AvGalen
Premium Member
Since when do we have to take events seriously to be allowed to compete? I thought we did this for fun!
Move limits don't make any sense to me. They wouldn't make the competition go any better and they would prevent people from getting interested in an event. I did a 2/2 multiblind in 26 minutes and it was a national record at that time. I had never done a succesful single blind. I have never gotten another NR.
If you want to make cutoffs more regulated you should do something like "not worse than 3 times the WR average". So you couldn't do a 4x4x4 solve if you aren't under 1:30 or a multiblind if you didn't try at least 10 cubes. And still that would allow for 60 moves for FMC and only save a couple of minutes for checking on a timeframe of > 1 hour!
During the first competition that I organised I did all events (except fmc and big/multi-blind) on 1 day with multiple rounds for 2,3,4,5 (75% continued), no timelimit and we had time for a mystery event. You can see for yourself how slow several people were and still it didn't hold up the competition: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?allResults=All+Results&competitionId=1AVG2013
I would hate cut-offs for FMC, because it would mean that if I wrote an ' wrong on a 60 minute attempt I wouldn't get to do the other 2 attempts, just to save the one who checks my result. If you would allow people with a DNF first attempt to do another attempt, but not somebody with a valid 41 moves solution something would be even more messed up.
Move limits don't make any sense to me. They wouldn't make the competition go any better and they would prevent people from getting interested in an event. I did a 2/2 multiblind in 26 minutes and it was a national record at that time. I had never done a succesful single blind. I have never gotten another NR.
If you want to make cutoffs more regulated you should do something like "not worse than 3 times the WR average". So you couldn't do a 4x4x4 solve if you aren't under 1:30 or a multiblind if you didn't try at least 10 cubes. And still that would allow for 60 moves for FMC and only save a couple of minutes for checking on a timeframe of > 1 hour!
During the first competition that I organised I did all events (except fmc and big/multi-blind) on 1 day with multiple rounds for 2,3,4,5 (75% continued), no timelimit and we had time for a mystery event. You can see for yourself how slow several people were and still it didn't hold up the competition: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?allResults=All+Results&competitionId=1AVG2013
I would hate cut-offs for FMC, because it would mean that if I wrote an ' wrong on a 60 minute attempt I wouldn't get to do the other 2 attempts, just to save the one who checks my result. If you would allow people with a DNF first attempt to do another attempt, but not somebody with a valid 41 moves solution something would be even more messed up.