World Championships 2013 Olympic Teams?

[PhillipEspinoza]

Hello, I have an idea for World Championships that I think would be pretty cool to see happen. I'm not sure if this idea has been discussed but here it is and I would like to know what others think. At Worlds, we have a unique situation where competitors come from all over the world, from different countries and territories to compete in one competition. I think it would be cool to have a competition based on these different countries and perhaps make teams for the different countries comprising of the 5 fastest cubers in that country. For example, there would be a Team USA, a Team Poland, a Team Japan, comprising of the best of the best in that nation. Each competitor would do one solve and the average of the 5 solves of a given country would make the average for that country. I feel this would be a fun way to encourage friendly competition and teamwork amongst cubers from the same country in a way that I feel hasn't been done yet. Perhaps there could be a small prize incentive, or maybe just for fun and bragging rights. But yes this is the basic idea so I wanna know what you think.

[MirzaCubing]

Dude.
This is genius.

[cubecraze1]

This is pretty good I like it. But the only thing is, is that getting your fastest 5 cubers to worlds.
Edit:300 posts YEEEAAAHH

[rowehessler]

does this mean USA can finally get jackets?

[Ranzha V. Emodrach]

That'd be pretty awesome xD
Different teams from each country for each event? Or five cubers total per country? Having only five cubers per country gets difficult if other events besides 3x3 are taken into account.

[ottozing]

I think an olympics for cubing would be awesome as long as it doesnt replace WC2013.

[Dene]

I like the idea, but I feel the practicality would be greatly limited. I'm not sure how many countries would have 5 people representing them, and certainly not 5 decently fast cubers.

[Vincents]

Why don't we borrow Macky's Inter-University Cubing Relay format and have all countries solve 4 cubes?

[ThomasJE]

We could theoretically do this at WC2013. We could have the mean of the best 3 averages from a country (we would have to do different things for BLD events), and then we could set up a medal table to see the best country of all.

[antros]

This idea completely impossible to meet. Speedcubing is just a hobby, and thus do not earn money, so many can not afford to travel to another continent. For example, the WC2011 started only one Pole. I am a teacher in the public schools and to afford the trip would have to devote to it all the earnings of 3 months is not feasible.