World Championship 2015 - São Paulo, Brazil - July 17-19, 2015

I assume he must have moved. Although maybe he just fancied a competition in brazil, or was coincidently on holiday at the time.

Talking of coincidently being on holiday and going to competitions in Brazil :P
 
Really the one thing inhibiting me from going is the language barrier. I barely speak Spanish, and I don't know a word of Portuguese, so unless they had the time to make separate annoucements in English and Portuguese (which is unlikely) I would have a pretty hard time getting to my events and whatnot.
 
goodatthis said:
Really the one thing inhibiting me from going is the language barrier. I barely speak Spanish, and I don't know a word of Portuguese, so unless they had the time to make separate annoucements in English and Portuguese (which is unlikely) I would have a pretty hard time getting to my events and whatnot.
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I think they would announce in English. If not, all you would need to learn is the event, "heat", and numbers 1 through about 25. Given that the competition is in July, you can probably learn it by then.
 
goodatthis said:
Really the one thing inhibiting me from going is the language barrier. I barely speak Spanish, and I don't know a word of Portuguese, so unless they had the time to make separate annoucements in English and Portuguese (which is unlikely) I would have a pretty hard time getting to my events and whatnot.
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I'm quite sure they speak in English, at least from the videos I've seen, worlds 2011 in Thailand was spoken in English.
 
They will often announce in the language of the home country and also in English. This happened in 2007 in Hungary and in 2009 in Germany. I remember most of the announcements being in English in 2011 in Thailand, but I think there must have been announcements in Thai as well.
 
eh wut. Of course it will all be in English (probably with Portuguese as well). Why would anyone think it wouldn't be? Nobody on the board would even be able to understand it (going out on a limb and assuming no one on the board speaks Portuguese).
 
cmhardw said:
They will often announce in the language of the home country and also in English. This happened in 2007 in Hungary and in 2009 in Germany. I remember most of the announcements being in English in 2011 in Thailand, but I think there must have been announcements in Thai as well.
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Announcements in 2011 were definitely in Thai and English.
 
Hi Brazil cubers. Sorry to hear that you got shocked by the initial reactions. Please realise that many people got shocked by this location. So far the WC has never been organised in a country without some top-level cubers. There was no indication or explanation at all about the choice for Brazil so people got worried. This resulted in many comments. Some constructive and many not so much. As you can see the non-constructive comments have basically died out now that people have recovered from the shock and now that the constructive comments have mostly been answered.

I am looking forward to going there even though it will be a 1 day flight and expensive. I also don't think it will stop top cubers, but I do feel like the average level will be lower than before which gives me ....still no chance at all to reach even a second round ;). I hope people will start to provide tips about Brazil and that there will be interesting non-cubing related activities. I also hope the organisors will not just be the board and that Brazilians will be extremely active in making this a great WC. Apparently some battling between France and Brazil already went on and Brazil was chosen as the more attractive place to organise the competition. It is now up to Brazil to prove that this was the correct choice and putting South-American speedcubing on a higher level.

Let the fun begin, and let me know if you need any help with the organisation.
Tip 1: Having the option to sleep at the venue would be amazing. It would not only make this competition more affordable, but would also allow more time together
Tip 2: International people are not only going to come for a 3 day competition but are more likely to make this a vacation. Help them with some travel organisation. This was amazing in WC2011
 
In my opinion, Americans as well as others are perfectly justified in saying, "It's too far." Of course we (Americans) would prefer to have Worlds in North America because it is more convenient for us. Same goes for Europeans in Europe and Asians in Asia. Personally, I would prefer that Worlds would be held here in Texas. But I accept that the wishes of certain cubers will not always be fulfilled. You cannot please everybody. WCA is World Cube Association, so I think it's only fitting that the WC would be held in various places around the world. As for travel, it will be difficult for a lot of cubers to get there. But considering the Earth's size, no place can be "easy" for everyone to get to. I highly doubt I'll go. Most likely, I'll see if I can go to Nats when the location gets released. Best of luck to those who go.
 
rybaby said:
In my opinion, Americans as well as others are perfectly justified in saying, "It's too far." Of course we (Americans) would prefer to have Worlds in North America because it is more convenient for us. Same goes for Europeans in Europe and Asians in Asia. Personally, I would prefer that Worlds would be held here in Texas. But I accept that the wishes of certain cubers will not always be fulfilled. You cannot please everybody. WCA is World Cube Association, so I think it's only fitting that the WC would be held in various places around the world. As for travel, it will be difficult for a lot of cubers to get there. But considering the Earth's size, no place can be "easy" for everyone to get to. I highly doubt I'll go. Most likely, I'll see if I can go to Nats when the location gets released. Best of luck to those who go.
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So you agree with the people who always say "host it in my backyard because that would be good for me"?

I mean honestly, are you so arrogant and naive that you always expect WCs to be convenient for you to get to?

WCs is deliberately spread out around the world to reach out to everyone. Personally I hope we don't go to the USA again for a long time. Las Vegas was great, but I want to go elsewhere now.
 
AvGalen said:
So far the WC has never been organised in a country without some top-level cubers.
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SCNR: The German record in 3x3 avg was 13.04 in 2009, which was somewhere around 50th-60th in the World Rankings iirc. Back then that was a great average, but "top-level"... In the end, Lucas was the fastest German, and you can't really argue for Worlds being in Germany because of Lucas :P
(I know Kai, Tim and Dennis rocked the BLD events, but still)
Still, Worlds 2009 were great and now Germany rocks.

And why the hell does everybody ignore Gabriel?
 
Well, I just need to renew my passport. Once that happens, I'm definitely going! I love traveling to South America. I'm also hoping that this has more people than the previous World Championships, which I'm sure it will.

The people who have disdain for the choice of location are, luckily, not representing the whole community.

Since everybody else is posting their opinions about the subject:
I feel like it's a great place to have Worlds. Personally, I enjoy travelling the globe often, so I think it's cool to have cubing as a reason to do so. I've been to São Paulo before, and it's a nice city. From what I experienced, people are very friendly there.

Well, friendly in comparison to where I'm from A.K.A.: California, the Land of Asshats.
 
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