AvGalen
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Who would organise it there? These things take money and a lot of work and I don't see anyone doing that
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Rubixcubematt
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We have always thought of doing a comp in melb central, but because we haven't had a delegate, or the cubers, we can't. I think if you gave us the chance, we could make an awesome worlds. Plus it will kick-start cubing in Australia!!!
shelley
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Your desire to "make an awesome worlds" doesn't make up for lack of experience when it comes to running competitions. For something as big as the world championships, the organizers have to know what they're doing to make sure everything runs smoothly. The inexperienced judges at Worlds 2007 were pretty bad. When spectators sitting in the back of the auditorium are running up to make penalty calls for you, you're doing something wrong.
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AvGalen
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I agree with Shelley. Sorry, but starting with something as big as worlds is just wishful thinking. Something like worlds costs about half a million Euro/Dollar to organise
ajmorgan25
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I agree with Shelley. Sorry, but starting with something as big as worlds is just wishful thinking. Something like worlds costs about half a million Euro/Dollar to organise
Wow. I wouldn't have guessed that much.
AvGalen
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I was very surprised at that amount as well. I had guessed about 150000I agree with Shelley. Sorry, but starting with something as big as worlds is just wishful thinking. Something like worlds costs about half a million Euro/Dollar to organise
Wow. I wouldn't have guessed that much.
Dene
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Yea sorry Matt you need some perspective. There is no chance you could pull off holding WC. The first competition I went to was crazy and that was probably only half the size of what WC will be. There is no way you could pull anything other than a small competition off first time.
Jhong253
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Yes, I agree with Dene here. I organized a competition with 30 people and that was crazy. WC is like... yeah. There is no way that you can pull off WC caliber competition in the first attempt. (unless you dump all the responsibilities on every single delegate present)
jcuber
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Does the registration (hopefuly) pay for the 1/2 million dollars it takes to orgainize?
Bob
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I'm pretty sure they've been free to participate...I don't remember about 2003 though.
jcuber
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So who pays for it?
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AvGalen
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Ron has a money-tree that looses it leaves after the summer. That is why Worlds is normally in october
Stefan
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But... he said "please"!
I don't believe that. At all. Where did you get that number, and how is it explained?Something like worlds costs about half a million Euro/Dollar to organise
abr71310
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We could always hold it in like, an entire CITY... 
(a small one, at that)
Now to find something that's feasible to rent but fairly large.
(a small one, at that)Now to find something that's feasible to rent but fairly large.
Pitzu
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As I heard, budget of World Championship 2007 was 80 million HUF which is about 260000 Euro.
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Makes sense.
Contrary to the popular idiom, some money DOES grow on trees. It's just a little premature.
(American currency is 3/4 cotton and 1/4 linen, though. Not sure about the others. And yes, I'm aware this sorta ruins the whole turn of phrase I'm going for here.)
AvGalen
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I don't believe that. At all. Where did you get that number, and how is it explained?Something like worlds costs about half a million Euro/Dollar to organise
Ron told me and explained that judges and pricemoney weren't a real factor, but that the venue was by far the biggest cost. I was shocked just like everyone else seems to be. I think he meant dollars though and given the exchange rate at that time it is close to the amount Istvan mentions
mazei
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In any case, I'm confident you guys can pull it off. Hopefully I can attend it.
Stefan
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Ok, so I searched a bit. The first somewhat large auditorium with rental offer that I found:
http://www.virginiawestern.edu/theatre/whitman.html
I do realize that it's not as big and probably less shiny than last year's RWC venue, but this costs $300 per day, so $900 for three days. Even if last year's RWC venue cost 100 times that much (which would be a ridiculous factor already), that's still be only $90,000. How do we get to $500,000?
http://www.virginiawestern.edu/theatre/whitman.html
I do realize that it's not as big and probably less shiny than last year's RWC venue, but this costs $300 per day, so $900 for three days. Even if last year's RWC venue cost 100 times that much (which would be a ridiculous factor already), that's still be only $90,000. How do we get to $500,000?
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