MIT Spring 2012: Big 2-day competition

[Tim Reynolds]

Alex Mason and I are graduating from MIT next Spring, so we thought that we should hold a big 2-day competition for our last MIT competition. Our proposed date is February 18-19, 2012, which is Saturday/Sunday of Presidents Day weekend. We plan to hold nearly every event (probably everything but feet), and we'd like to see a huge turnout. If this does happen, I'll contact the hotel we used during Nationals about getting another group rate. Some questions:

Would you go? Especially people not from the northeast.

Would you prefer having main events one day (Saturday or Sunday?) and side events the other, or first rounds on Saturday, finals on Sunday?

Any other weekends you think would generally work better? I can't think of anything better than a 3-day weekend, but I suppose people might have conflicts.

There aren't many 2-day competitions in the US, so I'd like to see some responses before we decide anything. I have 2 venue ideas in mind, but I'm going to wait to book until we're sure.

Oh, and MIT Fall 2011 is on DECEMBER 17. Tell your friends.

 

[Owen]

Wow. I wanna go.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Woah, planning ahead.

I might go if I don't have a ball that weekend and airfares are good. (Actually, never mind, I might still go even if there is a ball; it's always held at Hyatt Regency SFO.)

 

[StachuK1992]

Sounds fun; attendance for me is dependent on finding a cheapish place to crash.
That being said, I'd love to, and probably would.

 

[MichaelP.]

*Hopeful*

 

[Specs112]

Yes, definitely.

 

[That70sShowDude]

Sounds awesome and I really want to try to go.

 

[LouisCormier]

I'll try to go even though we don't have a holiday on that day.

 

[pelley]

Awesome, love the idea!

 

[cuBerBruce]

It's quite awhile from now, but as of right now, I would definitely plan on being there.

 

[Micael]

I am sorry, I know I am redundant with this, but will you hold multi? And what about MIT fall (regarding multi)?

 

[Tim Reynolds]

We don't know much about MIT fall yet. Suggestions for events are welcome. I'll take the above as a suggestion for multi blind.

Yes, multi will be held at MIT spring. Possibly best-of-2, not sure yet.

Cool, people like this idea. I'll start making some plans. If more than like 150 competitors are gonna come (hard to tell at this point), then we'll look into a bigger venue at MIT. More info will follow.

But if you're planning on coming or have opinions on any of the questions from the first post, you should still say so, a lot is still up in the air.

 

[a small kitten]

You'll probably see me there.

 

[Anthony]

It would be great to have a really big US comp other than Nats for once. :3
As long as it doesn't conflict with anything important, I'll definitely go.

 

[StachuK1992]

I think I'll just drop off some of the better L2E F2L cases here. (10 or less moves)
[F L U L; F2]
X (U M U' R') (U' M' U R) x'
x (M' U M) U2 (M' U M) x'
x M2 U' M' U2 M U' M2 x'
x [R2 U'; M] U M' U' x'
x (M' U' M) U2 (M' U' M) x'
[U' L' F'; U2] (R U2 R')
U2 (R U2 R') U' [L' F'; U2]
F U2 (R U' R') L F L' U2 F'
U' [R F; U] U' (L' U' L)
x M2 U (M' U2 M) U M2 x'
[R' D'; F'] U (R U R')
[U' L'; U] [R F; U']
[L2 F' U2 L2; U2]
F U (R U R') (L F' L') U' F'

 

[nlCuber22]

Frequent Flyer points will do this for me.

 

[deathbypapercutz]

I was thinking about dropping out of school to become a transvestite with a peg leg, but I'll stay just for this.

 

[timspurfan]

Hopefully will be able to make this one. Seems like its going to be awesome!

 

[bigbee99]

I'll be there, it definitely sounds like a lot of fun!

 

[IamWEB]

I would definitely go if

Spoiler

it was in Texas.