Asian Championship 2012 - Hong Kong

**keyan** · 06-26-2012

For those that haven't been keeping up, registration is now open and the competition schedule has been posted. Hopefully there will be news about recommended hotels soon.

For those with time to spare, the seventh Guangdong Open will be held two weeks earlier. If you're looking to arrive in the area early and explore southern China, that's a good opportunity to attend another competition.

**keyan** · 07-19-2012

The competition website was updated a while ago with hotel information and a list of registered competitors.
WRs in sq1, BLD or 7x7 would not be surprising.

**okayama** · 08-02-2012

I have a question about the misaligned penalty (solved state) for Gear Cube.
In Matsudo Spring 2011, +2 penalty was imposed if over 90 degrees, and
DNF if over 180 degrees. Does the same apply to this competition?

EDIT: In addition, I am concerned that untrained judge cannot distinct
the difference between "45 degrees U" and "45+180x4 degrees U"
from the solved state. But the former one is thought to be solved and
the latter one is DNF. The difference is clear if one rorates 45 degrees,
but the judge must make a decision without touching the puzzle.

**TMOY** · 08-03-2012

Originally Posted by okayama

EDIT: In addition, I am concerned that untrained judge cannot distinct
the difference between "45 degrees U" and "45+180x4 degrees U"
from the solved state. But the former one is thought to be solved and
the latter one is DNF. The difference is clear if one rorates 45 degrees,
but the judge must make a decision without touching the puzzle.

SInce it's an unofficial event anyway, whi don't you just forget about that rule for that particular puzzle and allow the judges to realign the faces if it helps them to judge properly ?

**okayama** · 08-03-2012

Originally Posted by TMOY

SInce it's an unofficial event anyway, whi don't you just forget about that rule for that particular puzzle and allow the judges to realign the faces if it helps them to judge properly ?

Just the same reason as official.
Once you rotate the puzzle, you destroy evidence how much the puzzle are misaligned.
Notice that the judge have to distinguish both:
1. between "90 degrees U" and "91 degrees U"
2. between "90 degrees U" and "90 + 180x4 degrees U"

**TMOY** · 08-03-2012

You can very well first check 1., then realign, and then check 2.

**ardi4nto** · 10-06-2012

Any news about this competition?
Any live results somewhere?

**okayama** · 10-06-2012

Even here anyone cannot see the results.
Syuhei Omura asked the staff to show the results somewhere in the venue,
for example by printing the rank table and posting it on the wall or somewhere,
but the staff would not do it. http://www.facebook.com/syuhei.omura.../4181753819375
Just the staff said you can see the results in the WCA site in the future.

Gear Cube is an unofficial event, so maybe we never see the results in WCA...
How do we confirm the rank and the time (single/average)...?

EDIT: someone said that this was because the printer was broken.
If so, we will see all the results tomorrow at least in the venue,
otherwise we will be disappointed. Hope the situation will be better.