Accomplishment coins

[One Wheel]

Yes, they sound like a great idea. But it costs money.

A bit of a problem: National Records, WR or subs etc can happen at any time or any moment during the competition. So the claim/making of the coins might need a solution for this.

WCA delegates/committees might have to bring all 'type' of coins sufficient to the competitors if they want to give it to the competitors during the competition. So we need a solution for this.

It would all depend on what achievements were awarded what coins. Here's one possible idea:

For each event
WR Single (18)
WR Average (15)
CR Single (18)
CR Average (15)
NR Single (18)
NR Average (15)
Sub-x Single (54)
Sub-x Average (45)

No more than one person per competition would get any of the NR/CR/WR coins, so delegates would only need one for each possible record. MBLD and Big Blind don't track averages, so that's the difference there. I'm assuming 3 people could get sub-x coins at a competition. Of course more could, but it wouldn't be a big deal to occasionally have to send them to people after the fact. This would be a total of 198 coins, and there are by my count 203 WCA delegates. If the WR/CR/NR coins were from the last link @Dom posted, 1.5" coins with color on one side, purchased 500 at a time, and the sub-x coins were the wooden ones, purchased 5,000 at a time, that's $146,520, or $721.77 per delegate. That does add up fast. The wooden ones really are cheap, maybe it would be better to get a few of the nice ones and send those out, but have delegates carry the wooden ones.

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

Other related-ish idea: cubing titles like they have in chess.
Example: in the US, if you have a USCF rating from 2000 to 2199 if I'm not mistaken you're an "expert". Above that is national master and below that there's class A, class B, through class J. (e.g. 485 is class H.)

So you could have levels like that for cubing, like maybe master is around sub 9 idrk

 

[Thom S.]

My best solution would be this:

Someone males a website that has accesss to the WCA Database. By entering your ID, it processes which coin you would be allowed to have. The WCA Coin Commitee gets together some production for these physical ones. Every Delegate gets access to the coin Database and before a competition if he likes to, he can order coins. At the competition they make a stand or something and you go to them with money and tell them your ID with which they see what coin you are allowed to buy(sub 15 maybe only once and WR as often as you can gather them) then they give them to you and add some bought-mark in the Database so you can't go to multiple competitions to aquire coins.

 

[Dom]

My best solution would be this:
..then they give them to you and add some bought-mark in the Database so you can't go to multiple competitions to aquire coins.

well, how about, if they are a sub 15 solver, they can buy as many sub-15 coins as they want, especially if they change the design from year to year. i know i would want to get a new one if they made an updated version. just a thought.