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Cubic 7x7x7 MassProducts soon...

WCA rules doesn't correct some: 7x7 cube doesn't exist yet.
Sorry, Michal, but when 7x7 cube will be released, I think need to renew records for 7x7 cube.
It is sounds roughly, but it is true.
 
Alukret said:
WCA rules doesn't correct some: 7x7 cube doesn't exist yet.
Sorry, Michal, but when 7x7 cube will be released, I think need to renew records for 7x7 cube.
It is sounds roughly, but it is true.
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But cubic cubes would give an advantage. And if somebody beats the current WR, it doesn't really matter, does it? (Beating the current WR seems likely as I've seen a lot of fast 7x7ing lately.
 
Alukret said:
WCA rules doesn't correct some: 7x7 cube doesn't exist yet.
Sorry, Michal, but when 7x7 cube will be released, I think need to renew records for 7x7 cube.
It is sounds roughly, but it is true.
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From the WCA regulations:
9i3) If the regulations for an event are changed, then the old regional records stand until they are broken under the new regulations.
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Therefore Michal's WR's would stand until someone broke them.
 
maggot said:
No more awkward pillowed garbage!
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Well, the 7x7x7 certainly doesn't deserve to be pillowed, because it is solvable in a cubic form, but to declare all pillowed cubes garbage? I think that the 11x11x11 is actually better pillowed than not because it allows your hands to wrap around the cube better, especially with such a large cube as is the 11x11x11.
 
But even if this cube is released, and is good, would the regulations really be changed so that everyone with a V-7 has to buy a new one? I know it's been mentioned, but would it atually happen?
Seems a bit OTT to me, mainly because it isnt going to be cheap.
 
When a cubic 7x7 is released, the regulations should not be changed to 'only cubic 7x7's are allowed', and therefor there is no reason to reset records on 7x7 done with a pillowed one.
 
Goosly said:
When a cubic 7x7 is released, the regulations should not be changed to 'only cubic 7x7's are allowed', and therefor there is no reason to reset records on 7x7 done with a pillowed one.
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It was already mentioned that the old records will not be changed. Also, the regulations will only be changed once the cubic 7x7s have been around for a while and are fairly popular; they won't change the regulations as soon as the cubic 7x7s are released.
 
ss is not a forum, it is the brand name. mf8 is a forum, but there is also a mf8 brand.

EDIT: i thought ss was shengshou, duh
 
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aaronb said:
Are you sure? Based on Alexa, it is far less popular than SS; and if I remember correctly, in a CubeCast episode, someone said there was a Chinese forum more popular than SS.
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Yes, I am 100% sure. Alexa is certainly not a very accurate ranking. Do you even know how it gathers its statistics?

Let me throw some comparisons:
Speedsolving users online: There are currently 175 users online. 32 members and 143 guests. Most users ever online was 911, 12-01-2011 at 09:50 AM.
MF8 users online: online Member - 241 people online - 48 members (2 invisible), 193 visitors - the highest on record 1022 in 2010-10-1.

Speedsolving members: 15,443 (unknown # of posters)
MF8 members: 152,394 (44786 posters, 107688 non-posters)

Speedsolving threads: 31,144
MF8 threads: 76,172

Speedsolving posts: 683,871
MF8 posts: 1,486,651

Highest Speedsolving post count: 6,191 by Mike Hughey (Mike overtook Arnaud :o)
Highest MF8 post count: 34,210 by kevin_xiao (although he is far ahead of #2, 19,572 posts by 魔鱼儿)

sources:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://bbs.mf8-china.com/
http://translate.google.com/transla...8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://bbs.mf8-china.com/
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/memberlist.php?order=desc&sort=posts&pp=30
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/forum.php

Just so you know that I'm not pulling numbers out of my ass
 
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aronpm said:
Highest Speedsolving post count: 6,191 by Mike Hughey (Mike overtook Arnaud :o)
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Yes, it happened just a few days ago. I noticed that on that day, Arnaud made a bunch of posts; I think he was trying to keep me from catching him. We went back and forth for a few hours, and then unfortunately I shot right past him. :)

aronpm said:
Highest MF8 post count: 34,210 by kevin_xiao (although he is far ahead of #2, 19,572 posts by 魔鱼儿)
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See, I'm not so bad.... :)

Honestly, I'm encouraged that the numbers aren't even more skewed than this. I figured they might have us beaten by an order of magnitude. I guess they do for members, but it looks like they don't on any of the other statistics. So at least we're somewhat competitive.
 
I was going to say that the post quality here is generally higher but then I realised where I was posting.

Also, what happened on 01/12/11 for ss to be so popular?
 
The site says March for black and white, and they mentioned something about the price not being set. I hope they will have them in stock in March so the orders will not take a month to fill like they did with the 6x6.
 
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