US Nationals 2016 - July 29 - 31, Portland, Oregon

[YouCubing]

I admit that I'm biased, but Portland >>> Seattle in terms of cool things to do, food, drinks, and scenery. Seattle's great if you like a busy metropolis, overly touristy areas, and Amazon.

wrong on so many counts >.<
I like both though, that's why it wasn't a flat 1.0/10

 

[Tim Reynolds]

http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2016/index.php

 

[Coolster01]

http://www.cubingusa.com/usnationals2016/index.php

Awesome!

But I'm laughing so hard right now. No feet? Woooooooooow lololol. Is it being removed? lol

 

[henrysavich]

Wait where am I going to do my annual round of feet?

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Awesome!

But I'm laughing so hard right now. No feet? Woooooooooow lololol. Is it being removed? lol

We're choosing not to hold it this year. We have limited time and we're using that time on more popular events. I don't have any idea whether the WCA Board or WRC is planning to remove feet, but we're not planning on holding it.

 

[Coolster01]

We're choosing not to hold it this year. We have limited time and we're using that time on more popular events. I don't have any idea whether the WCA Board or WRC is planning to remove feet, but we're not planning on holding it.

Ahhhh gotchaaa. That's interesting

 

[DTCuber]

No California Nationals

 

[AlexMaass]

Wait where am I going to do my annual round of feet?

I'll try to hold a comp with feet lol

 

[Matt11111]

I'll try to hold a comp with feet lol

Are you thinking about it for the next Manhasset comp?

Not that I like feet.

 

[TheRubiksCombo]

Nats is in Portland.

 

[Torch]

Ok who wants to organize Portland Feetcomp 2016 on 7/28? Nah, just kidding.

 

[uyneb2000]

Ok who wants to organize Portland Feetcomp 2016 on 7/28? Nah, just kidding.

Keep Portland Weird 2016 amirite

 

[antoineccantin]

Ok who wants to organize Portland Feetcomp 2016 on 7/28? Nah, just kidding.

I'm working on it.

 

[YouCubing]

omfg superhype
Looking forward to doing some FMC and getting a better OH avg xD
AND NOT DNFING CLOCK ASDFASDFASDFASDFASDF
-ahem-

 

[AlexMaass]

Are you thinking about it for the next Manhasset comp?

Not that I like feet.

could be an option, probably more likely one after that tho

 

[Jaysammey777]

We're choosing not to hold it this year. We have limited time and we're using that time on more popular events. I don't have any idea whether the WCA Board or WRC is planning to remove feet, but we're not planning on holding it.

By that logic shouldn't y'all have eliminated 4bld and 5bld indstead, both are less popular and take more time than feet.

Edit: y'all also cut 6x6 cutoff by 30 seconds, which I'm not too happy about

 

[Cale S]

By that logic shouldn't y'all have eliminated 4bld and 5bld indstead, both are less popular and take more time than feet.

MBLD takes even longer, should have eliminated that

 

[Kit Clement]

By that logic shouldn't y'all have eliminated 4bld and 5bld indstead, both are less popular and take more time than feet.

Edit: y'all also cut 6x6 cutoff by 30 seconds, which I'm not too happy about

That's not exactly a fair comparison, as the barrier to entry is far greater for feet than 4BLD and 5BLD. The people who do feet at nats generally don't seem to care about the event, as evidenced in this thread:

Wait where am I going to do my annual round of feet?

Those who do 4BLD/5BLD had to necessarily put in a decent amount of practice and learning to compete in the event in the first place, and thus are more likely to care about the event than the average feet competitor. That's not to say that there aren't people who take feet seriously, but this just shows that comparing the number of competitors here isn't really a good comparison for popularity.

 

[DELToS]

Well, apparently Nationals 2016 is taking place in Portland, Oregon, so I can't go.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

That's not exactly a fair comparison, as the barrier to entry is far greater for feet than 4BLD and 5BLD. The people who do feet at nats generally don't seem to care about the event, as evidenced in this thread:



Those who do 4BLD/5BLD had to necessarily put in a decent amount of practice and learning to compete in the event in the first place, and thus are more likely to care about the event than the average feet competitor. That's not to say that there aren't people who take feet seriously, but this just shows that comparing the number of competitors here isn't really a good comparison for popularity.

Why not just make the feet cutoffs very strict? if people are taking 10 or more minutes to solve a cube with their feet, just make the hard cutoff 3-4 minutes. any dedicated feet solver could likely solve a cube in much less time than that.