World Championships 2013 Olympic Teams?

Well happy to say agreed and started making plans to attend worlds next year. Not quite sure how I sold it without trying to to the better half but worlds followed by a week holiday in Vegas afterwards seems to be a very agreeable plan to me :)
 
When you guys are saying each country picks a cuber per event, are these unique people per event? For example, would Feliks only be able to represent 3x3? Or would he be able to compete in all events he would be nominated for?
 
I like the idea but the country which i will be representing only has 1 cuber registered (it's not me) but it doesn't matter as I am not fast and have a low chance of getting there.
Maybe for people who don't have enough from their country there can be a team like the "Independent Nations" or whatever it was from the Olympics.
 
independent is on your own, so if that cuber that was on their own and they were fast then it would be unfair because they only entered one person.
Oh you misunderstood my post XD. The team would be made up of people who's countries don't have enough competitors. So, let's say the person from the country bran's from wants to be on a team but he's the only one from his country. He and four other people who's countries don't have enough for a team form an independent team. It's slightly different than the Olympics though, I shouldn't have posted that part.
 
Oh you misunderstood my post XD. The team would be made up of people who's countries don't have enough competitors. So, let's say the person from the country bran's from wants to be on a team but he's the only one from his country. He and four other people who's countries don't have enough for a team form an independent team. It's slightly different than the Olympics though, I shouldn't have posted that part.

Yes I did misunderstand. But yeah that sounds like a cool idea.
 
Thanks for the input everyone! Jackets would be awesome, imagine personalized ones with your last name on them. As far as clearing up some of the problems:

As far as participating countries, I think it would be good to require a minimum of 5 cubers, and I understand the fastest 5 cubers in the country may not be able to attend the competition but it would be the fastest 5 of the country who are AT the competition or who have pre-registered. This does not take away from the legitimacy of the event anymore than Dan Cohen not showing up to Nats takes away the legitimacy of Nationals this year. IOW, it is understood there may be faster cubers in a given country but its about who shows up for a given competition. Besides, it's not really all that serious, it's about having fun!

I'm not sure I like the idea of having 1 cuber do all the solves because I feel that defeats the purpose of something like this.

As far as different events, I only imagined this being for 3x3 speedsolve, as it is the most popular and most likely therefore to get a good amount of fast solvers. Not to mention time and planning being an issue.

The way I see the event happening is, 1 solver from each participating country go up at a time against the other representatives in a head-to-head-to-head style event (starting at the same time and racing essentially). The next representatives would then go up, and so on, until all 5 solves are done, at which point an average would be calculated. The country with the fastest average of 5 would win!

This would be awesome not only for the participators but for the spectators as well. Again, thanks for all your input.

EDIT: Also, the top 5 cubers could be determined by WCA ranking averages at a given time before Worlds, say, the top 5 cubers by May or June of 2013.
 
I haven't read all the posts in this, but from OP. I would say that if you were gonna do something like that, having just an average of 5 would be pretty weak.

I would say go all out. One representative per event, maybe 2 for 3x3x3. plus team events. no point buying kit and stuff then doing one solve each! maybe it could standalone from WC somehow too

then it would actually be like the olympics. Most gold silver and bronze determines winning nation
 
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When you guys are saying each country picks a cuber per event, are these unique people per event? For example, would Feliks only be able to represent 3x3? Or would he be able to compete in all events he would be nominated for?

I think you should only be able to represent your country in one event, but you can compete in as many as you want.
 
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