US Nationals 2011 planning thread

[shelley]

San Diego sounds like a great place to have it.

I think it'd be cool to do one in the DC area(preferably not actually in the city cuz DC is sketch as hell). Midwest sounds cool too, but no Detroit, St. Louis actually sounds kinda cool

We should just delete posts that contain no useful information.

Done.

On the topic of San Diego though, Adam Zamora has been pretty good about finding competition venues. Last time I visited he mentioned trying to get the Spreckels Organ Pavilion as a competition venue. It's a huge open area with a nice big stage and lots of audience seating. On the other hand, it's an outdoor venue which is generally not preferred for cubing competitions.

 

[Bryan]

Bite me Bryan. There was nothing wrong with my post. I voiced an opinion and yes I can get something started with DC as I'm from just north of there.

Sorry, listing a place as "cool" doesn't really provide any information. Especially when you list three separate places as so.

 

[DaBear]

Bite me Bryan. There was nothing wrong with my post. I voiced an opinion and yes I can get something started with DC as I'm from just north of there.

Sorry, listing a place as "cool" doesn't really provide any information. Especially when you list three separate places as so.

I was agreeing with Tyson's thoughts about the Midwest in general and St. Louis

 

[iChanZer0]

San Fransisco
I think it is a good place to hold a competition and you could use Stanford of Berkley as a venue plus California has the most cubers in the US according to CubingUSA.com. San Fransisco also has many places people would like to visit so that may help the popularity.

 

[Mike Hughey]

San Diego sounds like a great place to have it.

I think it'd be cool to do one in the DC area(preferably not actually in the city cuz DC is sketch as hell). Midwest sounds cool too, but no Detroit, St. Louis actually sounds kinda cool

We should just delete posts that contain no useful information.

Done.

On the topic of San Diego though, Adam Zamora has been pretty good about finding competition venues. Last time I visited he mentioned trying to get the Spreckels Organ Pavilion as a competition venue. It's a huge open area with a nice big stage and lots of audience seating. On the other hand, it's an outdoor venue which is generally not preferred for cubing competitions.

Hey, I've always wanted an excuse - it's always been a dream of mine to do a BLD solve (at my speed, just the execution phase) while playing the pedal solo at the beginning of César Franck's "Final". (An example of the piece is here; it's not me playing.) I have already gotten where I could juggle 3 balls while playing it (although I'm a bit out of practice now); I thought the logical next step would be to do a BLD solve.

We should just delete posts that contain no useful information.

Oh well, I guess you can just go ahead and delete this one, then. Sorry, when you brought up an organ pavilion, I couldn't resist. Playing the pipe organ is one of my other hobbies.

 

[bluecloe45]

DC would be a good place because of publicity, there are many cubers there as well. Alternatively a good place would be in somewhere in the middle of the country so people dont have to go across the US for a competitio

 

[puzzlemaster]

Well my dad's an alumni of Ohio University...not Ohio State University...turns out they're different . But I could talk to him about possibly getting us a venue there.

 

[TheMachanga]

Well, Chicago (UIC) has O'hare . But maybe St. Louis will be nice or Champagne (sp?) Ill. (University of Iillinois).

 

[cubemaster13]

what about chicago... its in like the middle of everything... also the koii has a big cubing population, so i think ohio would be a great place..

 

[JBCM627]

Well my dad's an alumni of Ohio University...not Ohio State University...turns out they're different . But I could talk to him about possibly getting us a venue there.

OU = middle of nowhere... it would be really expensive to get west coasters to Athens. CMH (Columbus / OSU) isn't that expensive to fly to (~$220 from SFO), and IND you can get for under $200. OSU will at least have a few cubers still there next year too.

 

[TheMachanga]

I dislike it being in Cali. It was there in 2009....

 

[Dene]

San Fransisco
I think it is a good place to hold a competition and you could use Stanford of Berkley as a venue plus California has the most cubers in the US according to CubingUSA.com. San Fransisco also has many places people would like to visit so that may help the popularity.

My guess is that you have no idea where Nats was hosted last year? (Correct answer is Stanford). Also, if you want anyone to take you seriously you should learn how to correctly spell the place names of where you want the competition to be held.


If all goes well with my plans to move to the US mid next year, then hopefully I'll be in California for 2011 Nats . I don't really have a suggestion to input though sorry. Just wanted to point out something to that other dude.

 

[JTW2007]

Somewhere in California sounds good to me. They have a great organizational team and lots of awesome venues. As far as Colorado goes, I know we have access to the Community College of Aurora campus and the CU Boulder campus. You're right that the Denver airport is not only terrible, but also very removed from the city.

 

[JeffDelucia]

Is there anyone who could get a venue in new york city? I think that would be a very good place for publicity. ...Or we could just bring the party up here to Vermont! (joke)

 

[DavidWoner]

in reality, mall of america seems like a good possibility. I know there was talk about it for 2010, so we could look into it.

The one issue I could see with MOA is that we may have difficulting with BLD events because of noise. However, this could easily be overcome by either having BLD held somewhere either in a meeting room at MOA or in the evening at a nearby hotel.

or people can just deal with the noise. Earplugs are allowed, and if we want this sport to have exposure, people have to deal with spectators. BLD has been held at Essen a few times, with probably even larger and noisier crowds than MOA.

I was ready to say the same thing before I read Dan's comment. We should be able to handle the noise - it's reasonable to expect people solving BLD to be able to handle distractions. It sounds like in Indonesia they often have very noisy environments (malls, in fact), and they've had a bit of success at BLD. (In my experience, multiBLD is the worst of all the events to handle with noise, which makes the Indonesian results all the more impressive. MultiBLD is much harder for me with distractions than 5x5x5 BLD.)

7e) The competition area must be smoke-free, and should have a reasonable noise level.

I think a level of noise that would require competitors to wear earplugs counts as unreasonable.

in reality, mall of america seems like a good possibility. I know there was talk about it for 2010, so we could look into it.

The one issue I could see with MOA is that we may have difficulting with BLD events because of noise. However, this could easily be overcome by either having BLD held somewhere either in a meeting room at MOA or in the evening at a nearby hotel.

However, I think MOA would be good in terms of exposure for sponsors. Sponsors don't want to pay a bunch of money to have people who already use their products to be in a secluded/private venue.

The other issue with MOA is holding a "test run" competition. I would need to make sure we had a large team of reliable volunteers before committing, and I just don't have that yet.

I'm just afraid that a venue with such a large of amount of people passing through would lead to a lot of incidents of spectator interference. And I don't want to have to carry my bag around with me all day because I'm afraid people are going to go through it.

That being said, a possible increase in sponsorship would be nice, but only if the competitors get to see some of that money.

Well yes Seattle doesn't have as many cuber as say Cali or Canada but there are still cubers in Washington. The Seattle facebook group has 13 members and I'm sure there's more than that in WA.
Seattle is a good idea. It has the airport and pretty easy transportation. Plus Washington and the surrounding states don't normally have a comp so it would be really cool to have in Seattle. Plus Vancouver cubers can come over. You could try getting University of Washington of Seattle.

Yes because 13 inexperienced cubers who have never run a competition totally qualify as a strong cubing base.

 

[JTW2007]

I'm just afraid that a venue with such a large of amount of people passing through would lead to a lot of incidents of spectator interference. And I don't want to have to carry my bag around with me all day because I'm afraid people are going to go through it.

That being said, a possible increase in sponsorship would be nice, but only if the competitors get to see some of that money.

+ At least 100.

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Purdue University.

 

[janelle]

They're not all inexperienced. I think 2 of them are actually going to the nats this year. And a few others have been to other comps.
Plus I didn't say that Seattle does have a strong cubing base anyway, but there are still cubers.

 

[Boxcarcrzy12]

soewhere towards the middle of the US, so thats its not too far from places like New York by being somewhere like California

 

[gavnasty]

If most cubers live in California, why not have it in California? =)