Sajwo
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When 4BLD and 5BLD mean of 3 will be officially ranked? Why it has not been done yet?
It should be officially ranked.
Because of that, it means that some regions simply never have many opportunities to even attempt the feat.
Because of the same reason, the same regions never have the opportunity to get a mo3 in FMC, which is officially ranked.
For Rubik's Cube: Blindfolded "Best of 3" rounds, rankings and records of the mean will be recognized. This also applies to existing "Best of 3" results. (#111 / 5660ed5)
- There is significant interest in recognizing these results. Since it does not change the round format, it does not require competitors to change their competition strategy for placing in competition.
The "Best of 3" round format has been removed as an option for events that have a "Mean of 3" format. (#109 / 2685170)
Both formats take roughly the same resources, so the preferred format should be used. Almost all competitions followed this in 2012 and 2013.
This might be something worth considering if 4BLD and 5BLD advance and become more competitive like 3BLD has. Granted, I'm not the best person to be stating an opinion on this, but it seems to me that the overall skill level of 3BLD competitors has pushed the records to the point where you absolutely need good scrambles to break records -- even the mean of 3 is starting to require a bit of scramble luck. I don't think this is anywhere close to being the case in 4BLD/5BLD yet. Given the lengthy nature of the event, I think there is more room to be able to practice and break records without necessarily getting the best scramble. Someone who is world class at 4BLD/5BLD can correct me if I'm wrong about this.
I think the arguments Ollie has about the all-events club and the overall difficult of the event are valid here too.
Jan Bentlage would be the only one in that club lolAs much as I'd love a free world record, I can't see this happening. Simply because people aren't interested, and because it would impact negatively on those in the 'all events club' that do not have a 4BLD or 5BLD mean.
Three hours per round?I know this may be an unpopular opinion but I also think that Mbld should have a mean.
Three hours per round?
IMO it focuses too much on the accuracy and too little on speed. 5bld single is already on the edge with this "accuracy over speed" thing but it's still on the good side IMO. And it's constantly getting better as more people become better faster and more accurate on bigbld.
For 3bld mean it's still possible to get a mean even if you are trying to go fast since people can achieve over 80% accuracy even when going (almost) full speed. I doubt anyone can achieve close to 80% accuracy on 5bld if they are going anywhere near their normal speed. And I dont like that you need to choose if you try to get a decent single or if you try to get a mean just completed...
Taking a mean across attempts in different rounds is unprecedented for any WCA event AFAIK.No definitely not (at least under normal conditions, i think it would be kinda cool to hold Mbld comps similar on concept to USA FMC, but that's another story). I mean when multiple rounds of Mbld are held, then even though the winner is the best single score, the mean is also put into the database. I don't think that we should make any changes to Mbld, just concider more stats official.
Taking a mean across attempts in different rounds is unprecedented for any WCA event AFAIK.