Events for Melbourne Summer Open 2011?

[Faz]

You didn't see the balcony? :fp

If aron comes, it'll be 2 rounds

 

[Zane_C]

2 is better.

Huh? How many rounds of 2x2 do you mean? I think 0 is enough.

That made me laugh and Dene we have to be having big cubes BLD if Aron is coming.

 

[RCTACameron]

There were only 2 people who got successful blindsolves at MCD, so having a final if there are only 2 or 3 people who qualify for it would be a bit pointless. However, there are a lot of people who enter 2x2.

Edit: Maybe:

Sunday
9:00 – 9:45 4x4BLD
9:45 – 10:15 3x3 round 2
10:15- 10:45 2x2 round 1
10:45 – 11:45 Multi BLD
11:45 – 12:15 OH round 2
12:15- 12:30 2x2 round 2
12:30 – 1:00 Megaminx final
1:00 – 1:30 lunch
1:30 – 2:00 BLD round 1
2:00 - 2:30 square-1 final
2:30 – 2:45 pyraminx final
2:45 – 3:00 2x2 final
3:00 – 3:15 OH final
3:15 – 3:30 BLD final
3:30 – 3:45 5x5 final
3:45- 4:00 4x4 final
4:00 onwards 3x3 final

And if we less than 4 people with BLD successes, we can move everything back half an hour, have half an hour more lunch, or have 15 minutes more lunch and move everything back 15 minutes.

 

[Alcuber]

I don't really think we need FMC. It takes an hour and no one really likes it. If not enough people get a BLD sucess we could do unnoficial events.

 

[Faz]

No, the point of having multiBLD after lunch, and only having a 30min lunch was to let everyone have a longer lunch.

 

[RCTACameron]

I agree with no FMC, and UO events could always be during lunch. It just depends how many people would be interested in them (probably not many.)

Edit: Okay Faz, but what about the finals at the end? I think BLD, 5, 4 is better than 4, BLD, 5.

Edit again: How about moving lunch and multi back half an hour and putting sq-1 finals between multi and pyra? I guess it wouldn't make much difference anyway.

 

[Alcuber]

I agree with no FMC, and UO events could always be during lunch. It just depends how many people would be interested in them (probably not many.)

So it wouldn't take too long.

 

[Faz]

Unofficial events... like skewb?

Don't expect Tim or anyone to do anything. If you want to hold an unofficial event, you print off your own scrambles, and get your own scorecards.

 

[Dene]

I think you guys are talking way too much about a schedule when Tim has barely even thought about this competition. Anyway, Dene will iron out any problems closer to the date.

 

[RCTACameron]

Okay, I'll leave the schedule ideas until January.

 

[TimMc]

We'll try to sort out the schedule before the 20th of December 2010. o.O

4 people doing mbf, bf4 and bf5 which will take about 3 hours. These might be best kept at the start of each day and just before lunch so that we can still do something. If there's going to be a low number of competitors, it might be worth while having another event at the same time. Will this be a big distraction? Are competitors in mbf/bf4/bf5 doing every event? O.o

We could also have rounds with 75% of the previous competitors to increase overall participation. So 40 -> 30 -> 20? What's more fun/appealing?

Tim.

 

[Dene]

My guess is that those doing multi and bigcubes bld are also doing the other events. If possible, the best option is to have them at the very start of the day and they just have to put up with people coming in for registration. This is what Jimmy did at Ohio Open 2009.

Having more people in rounds suits me but it means we couldn't do the format we did for the finals last week.

 

[Faz]

Sounds good, but as I suggested, have 2x2 and 3x3 round 1 on separate days so that people show up for both days

 

[Tim Major]

5:00 onwards throwing water bottles off the balcony

2 rounds please

On a more serious note, I say screw 6x6 and 7x7. We've had it at the last 2 comps. I'd say Megaminx, but there's no real super devoted minxers here are there?
I voted everything except 6x6 and 7x7 (for events I'd compete in).

Edit:

I don't really think we need FMC. It takes an hour and no one really likes it.

~COUGH~.
Ranking unofficial events above FMC? gtfo.
Also, we need big cubes bld, the OcR right now is terrible

 

[Dene]

At MCD:

BLD: 7 people
FMC: 6 people
Multi: 4 people

6x6: 7 people
7x7: 6 people

Just sayin.

 

[Tim Major]

At MCD:

BLD: 7 people
FMC: 6 people
Multi: 4 people

6x6: 7 people
7x7: 6 people

Just sayin.

At MCD
FMC
Multi
6x6
7x7

At Aus Nats.
Multi
6x6
7x7

Multi, 6x6 and 7x7 have had their turn
Anyway, BLD and FMC had the same amount of people as 6x6 and 7x7. Just sayin. (ie: your point has no real validity)

 

[RCTACameron]

I won't be doing FMC again, and obviously Arnaud won't be there, so I'd say if there was FMC, you'd get 4 or 5 competing.

 

[TimMc]

6x6 and 7x7
Faz was a few seconds away from WR on 6x6 lol. Want just one round of it?

UOE
I'd like to see: Skewb, Helicopter Cube, Gear Cube. We could devote a bit of time toward them, perhaps during bf4/bf5 and mbf.

Round Capacity
We might run each round of 3x3 with 25% less instead of the standard x->16->8. Would it encourage more competitors to come along if they've a higher chance of proceeding to the next round?

I'm not sure how well it'll go down if 75% of 3x3 round 1 have to wait until the second day. Do we want to encourage them to come to both days? Is it inconvenient for parents?

If the majority of parents are happier having it on one day instead of two, we could reduce the number of events. That's if the majority of competitors have parents bringing them to the competition, which I assume is the case. Then again, it's the last weekend of summer holidays.

Schedule
We could run events with very few competitors at the start of the day, at the end of the day, and just before breaks. This would allow the majority of competitors to wander off and have a longer lunch, longer breaks, and go home early on the first day.

Tim.

 

[Zane_C]

Perhaps it may be more convenient if the first 2 rounds of 3x3 were in the first day?

 

[RCTACameron]

6x6 and 7x7
Faz was a few seconds away from WR on 6x6 lol. Want just one round of it?

1 round of 6x6 and 7x7 is probably best imo.

UOE
I'd like to see: Skewb, Helicopter Cube, Gear Cube. We could devote a bit of time toward them, perhaps during bf4/bf5 and mbf.

Just if anyone wants it, here is a WCA style skewb scrambler. I doubt there would be this sort of thing for the others, though.

Round Capacity
We might run each round of 3x3 with 25% less instead of the standard x->16->8. Would it encourage more competitors to come along if they've a higher chance of proceeding to the next round?

I already feel encouraged, because I could get into the finals, so probably worth a try if you think you can fit that many people in without slowing down the schedule.

I'm not sure how well it'll go down if 75% of 3x3 round 1 have to wait until the second day. Do we want to encourage them to come to both days? Is it inconvenient for parents?

If the majority of parents are happier having it on one day instead of two, we could reduce the number of events. That's if the majority of competitors have parents bringing them to the competition, which I assume is the case. Then again, it's the last weekend of summer holidays.

I think if parents are supportive enough to go for one day, and their child qualifies for events in the second day, they would come along anyway. Edit: Zane's idea is probably good.