Any new news on world championship 2009?

cmhardw said:
jcuber said:
If only I can get good enough to actually make it worth coming.
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Why would that ever be something you would even begin to consider as a reason for not going? The experience of a world championship is so much more about the people you meet and the places you see than the competition. But maybe that's just me.

Chris
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Well, the world championships have a qualification round, right? What if your times are too slow to get into the competition...
 
TemurAmir said:
Well, the world championships have a qualification round, right? What if your times are too slow to get into the competition...
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Again, meeting people who are like minded to your interests has more worth to me than the actual competition. I say again that perhaps this is just my view of it, but that is how I see these big competitions. I don't know any other cubers in my city, so I always love getting together with others, especially those from Europe who I usually only see every year or every 2 years.

I would still say it is worth coming if your times will probably not get past the qualification rounds. You will compete in the qualification rounds still, but also have the chance to meet other cubers. Some of the best techniques I use in my solving I learned from other cubers at competitions who I asked to critique my solves for me. Also, I met some very cool people and have some great memories of travelling from the World Championship competitions.

Cubing is still small (but growing!), so I feel that we can still have this feeling even at the World Competition level. I think one day though, that the World Competition might be some form of invitational open (at least to an extent) and will be much more competitive. Still, since we don't directly compete with another person, only collective we compete against the Stackmat, I hope things stay just as friendly and fun then as they are now. I think it will change to a more competitive atmosphere, but hopefully not completely so.

So in other words, if your times will probably not pass the qualification rounds, you should still come if you are not sure whether it will be worth it. I think meeting the people there is always "worth it", regardless of you speedsolving level of ability.

This is only my own personal opinion.

Chris
 
Flights have gone up by about $20 at Kayak.com for flights from my city to Düsseldorf. Has anyone else flying from the US already bought tickets? I'd like to secure a decently cheap rate, but I don't want to get greedy and miss a deal. Two years ago I saw flights to Germany at around $700-$800. If I bought today I could secure $627.

Have any other US people bought their flight tickets yet? I don't want the gas prices to go up and miss out on this lower price.

Chris
 
I'm REALLY annoyed at myself. Two days ago, I saw tickets for $530 and waited a day, and they proceeded to jump up $300... I'm going to sit and wait for tickets to hit under 600 because I have a feeling that on at least one out of the next 118 days there will be a flight that matches that. (i hope)
 
The WC 2009 is soon full!
"Registration closes on October 7, 2009 or earlier once we reach 300 competitors."

To date there is 244 registered competitors, only some 50 places left.

I miss several top cubers on the list, the most important one i think is Yu Nakajima! I also like to see people like Finlands Ville Seppänen and Anssi Vanhala, United Kingdoms Breandan Vallance just to mention a few.
 
Hadley4000 said:
coinman said:
Yu Nakajima!.
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He is most important...why?

Yu is a great cuber. Obviously one of the best, but there is too much hype around him. As a cube once said to me, he could tie his shoe fast and people would go "WOAH YU NAKAJIMA!"
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well, a lot of the other very fast cubers are already signed up. i assume that's what he meant. i do think that it would be very unfortunate to not have the reigning world champ in 3x3 there.
 
I guess in 2007 I thought it might be possible that we would see 300 competitors in 2009. Now it seems that the registration will soon be closed early due to this happening.

My prediction: Worlds 2011 will be in some form or fashion by invitation only for either some of the events or all competitors.

Chris
 
cmhardw said:
I guess in 2007 I thought it might be possible that we would see 300 competitors in 2009. Now it seems that the registration will soon be closed early due to this happening.

My prediction: Worlds 2011 will be in some form or fashion by invitation only for either some of the events or all competitors.

Chris
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If they were to do this, how would it be done? Maybe the top three from every competition would be allowed to enter into the Championship?

Also, why are certain competitions called 'Openings'. Is it the first competition held in that certain city or something?
 
wrong. More people = logistically hard to run a competition. Until you've run a competition at all, you have no idea what it takes, let alone a competition with 300 competitors. It's just not going to happen with 500 competitors. The organization can't feasibly take on that challenge.
 
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