2010 Oklahoma Open

[ottothedog]

yay, we now have 30 registered competitors!

 

[Rpotts]

just registered, so 31, whenever it updates.

 

[ottothedog]

how will it work to decide who gets into the second round and finals.

Also will there be competitors from oklahoma too or just the people signed up on the website (or are oklahoma people signing up on the website)?

 

[Ashmnafa]

how will it work to decide who gets into the second round and finals.

Also will there be competitors from oklahoma too or just the people signed up on the website (or are oklahoma people signing up on the website)?

The bottom so many are cut off, and don't go to the next round.

Some of the people are from Oklahoma. We have a lot of people from OK that come to our competitions, so we are having one there, and it is run by TSC.

 

[IamWEB]

I saw it when it at 7, 8, 9... then one by one from 14 to 21, then a jump to 26, and a few days later I check and it's 31. Nice turnout we might not be done yet!



@ottothedog: It's the TSC website but all competitors from anywhere register there.

 

[Hiero]

Myself and at least 7 of my 6th grade students are signed up. I'm trying to convince a few more to go. If it was in Dallas I could get about 15-20 of them to sign up. Most of them average about a minute, but hopefully this will introduce them to speedcubing and their interest will grow.

 

[ottothedog]

how will it work to decide who gets into the second round and finals.

The bottom so many are cut off, and don't go to the next round.

I understand that but how is it decided who gets cutoff?

 

[Ashmnafa]

how will it work to decide who gets into the second round and finals.

The bottom so many are cut off, and don't go to the next round.

I understand that but how is it decided who gets cutoff?

The slowest averages are cut off.

 

[Hiero]

Aww, man. I was hoping all the fast people would be cut off. Then I'd stand a chance.

 

[The3point14]

Myself and at least 7 of my 6th grade students are signed up. I'm trying to convince a few more to go. If it was in Dallas I could get about 15-20 of them to sign up. Most of them average about a minute, but hopefully this will introduce them to speedcubing and their interest will grow.

That's awesome! I think we plan on going back to Dallas this year so hopefully the 20 students will still be interested when we can get one there.

Also, Sapan has the final say in all of the rules so deciding to cut something out won't roll unless he says so. Also, it would be pretty lame if we cut something out if someone traveled a far distance to specifically compete in, so I don't see it happening especially in that case.

During lunch is usually when MultiBLD and the events with very few people competing usually take place. So it is most likely when SQ-1 will happen (if it does)

 

[Anthony]

Or we could drop 5x5 all together, it would take a lot more time than Square-1.

Yes please.

If it makes Woner happy, lets do it.

I really dislike 5x5 because it takes us way too long to run through it as an event at our TSC competitions. I think there are two main reasons it takes so long. First of all, I think that the majority of our competitors don't practice 5x5 very much and are therefore pretty slow at it in comparison to other places. When you combine that with the fact that we are still lacking a real organizational team to run everything, it ends up taking us forever.

However, I do agree that it's probably about time we have it again...
(But if no one else agrees with me, great! Let's cut it. )

At least this time we have someone who can actually scramble fast and is willing to yell at people to get things moving.

 

[Ashmnafa]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

 

[Anthony]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

 

[Ashmnafa]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

 

[The3point14]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

Not it.

 

[Ashmnafa]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

Not it.

I called it, nobody is going to want to scramble or judge.

We could do what we did in Austin though.

 

[The3point14]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

Not it.

I called it, nobody is going to want to scramble or judge.

We could do what we did in Austin though.

I think we might have volunteers like we did at the South Texas Open, and I think Sapan has decided that having volunteers at any location is a must from now on because it really helps the pacing.

 

[Ashmnafa]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

Not it.

I called it, nobody is going to want to scramble or judge.

We could do what we did in Austin though.

I think we might have volunteers like we did at the South Texas Open, and I think Sapan has decided that having volunteers at any location is a must from now on because it really helps the pacing.

Where are we going to get volunteers? They were all Anthony's friends.

 

[The3point14]

Oh btw I will help judge/scramble.

I hope everyone will..

You and I both know that will not happen.

Not it.

I called it, nobody is going to want to scramble or judge.

We could do what we did in Austin though.

I think we might have volunteers like we did at the South Texas Open, and I think Sapan has decided that having volunteers at any location is a must from now on because it really helps the pacing.

Where are we going to get volunteers? They were all Anthony's friends.

local High Schools.

 

[Anthony]

I think we might have volunteers like we did at the South Texas Open, and I think Sapan has decided that having volunteers at any location is a must from now on because it really helps the pacing.

Where are we going to get volunteers? They were all Anthony's friends.

local High Schools.

Yeah, it worked pretty well. However, I personally think that having people that are *not* any of our friends would be even better. Yes, my friends contributed a lot and it was very convenient, but at times they knew they could kind of slack off simply because they knew it was me running the competition. I'm not saying anything bad about them, but after a while that just started to naturally happen.

It's not like that at Toronto competitions. They get a lot of volunteers from local high schools to come help out for community service hours and because they don't really know anyone they seem to treat everything like it's really a "job" and they must help a lot. That's the impression I got, anyway. It works out very nicely.

So, start recruiting, Zach.