Texas Speedcubing

Ahem. Bump.
Don't expect great news from this post, I'm not making some competition announcement or anything.

I'm just checking in with hopes that Texas cubers are still active enough to see this.

Is anyone around capable of producing a competition in the near future? I'm willing to help with anything in the Dallas area. When (if :() I have more time to dedicate to doing things like securing a venue (Dallas Open 2011's venue, though small) + delegate (ohi, J-Fly) + rent equipment, I'd love to help revamp the competition scene around here.

However, currently I don't that I could do these things myself in the very near future, so I'm posting here to see if anyone else is. I'm wondering if anyone has anything in the works, or the potential to get something going. Hopefully... maybe, just maybe, we can produce a competition or two before Nationals.

BASICALLY, are you guys alive?
 
i live (so yes i'm alive at least) in the austin area so i wouldn't be of much help securing a dallas comp but i'd love to have one soon. I've been trying to decide whether or not to organize a comp here in austin but it just seems like a buttload of work and i honestly don't know what to do to start that process.
 
Think we can set up a san antonio, texas competition? There has NEVER been one here and if you can''t do san antonio I can ask my Dad to drive me to Austin. He actually works in Austin. Email me if interested, Email: [email protected]

Yeah, Texas needs a competition this year in 2012!
 
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My roommate is from Denton, TX, and he can solve a Rubik's Cube! However, he doesn't speedcube. I think having me in the room doing hundreds of solves a day was a turn off or something haha
 
Granted I'm not too busy starting college this semester, I'm still very interested in having a Dallas Open 2012 later this year. Nothing large scale; I'm interested in using The Toy Maven again (venue from Dallas '11). No promises though.
Perhaps there's hope for a San Antonio competition instead or as well, but I wouldn't be leading that organization so I don't want to speak for anyone else or make any promises there either.

I just hope I have the time, because I really don't want to have another year between competing. Maybe some cool Texan will appear out of thin air and setup something.

Happy cubing!
 
IamWEB said:
Granted I'm not too busy starting college this semester, I'm still very interested in having a Dallas Open 2012 later this year. Nothing large scale; I'm interested in using The Toy Maven again (venue from Dallas '11). No promises though.
Perhaps there's hope for a San Antonio competition instead or as well, but I wouldn't be leading that organization so I don't want to speak for anyone else or make any promises there either.

I just hope I have the time, because I really don't want to have another year between competing. Maybe some cool Texan will appear out of thin air and setup something.

Happy cubing!
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wow someone actually posted on this thread. first off, i like the idea of that competition but if you do end up organizing it try not to have it be at the toy maven again. that was ridiculous it was so cramped. if you can see about getting some other venue like a school or church that would be much better. i'd personally love to organize one here in austin and use my church as a venue but i just don't have enough time between school, work, extra-curriculars, and social life. i barely have time to post this on the forum right now.
 
I'm not going to announce anything right now, but there is a competition planned for the winter. I'm not in charge of it, and it's not in Dallas.
Not giving any details because it's not my place to do so. However, it shouldn't be too long of wait before more info is available. Sit tight!

And if helps you any, organizing competitions to occur during school breaks is beneficial to both your time, and the amount of potential competitors you have.
 
Cubers in Austin, Texas

Just as the title says. I'm interested in seeing how many cubers there are here. In TX, the houston area seems to have the most with a few in dallas. I don't know of many here in central TX other than myself and random friend's I've taught. It would be nice to know if I wanted to arrange a competition or cube meet sometime in the future.
 
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Just as the title says. I'm interested in seeing how many cubers there are here. In TX, the houston area seems to have the most with a few in dallas. I don't know of many here in central TX other than myself and random friend's I've taught. It would be nice to know if I wanted to arrange a competition or cube meet sometime in the future.
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http://www.cubingusa.com/cubers.php
http://www.cubingusa.com/houstonwinteropen2013/competitors.php you can email all the competitors.
 
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I don't think anyone from the forum will travel to come to your competition simply because it's not official, and it's not similar to an official competition. This reminds me of the "Rubik's Brand" competitions where everyone has to use a Rubik's Brand cube, they only do 3x3 and it's divided by age. If you look at the WCA website, you can see that competitions usually have many rounds of many events with no divisions. There is also a long process to creating an official competition, which starts with going to competitions yourself. This seems like a fine thing for something like a school group of people who use beginner's method, but pretty much anyone on this website would only go to an official comp or one that is run like an official comp.

Also, there was already a comp in Houston this year.
 
Hello there Ethan. My name is Shonathon Collins and I am the lead organizer in Texas for competitions and I just held one the beginning of January. Were you not aware of it? And I agree with Noah in the fact that not a lot of people will not come to it if it isn't official. I am planning on having another competition sometime in June if possible. PM me about possibly helping?
 
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Awesome! I've been hoping that there would be an official competition in Texas this summer, since I wasn't a speedcuber yet when the last official competition had happened. Hope your plan goes well, Collins!
 
Hi,
Check the WCA website for announcements of all future competitions.
As of now, there are no upcoming competitions in Texas. However, there is another Houston competition in the works for the beginning of 2014. If/when that gets set up, a thread will be made for it.
Also, I'm looking into using a my a university campus as a venue in Dallas after that. The room has plenty of space, as well as accommodations like a stage, projector, microphone, and there's also food options in the same building. But I don't know what the cost would be, nor do I have a specific time in mind, so more on that later.

Also, I noticed that you're in Dallas. Do you know of other cubers in or around Dallas? If we find enough active cubers in the area, we could possibly start having meetups around here.
I haven't heard anything about meetups in Houston, but I can assume there are enough you down there to have a meetup. Just throwing that out there, for any of you who see this.
 
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