Wisconsin Cubing Group

Yes group or no group

  • yes

    Votes: 19 86.4%

  • no

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
Jhahoua said:
As an organizer I can tell you good ones are not lowering cutoffs because of personal improvement, we have to lower them because people in general are getting much faster and more people are competing in events and it's necessary to stay on schedule.
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What is the cause of people getting faster? Is it hardware, methods, people are just faster than they used to be (I didn't think evolution worked that fast) or that most of the people coming to competitions have been cubing for longer, and are personally improving? I'm guessing it's a combination of the first, second, and fourth options. Or maybe it's also that since speedsolving has become more standardized and publicized it's easier to compare yourself to really fast people and see what's actually possible. I'm not trying to say that there aren't valid reasons for lowering cutoffs, it's just a frustration as a slow cuber.

I'll second the sentiment about fewer events, too. I realize that I break with the majority of the cubing community when I say that I find smaller puzzles like 2x2 and pyraminx, and probably even clock, although I have absolutely zero experience with it, trivial and a little silly, and I would love to see more competitions that ignored them altogether. There is a lot of time and effort, both in terms of individual effort and in terms of organizing competitions, that goes into small puzzles. . . . Oh well. I'll quit ranting. Different strokes for different folks.

P.S. Here's an off the wall idea: typically competitions will have a limit on the total number of competitors. What about putting a limit on the number of 3x3 competitors? Or limiting the number of competitors in each event based on how long that event is expected to take? So instead of saying there are cuts of 3:30/5:00 or whatever for 6x6, only the first 12 people who sign up for 6x6 will be able to compete in 6x6, and go with the default 10:00 hard cut?
 
LRXC said:
Also I might just have to go to Dixon, 2 hours away from where I live however :/ But eh ya never know
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If 2 hours away is bad for you then you should feel lucky :P the shortest car ride for me to a comp was 3. (I did go by plane to OKC (80 min from STL), but with the airport wait and all of that it was probably 3 hours total as well)
 
JustinTimeCuber said:
If 2 hours away is bad for you then you should feel lucky :p the shortest car ride for me to a comp was 3. (I did go by plane to OKC (80 min from STL), but with the airport wait and all of that it was probably 3 hours total as well)
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Well the thing is, that would be my first comp. Since I just found out I cant go to Wiscube because I have to be at an estate sale O_O. And I dont drive yet sooo. lol
 
Well yeah of course, i have an XC Meet 2 days before, and my dad works down by Chicago, so maybe he can drive me to a Dixon meet. Haha we'll have to see!
 
Hey guys!

I'm in Madison right now until the 12th (Monday). I was talking with Josh Feran about having a meetup, but I think he's going to the KC comp this weekend. If there's anyone who wants to meet up, that would be pretty cool! Thanks.
 
Torch said:
Hey guys!

I'm in Madison right now until the 12th (Monday). I was talking with Josh Feran about having a meetup, but I think he's going to the KC comp this weekend. If there's anyone who wants to meet up, that would be pretty cool! Thanks.
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Josh is really sick. He

JustinTimeCuber said:
Talk about no cubing events... Eastern MO.
Can someone tell me if 4:20/2:50 averages for 6x6/Mega are bad? I feel like the only event I don't completely suck at other than 2x2 and 3x3 is Pyraminx.
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Just another reason KC is better than STL ;)

(yes I realize how old that post was)
 
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