I propose, that as a community, we come together and do some fun competitions! To my knowledge, nothing like this exists and I find it a shame given our fun loving and somewhat closeknit community!
Here is my idea; We should have a series of competitions, mostly for fun, but where one can stand to win a little money as well. For example, everyone who's interested in the event, sends a few dollars to the sponsor of the event (which we could rotate, event to event of course, and it would probably be a well respected member of the community that everyone knows/is trustworthy). Said sponsor purchases (or already has) a relatively inexpensive cherry board, and swaps the switches out for super blacks/some other ridiculous switch they have/could get a hold of, at least for the 37 key main typing area. Then, the board is sent to a paying person who signed up and he/she is given a certain quantifiable task, like achieving a certain speed/ score ontypracer with the superblack board, or just seeing how fast/high of a score they can achieve. The board is then shipped from person to person who signed up for the competition. At the end, the highest speed/ score wins, and gets the money in the pot that might be left over, or wins the right to keep the board as a trophy or something.
This is just a very basic/preliminary idea. I think it would be tons of fun, so long as the materials/items are kept cheap enough to make a feasible entrance fee. Or perhaps if we chose not to let the winner keep the board, we could just re-use the same board, switching out the switches for any other cherry board required competitions?
Thoughts?
