World Championships 2013 Olympic Teams?

[PhillipEspinoza]

Hello, I have an idea for World Championships that I think would be pretty cool to see happen. I'm not sure if this idea has been discussed but here it is and I would like to know what others think. At Worlds, we have a unique situation where competitors come from all over the world, from different countries and territories to compete in one competition. I think it would be cool to have a competition based on these different countries and perhaps make teams for the different countries comprising of the 5 fastest cubers in that country. For example, there would be a Team USA, a Team Poland, a Team Japan, comprising of the best of the best in that nation. Each competitor would do one solve and the average of the 5 solves of a given country would make the average for that country. I feel this would be a fun way to encourage friendly competition and teamwork amongst cubers from the same country in a way that I feel hasn't been done yet. Perhaps there could be a small prize incentive, or maybe just for fun and bragging rights. But yes this is the basic idea so I wanna know what you think.

 

[MirzaCubing]

Dude.
This is genius.

 

[cubecraze1]

This is pretty good I like it. But the only thing is, is that getting your fastest 5 cubers to worlds.
Edit:300 posts YEEEAAAHH

 

[rowehessler]

does this mean USA can finally get jackets?

 

[Ranzha]

That'd be pretty awesome xD
Different teams from each country for each event? Or five cubers total per country? Having only five cubers per country gets difficult if other events besides 3x3 are taken into account.

 

[ottozing]

I think an olympics for cubing would be awesome as long as it doesnt replace WC2013.

 

[Dene]

I like the idea, but I feel the practicality would be greatly limited. I'm not sure how many countries would have 5 people representing them, and certainly not 5 decently fast cubers.

 

[Vincents]

Why don't we borrow Macky's Inter-University Cubing Relay format and have all countries solve 4 cubes?

 

[ThomasJE]

We could theoretically do this at WC2013. We could have the mean of the best 3 averages from a country (we would have to do different things for BLD events), and then we could set up a medal table to see the best country of all.

 

[antros]

This idea completely impossible to meet. Speedcubing is just a hobby, and thus do not earn money, so many can not afford to travel to another continent. For example, the WC2011 started only one Pole. I am a teacher in the public schools and to afford the trip would have to devote to it all the earnings of 3 months is not feasible.

 

[Kian]

does this mean USA can finally get jackets?

I was going to organize shirts for worlds 2013 but now that we'll have 300 Americans there I'm not so sure that's as simple. We'll see.

 

[applemobile]

>Host competition in america.
>10% of the bestcubers from around the rest of the world can attend.
>America wins and claims yet again to be the best country.

This is exactly what Americans do with Baseball, and ''Football'' and all the other sports that no one else cares about. The only way this competition would be fair, is if it was a virtual/youtube competition.

 

[Goosly]

>America wins and claims yet again to be the best country.

So? Speedcubing is supposed to be fun, no one will really care about which country would win this event

 

[applemobile]

Then why make the event country's, and not just teams of friends?

 

[JackJ]

Each country should pick one cuber per event.

 

[Genesis]

If you want it to be an official one, why not suggest the 5 cubers to be chosen from at the end of the year? (Which means, any cuber could participate from any mart of the world

 

[RCTACameron]

Each country should pick one cuber per event.

I kind of like this idea, mostly because Australia could do well. (If the same people that went to Worlds 2011 went to Worlds 2013, we could have a chance of winning 2x2-7x7, OH, 3BLD, 4BLD, 5BLD and multiBLD. That's 11 events. )

 

[cmhardw]

The community did something like this in 2004. It was strictly online, and a number of countries each had a team of their fastest cubers and competed via averages, singles, etc for rankings. It was relatively informal, but a lot of fun! I think doing something like this again would be a very good idea! Sounds great! If you want it to happen, start to organize the teams together. If everyone pitches in, then this could be something (unofficial) that I think could easily be done during worlds. It might need to be organized by the competitors themselves, and the solves may need to be done in the audience, but I see no reason why this can't happen.

 

[Dene]

Each country should pick one cuber per event.

Seeing as I would probably be the only New Zealander there, I'll pledge allegiance to Aus Zealand and I pick Faz.

 

[Tao Yu]

They did something like this in the Shanghai Summer, Basically a China vs Japan event.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDMwNjA3MDg4.html

[youku]XNDMwNjA3MDg4[/youku]

They had a few cubers from China and Japan to go against each other in:
2-7 group relay
Team step relay (each cube does a different step of CFOP)
Chinese choose WCA event to do head to head
Then Japanese choose event to do head to head(the country chooses who to go head to head)

(China choose magic and Japan choose 5x5
Nakaji vs Lin Chen 5x5 and Yohei Oka vs Congbiao Jiang on magic
Lin Chen and Yohei Oka won lol)

maybe some other stuff I didn't remember, but it should be in the video