US Nationals 2010

[JTW2007]

Colorado has an active cubing community and has competent, reliable people to help organize the competition.

I'm not sure I would say active, but we definitely exist and manage to throw together some pretty fantastic events in my opinion.

Colorado has an active cubing community and has competent, reliable people to help organize the competition.

There, I would agree.

 

[Hadley4000]

I think that perhaps somewhere in Texas could work, if there is consideration of the "middle" of the US. It is very central, and places like Dallas and Houston are easy to fly into, and have good lodging.

 

[DavidWoner]

I think that perhaps somewhere in Texas could work, if there is consideration of the "middle" of the US. It is very central, and places like Dallas and Houston are easy to fly into, and have good lodging.

But Bob hates Texas, so obviously a no-go.

 

[TheMachanga]

CHICAGO!

 

[DavidSanders]

ATLANTA!

 

[Kian]

STANFORD!

Wait, we're just naming the last three US Nationals in a row now, right?

 

[DavidSanders]

STANFORD!

Wait, we're just naming the last three US Nationals in a row now, right?

Spot on, sir, spot on.

 

[Anthony]

I think that perhaps somewhere in Texas could work, if there is consideration of the "middle" of the US. It is very central, and places like Dallas and Houston are easy to fly into, and have good lodging.

Sounds great to me.

 

[StachuK1992]

I was wondering when this thread would pop back up

 

[Tyson]

It looks like we should be closing down on the location soon.

Hint: US Virgin Islands

Anyway, the question is when should we hold it. How did the middle-of-August weekend work for everyone in 2009?

 

[Ethan Rosen]

If I end up at Bard, that will be quite awful. Otherwise, it should work.

 

[Tyson]

Why would it be awful? What other colleges share the same issue as Bard?

 

[DavidWoner]

How did the middle-of-August weekend work for everyone in 2009?

Poorly.

 

[Tyson]

You do understand why your comments are pretty useless to me. I will disregard it.

 

[DavidWoner]

Why would it be awful? What other colleges share the same issue as Bard?

Pretty much every college in the Midwest has started by mid August.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

Why would it be awful? What other colleges share the same issue as Bard?

Sorry I should've explained, Bard has a seminar for freshman that starts in early August. Out of all the people I know who graduated last year, the one I know who went to Bard left much earlier than the others.

 

[Tyson]

Why would it be awful? What other colleges share the same issue as Bard?

Pretty much every college in the Midwest has started by mid August.

So then why do you waste time by just saying it worked out poorly instead of explaining why it was poor, and perhaps offering a suggestion?

Like bumping it up to the first weekend of August instead of the second?

 

[Kian]

Why would it be awful? What other colleges share the same issue as Bard?

Pretty much every college in the Midwest has started by mid August.

So then why do you waste time by just saying it worked out poorly instead of explaining why it was poor, and perhaps offering a suggestion?

Like bumping it up to the first weekend of August instead of the second?

It seems like a better idea because many parts of the country (Midwest, Southeast) do start school earlier. Doesn't matter to me, but it seems reasonable if, of course, it's doable.

 

[Tyson]

August 6/7/8 then?

Perhaps more FMC, multi-bld, and big cube BLD on 8/6, get the things that require more resources out of the way. I don't know that we need a full day on 8/6. We were kind of bored on the Sunday of US Nationals 2009.

 

[DavidWoner]

We were kind of bored on the Sunday of US Nationals 2009.

Agreed. And those who didn't need to qualify for much were bored on Friday.

I think mixing in the bigBLD, multi, and FMC with quals on friday, and then moving some of the quicker qual rounds for side events to saturday morning might work.