Cubing should be live-broadcast

[antoineccantin]

Idea for next cubecast?

Nats live with commentary!

[Stefan]

There's no way cubing is going on ESPN in the near future.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7152108

[mrpotatoman14]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7152108

I apologize for my bad wording. I'm sure the basics of cubing will be shown on "documentary" type programs. However chances are it won't have it's own slot on ESPN for the sake of watching speedsolves.

[Dene]

Yes, that would be fantastic, let's put cubing live on ESPN where only Americans (probably not even every state) and maybe a select few other countries in the world can view it... great idea...

[Kurbitur]

would be great to broadcast some event so people like me that won't be able to attend worlds can still watch. Also then would every solve be recorded and you could find your solve and watch it and like post it on youtube if you're proud of it (even put your name on it?).

[sneaklyfox]

It could have commentary paired with slo-mo replay.

[BlackStahli]

Totally agree.

Even when I was a non-cuber, I would have found cubing more interesting than the spelling bee - and the bee gets broadcasted by ESPN.

I think doing some sort of broadcast (that is easy for non-cubers to find and access) of cubing would be interesting, good for the community, and is a good idea that should be looked into.

^^
But the spelling bee has been around for a really long time. Cubes have only been around for what, 30 years now? Only ~15 years if you don't count the time it lost popularity after 1982. Maybe ESPN will broadcast cubing in a decade or something :P

[speedcubingman]

This would be nice. Get some commentators like from Espn saying, 'oh just a beautiful xcross. what a ravishhing f2l. oh wait, seems to have a lockup on oll. pll skip pll skip pll skip pll skip! lets see that in slow mo!!"

would get so many watchers.

oh my gosh this made me lol

[marthaurion]

Yeah...I dont really see live-broadcasts of a competition catering much of an audience outside the speedcubing community to be honest. Yeah, it sounds cool for us, but there has to be a way to draw in other people outside of our little circle...

[jla]

This would be awesome. Enough said.