Help us British cubers!

[MorrisKid101]

Who here from Britain (or not ) thinks there aren't enough speedcubing competitions (WCA) in the UK? The Nottingham one hand just passed, and the only other speedcubing competition left this year in the UK is on June 15-16 in Cambridge. All in all, there were/are just 4 competitions in the UK this year. Shouldn't there be more? Vote in the poll so I can see what you think. Thanks everyone.

 

[DuffyEdge]

There is still UKO and maybe one earlier as well which haven't been announced yet

 

[angham]

There's also been talk of a guildford comp in august

 

[hcfong]

+If you look up the WCA website for competitions in the UK, you would have noticed that here have already been 4 competitions in the UK this year. That's more competitions in just over 4 months than in previous years in a whole year. There's a fifth one scheduled in Cambridge for June and there will be a UK Open somewhere in the autumn. And more could be on the way.

I think you should be glad that there are a bunch of very enthusiastic and committed cubers in the UK who are willing to put time and effort into organising competitions and that you have a delegate who is willing to travel throughout the country to make competitions possible. Believe me, for a country with just 1 active delegate to cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, you're really not doing that bad.

 

[ben1996123]

no, 4 is enough.

 

[jayefbe]

I'd be incredibly happy with 4 competitions a year. We're about to have the first ever competition in Oregon. There are entire regions of the USA that have never had a competition. 4 a year is a lot. And it sounds like there are a lot more than 4 in the UK.

 

[CubeRoots]

well there's been 4 already lol, and we're only 5 months in and there are a few in the pipeline. Be patient! I guess you may have got into cubing recently and just looked at the comps on wca site. theres almost 1 a month this year

 

[5BLD]

There should be loads moar, but we gotta think of who can organise, and also whether people actually want to go to all of these. Having a comp every month may get boring after a while even.

Mind you, I wouldn't mind organising a london comp at the expense of my sanity for a weekend

 

[MorrisKid101]

I didn't know there was only one delegate for the UK. If I was older, I'd love to be a delegate. The USA seems to have loads of competitions, so that was why I posted this. I'm from Birmingham (centre of England) and the competitions have been too far away for me to travel to. Besides, I'm only 13, so I ain't paying for the petrol

 

[5BLD]

You'll have to do a decent amount of competing and stuff before becoming a delegate i think. Also the USA has lots of competitions because each state is like a mini-UK hahah.

(psst... birmingham's not too far from 'ere, im thinking of maybe having a UK cube meet in france in a bit maybe...... or sticking to england may be better)

 

[scotzbhoy]

We've been very lucky recently in that a lot of people have started cubing who are willing to dedicate their time towards organising these competitions, not long before I started we got 1 comp a year, and Dan Harris was the only one who organised. Now we've got Dan S, Charlie, Chris, Laurence, Mollers, Rob and probably others I've forgotten who've organised or been involved in organising competitions. It's worth noting as well that there's less certainty regarding comps in the UK than other places, UKO is the only one which is sure to happen each year. If every UK comp occurred annually, then, by my reckoning, we'd get 13 a year.

 

[chrissyD]

There's enough already. All too far away from me but still I don't think we can complain their isn't enough competitions here.

 

[~Adam~]

If you want more competitions then arrange them yourself!

The UK has done a fantastic job of increasing the amount of competitions in the last couple of years.
Thank you everyone who has helped arrange comps and special thanks to Dan for being a crucial part of the vast majority (if not all) of them recently.

If you had made this thread a few years ago then I would've agreed but now it is redundant. Keep up the great job guys. I hope I can help contribute to competitions in the future.

 

[KongShou]

Is there like a tutorial on how to organise a comp?( YouTube would be perfect) but seriously I would organise one but have no idea where to start.

 

[JasonK]

Is there like a tutorial on how to organise a comp?( YouTube would be perfect) but seriously I would organise one but have no idea where to start.

The CubingUSA competiton guide is the only one I know of.

 

[kinch2002]

Is there like a tutorial on how to organise a comp?( YouTube would be perfect) but seriously I would organise one but have no idea where to start.

Try mine. It might even be slightly UK-specific in places
Daniel's Guide to organising a competition

 

[Toddyt1]

There's enough already. All too far away from me but still I don't think we can complain their isn't enough competitions here.

This. I would love a northeast competition.

 

[Mollerz]

This. I would love a northeast competition.

I'm at the University of Hull and I'm looking to hold a competition sometime next year.

 

[Toddyt1]

I'm at the University of Hull and I'm looking to hold a competition sometime next year.

That might be alright. I'd still have to convince someone to get me there. (I live near Newcastle).

 

[Yellowsnow98]

I think 4 is enough once they are well spread out
But once there's a comp in Northern Ireland every once in a while that I could travel to I'm happy