US Nationals 2012: What do YOU want to see?

[Bob]

Maybe I'm not getting this - where are you getting 68 from? As far as I can tell, 2^n != 68, but maybe you mean 64? I may be missing something about the bracket system..

March Madness went from 65 to 68 teams last year. However, if you were to do a head-to-head, I would suggest keeping things simple with an integer power of two.

 

[Kian]

March Madness went from 65 to 68 teams last year. However, if you were to do a head-to-head, I would suggest keeping things simple with an integer power of two.

Like 256, so Bob can compete.

 

[a small kitten]

Like 256, so Bob can compete.

You're an evil guy

 

[Bob]

Like 256, so Bob can compete.

That's just mean!

 

[Tim Reynolds]

That's just mean!

Maybe realistic...looking at the last 2 years, you've been 129th (missed top 128) and 118th (made it by like 2 seconds).

 

[Vincents]

We theoretically could do any power of 2, and just give people bye's if people aren't here...

 

[Ninja Storm]

Maybe I'm not getting this - where are you getting 68 from? As far as I can tell, 2^n != 68, but maybe you mean 64? I may be missing something about the bracket system..

Take a look at the March Madness bracket. There are four spots in the bracket(errr, well, there were, until last night) that had two possible teams who could play there. There were 64 spots in the tournament, but the NCAA decided to excite things a bit more by making some teams have to play others BEFORE every team played.

So, there are actually 64 spots, but only 60 are confirmed, and 8 teams battle for the last four.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Yes, but what's the issue? We don't need every staff member present every day for this to go through.

I guess it just depends on how many members of staff are willing to stay back and hold these side events, if there's a need for a fair amount of staff. I wasn't really sure how many people would be needed for these, and I know that I am personally going to explore Vegas a good bit of the time, rather than stay back for the competition stuff I would have really enjoyed stuff like this at OSU last year, but with Vegas there are way too many other things calling my name

 

[Mike Hughey]

I guess it just depends on how many members of staff are willing to stay back and hold these side events, if there's a need for a fair amount of staff. I wasn't really sure how many people would be needed for these, and I know that I am personally going to explore Vegas a good bit of the time, rather than stay back for the competition stuff I would have really enjoyed stuff like this at OSU last year, but with Vegas there are way too many other things calling my name

I would think the logical thing to do with unofficial events would be to expect that those who wish to compete must also judge and/or scramble. If you aren't willing to help, you can't compete. If no one shows up willing to help, there's no event.

 

[Ranzha]

Piggyback Team BLD. Or better yet, non-verbal Team BLD.

Skewb would be nice =)

 

[flee135]

Bump

Some edits here and there in original post, and also some more input would be helpful.

Everyone, please make sure you read the first post in its entirety. There are multiple people who make suggestions that aren't exactly related, or aren't specific enough.

 

[AustinReed]

As for seminars, I'd love to see the "How to organize competitions". So many posts asking "How do I get a competition in X city?"

For Unofficial events, I'd like Head to head and/or 2BLD.

 

[macky]

I would totally organize a wikithon. We should be able to get a lot down more efficiently with a lot of cubers in the same place.

 

[Ranzha]

Head-to-head reconstruction. Have random solves filmed throughout the day and use those.
It might be difficult to implement, but it would look amazing! =O

Maybe a portion on effectively using commutators in one of the seminars on BLD?
Perhaps after the team mosaics are demolished, one large mosaic can be made? 3600 cubes is certainly workable =)
Cool Frog and I were talking one evening, and the idea of time attacks came up. Perhaps a PLL or OLL time attack?