WC2013 - Unofficial Events and Activities

Ranzha V. Emodrach said:
As far as unofficial events go, I'll be more than happy to help run skooob c:

Any chance for mosaics?
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Any help I can get during the unofficial events would be greatly appreciated, just like help at any local competition. We need the help. As for mosaics, I am considering having that, and it'll be with these other unofficial things as opposed to what we did at Nationals where it occurred in the middle of the day. That caused too many problems. However, I can't make any guarantees that mosaics will happen.

TheDubDubJr said:
I think the University Cube Relay that Maki put up this year was awesome! I think it would be sweet to try a International Cube Relay type event. Basically any 4 people from the same country represent and do a 4-person relay. And you can have multiple teams from one country so anyone can sign up.
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I like that idea, having multiple teams per country if people so choose so that there's no one team representing an entire country. I'll definitely keep this one in mind.
 
flee135 said:
I like that idea, having multiple teams per country if people so choose so that there's no one team representing an entire country. I'll definitely keep this one in mind.
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Thanks, I have had this idea in my head for a couple months. It will be crazy when we have a couple countries/teams get sub-40.
Also, if you do need more help with some unofficial events, I can help where needed.
 
CarlBrannen said:
Give a prize for the best cube.
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There is no "best cube".

I agree with the mosaics idea. Perhaps each evening, different teams can create their mosaics?
One idea I've had since last year (even though I wasn't able to go to Nats) was to construct one large mosaic à la CubeWorks on Sunday afternoon before 3x3 finals to commemorate Worlds 2013.
Just an idea =)
 
For the teams, we could do 2 things (x = number of teams, y = people per team):
1. Have every xth person starting from #1 for y people (If x = 5 and y = 4, #1, 6, 11, 16) and then from #2 (if x = 5 and y=4, #2, 7, 12, 17) etc. for x teams.
2. Have different countries with each team. The top y people of the top x countries get to participate.


We could use 2 things for where we get these results from:
1. The pysch sheet (If teams are made before comp)
2. The results from the most recent round of 3x3. (not preferred)

I'd use #1 for both. For the teams because it is more systematic and random, and we won't have countries just totally blowing people out of the water, as somebody else said. And #1 for the results because I think making teams before the competition is much more organized. It might take a while to find all of the teams.

I don't think we should pick our own teams, as the best solvers would be together.

Finally, we should just use the same rules are Inter-University Cubing Relay. They have no flaws, so why not? I wouldn't do a relay, because whoever does 2x2 barely has a difference on the entire time, whereas whoever does the largest cube is going to make the biggest difference. I believe we should have 4 people per team, and 8 teams. It would be in a head-to-head form, where the team that starts with #1 on the psych sheet plays 8, 2 plays 7, 3 plays 6, and 4 plays 5. They go head to head and whoever wins twice first, moves on. It would be like NBA playoffs where you have to win 2 games (best of 3, but don't that confused with best of 3 where whoever has the best time of the 3 solves wins. It is whoever wins 2 games of the 3 first).

So what are you guys' thoughts on this?

Wow, that was longer than expected!
 
Coolster01 said:
I don't think we should pick our own teams, as the best solvers would be together.
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I thought the point was to create the best possible team from each country and see which country was the best. Then there could be a B team with the next fastest people, then a C team, etc.




Noahaha said:
WR for simultaneous banana eat (I'm serious).
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Please do.
 
Coolster01 said:
For the teams, we could do 2 things (x = number of teams, y = people per team):
1. Have every xth person starting from #1 for y people (If x = 5 and y = 4, #1, 6, 11, 16) and then from #2 (if x = 5 and y=4, #2, 7, 12, 17) etc. for x teams.
2. Have different countries with each team. The top y people of the top x countries get to participate.


We could use 2 things for where we get these results from:
1. The pysch sheet (If teams are made before comp)
2. The results from the most recent round of 3x3. (not preferred)

I'd use #1 for both. For the teams because it is more systematic and random, and we won't have countries just totally blowing people out of the water, as somebody else said. And #1 for the results because I think making teams before the competition is much more organized. It might take a while to find all of the teams.

I don't think we should pick our own teams, as the best solvers would be together.

Finally, we should just use the same rules are Inter-University Cubing Relay. They have no flaws, so why not? I wouldn't do a relay, because whoever does 2x2 barely has a difference on the entire time, whereas whoever does the largest cube is going to make the biggest difference. I believe we should have 4 people per team, and 8 teams. It would be in a head-to-head form, where the team that starts with #1 on the psych sheet plays 8, 2 plays 7, 3 plays 6, and 4 plays 5. They go head to head and whoever wins twice first, moves on. It would be like NBA playoffs where you have to win 2 games (best of 3, but don't that confused with best of 3 where whoever has the best time of the 3 solves wins. It is whoever wins 2 games of the 3 first).

So what are you guys' thoughts on this?

Wow, that was longer than expected!
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For teams, I think people should just pick their own teams of 4 people (just like the Inter-University Cube Relay). Each country will keep in mind that they want one good team with the best 4 people going to represent their country. My concern is just making sure that anyone who wants to compete in this has the chance to. An example is if a country only has 2 people going and they want to compete, how would we go about them making a team.

Do you know how the Inter-University Cube Relay works? It doesn't have any 2x2s in it. Unless if you are talking about the Guildford Challenge.
 
I would prefer having people pick their own teams for the reason that Mikel brings up. The purpose of having more than one team per country is to give the opportunity for everyone to participate.

As for picking teams based on the psych sheet, I'm not a big fan of that either, because that assumes that everyone we assign to teams will want to participate. But there will certainly be people who would want to do other things at Vegas than hang around and cube. I'll try to organize a neat way to sign up beforehand in groups of four, similar to how mosaics sign-ups were last year for Nationals (I think?).
 
flee135 said:
I would prefer having people pick their own teams for the reason that Mikel brings up. The purpose of having more than one team per country is to give the opportunity for everyone to participate.

As for picking teams based on the psych sheet, I'm not a big fan of that either, because that assumes that everyone we assign to teams will want to participate. But there will certainly be people who would want to do other things at Vegas than hang around and cube. I'll try to organize a neat way to sign up beforehand in groups of four, similar to how mosaics sign-ups were last year for Nationals (I think?).
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Felix, did you see my comment about if people want to compete but do not have enough people from their country going to finish a team of 4. Do you know how you would you go about that?
 
TheDubDubJr said:
Felix, did you see my comment about if people want to compete but do not have enough people from their country going to finish a team of 4. Do you know how you would you go about that?
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I'm not sure. I guess the easiest way would be to try to pair up the people from those countries. That's not really optimal in terms of having it be country vs country, but at least it gives everyone the opportunity to participate.
 
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