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I made a thread about this on the WCA forum, decided to also post it here.
The speedcubing community generally seems to disagree with the idea of speedcubing being more like a traditional sport.
I think it’s a great idea though, growing speedcubing will always be a good thing.
However, there are a lot of things that need to be done before this.
The main thing that needs to be done is to make it be spectator friendly. Competitions as they are now are not. My idea is making a couple of types of competitions. There doesn’t have to be only one official type; multiple of these could be official, just different versions of competitions.
My ideas:
What do you guys think?
The speedcubing community generally seems to disagree with the idea of speedcubing being more like a traditional sport.
I think it’s a great idea though, growing speedcubing will always be a good thing.
However, there are a lot of things that need to be done before this.
The main thing that needs to be done is to make it be spectator friendly. Competitions as they are now are not. My idea is making a couple of types of competitions. There doesn’t have to be only one official type; multiple of these could be official, just different versions of competitions.
My ideas:
- A Public Competition: This is just a standard WCA comp, where you have rounds. In the first round, anyone can compete. Top x qualify for Round 2, and top x qualify for finals (unless the comp has more rounds). Finals should be head to head and live-streamed for most events, like 2-7, as well as 3Bld, Pyra, Mega, Skewb, Clock, Sq-1, and OH. The problem is that finals might take too long, but there is a simple solution: just have less people qualify for finals. For example, instead having the top 16 make finals for 7x7, just take the top 4, or 6. (Unless you have enough time.)
Because this keeps comps open to the public and not only for the elite solvers, I think this is an idea that would be fairly popular, and it is already happening in some places. (Most comps that I go to, in the Bay Area, California, are live-streamed and have head to head finals. They do only have head to head finals for 3x3 though.) - Nation vs. Nation: This is just a country, making a team of the best cubers in the country, competing against another country, head to head, in a relay. This could be only 3x3, like the Nations Cup, or have different competitors solving different types cubes/puzzles. This has proven to be something that is very spectator friendly, as the Nations Cup has generally been really exiting to watch when it has taken place at major comps.
- Cuber vs. Cuber: This would be like the monkey league. Cubers who qualify will compete head to head against each other to find the league champion. I’m not going to explain the format now, read it here.
What do you guys think?
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