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22x22 OH BLD FMC with feet.
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2x2-4x4 or 2x2-5x5 relay would be cool
a) It would add a relay event, which adds variety
b) 2-5 are all solved quite differently (Ortega/CLL/EG, CFOP/Roux/ZZ, Yau, Reduction)
c) It wouldn't take too long (probably faster than 7x7 or even 6x6)
a) It would add a relay event, which adds variety
b) 2-5 are all solved quite differently (Ortega/CLL/EG, CFOP/Roux/ZZ, Yau, Reduction)
c) It wouldn't take too long (probably faster than 7x7 or even 6x6)
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You mean the Rubik's Tesseract? That requires a computer software and would not be a physical cube so I don't know how that would work.
Fisher or windmill cube would be cool, or 2x3x3 or 3x3x4.
qwertycuber
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How do you do one-handed with your feet?
biscuit
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You can only touch it with your feet, but you also can only touch it with one hand, meaning you have to be able to turn it telekinetically to do the event.
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a cuboid would be nice, maybe 3x3x4?
WACWCA
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Ive always wanted a team blind but i feel like there might be problems with hearing or other teams listening in while waiting for their turn
But honestly, i don't feel like there's any standout event that everyone would enjoy.
But honestly, i don't feel like there's any standout event that everyone would enjoy.
sqAree
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oO I didn't know it's also a Rubik's one.
Of course it requires computer software but where is the problem? Only few people would actually do this event and on most comps they have computers anyway.
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yeah as someone with hearing problems I'd feel kinda mixed about teambld, though I could just do it in a quiet room, also what would you do if someone is deaf? I know shane rowland (aka famous deaf rubiks) and his wife can do teambld, its hard to explain how they do it without a video, its really cool how they do it though.
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Well Its not Rubik's Brand but it's called Magic cube 4D. Id assume though you'd have to bring your own computer but how would The WCA Scramble It? I'm sure the biggest problem would be the regs for such event's.
qwertycuber
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Speaking of rubik's brands, it would be weird if there was an event where you have to speedsolve a rubik's brand.
sqAree
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Ok yup, I actually have MagicCube4D. I think it can't be that hard to write a program that produces scrambles for the 4D. As for regs I just think the judges have to be super careful and observe the competitor permanently.
i think 3x3 oh bld should be added (although i'm a guy who can neither do 3bld or 3x3 oh)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rxY-WhFNw
Maskow ples
He would dominate it..
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After trying to fix the listening problem people had with Team BLD, there's no way it could ever be added officially unless each team had a different group of scrambles.
The other big problem, from what I understood, was proper database integration and displaying results on the website. While I've handled the display aspect, I'm in no place to talk about programming Team BLD in.
The other big problem, from what I understood, was proper database integration and displaying results on the website. While I've handled the display aspect, I'm in no place to talk about programming Team BLD in.
Calode
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If any event gets added, it should be a cuboid. cubic cuboids especially. Either a cubic 3x3x4 or cubic 3x3x5 or both. Love solving my cuboids.
I think that REALLY DIFFERENT cubes should be added. I mean, all of the events are basically some type of modification of the standard Rubik's cube. All, except for Pyraminx and Skewb, which happen to be the two easiest and luck-based puzzles (along with 2x2x2), well, and also Square One (the only one that really stands out as a different cube which is really difficult to be learned intuitively and which has little to do with the original Rubik's cube). I think that we guys should expand our minds and enrich our competitions by adding really different and difficult cubes. I suggest:
- Mosaic / Helicopter / Curvy copter cubes.
- Marusenko Sphere level 5.
- Rex / Lattice / Master Skewb.
- Dreidel / Simplified Dreidel cubes.
- Some difficult cuboid.
- Pitcher Insanity cube.
- Some Mix-up cube.
- Some Dayan Gem.
Some will argue that most of them are way too difficult to be competitive, but the original Rubik's cube is REALLY difficult and it DID become competitive. Obviously, the moment the WCA decided to add some of these, people would start to think hard about how to solve them more efficiently and faster. It took 33 years to solve the Rubik's cube in less than 10 seconds...
N.B.: I'm not "a solver" of any of these (I just try to speedsolve 3x3, 4x4 and Megaminx) and I don't even have some of them, but I think it'd be nice to have some OTHER TYPES of cubes at a competitive level.
- Mosaic / Helicopter / Curvy copter cubes.
- Marusenko Sphere level 5.
- Rex / Lattice / Master Skewb.
- Dreidel / Simplified Dreidel cubes.
- Some difficult cuboid.
- Pitcher Insanity cube.
- Some Mix-up cube.
- Some Dayan Gem.
Some will argue that most of them are way too difficult to be competitive, but the original Rubik's cube is REALLY difficult and it DID become competitive. Obviously, the moment the WCA decided to add some of these, people would start to think hard about how to solve them more efficiently and faster. It took 33 years to solve the Rubik's cube in less than 10 seconds...
N.B.: I'm not "a solver" of any of these (I just try to speedsolve 3x3, 4x4 and Megaminx) and I don't even have some of them, but I think it'd be nice to have some OTHER TYPES of cubes at a competitive level.
TheCoolMinxer
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Why do people always want to add new events? I think there are already to many events...
DGCubes
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Personally, I think the more events, the better. It adds more variety to the WCA, and it will increase the cubing lifetime for people who like to do every event. It's especially frustrating since the WCA hasn't even touched entire genres of events (such as team events, cuboids, and shape mods). The only problem I see with having more events is that it would be hard to hold all of them at worlds, U.S. nats, Euros, etc., but they could still hold a majority and leave some minor events to local competitions. Nats 2016 is already leaving out feet.
Sajwo
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So do you think that not holding Feet at Championship is a good thing?
DGCubes
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Honestly, I don't, and I wish they'd have feet, but if we get a lot of events (say 25 or so) we could limit the big competitions to around 20 (unless they're really ambitious) and cycle out the ones not held, such as the less-competed-in events. It's hard to draw the line at what's fair and what's not, but I feel like a lot of people would rather have Mirror Blocks (just an example) at only some competitions rather than having it at none at all. For example, we could have the 18 that we currently have as standard events at all major championships, and then cycle through the remaining ones year after year.
