Bay Area Cubing (California)

I don't what to do with the timer issue, I think your best bet would be to to try to convince your parents with a plan on how you will pay them back, hopefully through the money you make at the comp. For the delegate, I believe we have 2 in the bay area, and so you should just contact them and talk to them about it. And don't worry about competitors, you'll have enough. I go to Carlmont High School, and I know some fast cubers that go to Sequoia and Burlingame High, maybe we can do a Sequoia district comp :P
 
TMarshall said:
I don't what to do with the timer issue, I think your best bet would be to to try to convince your parents with a plan on how you will pay them back, hopefully through the money you make at the comp. For the delegate, I believe we have 2 in the bay area, and so you should just contact them and talk to them about it. And don't worry about competitors, you'll have enough. I go to Carlmont High School, and I know some fast cubers that go to Sequoia and Burlingame High, maybe we can do a Sequoia district comp :P
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Cross-school competitions would be cool.
 
molarmanful said:
I live in the Hillsborough-Burlingame-San Mateo Area, and I started a Rubik's Cube Club (with me as the president) at San Mateo High School. We are thinking of hosting a cube competition, but we can't do it until 1) we get timers and displays, 2) we know there will be enough participants, 3) we get a WCA delegate. Any ideas, help, suggestions, etc.?
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The best way to get started on the comp hosting path would be to first go to a lot more competitions and help out there (judging/scrambling/running). Berkeley just announced their next comp, so there's that. You're gonna need a lot of competition experience if you want host a comp.

(Also I go to Burlingame. We should totally have a inter-school mini unofficial comp :p )
 
BASC has 9 sets of timers/displays/mats. We could totally arrange timers.

About number of competitors: if you host it, everyone will come. Going into BASC 5, I seriously doubted we'd ever get close to 150 people paying for spots.

Boy was I wrong.
 
Okay, I've been thinking about the inter-high school competition. Several questions:

Which high schools are participating? Or should it just be high-school-hosted-and-anyone-can-come?

How will we get the timers from Ranzha?

Official or unofficial?

Volunteers?
 
I would be willing to ask a couple of my friends at Carlmont to help out, and I think high school hosted but anyone can come would be best. Also, I would approach Riley and maybe have him be the head organizer, if you can. Me and a person at Sequoia, Simon, both have helped out with staff at BASC, so we both have some experience too. For a venue, I could possibly talk to some administrators at my school about using the gym, but I would prefer to do that once all this competitions stuff becomes a little more substantial/official. However, the schools with cubing clubs would most likely have an easier time using the school as a venue, so that would be either molarmanful or riley. Or, we could use a totally separate venue. Also, I could ask a couple of my cubing friends that aren't on BASC staff, but attend comps for help if we needed more help. Sorry if this is a bit rambly :P
 
Okay, about the competition...
I'm setting the tentative date at April 12 or 19. Both are Sundays. Which is more preferable?
The tentative location is in the SMHS gym.
It is tentatively official, and Ranzha can provide timers, help judge, etc. If Ranzha is a WCA delegate, then he can act as delegate. Otherwise, we'll need a delegate.
It is tentatively called the Bay Area Inter-High School Cube Competition. It's for cubers in high school to come together and compete, trade, share knowledge, etc. Of course, spectators are encouraged and volunteers are needed.
This is mostly tentative, and is subject to change.
Suggestions?
Once this is all not tentative, we need to spread the word.
 
There is a Stanford competition on the 19th (gasp!).

I'm not a delegate. You can see the list of delegates here: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/delegates
In California, there are five delegates. The three in the Bay Area are Shelley Chang, Jeremy Fleischman, and Vincent Sheu. The two in SoCal are James Hamory and Michael Young.

Limiting competitors to only high schoolers is problematic, since anyone can compete at a competition: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-2-competitors
Where the focus of the Inter-High School competition could be on the winning high schools, as far as the WCA is concerned the competition functions as normal. If you'd like to recognise only the winning high schools, that's fine, but the WCA results will reflect overall standings.
 
Well... As long as the date is on a Sunday that most (if not all) people can come on. No later than May?

I was thinking that the it was high school hosted, but not exclusively for high schoolers. That being said, anyone can come, and anyone has a chance to win, but it will be hosted at and by high schools.
 
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