This angers me...a ton....

[cmhardw]

Have any of you bashing sport stacking ever been to the Sport Stacking World Championships? Well I have, in 2006, and it was totally awesome. The culture there is very similar to the culture of cubing, and the people were absolutely the nicest people, and very cool to hang out with. Also like cubing, they were friendly towards beginner/intermediate people such as myself.

At risk of being the a**hole, all those bashing sport stacking because it gets more coverage than cubing can STFU. Sport Stacking is cool, and the people are great - end of story. Try to be more constructive about how we can increase the media coverage of cubing rather than bashing the sport stacking people. I honestly take offense to that.

Chris

 

[JustinJ]

We came to the conclusion that a sport must involve the following aspects:
-- Usable equipment that can be modified slightly without changing the nature of the game.

I don't understand the purpose of this rule. What about something like wrestling or running? Those use some form of equipment, but they aren't really necessary to my knowledge.

 

[abr71310]

We came to the conclusion that a sport must involve the following aspects:
-- Usable equipment that can be modified slightly without changing the nature of the game.

I don't understand the purpose of this rule. What about something like wrestling or running? Those use some form of equipment, but they aren't really necessary to my knowledge.

It was a broader definition, really...
Running requires shoes.
Wrestling requires a mat of some sort...

Either and both of which can be modified.

@Chris: Sorry mate.

 

[Dene]

Ok I didn't bother to read the thread other than the first post, but LOL at anyone that actually gets angry over something that really doesn't matter at all.

 

[jcuber]

Ok I didn't bother to read the thread other than the first post, but LOL at anyone that actually gets angry over something that really doesn't matter at all.

and that is why we all hate Dene. :rolleyes:

 

[qqwref]

At risk of being the a**hole, all those bashing sport stacking because it gets more coverage than cubing can STFU. Sport Stacking is cool, and the people are great - end of story. Try to be more constructive about how we can increase the media coverage of cubing rather than bashing the sport stacking people. I honestly take offense to that.

Personally I don't have anything against people who do speedstacking... but I DO think speedstacking itself is silly. (Mind you, I think football is silly too.) I'm against speedstacking getting more coverage than cubing but NOT because I hate the people, rather because I think cubing is a much more interesting activity (i.e. we could be doing so much better).

 

[mazei]

At risk of being the a**hole, all those bashing sport stacking because it gets more coverage than cubing can STFU. Sport Stacking is cool, and the people are great - end of story. Try to be more constructive about how we can increase the media coverage of cubing rather than bashing the sport stacking people. I honestly take offense to that.

Personally I don't have anything against people who do speedstacking... but I DO think speedstacking itself is silly. (Mind you, I think football is silly too.) I'm against speedstacking getting more coverage than cubing but NOT because I hate the people, rather because I think cubing is a much more interesting activity (i.e. we could be doing so much better).

Which football? American or soccer?

I don't mind SpeedStacking being called a sport and those who do it called athletes. I could say the same thing for sprinting. "You're just running 100m over and over again". But heck it's a sport where people compete. And I think thats where the definition of sports is. An activity people compete in(with those other definitions given by abr71310).

 

[qqwref]

American football, because all of the strategy is pretty much done by the coaches, and all the players have to learn to do is be muscular and throw/catch a football. Any sport which starts out with most of the two teams basically colliding into each other is just dumb.

 

[Ellis]

Any sport which starts out with most of the two teams basically colliding into each other is just dumb.

I often think that's what speedcubing is missing. Everyone would love it more if that's what happened and it would always been on TV. Can we start doing that?

 

[JBCM627]

Try to be more constructive about how we can increase the media coverage of cubing rather than bashing the sport stacking people.

Ditto this^^

... all of the strategy is pretty much done by the coaches, and all the players have to learn to do is be muscular and throw/catch a football...

Wow. Well, the only thing cubers have to do is learn flashy fingertricks. :rolleyes:

 

[IamWEB]

^^^"Ditto this"

What? That's exactly what I said

 

[soccerking813]

At risk of being the a**hole, all those bashing sport stacking because it gets more coverage than cubing can STFU. Sport Stacking is cool, and the people are great - end of story. Try to be more constructive about how we can increase the media coverage of cubing rather than bashing the sport stacking people. I honestly take offense to that.

Personally I don't have anything against people who do speedstacking... but I DO think speedstacking itself is silly. (Mind you, I think football is silly too.) I'm against speedstacking getting more coverage than cubing but NOT because I hate the people, rather because I think cubing is a much more interesting activity (i.e. we could be doing so much better).

Which football? American or soccer?

I don't mind SpeedStacking being called a sport and those who do it called athletes. I could say the same thing for sprinting. "You're just running 100m over and over again". But heck it's a sport where people compete. And I think thats where the definition of sports is. An activity people compete in(with those other definitions given by abr71310).

Well, according to that, then the Spelling Bee is also a sport.

Maybe someone should write to ESPN or some other major sports network telling them about speedcubing.

 

[holypasta]

Yeah, they have fast hands. But we have fast hands AND we think while we move fast.

good point.

 

[Lord Voldemort]

if few people can solve a cube, few people will know how impressive a fast time is.

I don't understand that...
Once people know how to solve a cube, those 10.xx world records are still impressive, but if someone had showed me that before I knew how to solve it, I would have been like "Whoa!!!! That's impossible!!!"

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

I bet that somewhere on a major forum....speedstackers are bashing us (for reasons currently unknown), and aside from that, on the forum, they are talking about speedstacking stuff that is different but "parallel" to our own stuff. Like Chris said, their sport is similar, but different in the sense they do/use different things.

P.S. - In my first post it might have seemed as if I was angered about speedstacking, but I'm really angered about the idiots who posted an entire article on the front page of a somewhat majorly(?) used news website.


Edit: *Reads some more of article* Alright now I really, REALLY don't like how they covered this. I bet people consider speedcubing less of a sport just because to society is seems GEEKISH. That's right. I said it. Damn society and their criticizms.

 

[pcharles93]

If it makes you guys feel better, http://www.cracked.com/article_17309_6-people-with-amazing-abilities-that-are-totally-useless.html

 

[Odin]

If it makes you guys feel better, http://www.cracked.com/article_17309_6-people-with-amazing-abilities-that-are-totally-useless.html

That did make me feel better >.<

 

[ExoCorsair]

We came to the conclusion that a sport must involve the following aspects:
-- Usable equipment that can be modified slightly without changing the nature of the game.
-- Competitors that either play on a team or individually.
-- Standard set-up for each game / match.
-- Needs to be practiced and honed to get better at
-- Requires some form of skill other than that of physical ability.

So, StarCraft and Counter-Strike and other computer games played at a competitive level are also sports, eh?

Same thing with challenging people at Word Challenge and Tetris Friends on Facebook?

*is reminded of a thread on sports on here a while ago*

 

[shelley]

Maybe someone should write to ESPN or some other major sports network telling them about speedcubing.

We actually thought about doing that a while ago, when we were trying to get sponsors/coverage for one of the US Nationals competitions (don't remember if it was 2007 or 2008). I looked all over the ESPN website but couldn't find the right person to contact for this kind of thing though.

 

[soccerking813]

Yea, if someone attacks you you can throw a card into their face and run.

But I like card throwing too. It is fun.