Possible cuber trading cards

[pcharles93]

I just got off the phone with the Upper Deck trading card company and they agreed to think over my idea of cuber trading cards. It will have a picture of the cuber, competitions participated in, nationality, best average, best single, any records, and in the corner a picture of their favorite cube. If you have any other suggestions, post them below.

 

[Dene]

How would the cards be distributed? Who would decide what figures go on the card (for example, Krazy Kuti and Mr. Akkersdijk would have way too many records to put on there)?

A possible idea could be different cards, with a different photo on each, for the same person with all 3x3x3 records, and 4x4x4 records etc. So, for 3x3x3 you could have single, average, BLD, multiBLD, OH feet etc. Then a 4x4x4 card with whatever, a FMC card or whatever. Or, how about, all FMC cards are extra "rare" and come all shiny and stuff!!!

 

[Lucas Garron]

Heard of Cubefreak cards?

 

[rubiks to the third]

cubing is a fast past sport bro, the best average and single are changing constantly

 

[LarsN]

The problem of the everchanging results could be solved if the cards where marked with the competition name:

Erik Akkersdijk
Benelux 2008
3x3: xx.xx
3x3avg: xx.xx
and so on and so forth...

 

[Harris Chan]

And we can duel with it...there's the "cube" cards (with like: "Turning speed", "Colour scheme", etc). And lube cards, to increase the speed of the cube

Oh and, you can "sacrifice" cubers to summon and higher level cuber xD

 

[Dene]

Ooooh. And, sub-1 BLD beats sub-20 normal solve. Sounds like fun!

 

[slncuber21]

lol, we r such nerds jk

 

[ExoCorsair]

Trading cards [game] or collectible cards?

 

[pcharles93]

They're supposed to be collectible, like baseball cards.

 

[pjk]

Sounds good. Similar to the Cubefreak cards. However, Upper Deck is a pretty major company. I have collected sports cards pretty much my entire life (http://www.pjkcubed.com - click on picture gallery for some pics), and some of Upper Deck's products are worth thousands. Not sure if you guys are familiar, but they have "game used" cards, such as a piece of jersey inside the card. I doubt it would ever work because speedcubing is so small, but still fun.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

And we can duel with it...there's the "cube" cards (with like: "Turning speed", "Colour scheme", etc). And lube cards, to increase the speed of the cube

Oh and, you can "sacrifice" cubers to summon and higher level cuber xD

OLLs and PLLs could be magic and trap cards! :O :O :O :O

 

[Jason]

with stuff like "PLL skip, everyone else takes full damage"

 

[Bryan]

I just got off the phone with the Upper Deck trading card company and they agreed to think over my idea of cuber trading cards.

Saying they "Agree to think it over" is just a way of saying "No" that prevents you from trying to continue to argue with them.

I like the Cubefreak cards. It would be nice if you could get your own made up to trade at comps, and maybe it could fund nationals or something.

 

[Rama]

And we can duel with it...there's the "cube" cards (with like: "Turning speed", "Colour scheme", etc). And lube cards, to increase the speed of the cube

Oh and, you can "sacrifice" cubers to summon and higher level cuber xD

OLLs and PLLs could be magic and trap cards! :O :O :O :O

I bought for 50 euro's a very great deck from a friend and another 50 euro for booster packs.
After a while I still needed Fiber Jar and Injection Fairy and I bought my last two boosters, guess wich rare cards I got^^
I got second place at an competition and then I quit and two weeks later 50% of my rare cards were stolen and I didn't even mind.

Yu-gi-oh was fun, but no other card game/collecting for me anymore.

 

[Dene]

Pff, we all know that Pokemon was the greatest card game ever...

 

[AvGalen]

And we can duel with it...there's the "cube" cards (with like: "Turning speed", "Colour scheme", etc). And lube cards, to increase the speed of the cube

Oh and, you can "sacrifice" cubers to summon and higher level cuber xD

I just found a reason to really start practising 3x3x3. I don't want to be sacrificed

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

And we can duel with it...there's the "cube" cards (with like: "Turning speed", "Colour scheme", etc). And lube cards, to increase the speed of the cube

Oh and, you can "sacrifice" cubers to summon and higher level cuber xD

OLLs and PLLs could be magic and trap cards! :O :O :O :O

I bought for 50 euro's a very great deck from a friend and another 50 euro for booster packs.
After a while I still needed Fiber Jar and Injection Fairy and I bought my last two boosters, guess wich rare cards I got^^
I got second place at an competition and then I quit and two weeks later 50% of my rare cards were stolen and I didn't even mind.

Yu-gi-oh was fun, but no other card game/collecting for me anymore.

I actually quit because 4 of my rares were stolen...
Dark Magician Of Chaos
Axe Of Despair
Negate Attack
Breaker The Magical Warrior

 

[Jai]

I just knew talking about trading cards would spark a discussion about something like Yu-Gi-Oh...

Speedcubing cards wouldn't sell that well; though people think of a guy solving a cube as amazing, they think of cubing as geeky. And making cards would make the problem even worse. Crave (crave.cnet.com) would probably make an article about us, and about what a failure they were

On the other hand, it could get some of the faster cubers a lot of fame,and could possibly get crazy fangirls to scream and faint (in a good way ).

But, then, the slower cubers with cards would get a bad name...

Wait , are we going to make it a trading card game, or just a series of trading cards? Making it a game would make it look kinda cheesy, like it does whenever you see teens playing Yu-Gi-Oh these days. But, it'd be kinda fun to see all the names they come up with (Akkerdijk the Dark Knight ).

 

[AvGalen]

As Stefan has pointed out before: Arnaud van gAlen => Arnaud the Angel (anagram)