with scramble sets; as in add a #222=1&333=2&444=1 for 1 round of 2x2, 2 rounds of 3x3, etc. Something more sophisticated would be needed to include round names / types / ordering / etc.
* Re-order-able rounds so scrambles can be...