Euro 2012 - Poland

[Geert]

I would prefer longer days
more solves = more fun

 

[amostay2004]

Argh..Euro 2010 was awesome. This year is gonna be even more awesome. If only I can be there

 

[Ron]

Btw, unlike US Nationals we do nothing in parallel, except for Friday for the big blind and multi blind events.
They have such a great team, they can do more rounds, 3 things in parallel and end each day at 6pm. Amazing stuff!

It is my personal taste that we have longer days and almost nothing in parallel, same as WC 2011.
But is also easier to organise. We need one team for the main stage, that is it.

 

[Carrot]

Do you guys prefer:
- shorter days (9am-6pm) fewer rounds (no second rounds for 4x4, 5x5, one-handed, no separate finals for Megaminx, Square-1, Clock)
or
- longer days (9am-8pm) full rounds (2 rounds for most side events, 2 rounds blindfolded, 3 rounds for 4x4, 5x5 and one-handed, 4 rounds 3x3)
?

@Odder: no prize money for your events again...

I prefer the bolded version.

And it's fine, at least it's not negative prizes

 

[Sebastien]

The following events will have only one round:
- 3x3 multi blind
- 4x4 blind
- 5x5 blind
- 3x3 feet
- 6x6
- 7x7

You missed FMC, didn't you? I'd surely appreciate 2 rounds of FMC, but I doubt this is going to happen.

- longer days (9am-8pm) full rounds (2 rounds for most side events, 2 rounds blindfolded, 3 rounds for 4x4, 5x5 and one-handed, 4 rounds 3x3)?

this!

Btw, unlike US Nationals we do nothing in parallel, except for Friday for the big blind and multi blind events.

Please find a way to seperate MBF and Big Cubes BLD! Having both within the time frame is cruel and the performance of all competitors will be worse. I'm sure there is a way to do this without adding more time to these events.

 

[Ron]

Please find a way to seperate MBF and Big Cubes BLD! Having both within the time frame is cruel and the performance of all competitors will be worse. I'm sure there is a way to do this without adding more time to these events.

We will do it like we did for WC 2011. Is that in line with your comment?

Oops, yeah, FMC is only 1 round, best of 1.

 

[Sebastien]

As far as I remember this was ok, but the website seems to be down so I cannot look up right now how these event were exactly held. At WC09 atleast it was awful, when there was one 4 hour block for doing all big Blind events.

 

[TMOY]

At WC 2011 we did multi on Friday morning and big blinds on Friday afternoon, which was fine. (At WC 2009 I didn't compete in these events yet so I can't tell.)

And I would also prefer longer days.

 

[gagou9]

hi!

sounds great !

- small registration fee, to be paid immediately after registration

should we understand that the euro2012 wont be as the previous versions ?
i liked the fact it was free for everyone !

but things do change

 

[Sebastien]

I guess it would still be free if people would alwqays show up after registering. A fee of like 5 € is nothing and will lead to having only serious registrations.

 

[Ron]

I made Odder happy today, but he does not know it yet until tomorrow or Friday.

 

[Sebastien]

Mefferts?

 

[Mollerz]

I'd definitely prefer the longer days, and I agree with others for splitting MBLD and BigBLD. For me it doesn't matter too much since I'm not that fast, but it would still be preferable to split them up.

 

[Carrot]

I made Odder happy today, but he does not know it yet until tomorrow or Friday.

I AM ALREADY HAPPY!!! Because a friend of mine promised to lend me her Nintendo DS and her Pokémon white game when I get back from summer holidays!!!! It's so epic!!!

 

[RaresB]

Clicked on this expecting to see a discussion about euro cup 2012 but this is fine as well

 

[Henrik]

So registration is open:

http://www.speedcubing.com/events/euro2012/

 

[Kev43]

3 rounds of OH, 4x4 and 5x5 sounds great, but at WC2011 I wondered why there were "only" 2 rounds of 2x2 ?
Isn't 2x2 as important as OH? And it's not a really long event.

(just asking)

 

[NSKuber]

Same question here: why there is 3 rounds of 4x4 and 5x5(which takes a lot of time) and only two of 2x2, which is very fast? Even on three-days comp? Unfair

 

[Ron]

I don't like the use of the word "Unfair" here.

We have to make decisions, because we do not have unlimited time and days are pretty long already. It is my personal opinion that 2x2 Cube is less important than say 4x4 Cube and 5x5 Cube.
You have to work hard to reach the 2x2 final. That is good!

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Wow, 101 competitors already! Jeez.

Sorted by best time in each event: http://web.mit.edu/timreyn/Public/Euro2012/ I'll update this periodically.