Lawrence Spring Open 2015 (Kansas, USA)

shadowkiller168 said:
First of all, I would like to say that I am proud of what you guys are doing, and you have my full support! You are all accomplishing exactly what my goal was to begin with: getting some people to take the initiative to get some comps throughout the USA (more specifically central USA).

If you need any help planning this, do not hesitate to contact me.

What I would suggest doing is (before you contact the delegate) have an outline of the events you want to have, the schedule, and the general time frame of when you want to host it. Also have some venues in mind.

Send a delegate (ANY USA delegate will do as many are willing to fly) your proposal and hope for the best. It might not be on the exact date that you want, but it might have to do. Just be reasonable on the date. Something like Easter Sunday would not be a good idea.

If anyone needs any additional advice, don't hesitate to contact me.
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Thank you! I am glad that you are onboard. Yeah, you don't even know how excited I was when I saw the first Lawrence thread after not being able to start a comp up and seeing that there were none within 4 hours away. I am glad that KC finally has comps now, so thank you for sparking up interest.

Thank you for offering to help, I am sure that we will definitely need some of it with whatever it may be.

As of dates, we don't really have any yet, but were just thinking some time this summer like June or July especially since I assume you will be doing another comp in the fall once school starts up again (Am I correct on this?). For events, I don't really know what Dan would like to do, but I think we should just play it safe and do standard ones, these are what I would like (2x2, 3x3, 4x4, Pyra, Skewb, 3BLD, and then like one or two more) do you have any requests?

biscuit said:
Yeah lets not shoot for Easter Sunday :p or any Sunday as I can't do Sundays

Should we continue this here or start a new thread? I feel like a new thread would be in order. Or at least on the KCubing thread
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Yeah, I am out of town on Easter anyway, plus that would be too early to try to plan either way. I am sure it will just be on a Saturday.

Yeah, I plan to make another thread, but I would like to talk to Dan more and figure some stuff out before I do. I'll give it a week or two.
 
How long would 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, pyra, skewb, and 3bld take? I would say OH maybe 6x6 (although I am more in favor of 5x5 as that's what I will have and it won't be as long) but definitely OH
 
Aussie said:
1 or 2 rounds of 6x6! :D By the way, I'd love to help. But because I am so far away, I probably wouldn't be of much use.
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We'll see how 6x6 goes at Lawrence, but I do like 6x6 so it is an option.

biscuit said:
How long would 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, pyra, skewb, and 3bld take? I would say OH maybe 6x6 (although I am more in favor of 5x5 as that's what I will have and it won't be as long) but definitely OH
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Yeah, OH would be pretty cool. Also, I'll try to remember for us not to do it the first week of July.
 
Rocky0701 said:
Cutoffs are times that you have to be under in order to do that event, The purpose of cutoffs is to make sure the comp doesn't take forever. It isn't used for short events like 3x3 because even if you are slow it doesn't take long. There are soft cutoffs and hard cutoffs. If you do a solve and can't make the soft cutoff then your solve and average is DNFd, but if you make the soft cutoff but not the hard cutoff you have one more solve to be under the hard cutoff or the average is DNFd
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You are basically correct except you switched the Soft and Hard cutoffs. If you go over the Hard Cutoff, its a DNF. If you don't get under the Soft Cutoff in the solves required (2 for 5 solves and 1 for 3 solves), then you don't get to complete your average.

shadowkiller168 said:
What I would suggest doing is (before you contact the delegate) have an outline of the events you want to have, the schedule, and the general time frame of when you want to host it. Also have some venues in mind.
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Usually you have a general idea in your head already with what you want at the competition (events and venue) but yea you don't need a finalized version because it will most likely change when talking with the delegate.

shadowkiller168 said:
Send a delegate (ANY USA delegate will do as many are willing to fly) your proposal and hope for the best. It might not be on the exact date that you want, but it might have to do. Just be reasonable on the date. Something like Easter Sunday would not be a good idea.
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I would highly recommend not asking any delegate until you have talked to all of the closer delegates first. (and don't annoy them constantly if they don't reply right away. They have lives outside of cubing :p ) Also being lenient and having many options on dates will give a more likely chance of it working out.
 
TheDubDubJr said:
I would highly recommend not asking any delegate until you have talked to all of the closer delegates first. (and don't annoy them constantly if they don't reply right away. They have lives outside of cubing :p ) Also being lenient and having many options on dates will give a more likely chance of it working out.
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I probably should have clarified, but I just had Dan's statement of "all the local delegates are busy" and I wanted to emphasize that you don't have to be restricted to locals.

Rocky0701 said:
Thank you! I am glad that you are onboard. Yeah, you don't even know how excited I was when I saw the first Lawrence thread after not being able to start a comp up and seeing that there were none within 4 hours away. I am glad that KC finally has comps now, so thank you for sparking up interest.

As of dates, we don't really have any yet, but were just thinking some time this summer like June or July especially since I assume you will be doing another comp in the fall once school starts up again (Am I correct on this?). For events, I don't really know what Dan would like to do, but I think we should just play it safe and do standard ones, these are what I would like (2x2, 3x3, 4x4, Pyra, Skewb, 3BLD, and then like one or two more) do you have any requests?.
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KC hasn't had a comp since 2009. lel.

I'm likely going to do one or two comps during the summer, just not at my school. That's where things get a little more complicated as I've tried to find venues, but they were either too small or were huge wedding banquets or something. I'm still looking. I would be unsure about the dates though.

Personally, I don't think there's any need to play it safe in terms of events. I already did that for you with Lawrence Open 2014. That comp was the "testing the waters" comp. Feel free to have a few uncommon events. If you need some suggestions on uncommon events, try 7x7, Fewest Moves, 3x3 Feet, Square-1, 4/5/MBLD (If there's enough people for it) or Rubik's Clock. (Just to clarify, despite my dislike of Clock as stated earlier in the thread, I don't care if someone else hosts it.)

As for requests: Megaminx. I love me some Megaminx.
 
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shadowkiller168 said:
I probably should have clarified, but I just had Dan's statement of "all the local delegates are busy" and I wanted to emphasize that you don't have to be restricted to locals.



KC hasn't had a comp since 2009. lel.

I'm likely going to do one or two comps during the summer, just not at my school. That's where things get a little more complicated as I've tried to find venues, but they were either too small or were huge wedding banquets or something. I'm still looking. I would be unsure about the dates though.

Personally, I don't think there's any need to play it safe in terms of events. I already did that for you with Lawrence Open 2014. That comp was the "testing the waters" comp. Feel free to have a few uncommon events. If you need some suggestions on uncommon events, try 7x7, Fewest Moves, 3x3 Feet, Square-1, 4/5/MBLD (If there's enough people for it) or Rubik's Clock. (Just to clarify, despite my dislike of Clock as stated earlier in the thread, I don't care if someone else hosts it.)

As for requests: Megaminx. I love me some Megaminx.
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Dang, it's about time for a KC comp then :)

Oh, awesome. The more local comps the better IMO. You could try like a middle or elementary school gym maybe.

4BLD sounds like it would be really awesome to me out of that list, I just need to learn how to do it first haha.

I do like Megaminx, but probably wouldn't want to do it since you hosted it at the last comp, and will be hosting it at this one.
 
So I went and signed up but it says "Your registration is not complete until you pay the registration fee of $14.00 via PayPal." I can pay at the door at the same price as long as I have signed up online correct?
 
biscuit said:
So I went and signed up but it says "Your registration is not complete until you pay the registration fee of $14.00 via PayPal." I can pay at the door at the same price as long as I have signed up online correct?
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I had the same problem because I don't have a paypal. I don't remember how I found it, but I found that you could just pay with a debit/credit card so I just paid with my Dad's visa.
 
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