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What event would you like to become WCA official?

Multiple choice! Vote for the events you would like to be WCA official.


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stuvalt309

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If the WCA would add another event for which people could compete for, which event do you want it to be?
Skewb Solve? 2x2 one-handed? How about Pyraminx Crystal? Would bandage cube work?
 

Mike Hughey

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This will have all sorts of silly answers, but I will give something I'm actually semi-serious about. Earlier this year, Takao suggested that we do square-1 BLD. I like the idea.

I want to try out my idea for square-1 BLD, but I'm just not sufficiently motivated at the moment to work on it. If it became an official event, I'd definitely work on it. And I really do want to learn it someday.

And after all, Takao is the man. :)
 
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Ethan Rosen

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If I were to vote on a puzzle to add to the WCA, I'd probably go for skewb or pyraminx crystal.
 

shelley

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Silly answers aside, I'd like to see Skewb as an official event. I don't own a Skewb and I don't know how to solve one (yet), but I feel it's more deserving as an official event than certain other puzzles that are official.
 

Bob

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2x2, and anything to do with it, should be removed, not added.

I was just about to say something about that. There is too much luck in that puzzle. Odds of skipping a (first) layer are something like 0.1%. That means approximately 1 in every 1000 solves (or about 1 in every 300 competitions), somebody gets a scramble that is just a CLL? Math might be off, but I don't feel like doing the calculation right now.
 

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I'm big on skewb. It's fun, quick, easy to learn but (somewhat) difficult to master, easy to obtain, widely owned, and different from current competition puzzles.
 

qqwref

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This will have all sorts of silly answers, but I will give something I'm actually semi-serious about. Earlier this year, Takao suggested that we do square-1 BLD. I like the idea.

We tried it at SF09. IIRC Takao got all DNFs. Bad idea.

Also, if you think about it, square-1 BLD necessitates tracing the positions through cubeshape. What that means is that times are HIGHLY variable - if you take 10 minutes for an easy cubeshape you might take 30 for a hard one. So I don't think it would make a good event because, like 2x2 single, the only way to get a decent time will be to get a lucky scramble.


Same thing for 2x2 BLD, by the way. If you get a sufficiently easy scramble, anyone good will be able to get a time that's normally impossible. So then instead of being an event where the WR has a possibility of being broken any comp (which is what it should be!), you have to wait for a competition with a good scramble.


Also, 1000th post.
 
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