The question is: What SHOULD regional champions represent?
Keep in mind that it has to be something we can actually build rules around and enforce.
Note that, unlike the case with national citizenship, there is no simple concept of state-level "citizenship". Residency is the only way to...
CubingUSA Nationals 2017 Livestream will be up for 3x3 Finals at approximately 5pm EDT at this link:
(We were unable to stream the rest of the competition due to technical difficulties.)
We have announced that CubingUSA Nationals 2017 will be held at Fort Wayne, IN from July 7-9, 2017.
Registration will open on January 8, with an 800-competitor limit.
The original post and title on this thread has been updated.
So has the event page: https://www.cubingusa.com/nationals2017
IT'S HAPPENING!
There will be qualification times (from any WCA comp) required to register for CubingUSA Nationals 2017.
Thread here:
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/qualifying-times-for-cubingusa-nationals-2017.62880/
CubingUSA Nationals 2017 (formerly known as US Nationals) will take place in Fort Wayne, IN, from July 7-9, 2017.
Details on the event page:
https://www.cubingusa.com/nationals2017/
Registration will open on January 8, 2017, until June 1, 2017 or when we reach an 800-competitor limit...
Hey so I noticed traffic on this thread during the comp was a lot lower than in previous years. Is there some other place people are chatting about comps more these days?
Brief video from the 2014 Rubik's Cube European Championship in Roskilde, Denmark, mostly featuring Sebastian Weyer's 3rd 4x4 solve, which was 2nd fastest in the world at the time (since he had just set a new world record) despite being a +2.
(I'm finally getting around to editing some of...
Hm so the way US Nationals does it isn't too different; it's just that only the single fastest American per event gets special treatment as US National Champion, not the top 3 Americans. I hadn't realized that the Euros were different.
I kind of like the way the US system is more...
Ah, I found the qualification requirements for Euro 2012:
http://www.speedcubing.com/events/euro2012/events.html
Europeans, I'm curious how this was received, and how well it worked in terms of saving time?
It looks like these requirements were removed fro Euro 2014. Why? Did it not work? Was...
Hey so for people who were there live for finals: We experimented this year with projecting live standings from Cubecomps between each pair of finalists, so you'd have a sense of what the time to beat was. How did you feel about that? Any thoughts?
Okay I'm a year late in posting these, but here are my nearly 60 photos from Worlds 2013.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/toasty/sets/72157646452560711/
Better late than never, right? :P
A few samples:
Here's a rectangularized version of my 360° pano of Finals. (Click to get a draggable panorama; if on mobile, open link in G+ app to get drag controls.*)
* Seems in the G+ app on Android, at least, you can tape the compass icon to get accelerometer-based panning; it'll be like you're there!