WCA Regulations 2012

[Lucas Garron]

Hello everyone,

Tyson has tentatively put me in charge of the regulations for 2012. I would like to pass that duty off to someone else, but for now I'm going to get the discussions started.
The official discussions, of course, take place in the WCA Regulations forum. Most changes should be discussed there before being added to the regulations.

However, this forum is a more practical place for discussion, with many more active members, so I'm creating this thread. Since this can pile up pretty fast, I'm asking that you add any concerns to this new wiki page.

If you are discussing an old topic, please find any old posts that are related to it, and add them to the wiki page. The feel free to revive the thread(s) and post here with a few comments.

If you believe you have a new topic, please post here to ask if it's really new, and then, if you really want to, create a new thread for it (not in the WCA competitions subforum, though) and link to it here and in the wiki.

Feel free to use this thread to talk *about* all the regulation topics. Try to keep any specific details in threads about those topics, and not here.
Please be realistic and constructive while discussing the 2012 regulations. Jokes and uninformed posts are *not* welcome. While I value everyone's opinion, I reserve the right resort to heavy moderation if you are not acting constructive at all. But I know we can all be serious and dignified, right?

Let's get going!



Note: Discussions about new events is currently on hold as of late December 2011. See this post in this thread..

[Kirjava]

Is there a chance of Skewb actually happening or is that dead now?

[Lucas Garron]

Is there a chance of Skewb actually happening or is that dead now?

There's definitely a chance. We would need the proper regulations (mostly just a scrambler), and some indication that this is a worthwhile to make an official worldwide event. It should be considered a serious concern that the WCA has tried to be careful about adding events. Adding one event singles it out as important compared to the other that were not added, and puts new pressure on organizers to host it.

I suspect that we will have a proposal for Square-1 (regulation changes and supporting reasons), and it will be up to the board to decide whether to accept the event. If you're strongly in favor of Skewb, feel free to create a thread that essentially puts together such a proposal.

[Odder]

MUST... MAKE... SKEWB... PROPOSAL!

I would love to see Skewb being an official event, we had it as an unofficial event at my last comp :3

[kinch2002]

It think there's quite a few things on the WCA forum that have been discussed, and even sometimes a general consensus reached, but nothing ever got changed within the regs. I don't have time to trawl through the forum right now, but off the top of my head I can think of a few such as: Pyraminx tips falling off, some sort of a statement about never filtering easy scrambles, new scramblers being implemented, new gen stackmat timer having 3d.p....etc you get the idea.

I shall also use this post to ask the question 'Who actually has the authority to change the regs?' I assume only the board, but for them to come to well-informed decisions they would have to read through a lot of material posted by people. WCA forum isn't always particularly active, and this forum only covers the views of the English-speaking community.

[r_517]

I shall also use this post to ask the question 'Who actually has the authority to change the regs?' I assume only the board, but for them to come to well-informed decisions they would have to read through a lot of material posted by people. WCA forum isn't always particularly active, and this forum only covers the views of the English-speaking community.

In my opinion anyone can give suggestions, but these suggestions should be both practical and accepted by majority in advance, before any actual changes are made in the finalised version.

[r_517]

I asked Ron about some ambiguous regulations in Multi-BLD. Let's say a competitor decides to take 3 cubes. He finishes the 3 cube in 29:59, with one cube finished with +2 penalty, one cube finished with no penalty and one DNF. Ron said this would be counted as 2/3, and time will be 30:00. It makes sense to me but I think there must be some people having different opinions here

[MaeLSTRoM]

I asked Ron about some ambiguous regulations in Multi-BLD. Let's say a competitor decides to take 3 cubes. He finishes the 3 cube in 29:59, with one cube finished with +2 penalty, one cube finished with no penalty and one DNF. Ron said this would be counted as 2/3, and time will be 30:00. It makes sense to me but I think there must be some people having different opinions here

Related to this^, what about +2 on more than one cube? How are those meant to be dealt with and also in the above scenario, would the time still be 30:00?

[r_517]

Related to this^, what about +2 on more than one cube? How are those meant to be dealt with and also in the above scenario, would the time still be 30:00?

Yes I also asked Ron about this. It will still be 30:00, because in the current regulations, solving 3 cubes can't exceed 30 minutes.

[Kirjava]

Surely it should be DNF.