Welwyn Garden City Open 2014 - 5/6 April - (UK)

cube-o-holic said:
If you go a week without spotting the comp and registration opening time or forget, that could be considered a lot more 'your fault' than going to bed before 1am, get up, go to work, get home, turn on PC and find out that you missed out on a place at a comp.
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Either way it is your fault. We are one of very few, if not the only country that normally has registration opening times announced in advance.

One situation is, "I'm busy at the time of competition registration time, I have no access to a PC/internet at that time, I can't sign up immediately upon it opening." The other is "I haven't checked UKCA/WCA in a week, nor am I signed up to the UKCA mailing list, nor do I use Facebook, oh I missed registration."

There are plenty of different opportunities to be able to see when a competition is announced and made official, if you miss any of them that is not our problem.

cube-o-holic said:
I hope that everyone who wants to go and can get to a UK comp will have a place for them.

You and the rest of the organisers are doing a great job in making that a reality and I am grateful for it.
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Regardless of direction we take with opening registration, everyone has the same opportunity.

cube-o-holic said:
I see where you are coming from completely.

When I 1st stopped this morning I checked the thread and instantly signed up. I was shocked that so many places were already taken and worried for people who don't check the forum as often as I do. I was unaware of the FB group (not sure how) and am not signed up to the email alerts.

I will sign up for them and join now to avoid that 'Oh crap, am I gona miss out on a place?' feeling. It's not very nice.
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Like I said, whatever we do, someone will miss out for whatever reason. I remember once I was busy during registration opening times, I thought it would not fill up, so I just left it. I was out in Hull all day, then immediately went to someone's house to commence generic drinking and then go out to a nightclub for the evening. I got a text from Chris (Thankfully) at like midnight and he said "Registration is almost full better sign up". So I signed up at like 1am in a club from my phone. I was online when it got announced, so this current way I would have had no problem. It works both ways.

Here's the Facebook page and I recommend anyone who uses Facebook somewhat regularly to like this page as announcements are made immediately. Also go to the UKCA Website and sign up for the e-mail notifications. You will receive an e-mail IMMEDIATELY upon a competition being announced! Another thing you could do is make WCA/UKCA your homepage for your browser if that is an option, can't miss it then either.
 
I just thought I'd check a few names to see if they'd registered yet.

The 1st 3 names that came to mind were Thom, Breandan and Alex. None of them have yet. Just sayin'.
 
cube-o-holic said:
I just thought I'd check a few names to see if they'd registered yet.

The 1st 3 names that came to mind were Thom, Breandan and Alex. None of them have yet. Just sayin'.
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Thom and Breandan will miss it regardless of whether or not is announced. Breandan has missed them in the past with the old system. Thom is a repeat offender for missing them, notably for Nottingham he registered 71st, thus putting him on the waiting list. Alex doesn't necessarily sign up straight away either, as he plays in a band and is busy for multiple weekends, hence him missing competitions in the past and only coming for one day for example. Regardless, he'll most likely go on his computer and be on the internet tonight and sign up if he is available.

So really, you've picked probably the only 3 names of regulars who have not signed up, 2 of which, system does not matter at all. I can name about 30 regulars who have signed up. I don't see your point?
 
cube-o-holic said:
I was unaware of the FB group (not sure how) and am not signed up to the email alerts.
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The facebook group was created like 15 minutes ago...

cube-o-holic said:
I just thought I'd check a few names to see if they'd registered yet.

The 1st 3 names that came to mind were Thom, Breandan and Alex. None of them have yet. Just sayin'.
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Also, Alex is unsure as to whether or not he is going to be able to come... hence not registered yet. He saw that reg was open ages ago.
 
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Mollerz said:
So really, you've picked probably the only 3 names of regulars who have not signed up, 2 of which, system does not matter at all. I can name about 30 regulars who have signed up. I don't see your point?
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Robert Yau and Andrew Coghill.
Also Kong Shou.

I was driving and thinking of names.
The 3 I chose to check when I stopped were the 2 fastest and the UK champ. They were not random names.
I didn't consider Breandan and Thom's history at the time. Sorry.

Could we potentially open it up to a vote?


The point I have been trying to make is that I considered the previous system more fair and potentially other do as well.
I would've been sad if I got home this evening to find out that I couldn't compete at a comp which I don't have to book holiday for. I would've still gone but since the UK cubing community isn't a ridiculous size yet we could actually find out what would be considered the fairest way to open registration.

I am aware that my side falls apart if registration doesn't fill up as quickly as I'm expecting.
(My guess is reg will be full at 8pm)
 
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cube-o-holic said:
Robert Yau and Andrew Coghill.
Also Kong Shou.

I was driving and thinking of names.
The 3 I chose to check when I stopped were the 2 fastest and the UK champ. They were not random names.
I didn't consider Breandan and Thom's history at the time. Sorry.

Could we potentially open it up to a vote?
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Spotted the edit ;)
 
Mollerz said:
Bon matin François! J'étudie français à l'université donc je repondrai en français :P
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Merci pour l'effort. But I will answer in English because not everybody understands French on this forum :p

Nous avons accès à la salle à 9h donc nous allons commencer à mettre en place alors. Si vous voulez obtenir votre train samedi matin, vous le pouvez!

We have access to the venue at 9am so we will start setting up then. So events are likely to start at 9:15am or 9:30am. So if you want to get your train Saturday morning, you can!
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I just checked the train schedule: the earliest train I can catch arrives at 9:31am at the Welwyn Garden station, which means that I would arrive at ~9:45am at the venue. Well I think I will just play safe and come on Friday evening, hopefully there will already be some cubers hanging around at the Premier Inn.
 
TMOY said:
Merci pour l'effort. But I will answer in English because not everybody understands French on this forum :p



I just checked the train schedule: the earliest train I can catch arrives at 9:31am at the Welwyn Garden station, which means that I would arrive at ~9:45am at the venue. Well I think I will just play safe and come on Friday evening, hopefully there will already be some cubers hanging around at the Premier Inn.
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Yeah most definitely, I'll be there on the friday evening, I presume most will be there too!
 
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