Online Cubing Competition

[CubingCompetitions]

Alright guys, I am starting an online cubing competition website with puzzles not usually speedcubed in competitions. there will be 10 events every 2 months and there will be prizes for the top in each. Registration is 2 dollars. The prizes are Trajber's Octahedron or QJ dodecahedron 3x3x3. if you win 2 events, you get both!!! Sorry but no more than 2 prizes won is allowed. For instructions on how to enter, visit www.cubingcompetition.webs.com If you have any questions contact me. The events will be different for every competition and there will be 6 per year, if there is a lot of participation, the price for registering will drop to 1 dollar. Please post your questions and comments. Anyway, you can register from now till may 20th and then start submitting videos.

 

[CubingCompetitions]

alright, i was planning for this to be a may-june competition, please register soon or I will have to cancel it. this is going to be a really fun competition and a chance to win 2 awesome puzzles!!!

 

[Dene]

The problem is, it isn't really worth entering unless you have a good chance at winning, which not many people do.

 

[Faz]

And if you have to pay.

 

[TheMachanga]

Not in.

 

[martin8768]

http://cubemania.org

 

[CubingCompetitions]

guys, you don't have to post here just to say you don't want to enter, this is supposed to be a fun competition, I am just getting it off the ground. future competitions will only be 1 dollar and the prizes will get better, however, this will never happen if I don't get some people that are willing to be in the first few competitions, I hope some of you like this idea. I have also advertised on the twistypuzzle forum and if anyone knows where else I should advertise, I would appreciate it.

 

[CubingCompetitions]

@martin 8768, this site has no prizes, or any motivation to enter and win, although it looks like a fun site, for our competitions you will get a prize!

 

[PatrickJameson]

@martin 8768, this site has no prizes, or any motivation to enter and win, although it looks like a fun site, for our competitions you will get a prize!

No motivation? Racing is not only a fun way to practice, as opposed to solving on you own, it also helps you get better, and possibly helps to get rid of some of the nerves involved with competing in actual WCA competitions.

Like said above, this is silly to enter unless you have a good chance of winning. Everyone else would and should just join competitions like those on cubemania.org if they wish to compete.

There's a good chance that your main motivation is that you would just like to make a few extra bucks while doing this, as well.

Also, who are you? I don't really like the anonymity of this whole thing.

 

[riffz]

Okay so basically, only the top cubers in the world will bother to enter (if they read this thread and are willing to pay to enter). Combine that with the fact that you can just practice the scrambles over and over until they aren't legitimate solves and its not much of a fun competition.

 

[04mucklowd]

I might do it when the exchange rate is better

 

[IamWEB]

You would have be on webcam with the competitor as they receive the scrambles, reading out the moves to them to make it that much harder to give the scrambles to someone else, and watch them do every solve while you judge them, just to ensure that they don't cheat.
Preventing cheating is too much a burden to do this all successfully every 2 months.

 

[amostay2004]

We should assign 1 person from this forum to join and win it.

Then donate the prizes to competitions or sell them and donate the profit to this forum

 

[CubingCompetitions]

Ok guys, I really don't like the negative response, but I'm not afraid of a bunch of people that get mad easy. so if you guys want to ask some legit questions instead of trying to bash us, I would appreciate it. in response to some of your comments, no, competitors will not be able to practice the scrambles as qqrewf from twistypuzzles is making a random scramble generator. secondly, if you don't like me being anonymous, my name is Elijah Cross and I am ENCuber on twistypuzzles. Evan Jennings, Ezra Kelly and Luke Benjii are all helping me get started. for those of you who are worried about me trying to scam you: this is going to cost me some personal money trying to get started, if you don't want to enter, that's fine, I respect that totally. but that's not going to stop me from trying to do this competition, I have received a positive response on other forums, but hey more cynics on this site i guess lol. but anyway, if you just want to be irate and be a noob, find a politician to pick on, but if you have serious questions, comments, or suggestions, that's what I would like to hear.

 

[CubingCompetitions]

oops, forgot something, the events will be different every competition, and the puzzles won't always be commonly speedsolved ones, so people who aren't amazing still have a chance. and competitors are only allowed to win 2 at the max, so second place people still have a chance to get a prize, eventually I'm hoping 1st second and third places will all get prizes.

 

[Cyrus C.]

I don't see how random scrambles prevent cheating. They just make it more unfair.

 

[CubingCompetitions]

well they make it so no one can practice them, and the time recorded is mean of 3 not single solves, if that clears up anything.

 

[Dene]

I don't think anyone was mad. We were all giving you reasoned responses detailing why we have no interest whatsoever. Don't hate on us for trying to talk you out of wasting your money.

 

[Deleted member 4527]

very impractical idea. no point paying if you can compete for free...

 

[abr71310]

And, you still have to pay.
:S

Make the first ones free, still with prizes - if you get a loyal consumer base, then people will come to pay... hopefully.