US Nationals 2010

The event format has been updated, removing qualifications.
http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2010/events.php

Tyson said:
1. In the first round of events with cutoffs, all competitors will get 1 or 2 solves, and only those who solve under the "cutoff" time will be allowed to complete all solves.
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This means that if you DNF your first 6x6 solve you're out, reguardless of how fast it was. Wouldn't this be better if, like rule 2, it was also at the discretion of the main judge?
 
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Hays said:
The event format has been updated, removing qualifications.
http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2010/events.php

Tyson said:
1. In the first round of events with cutoffs, all competitors will get 1 or 2 solves, and only those who solve under the "cutoff" time will be allowed to complete all solves.
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This means that if you DNF your first 6x6 solve you're out, reguardless of how fast it was. Wouldn't this be better if, like rule 2, it was also at the discretion of the main judge?
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If you DNF your first 6x6 solve, you don't even get an average anyway.
 
I'm hoping to get the merchandise page up in about two days. People will be able to purchase stuff from the merchandise page for pick-up at the competition which means you don't have to pay shipping on anything. So it will be a pre-order, and pre-orders will close around July 1.

Some stuff will be for sale at the competition itself, but it will be in more limited quantities, and we'll unfortunately have to increase the price slightly to account for our added risk of holding onto stock.

The souvenir cubes that will be sale will be very high quality cubes. These are cubes that would be very suitable for speed cubing.
 
Tyson said:
1. In the first round of events with cutoffs, all competitors will get 1 or 2 solves, and only those who solve under the "cutoff" time will be allowed to complete all solves.
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If I read this correctly, you get 1 solve, if it is under the cut-off you get 2 solves correct? So anyone who is not expected to make cut-off essentially gets 1 solve. In summary, the standard 5 (best/worst removed) format is not being followed for nationals. (I know I will not make cut-off, I am however interested in how the second half of the competitors will be scored)
 
chris410 said:
Tyson said:
1. In the first round of events with cutoffs, all competitors will get 1 or 2 solves, and only those who solve under the "cutoff" time will be allowed to complete all solves.
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If I read this correctly, you get 1 solve, if it is under the cut-off you get 2 solves correct? So anyone who is not expected to make cut-off essentially gets 1 solve. In summary, the standard 5 (best/worst removed) format is not being followed for nationals. (I know I will not make cut-off, I am however interested in how the second half of the competitors will be scored)
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I think you misunderstand. Some events list as "Best of 2/Avg of 5" while others list "Best of 1/Mean of 3" or "Avg of 5".

"Avg of 5" means everyone will get an average, "Best of 2/Avg of 5" means you need to meet the cutoff time in one of your first two solves to get an average, and "Best of 1/ Mean of 3" means your first solve has to be under the cutoff in order to get a mean of 3.

As for placing, the competitors not receiving averages/means will be ranked by best single solve.
 
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Kian said:
chris410 said:
Tyson said:
1. In the first round of events with cutoffs, all competitors will get 1 or 2 solves, and only those who solve under the "cutoff" time will be allowed to complete all solves.
Click to expand...

If I read this correctly, you get 1 solve, if it is under the cut-off you get 2 solves correct? So anyone who is not expected to make cut-off essentially gets 1 solve. In summary, the standard 5 (best/worst removed) format is not being followed for nationals. (I know I will not make cut-off, I am however interested in how the second half of the competitors will be scored)
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I think you misunderstand. Some events list as "Best of 2/Avg of 5" while others list "Best of 1/Mean of 3" or "Avg of 5".

"Avg of 5" means everyone will get an average, "Best of 2/Avg of 5" means you need to meet the cutoff time in one of your first two solves to get an average, and "Best of 1/ Mean of 3" means your first solve has to be under the cutoff in order to get a mean of 3.

As for placing, the competitors not receiving averages/means will be ranked by best single solve.
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Thank you Kian, it seemed that the nationals were deviating from the normal competition averages which prompted me to ask the question.

Again, thank you for clearing that up!
 
I just have some quick questions about the merchandise that is being sold.

1) Are the T-shirts both completely white with the logos on the front?

2) On the US Nationals souvenir cube, there seems to be something written under the Nationals logo that's not shown on the logo for the shirt. I'm just curious as to what it is. Also, this is very trivial, but are the cubes on the shirt logo and the cube logo printed at slightly different orientations? :P

3) What kind of speedcubes are the souvenir cubes?

4) When is the latest we can pre-order merchandise while guaranteeing that we can still receive it at the price on the website? I mean, I'm sure we can't just pre-order the day before and still expect to get it at the same price.

Sorry if some of these questions are really stupid. I'm just curious and want to clarify some things before I go ahead and buy them.
 
Oh btw, merchandise is available now.

flee135 said:
1) Are the T-shirts both completely white with the logos on the front?
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Yes.

flee135 said:
2) On the US Nationals souvenir cube, there seems to be something written under the Nationals logo that's not shown on the logo for the shirt. I'm just curious as to what it is.
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"MIT: Cambridge, MA. August 6-8". The shirt logo has been updated to reflect this.
I'm not sure about the orientation... I'd assume it would be identical to the shirt, but yeah, it does look slightly different.

flee135 said:
3) What kind of speedcubes are the souvenir cubes?
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Maru Cubes. But I wouldn't use them for speedcubing if you want the stickers to last. The idea is for them to be a souvenir more than a speedcube.

flee135 said:
4) When is the latest we can pre-order merchandise while guaranteeing that we can still receive it at the price on the website? I mean, I'm sure we can't just pre-order the day before and still expect to get it at the same price.
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Just posted that... July 1.
 
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flee135 said:
Alright, thanks for the information. Also, I wasn't planning on speedsolving the souvenir cube if I ended up buying one, but it's still good to know what kind of cube it is.
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The souvenir cubes are the same as the speed cubes being sold on the website. So this isn't the same crappy cube that you get when you get a Microsoft cube or a DE Shaw cube. I'm actually trying to get the company that makes the other cubes to switch to these Maru cubes.

The cubes are very good for speed cubing. The stickers are also of high quality, so you could speed cube with them and they wouldn't wear out that fast. But if you're going to speed cube a lot, just get the plain cube.
 
Tyson said:
The souvenir cubes are the same as the speed cubes being sold on the website. So this isn't the same crappy cube that you get when you get a Microsoft cube or a DE Shaw cube. I'm actually trying to get the company that makes the other cubes to switch to these Maru cubes.
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That's good. I have a whole bunch of those company promotion type cubes and they're horrible.
 
Ohai, so I actually think I'm going now.

Who wants to bunk with me? I'm looking for cheap, but decent, basically.

Like, if at all possible, like 8 people in a room (rules schmools)

So far in this room:
statue
rick james
 
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