Speedcubing in Sydney

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DARRGH! The meetup's on Saturday, the day when I'll be in Lismore!

Of course, I'm really annoying, as well as the fact that no-one knows what I look like. Hmmm.
 
@richard: oh.. didnt know about that

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do people here think a competition in sydney is doable? i don't really know if there has been any serious discussion about this, but i do think (or wish?) that having a local competition would benefit the sydney cube community

a WCA event would be great, but even an unofficial event like the one in canberra a couple of months ago would give cubers in sydney something to look forward to. especially if its a well publicised one, then we could possibly attract people that aren't (yet) in speedsolving.com (like these people here)

one obvious (from my point of view, I'm open to suggestions though) question that comes up is: manpower. we don't have that many active forumgoers here in sydney (even I just mainly lurk, as can be seen from my postcount, haha). how many people are needed to organise a comp? three? ten? or even one?

this is just a random thought of mine. would love to hear any feedback!

PS: i know melbourne is not actually that far from sydney, and plane tickets could get pretty cheap. but unfortunately travelling there is not a viable option for me, at least not this winter, or even next summer
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poorshooter said:
@richard: oh.. didnt know about that

[long post]
do people here think a competition in sydney is doable? i don't really know if there has been any serious discussion about this, but i do think (or wish?) that having a local competition would benefit the sydney cube community

a WCA event would be great, but even an unofficial event like the one in canberra a couple of months ago would give cubers in sydney something to look forward to. especially if its a well publicised one, then we could possibly attract people that aren't (yet) in speedsolving.com (like these people here)

one obvious (from my point of view, I'm open to suggestions though) question that comes up is: manpower. we don't have that many active forumgoers here in sydney (even I just mainly lurk, as can be seen from my postcount, haha). how many people are needed to organise a comp? three? ten? or even one?

this is just a random thought of mine. would love to hear any feedback!

PS: i know melbourne is not actually that far from sydney, and plane tickets could get pretty cheap. but unfortunately travelling there is not a viable option for me, at least not this winter, or even next summer
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I dont think we should have a competition here, in melbourne they got 26 people for the melbourne summer open comp. here we could get 10 max, so melbourne would still be the number 1 place for a comp.
 
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For the next meetup ill throw in a set of stickers for the winner, so hopefully more people can come.
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Wow, that's gonna make me come. I mean, isn't this basically giving yourself stickers? Who would come just for stickers, when they don't even have a chance of winning them.

edit: and I'm not guaranteeing it, but a few Melburnians would come to a comp as close as Sydney.
edit 2: or you could just come down for Australian Nationals. It is a big comp after all, and someone (possibly me) could give you accommodation for the night.
 
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ZB_FTW!!! said:
richardzhang said:
For the next meetup ill throw in a set of stickers for the winner, so hopefully more people can come.
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Wow, that's gonna make me come. I mean, isn't this basically giving yourself stickers? Who would come just for stickers, when they don't even have a chance of winning them.

edit: and I'm not guaranteeing it, but a few Melburnians would come to a comp as close as Sydney.
edit 2: or you could just come down for Australian Nationals. It is a big comp after all, and someone (possibly me) could give you accommodation for the night.
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Theres a person who averages about the same as me, and if i won i would give it to who came second.
 
poorshooter said:
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A comp in Sydney would be awesome, but we don't really have much people that would organise it :/

There aren't that many cubers in Sydney anyway. But having a comp in Sydney would probably attract a few more Sydney-ers into cubing.

So if we can get people to organise and publicise it well, then I would say go for it. Whether it be official or unofficial, I'd definitely be there.

Though, a big problem would still be the amount of actual cubers there. There aren't much more than 10 cubers from Sydney that we know of.
I've gotten many friends (5 - 10) from my school into the cube, although only about 2 of them average below a minute, I'd still drag as many of them as possible to the comp.
 
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