🇺🇸 Kansas, USA

[danchoi955]

Yes, check for those two days. Looks like I may have a delegate. Now we need a venue. My recent choice may be two small if we are to see as many as the Lawrence one.

 

[shadowkiller168]

Great job there, Shadow, running the competition. It was smoother than I expected given that you had about 100 ppl. What was your total tally? Did you do anything differently this time around to attach 100% more ppl? I'm sure having celebrities there helps, Chris Olson, Kennan LeJeune, and Kevin Hays. It was pretty cool to ALMOST see a world's record being broken on the 6x6. You got to love that 2-minute of complete silence!

Well, here's the plan. And let me know if I'm stepping on your toes Shadowkiller...KC Competition on Aug 15th or Aug 22nd. Walker suggested that I not do it over the summer since most ppl will be pretty busy. So two weeks more after US National would be ideal. Thinking of adding 4x4x4, 7x7x7, and 3x3x3 blind or multi-blind. I had someone came to me and offered a location to host, but it's near Independence, MO which is not so ideal. I would prefer to host somewhere in Overland Park or Olathe, which has better recognition and closer to my home. Olathe East or Blue Valley NW HS?

I got a cool video of Chris Olson and Phi-Long doing the 2x2x2 neck to neck, with 2.40 and 3.50, respectively (through, later Chris got a 1.45s). Will have to post that on youtube shortly.

Did any find a Gen3 timer? I'm really pissed at how I lost that!

The next comp I plan on doing would probably happen during June, and the one after that would likely be in September-November. I likely wouldn't be doing August.

There was a Gen 3 timer left over, but I don't remember which one of us took it. I'll ask Shaden.

 

[Rocky0701]

Ok. Want me to put together a rough draft schedule for the events so we can have a general idea? I want to have some more information before I ask my school. I'll email my principal in a couple days and ask about it.

 

[EvanCahill]

I live about an hour away from the kansas city area and would love to go to a cubing competition. Right now my 3x3 is around 1:10 and I can do cubes up to 7x7s. How do you generally advertise to other cubers about an event?

 

[Psyph3r]

I live about an hour away from the kansas city area and would love to go to a cubing competition. Right now my 3x3 is around 1:10 and I can do cubes up to 7x7s. How do you generally advertise to other cubers about an event?

Usually on these forums and on the WCA website there are posts.

I would be willing to go in on a couple displays with you Dan if you want to make sure we have a few newish ones that work.

I am looking for a good logo to put on all of my cubes so that they don't wander off from me now that I have a large number of them that I keep with me at comps and things so I am also accepting submissions for my logo at this time. Post a link here or PM me. Maybe I will buy a cube for the person that wins.

 

[Rocky0701]

Usually on these forums and on the WCA website there are posts.

I would be willing to go in on a couple displays with you Dan if you want to make sure we have a few newish ones that work.

I am looking for a good logo to put on all of my cubes so that they don't wander off from me now that I have a large number of them that I keep with me at comps and things so I am also accepting submissions for my logo at this time. Post a link here or PM me. Maybe I will buy a cube for the person that wins.

I was just kind playing around searching some cool logos on google images. What like sports teams, TV shows, bands do you like?

Do you like KU because I think a jayhawk would be cool.

 

[biscuit]

I was just kind playing around searching some cool logos on google images. What like sports teams, TV shows, bands do you like?

Do you like KU because I think a jayhawk would be cool.

NO JAYHAWKS! I will create a custom logo. How big should it be in pixels?

 

[Rocky0701]

NO JAYHAWKS! I will create a custom logo. How big should it be in pixels?

You should make a KCubing logo.

 

[biscuit]

You should make a KCubing logo.

Dude yes then we could all use it!

 

[Psyph3r]

It only slightly defeats the purpose of we all have it. Cubicle is where I would be getting it from. I am not sure what their count is for pixels but I bet we could ask them.

 

[biscuit]

It only slightly defeats the purpose of we all have it. Cubicle is where I would be getting it from. I am not sure what their count is for pixels but I bet we could ask them.

Maybe we each have our own variation. So like maybe rocky gets a blue and red background you get like psychic "waves" coming off your logo or what ever. yeah definitely ask them for the size (I will go read the regs on logos sometime to make sure I know what I need to do) Also what color do you want yours on psy? (if you want a personal logo that would be ok too)

 

[Psyph3r]

Not sure what color I would want it on. My gut tells me white but half my cubes have black instead of white

 

[biscuit]

can TC do transparent backgrounds?

 

[Rocky0701]

Not sure what color I would want it on. My gut tells me white but half my cubes have black instead of white

Just do white for your cubes and then yellow for the other cubes.

 

[Psyph3r]

Yea I am pretty sure TC is all transparent. The main issue is what the actual symbol is made of from a color standpoint.

I just got my second LL skip of my cubing career. Both have been hand scrambles and I am not counting either of them as PBs. If you haven't had one of these before they are insane in the moment. You are busy forming your last F2L pair and then suddenly the cube just falls together out of nowhere and you have a solved cube staring back at you. This most recent one was 17.9 seconds for me which is like half of my current average. It is a crazy experience I hope each of you has the chance to have at some point.

 

[Rocky0701]

Ok Dan. I've put together a schedule and cutoffs for our comp. Let me know if you think we should change anything. Also Zach what do you think of this? I think it should be very manageable.

Events: 2x2 (3 Rounds), 3x3 (3 Rounds), 4x4, 7x7, Skewb, Pyraminx, 3BLD

8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:45 Pyraminx (Soft: 30 Hard 1:00)
9:45-10:40 2x2 Round 1
10:40-11:55 3x3 Round 1
11:55-12:15 Lunch
12:05-1:55 7x7 (Soft: 7:30 Hard 9:00)
1:55-2:25 3x3 Round 2 (Top 25)
2:25-3:00 Skewb (Soft: 30 Hard 1:00)
3:00-3:20 2x2 Round 2 (Top 25)
3:20-4:30 4x4 (Soft: 1:45 Hard 2:45)
4:30-5:15 3BLD (15 Minute combined time limit)
5:15-5:25= 2x2 Finals (Top 10)
5:25-5:45 3x3 Finals (Top 10)
5:45-6:00 Awards/Cleanup

 

[biscuit]

Ok Dan. I've put together a schedule and cutoffs for our comp. Let me know if you think we should change anything. Also Zach what do you think of this? I think it should be very manageable.

Events: 2x2 (3 Rounds), 3x3 (3 Rounds), 4x4, 7x7, Skewb, Pyraminx, 3BLD

8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:30 Pyraminx (Soft: 45 Hard 1:15)
9:30-10:15 2x2 Round 1
10:15-11:00 Skewb (Soft: 45 Hard 1:15)
11:00-12:10 3x3 Round 1
12:10-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:45 7x7 (Soft: 8:00 Hard 10:00
1:45-2:45 3x3 Round 2 (Top 30)
2:45-3:10 2x2 Round 2 (Top 30)
3:10-4:20- 4x4 (Soft: 1:45 Hard 2:45)
4:20-5:05- 3BLD (15 Minute combined time limit)
5:05-5:20 2x2 Finals (Top 10)
5:20-5:40 3x3 Finals (Top 10)
5:40-6:00 Awards/Cleanup

I feel like skewb and pyra hard cut offs should be brought down to 1:00 at least. I was able to solve the pyra in 45 seconds once I learned all of the algs. (which doesn't take long) I don't know much of skewb though. If I knew how many people we expected in each event then I could give more advice.

 

[shadowkiller168]

8:45-9:30 Pyraminx (Soft: 45 Hard 1:15)

Nonononononononononononono!! Do NOT make the same mistake I did! Pyraminx was THE reason why we were so far behind! It was because of so many little kids and their crack addict fingers (courtesy of Ryan Potts for that remark) that could barely solve the pyraminx that slowed us down so much!

0:30 soft 0:45-0:50 hard is more than reasonable. Pyraminx is a very easy and fast event, and it's not like it's hard to be about sub-30. You just need to filter out the people who learned it like the night before or something.

Edit: Skewb's cutoffs/time limits should be mildly harsher. I would say 0:30 soft and 0:50 hard should be reasonable.

 

[Rocky0701]

I feel like skewb and pyra hard cut offs should be brought down to 1:00 at least. I was able to solve the pyra in 45 seconds once I learned all of the algs. (which doesn't take long) I don't know much of skewb though. If I knew how many people we expected in each event then I could give more advice.

Thanks!

Nonononononononononononono!! Do NOT make the same mistake I did! Pyraminx was THE reason why we were so far behind! It was because of so many little kids and their crack addict fingers (courtesy of Ryan Potts for that remark) that could barely solve the pyraminx that slowed us down so much!

0:30 soft 0:45-0:50 hard is more than reasonable. Pyraminx is a very easy and fast event, and it's not like it's hard to be about sub-30. You just need to filter out the people who learned it like the night before or something.

Edit: Skewb's cutoffs/time limits should be mildly harsher. I would say 0:30 soft and 0:50 hard should be reasonable.

Ok, thanks for the input. I just figured I'd be helpful to the newer cubers. That's very true though, I was basically sub 30 like 10 minutes after I learned Pyra, same for Skewb. I'll edit them. What do you think about the other cutoffs though?

Also, Lol crack addict.

 

[Psyph3r]

I should learn pyra and skewb and get to about 29 second average so I can flirt with the cut off haha