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It's not a dilemma at all. You don't HAVE to win multibld. When someone does a large number of cubes you have to decide if it is worth more for you to miss a few events or to try to beat them. I'm sorry but unless you can convince the competition organizers to devote an entire day to just multibld that is going to be how it works. Besides, Tim, you are seriously mistaken if you think people would hold it against you if you chose not to attempt the 31 cubes. Having done 24 once is already impressive, and if you quit now you would still be considered one of the best multiblders in the world for many years to come.
I have sympathy for you guys but you seriously have to realize that VERY few people are any good at multibld, and that it takes a VERY long time. If Tim or Dennis or Rowe or Ryosuke want to have a decent attempt you have to set aside well over an hour just for that one event, and that's for one person! You might care a lot about multibld but other people might not be willing to delay the competition for well over an hour (which is the only way you would make sure to not miss events), especially if you are not going for a WR. I agree that you should be able to do as many cubes as you feel capable of, but you have to plan around the fact that if you take a very large amount of time on your multibld attempt you must by necessity miss other events. It's simply not feasable to delay a competition that much, and multibld is a ridiculously time-intensive event.
Of course there are alternatives. You could have a speed multiple blindfold event, like in memory competitions, where you have to multi as many cubes as you can in an hour, and the only thing counting is the number of solved cubes at the end (unsolved cubes are just worth 0 - you're supposed to try as many as you possibly can). Or, if your competition's organizer really loves multibld, perhaps you could convince them to have a separate day with just multibld so that you do not miss anything. Or maybe multibld could be a non-competition event, where any attempt is valid as long as you can get an official WCA delegate to observe and approve it (like with Guinness World Record attempts).
I have sympathy for you guys but you seriously have to realize that VERY few people are any good at multibld, and that it takes a VERY long time. If Tim or Dennis or Rowe or Ryosuke want to have a decent attempt you have to set aside well over an hour just for that one event, and that's for one person! You might care a lot about multibld but other people might not be willing to delay the competition for well over an hour (which is the only way you would make sure to not miss events), especially if you are not going for a WR. I agree that you should be able to do as many cubes as you feel capable of, but you have to plan around the fact that if you take a very large amount of time on your multibld attempt you must by necessity miss other events. It's simply not feasable to delay a competition that much, and multibld is a ridiculously time-intensive event.
Of course there are alternatives. You could have a speed multiple blindfold event, like in memory competitions, where you have to multi as many cubes as you can in an hour, and the only thing counting is the number of solved cubes at the end (unsolved cubes are just worth 0 - you're supposed to try as many as you possibly can). Or, if your competition's organizer really loves multibld, perhaps you could convince them to have a separate day with just multibld so that you do not miss anything. Or maybe multibld could be a non-competition event, where any attempt is valid as long as you can get an official WCA delegate to observe and approve it (like with Guinness World Record attempts).