WCA Hall of Fame

[qqwref]

I just wanna say that whatever Hall of Fame gets created, no matter how many people we decide on, Matyas Kuti should not be on it. He did some great, legitimate things and dominated the speedsolving world for a while, but he really does not deserve any kind of Fame for what he did.

Emile is a motivating factor in my eyes because he holds 7 current ARs, the oldest of which were set as far back as 2009. A number of up and coming African cubers have Emile as the bar for getting an AR for their chosen event. I view his performances as a motivating factor for African cubers to improve, and he has been this motivating factor since 2007, so 8 years of positive contribution to the community for a large land area over a large number of WCA events.

In a long list of notable/relevant cubers he does belong, sure. But IMO he got so many AfRs mostly because of luck. Despite being a South African citizen it's clear from his profile that his "home base" was always Canada, so he was mainly able to accumulate tons of continental records by being from a continent with next to no cubers to compete with, while living in an area with tons of cubers and competitions. Several others have done similar things with individual countries (e.g. Cameron Almasi, who was at many California competitions with me and was registered for Iran) but Emile happened to get a continent instead.

 

[Animorpher13]

It might be a bit hard to convince the right people, but i think that it will be a great thing (especially for younger cubers and cubers of the following generations) if tehy know about their predecessors.

 

[Seanliu]

@strakerak:

No offense (I like the initiative you've taken), but no one is going to take this "hall of fame" seriously unless it is done in some official capacity. If it is really going to be called the "WCA Hall of Fame", it should be organized by the WCA board, and with input from the worldwide community- not organized by one person who thought to do so and voted on by the subset of people within this small forum. You're more than welcome to form the "strakerak hall of fame as voted on by users of speedsolving.com".

On another note, I'd find that this "hall of fame" would have more weight with some level of exclusivity. Induction should really be seen as an honor.

Here's my idea for the induction process: Something like ~10-20 people become inducted at the formation of the hall of fame. After that, 2 more become inducted on a yearly basis. Induction can be decided by appointed committee, delegate vote, community vote, or some combination. The numbers of inductees can change based on how exclusive we want it to be.

Absolutely Great. But we need guidelines.

 

[Chrizz]

The idea of halls of fame are that they include people who significantly (positively) changed that area (in this case cubing). There are generally less than 100 people in a hall of fame, and usually less than 5 people per year get added.

I don't think this hall of fame is going to work if everyone just spews out names without even explaining why they should be in the list. People that deserve a place in the hall of fame should not be able to be described in 1 or 2 sentences. If they can, they are just not special enough (that's not to be rude, but that's how halls of fame work).

So please, anyone who makes gigantic lists of names, keep in mind that the people should have made a serious positive change in the cubing community.

 

[tseitsei]

@strakerak:

No offense (I like the initiative you've taken), but no one is going to take this "hall of fame" seriously unless it is done in some official capacity. If it is really going to be called the "WCA Hall of Fame", it should be organized by the WCA board, and with input from the worldwide community- not organized by one person who thought to do so and voted on by the subset of people within this small forum. You're more than welcome to form the "strakerak hall of fame as voted on by users of speedsolving.com".

On another note, I'd find that this "hall of fame" would have more weight with some level of exclusivity. Induction should really be seen as an honor.

Here's my idea for the induction process: Something like ~10-20 people become inducted at the formation of the hall of fame. After that, 2 more become inducted on a yearly basis. Induction can be decided by appointed committee, delegate vote, community vote, or some combination. The numbers of inductees can change based on how exclusive we want it to be.

+10000000 for this post. Especially for the bolded part. That is what hall of fame should be.

Also I agree with qq that Matyas Kuti should absolutely NOT be in the hall of fame since he did the most shameful thing a cuber can do... Cheating in official comps IMO negates all and every one of his other accomplishments and contributions.

 

[Jimmy Liu]

What about Luis J. Iáñez who create cubecomps or Lucas Garron who devoted himself into github a lot, also Jeremy Fleischman who write the TNoodle program.

Edit: Sorry, I see Lucas and Jeremy on the list now. No Bingliang Li?

 

[penguinz7]

What about Luis J. Iáñez who create cubecomps or Lucas Garron who devoted himself into github a lot, also Jeremy Fleischman who write the TNoodle program.

Edit: Sorry, I see Lucas and Jeremy on the list now. No Bingliang Li?

Luis also made TTW.

 

[Indiancuber]

I would like to add yu Nakajima, he is awesome