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

Guanlong Challenge 2.0. I wanna see if I can create a cube that is worse than what Mitch made. I have my ways.

I told my parents about the Nats location. Now they are trying to modify my college choice :p
 
JustinTimeCuber said:
yeah I was actually mostly serious, that would be a fun unofficial event! There aren't very many good algs though, but actually I think it should be made official, and then people will come up with methods and there will be more 2x3x3s released. So yeah, if Nats 2016 is a democracy then that is my vote. I also vote for 8 rounds of feet solving.

2x3x3 = only unofficial event I ever practice at all
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Cuboid PLL ftw
R2 U R2 U' R2 U' D R2 U' R2 U R2 D'
R2 U' R2 U' R2 U R2 D' R2 U R2 U' R2 D R2
z F2 R U2 R' U2 F2 L' U2 L U2
z' F2 L' U2 L U2 F2 R U2 R' U2
M2 U M2 U2 M2 U M2
M2 U M2 U' F2 M2 F2 U2 M2 U2
Thank me later
 
uyneb2000 said:
It's been five hours and the majority of what I've seen are complaints about location. To be honest, I'm kind of sick of it. There are many people who also have a disadvantage in distance, but they keep they're mouth shut and try to do their best to go. Oh, it's not in your backyard? That really sucks, doesn't it. Some people live in areas where competitions are so rare to come by. If it doesn't meet your personal needs, I'm sorry, but not everything goes your way. Speedcubing is a very privileged hobby, equipment is not cheap and it's to take it for granted. Please don't let that go to your head. In regards to feet, yeah, I kind of wish that there was, I don't really do it, but I feel for those that do want to. However, it would be a greater hassle, in my opinion, as it requires more set up than Big Blind or MBLD, as well as not being as popular as MBLD. Feet would take up space on a stage that, quite frankly, could be used for other more important events (again, sorry to those who do feet).

TL;DR: Don't get hyped over something only to get mad over what it was. It was already determined before the clues started coming, get over it.
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this. coming from the south island of new zealand where there has never been a comp (too far south and not enough people) I'm lucky I am currently living in Australia cause they have lots of comps (relatively speaking). Yes I know NZ is small but flights here are expensive to the bi yearly comps in the north island and you can't drive there (thats why its called an island genuises).
to cut a long story short. the US has a LOT of comps. don't complain.
 
Ordway Persyn said:
Yeah I'm not really complaining about the location, It's to far for me but I'm hopeful for nats 2017. Also, if there is a large competition in Michigan this summer, I might be able to go to that.
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St. louis nats 2017?
lol

I wasn't exactly excited about the location, one of the farthest places it could be from STL, but honestly the US gets plenty of comps anyway. Besides, I might still be going.
 
Oh. My. Gosh.

The people complaining about the location...you absolutely blow my mind. I don't think you guys understand the sheer amount of work that goes into something like nationals. Any of you who are saying "Oh I've held 1-3 comps. I know how to do this" you can pretty much just shut up. I've hosted 9 competitions and been staff on pretty much every single competition I've been to in the last 3 years (which is 41 comps) and I am absolutely certain I would not be able to take on the task of organizing something like Nationals. There's so much stuff that goes on under the scenes that you guys don't hear about. It's not just pick a venue and be done with it.

Also, the people who are complaining about plane tickets <$500 can also be quiet. Back when I was 15-16 I managed to raise $500+ for nats 2012 2 weeks before nationals happened by finding work to do for family members and friends along with selling some things. You literally have 7 months to plan and save up for this trip. If you want it badly enough you can find a way to save up that money without a problem. All I hear in this thread is whining and complaining that the organizers won't do it in your backyard and that they are horrible for it.
 
Rubiks560 said:
Oh. My. Gosh.

The people complaining about the location...you absolutely blow my mind. I don't think you guys understand the sheer amount of work that goes into something like nationals. Any of you who are saying "Oh I've held 1-3 comps. I know how to do this" you can pretty much just shut up. I've hosted 9 competitions and been staff on pretty much every single competition I've been to in the last 3 years (which is 41 comps) and I am absolutely certain I would not be able to take on the task of organizing something like Nationals. There's so much stuff that goes on under the scenes that you guys don't hear about. It's not just pick a venue and be done with it.

Also, the people who are complaining about plane tickets <$500 can also be quiet. Back when I was 15-16 I managed to raise $500+ for nats 2012 2 weeks before nationals happened by finding work to do for family members and friends along with selling some things. You literally have 7 months to plan and save up for this trip. If you want it badly enough you can find a way to save up that money without a problem. All I hear in this thread is whining and complaining that the organizers won't do it in your backyard and that they are horrible for it.
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One of those comments was clearly aimed at me, so I like to clear up what I said. I said I understand what goes into organizing a comp. NOT that I understand what goes into a comp of that size. The only people that understand that, is the Nats team, and Worlds teams. The point of the comment was to say there are people who have some experience with organizing comps. Not comps of that size, but comps all the same.
 
If everyone is so bummed about Nats being so far away, would anyone like to organize a giant Midwest comp? Sounds like you'd get a lot of people(me included).
 
Let me go on the record to say I am very pleased with this location. Last year I had to fly from the West Coast to South Carolina, this year it's in driving distance. After 2 years back east, hats off to the Nats team for getting one out west.
 
YouCubing said:
But considering how far away they are (and that Alaska affects that location MUCH more than Hawai'i), it wouldn't make much difference to their travel costs.
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Considering how far away California is from the center of the country, it probably wouldn't affect their costs much either. Let's just remove them from the center of mass calculation while we're at it. :)
 
DGCubes said:
Nats 2017 in my room. I've thought about organizing competitions before, so I can do it. Also my room already has a desk for a scrambling table, and we could probably fit one or two solving stations. I could most likely clean my room by 2017.
^^^
How everybody wishes nats could be.

Seriously though, I'd totally love to go to this one. I doubt I can because of distance, but I'm going to keep trying to convince my parents. HYPE! :)
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If you can't, make another "too cool for nats" stream. Oh, and send Ava to me so I can take another selfie w/ you over Skype. That was funny.
 
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