Potential for cubing to be on TV?

Wouldn't cubing be one of those "popular" activities which later turns out to be overrated?
Just like the music industry (that stupid popular garbage on the radio).
 
If you want to make cubing popular you need some events that are mass oriented for example: elimination tournaments, one on one or team solving, countries VS countries! Make pro cubers that earn a lot of money from sponsors like nike and addidas. And bring cubing to olympic games! When there is target shooting I think we also have some place for cubing!
 
Enter said:
Make pro cubers that earn a lot of money from sponsors like nike and addidas. And bring cubing to olympic games!
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No. Just no.
Cubing really isn't much of a sport anyway. It should not be a way to earn money. Cubing is supposed to be fun, and even competitions are not competitive in the way that sports in the Olympics are.
 
Enter said:
If you want to make cubing popular you need some events that are mass oriented for example: elimination tournaments, one on one or team solving, countries VS countries! Make pro cubers that earn a lot of money from sponsors like nike and addidas. And bring cubing to olympic games! When there is target shooting I think we also have some place for cubing!
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Or we can just continue to let cubing be what it is: something fun to do.
 
uberCuber said:
Or we can just continue to let cubing be what it is: something fun to do.
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I totally agree with you I would not like to see commercial cubing! All the algorithms would be top secret no one would share information and make tutorials :D And a lot of cubing schools would emerge with personal cubing trainers!
 
today i went around the mall and asked people if they would watch people solve rubiks cubes. i got cursed at told to **** off but in the end i came up with this. 12 people would watch a half an hour program. 43 would not. 10 would watch for an hour 45 would not. doesnt seem so popular...
 
TheMachanga said:
They have the spelling bee on espn, why not Worlds?
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Because people can relate to the spelling of words, given that they've done so countless times in their lives.

I don't think it'd work out well for cubing, honestly, because the novelty of seeing something done so quickly that most people find impressive will likely become monotonous over time.
 
Kian said:
Because people can relate to the spelling of words, given that they've done so countless times in their lives.

I don't think it'd work out well for cubing, honestly, because the novelty of seeing something done so quickly that most people find impressive will likely become monotonous over time.
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I would mostly agree to that, although a one hour time slot, possibly 11pm or midnight for only once a year(Nationals), doesn't seem too monotonous.
 
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