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I was catching a train yesterday and I started to think of how speedcubing can develop over the next years, so I sat there and thought of this...
Speedcubing somehow gets media recognition. Somebody up there realised that speedcubing can be just as, if not more, entertaining to watch as golf. Soon, World Championships in 2015 gets full sponsorship and media coverage by companies like Sky or Eurosport. It's treated as a one off, something interesting, just like Eurosport would show Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships few years ago. The coverage is done very professionally. We have a couple of commentators, with sufficient knowledge about speedcubing and interviews with former WR holders. Short clips of history of speedcubing or how cubes are made are shown every now and then. Surprisingly, the idea of speedcubing 'clicks' with the audience because of its simplicity. The idea is that anyone can grab a cube and start practising and it never really is too late unlike with other sports like football or golf. It's cheap to start and it benefits children, they learn. A few cubers follow the new path, make the speedcubing even more open and inviting, by going to schools or being interviewed on various shows on tv.
Soon after, there's more and more competitions shown on TV. Euro, UK Open, France Open, big national competitions gain sponsorship and media coverage. WCA becomes even more active institution and still remains as the main judge and decider of all the rules and competitions, just like FIFA would rule over Football.
The next World Championship in 2017 becomes revolutionary. Just like in other sports, in the WC2017 we have an international competition where countries compete against each other. Of course, everything else remains the same, but the main spotlight is stolen by teams of 10 cubers of each country, competing to be the best. Averages of each cubers are being turned into an average of their country, and they all go through rounds, towards the finals to finally reach the glory of becoming World Champions.
The idea soon becomes adapted into smaller competitions. Just like in Football, there's Champions League for the clubs and World Cup for nations, in smaller national competitions we notice that Team Solving becomes a new category. Clubs are made around UK and Europe with the best cubers around representing them. Logos, t-shirts, slogans. Speedcubing becomes very competitive and gains an extra flavour of not just competing person vs person, but group vs group.
Media is still covering competitions, kids or teenagers watching it start following their 'heroes', wanting to be like them. They join regional Rubik's clubs. They try to compete with the best.
WCA is still the main Cubing organisation. Now with its own building, works like an institute, just like UEFA or FIFA. Referees are trained even more professionally, rules are perfected, but most of all, the spirit of fair-play is still at heart of the institution.
Because of speedcubing becoming more and more recognised, so do the cubers. Promoting new cereals on tv or helping out a charity.
Now, I understand that this is just fiction. Easily to spot, most of the patterns I've taken from the idea of organised football. Of course there's many things that wouldn't ever work or wouldn't work in such ways, but just drifting away and thinking of all of this made me smile a little and I simply just wanted to share it with you.
Feel free to discuss, criticize or whatever you want to do with it haha
Speedcubing somehow gets media recognition. Somebody up there realised that speedcubing can be just as, if not more, entertaining to watch as golf. Soon, World Championships in 2015 gets full sponsorship and media coverage by companies like Sky or Eurosport. It's treated as a one off, something interesting, just like Eurosport would show Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships few years ago. The coverage is done very professionally. We have a couple of commentators, with sufficient knowledge about speedcubing and interviews with former WR holders. Short clips of history of speedcubing or how cubes are made are shown every now and then. Surprisingly, the idea of speedcubing 'clicks' with the audience because of its simplicity. The idea is that anyone can grab a cube and start practising and it never really is too late unlike with other sports like football or golf. It's cheap to start and it benefits children, they learn. A few cubers follow the new path, make the speedcubing even more open and inviting, by going to schools or being interviewed on various shows on tv.
Soon after, there's more and more competitions shown on TV. Euro, UK Open, France Open, big national competitions gain sponsorship and media coverage. WCA becomes even more active institution and still remains as the main judge and decider of all the rules and competitions, just like FIFA would rule over Football.
The next World Championship in 2017 becomes revolutionary. Just like in other sports, in the WC2017 we have an international competition where countries compete against each other. Of course, everything else remains the same, but the main spotlight is stolen by teams of 10 cubers of each country, competing to be the best. Averages of each cubers are being turned into an average of their country, and they all go through rounds, towards the finals to finally reach the glory of becoming World Champions.
The idea soon becomes adapted into smaller competitions. Just like in Football, there's Champions League for the clubs and World Cup for nations, in smaller national competitions we notice that Team Solving becomes a new category. Clubs are made around UK and Europe with the best cubers around representing them. Logos, t-shirts, slogans. Speedcubing becomes very competitive and gains an extra flavour of not just competing person vs person, but group vs group.
Media is still covering competitions, kids or teenagers watching it start following their 'heroes', wanting to be like them. They join regional Rubik's clubs. They try to compete with the best.
WCA is still the main Cubing organisation. Now with its own building, works like an institute, just like UEFA or FIFA. Referees are trained even more professionally, rules are perfected, but most of all, the spirit of fair-play is still at heart of the institution.
Because of speedcubing becoming more and more recognised, so do the cubers. Promoting new cereals on tv or helping out a charity.
Now, I understand that this is just fiction. Easily to spot, most of the patterns I've taken from the idea of organised football. Of course there's many things that wouldn't ever work or wouldn't work in such ways, but just drifting away and thinking of all of this made me smile a little and I simply just wanted to share it with you.
Feel free to discuss, criticize or whatever you want to do with it haha