UK Championship 2013

[MichaelErskine]

Any particular reason why you registered twice?

Short answer: I didn't!
Longer answer: Did I? Blame Windows 8 for that!

 

[BillyRain]

Felt sad about not being able to reg for sq-1, 6 and 7 so i registered for 4bld. whoops, guess i learn 4bld now

Same qual times make me sad

I regd for everything by accident too. Can't believe I can't do 6 or 7

 

[CHJ]

I regd for clock and sq-1 though I've not currently sub the qualifying time, but im hoping I will at cuthberts, shouldn't really be a problem is it? im sub cut at home

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

I regd for clock and sq-1 though I've not currently sub the qualifying time, but im hoping I will at cuthberts, shouldn't really be a problem is it? im sub cut at home

If you don't get the times officially, you can't compete. Sorry :/
You have to have them officially by the week before or so.

 

[CHJ]

If you don't get the times officially, you can't compete. Sorry :/
You have to have them officially by the week before or so.

ah kay, should be fine

 

[ryanj92]

If you don't get the times officially, you can't compete. Sorry :/
You have to have them officially by the week before or so.

Just out of curiosity, what made you guys choose this approach over a hard cut?

 

[SarahG]

I've reg'd for blind 3x3. I can't actually solve blind...

 

[KongShou]

Wait what?
You have to get times officially before competing now?

Why not hard cut?

 

[yockee]

Grrrr, another comp I won't get to go to because it's not in Manchester. At this rate, maybe I'll get to go to one when cubing no longer exists

 

[BillyRain]

Harsh cut offs/qual times... By fast people... For fast people.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

Wait what?
You have to get times officially before competing now?

OK so first off, this only effects the following events: Clock, Megaminx, Square-1, 6x6x6, 7x7x7
Other events will operate as normal in terms of cutoffs.

Harsh cut offs/qual times... By fast people... For fast people.

Why not hard cut?

Just out of curiosity, what made you guys choose this approach over a hard cut?

OK so as you are all pretty aware, the UK cubing scene has started to grow quite a bit. When we started looking at the schedule for this competition, we realised that we would probably not be able to hold all the events we wanted to without really harsh cutoffs, this was still when it was UKO.
However based on the fact that this is the biggest UK competition of the year, and also how we don't really do national champions, like most other countries, we decided to move to a Championship.
This competition is basically the apex of the competitive cubing year for the UK, and as such, we wanted to hold as many events as possible. Because of that, we decided that for the less popular side events (the 5 listed above), we would use qualification times, so that the event can take place, and that it allows for people to have a shot at national champion.
While we realise that not everyone will be happy with the qualification time system, this is a fairly standard approach for larger competitions, and it has been announced in advance, to give people the opportunity to obtain these times before the competition.
Also, the cutoffs are pretty standard for UK comps, and in fact are the same or higher compared to last years UKO.
While you may judge this as harsh, this is needed for us to run the competition with all the events we want, in the time we have with the amount of people we predict.

TL;DR: More people = Less time -> Qual times = More time + Having the event

 

[MorrisKid101]

Harsh cut offs/qual times... By fast people... For fast people.

I know, I had to remove Megaminx cause of the qualifying time. Suppose they don't want any time wasted.

 

[PeelingStickers]

Now off to kill a few people on the reg list to lower the overall number of competitors, allowing me to compete in the qual events!

in all seriousness, I understand the approach you've made, I'm just annoyed that I still haven't competed in 7x7 despite having owned one since the leicester open >.>

Next year I'm seriously gonna enter as many of these as I can.

 

[ben1996123]

i guess i should start practising square 1

 

[~Adam~]

I don't appear to be able to view the schedule on my phone or laptop.

What is the cut off for 5x5?

 

[ryanj92]

So UKC is becoming the 'elite' competition of the year, more about competing to be national champion over anything else? That's pretty neat, especially now we're having significantly more comps per year.
Although announcing this after the last UK comp before the championships became booked out makes me kinda sad... I guess there's always next comp/year/whenever I can actually afford to travel ._.

What is the cut off for 5x5?

2:30, IIRC

 

[~Adam~]

Thanks Ryan. I got it working in IE, no worky in chrome.

 

[MorrisKid101]

OK so first off, this only effects the following events: Clock, Megaminx, Square-1, 6x6x6, 7x7x7
Other events will operate as normal in terms of cutoffs.






OK so as you are all pretty aware, the UK cubing scene has started to grow quite a bit. When we started looking at the schedule for this competition, we realised that we would probably not be able to hold all the events we wanted to without really harsh cutoffs, this was still when it was UKO.
However based on the fact that this is the biggest UK competition of the year, and also how we don't really do national champions, like most other countries, we decided to move to a Championship.
This competition is basically the apex of the competitive cubing year for the UK, and as such, we wanted to hold as many events as possible. Because of that, we decided that for the less popular side events (the 5 listed above), we would use qualification times, so that the event can take place, and that it allows for people to have a shot at national champion.
While we realise that not everyone will be happy with the qualification time system, this is a fairly standard approach for larger competitions, and it has been announced in advance, to give people the opportunity to obtain these times before the competition.
Also, the cutoffs are pretty standard for UK comps, and in fact are the same or higher compared to last years UKO.
While you may judge this as harsh, this is needed for us to run the competition with all the events we want, in the time we have with the amount of people we predict.

TL;DR: More people = Less time -> Qual times = More time + Having the event

Thanks for explaining it to us. It seems fair that these qualifying times are in place, but it would be nice if they had, say an 'amateur' stage for these five events running at the same time as the actual events, so people who are maybe not as good at these can still compete professionally. I know it may be an extra wall to overcome, but the helping hand that would undoubtedly be delivered by the cubing community could help judge and scramble cubes. And if these people could get a feel for competing in these events, they could possibly improve and compete in the real thing.

 

[Clarkeeyyy]

I apologize in advance for signing up to 3 events that I can't compete in :3

 

[ryanj92]

Thanks for explaining it to us. It seems fair that these qualifying times are in place, but it would be nice if they had, say an 'amateur' stage for these five events running at the same time as the actual events, so people who are maybe not as good at these can still compete professionally. I know it may be an extra wall to overcome, but the helping hand that would undoubtedly be delivered by the cubing community could help judge and scramble cubes. And if these people could get a feel for competing in these events, they could possibly improve and compete in the real thing.

I think the point is that the other competitions in the year fill that blank. If I'm not scrambling or judging, I'd be more than happy to do sq-1/6/7 races with people while the actual events are happening though :3