Help us British cubers!
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MaeLSTRoM
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Well there's the Guildford competition coming up, but the problem with doing a competition in the south is that there aren't really many cubers there, and if you use London, venue prices rocket up.
At the moment, the majority of competitions are in the centre of England (Leicester, UKO, Notts) because its just as easy for pretty much everyone to get to, where as the other side of London presents logistic problems for people north of it, since a ticket across London tends to bump up the price. There aren't that many competitions further north because again, there's less cubers up there.
Basically guys, if you want to organise a competition somewhere, first of all go to a couple, and then do stuff like look for a venue and then go to Daniel once you have a pretty good idea of how it would work.
For now, I personally think that the /Number/ of competitions is good, but they could potentially do with being a bit more spread out geographically so that it cycles for who can get to places easier.
As for me organising again, I think I won't be doing any more this year, or at least not until October possibly. I'm thinking about doing another in Nottingham /possibly/ nearer the end of the year, and then a Nottingham and another WSMO in 2014, but it just depends how things go really.
applemobile
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I there should be less just to wind up OP. Sure it's been said, if you want more, host your own /thread.
Clarkeeyyy
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I think even more non-official comps/events would be fun. I live in Scotland and the Edinburgh open was just after I started cubing so I missed it 
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bobthegiraffemonkey
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I think even more non-official comps/events would be fun. I live in Scotland and the Edinburgh open was just after I started cubing so I missed it
If you want to go to comps it helps to not be Scottish, most of them are far away
. We should start doing some meetups around here. I'd be up for hanging out in Glasgow/maybe Edinburgh sometime, not sure how many people would turn up though.
CubezUBR
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if you think about it those people who say 4 is more than enough, not everyone can travel across the country for hours a day, so, 4 competitions in 4 different regions is no way near enough because unless you happen to live near a competition, your competitionless for the year. MORE COMPS
MaeLSTRoM
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If you want to go to comps it helps to not be Scottish, most of them are far away
Even though I would never turn up, I think that maybe you should get some meets going. Even if it just starts to help Scottish cubing expand, because more people means you're more likely to get the interest for a comp
I think you're under-estimating how much effort it actually is to run a competition. You say that 4 competitions in 4 regions isn't enough, but then if you want to come to a competition, then you should look to make the effort to go to one. You can't expect competitions to happen everywhere, because they will only occur in places where an organiser lives usually, just because of the logistics and time involved. I mean, it would be a bad idea for me to organise a competition in Scotland, but relatively easy to do one in WSM again, but then according to you I should do it in Scotland because it includes more people.
Having more competitions won't necessarily solve this problem, so if you want to go to one, you have to be at least willing to meet the effort involved to travel to one, instead of expecting them to appear around the corner from you. If anything, more competitions will just increase the numbers of competitions in the same places.
Also, I would like to point out that there is people making effort to increase the number of competitions in a year here, but everything takes time and this thread hasn't been open for that long relatively. Give it time, and things are more likely to increase than to drop off. I mean, 2013 is up to 3 British competitions already, with the 4th happening soon, and another 2 planned. This makes 6, which is twice as many as last year. It's getting there, maybe what some people in this thread need is a bit more patience.
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kinch2002
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Many of the posts in this thread make me sad.
MORE COMPS ALL THE TIME IN THE NORTH. ACTUALLY THE SOUTH TOO. AND IN MY TOWN. AND IN MY BACK GARDEN
No problem guys. I will give up my full time job and make my current part time job volunteering as a delegate and organiser into a new unpaid full time job so that I can make everybody content and well fed with competitions. Every year I will also organise 4 comps in every town in the UK so that everybody has enough comps within walking distance of their houses. They will all have 3 or 4 rounds of every event, and nobody will be asked to judge because I will do that all myself. Entry will of course be free as I will be funding everything.
p.s. Thank you to the few helpful posts in this thread.
MORE COMPS ALL THE TIME IN THE NORTH. ACTUALLY THE SOUTH TOO. AND IN MY TOWN. AND IN MY BACK GARDEN
No problem guys. I will give up my full time job and make my current part time job volunteering as a delegate and organiser into a new unpaid full time job so that I can make everybody content and well fed with competitions. Every year I will also organise 4 comps in every town in the UK so that everybody has enough comps within walking distance of their houses. They will all have 3 or 4 rounds of every event, and nobody will be asked to judge because I will do that all myself. Entry will of course be free as I will be funding everything.
p.s. Thank you to the few helpful posts in this thread.
Kirjava
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it's about god damn time
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If you want to go to comps it helps to not be Scottish, most of them are far away
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Dan, you owe me a new sarcasm detector. You just broke mine.
p.s can you arrange 2 comps in Guildford this Summer? It's nice and close for me =)
a thread was started asking our opinion so we have given them, i dont think everyone expects you to organise every competition in the country, there should be more people helping.
We just want competitions we can actually get to which i think is a reasonable thing to want and doesn't warrant a sarcastic response.
Kirjava
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There are way more brit comps than there used to be.
we understand that and it's great but more would still be nice as they can be hard to get to for a lot of people
Kirjava
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lots of things would be nice
MaeLSTRoM
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I have no problem with your opinion, I have a problem with these statements. And I'm not being sarcastic at all.
If you really wanted to go to a competition, then save up the money to be able to travel and stay there, and also ask around for people to share with etc. I would say that pretty much everyone can get to at least one competition per year, whether it's through saving, or a deal with parents, or however.
Are you really saying that the only thing stopping you from competing is the inability to get there? If so, why is it a problem for you? Just for comparison, I usually spend up to £30 on travel to a competition, then hotels are usually around £50-£60. You can do a competition on £100 or less most of the time, and I think that amount isn't unreasonable to save up.
The reason I keep responding, is because I want to help you be able to come to competitions, but you keep defaulting to the same reasoning, which is fair enough if you have a reason for it, but constantly saying the same things over and over just makes you seem awkward more than anything else, which is what I think the reason for Daniel's long post on the previous page was.
yockee
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We really need a Manchester comp. They're always down South and I can never go.
Unless your actually gonna give up your job and do that then yes it was.
i also haven't constantly said the same thing, i think i've said it twice and it's a pretty good reason as i work a lot and cant take much holiday so having to stay overnight doesn't really work and i'm not the only one. Also saying its only £100 when including food and entry can easily be £150 which is really hard to save up for a lot of people, i'm not saying hey you do more comps i'm just saying it would be cool if the uk had more and they were more spread out. and i'm also not telling you to do it so i don't really see your problem with me saying it..
i also haven't constantly said the same thing, i think i've said it twice and it's a pretty good reason as i work a lot and cant take much holiday so having to stay overnight doesn't really work and i'm not the only one. Also saying its only £100 when including food and entry can easily be £150 which is really hard to save up for a lot of people, i'm not saying hey you do more comps i'm just saying it would be cool if the uk had more and they were more spread out. and i'm also not telling you to do it so i don't really see your problem with me saying it..
~Adam~
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Leicester, Nottingham and Edinburgh and too far south for you?
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