This angers me...a ton....

[EmersonHerrmann]

If it makes you guys feel better, http://www.cracked.com/article_17309_6-people-with-amazing-abilities-that-are-totally-useless.html

That was really funny...I have to give him props though, he moves pretty damn fast

 

[Lord Voldemort]

If it makes you guys feel better, http://www.cracked.com/article_17309_6-people-with-amazing-abilities-that-are-totally-useless.html

The etch-a-sketch dude is amazing. (#1 on their list)

 

[qqwref]

if few people can solve a cube, few people will know how impressive a fast time is.

I don't understand that...
Once people know how to solve a cube, those 10.xx world records are still impressive, but if someone had showed me that before I knew how to solve it, I would have been like "Whoa!!!! That's impossible!!!"

Let me put it this way: if someone doesn't know how to solve a cube, they won't see a 15-second solve (or even a 30-second solve) as being any different from a 10-second solve. To them it's all just solving a Rubik's Cube quickly which is impossible anyway. If someone has not put effort into trying to speedsolve, they won't understand how much more work and skill goes into a 10-second solve than into a 15-second one.

So, StarCraft and Counter-Strike and other computer games played at a competitive level are also sports, eh?

Why wouldn't they be?

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

I agree with Michael, to the standard public, 15 seconds is not very far away from 10 seconds. To speedcubers, it's a big skip.

 

[abr71310]

Any sport which starts out with most of the two teams basically colliding into each other is just dumb.

I often think that's what speedcubing is missing. Everyone would love it more if that's what happened and it would always been on TV. Can we start doing that?

I'm pretty sure we can do that; don't we already sometimes host live video feeds at competitions??

If we tipped off the media somehow or got them interested, maybe Worlds can be broadcast worldwide (if we gave them enough notice... or public interest??)!!

Or at least some local competitions, that could lead up to worlds maybe in 2010!!

It's all a matter of publicity, methinks; any "sport" which can be performed well is, needless to say, impressive to those who can't do it... all we have to do is show our stuff to the right people and we'll be at the top in no time!

 

[JTW2007]

I don't support the mainstream-ness of cup stacking, but I also don't support popularizing speedcubing. I think one of the things it has going for it is that it hasn't been corrupted by the media or the masses.

 

[Thieflordz5]

I couldn't even make it through the first... 3 paragraphs without a giant sigh and a face-palm...

This saddens me...
I want to cry right now, but I'm doing homework...

Many competitors believe cup-stacking should be recognized as an Olympic sport. It takes intense focus and a deft ambidexterity honed by hours of practice. Friends may scoff — "They think it's totally goofy," 17-year-old Dustin Gonzalez said at the competition — but veteran stackers know the truth: Fingers cramp. Legs tremble. Foreheads bead with sweat.

HAHAHAHAHA OMFG THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!!! XD

 

[Poke]

I couldn't even make it through the first... 3 paragraphs without a giant sigh and a face-palm...

This saddens me...
I want to cry right now, but I'm doing homework...

Many competitors believe cup-stacking should be recognized as an Olympic sport. It takes intense focus and a deft ambidexterity honed by hours of practice. Friends may scoff — "They think it's totally goofy," 17-year-old Dustin Gonzalez said at the competition — but veteran stackers know the truth: Fingers cramp. Legs tremble. Foreheads bead with sweat.

HAHAHAHAHA OMFG THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!!! XD

"Fingers cramp. Foreheads bead with sweat." Rubik's Wrist, Dangerous flyng projectiles from pops, inhaling lubricant.

 

[Thieflordz5]

I couldn't even make it through the first... 3 paragraphs without a giant sigh and a face-palm...

This saddens me...
I want to cry right now, but I'm doing homework...

Many competitors believe cup-stacking should be recognized as an Olympic sport. It takes intense focus and a deft ambidexterity honed by hours of practice. Friends may scoff — "They think it's totally goofy," 17-year-old Dustin Gonzalez said at the competition — but veteran stackers know the truth: Fingers cramp. Legs tremble. Foreheads bead with sweat.

HAHAHAHAHA OMFG THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!!! XD

"Fingers cramp. Foreheads bead with sweat." Rubik's Wrist, Dangerous flyng projectiles from pops, inhaling lubricant.

Cubing is obviously MUCH more dangerous than speed-stacks

 

[qqwref]

I think it's pretty hilarious that they think it should be an Olympic sport (hell, I don't think either that OR cubing shout ever be an Olympic sport... or anything with teams...), and also that the best examples they can think of of speedstacking being difficult is that people get nervous XD There's really no stamina and very little athletic ability involved at all in speedstacking (or 3x3 - but the bigger cubes definitely have a physical stamina element) so it's pretty funny to hear people talking about it as if it requires a lifetime of intense physical and mental training.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Speedcubing is a better and more intellectual sport as compared to stacking

 

[soccerking813]

Usually sports do not at first glance* appear to require intellect, which is one reason cubing is not considered a sport.

*If you look into it, any sport requires intellect, just not as obvious as cubing.

 

[Cloud_9ine]

I personally feel its jsut the anti-intelectuallist veirw of the public and how it applys to speedcubing. I think cause of this stacking is to cubing the way Frid is to intuitive methods when it comes to intuitive brain use. (No offense to Frid users)

 

[qqwref]

It's more like the very easiest beginners methods to Fridrich. People want something they can just do the same every time, not something where they have to think, and look out for situations where they can be more efficient by doing something a little different. Intuitive F2L isn't really any harder than LBL, but it does require a lot more thought and understanding, and I think many people have an aversion to that.

 

[shelley]

Hey, just curious... of the people who think speedstacking is lame, how many would be upset if we removed Magic/Master Magic from the WCA official events?

 

[ConnorCuber]

Hey, just curious... of the people who think speedstacking is lame, how many would be upset if we removed Magic/Master Magic from the WCA official events?

Me !

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

Oh, Michael:

You talked early about differences in times and how the public views times differently than speedcubers. What about how they view speedstacker times?

 

[MistArts]

Hey, just curious... of the people who think speedstacking is lame, how many would be upset if we removed Magic/Master Magic from the WCA official events?

I'll be upset. It should be modified, not removed.

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Hey, just curious... of the people who think speedstacking is lame, how many would be upset if we removed Magic/Master Magic from the WCA official events?

I wouldn't care.
Magic doesn't take very much time, but I think it's set up sort of dumb.

 

[qqwref]

Hey, just curious... of the people who think speedstacking is lame, how many would be upset if we removed Magic/Master Magic from the WCA official events?

Speedstacking is lame. And so are the Magics.

But that doesn't mean nobody should be allowed to compete in those events. A lot of people enjoy/practice them, and as far as magic and master magic are concerned they take up very little time in a competition. Even if you or I think Magics are silly, it does not give us the right to deny everyone in the world from competing in them.