One piece of advice I would like to give is to not start this process so late in the year. Discussions on proposals should be finished by December at the very latest so there is enough time left to consider all the consequences of the accepted changes and adjust when necessary. The deadline for...
These two should be up there with the top 5 regulations:
1e2) Capable competitors must be available for judging, if needed by organisation team. Penalty: disqualification from the competition.
1f2) Capable competitors must be available for scrambling, if needed by organisation team. Penalty...
People who have made it to more than one 3x3x3 World Championship final:
personName personId count
Mats Valk 2007VALK01 3
Rowe Hessler 2007HESS01 3
Yumu Tabuchi (田渕雄夢) 2006TABU02 2
Lars...
I honestly don't believe this brings a lot of new evidence to the table.
The reconstruction he posted himself already implied that his F2L was 20 moves (17 moves 'improvising' and an easy RUR' pair to follow).
The fact the there is an optimal 17 move solution means that there could be...
I don't like it. It's making the rule more complicated for the sole purpose of allowing competitors to be sloppy when starting their solves.
The only time I've ever seen a clock fall over unintentionally was that time I judged Robert Yau at N8W8 Summer 2012 and it was clear he was rushing...
We have used TNoodle to generate the scrambles at N8W8 Summer 2012.
Jeremy, Clément, Chen, Lucas, Shelley and all the others that have worked on it: thank you very much for this excellent contribution to the community. This saves us delegates almost a whole evening's worth of work.
There are a...
Danish Open 2012, held last weekend, was the 1000th WCA competition.
Erik Akkersdijk's last solve of the Altbier 2012 final was his 1000th 3x3x3 solve in competition. This makes him the first person to achieve such a feat.