"Don't add x event because it's hard for competitions to hold all events"
"Remove x event because it's hard for competitions to hold all events"
Do you think feet solving is hard to get in? How about 7x7!? The fastest feet solvers are sub-1 and the fastest 7x7 solvers are sub 3. I never seriously practice feet solving, but if I do a solve I can easily get under my 7x7 average. What about clock? Clock is a serious problem? Right. Clock makes all the competitions slow, totally. Getting rid of it because it isn't a normal puzzle seems pretty unfair to serious clock solvers. Most people might not care about it, but some do.
To the people arguing that competitions are getting overwhelmed by having too many events, THAT IS COMPLETE NONSENSE. No competition is being forced to hold every event. I get that Nationals, Worlds, etc. would try to hold all/most events, but this year Nats didn't have feet, and to my knowledge no one was terribly sad about that. I don't want to sound like I know everything that goes into organizing Nationals, but the way to fit Kilominx seems rather obvious: lower the cutoffs for side events, or lower the competitor limit (*GASP*). Make a somewhat harsh cutoff for Kilominx itself. Again, I want to stress that I don't know exactly how this works, but I believe it's likely that using the exact same setup as Nats 2016, just with harsher cutoffs for Friday's events, Kilominx could have been hosted that day (if it were an event). Other option? Don't hold an event. Feet wasn't held. I don't think that they shouldn't drop the same event(s) two years in a row. Here's another thing: If Kilominx became official on January 1, 2017, and Nationals did not hold a round or rounds of Kilominx, then it would be holding the exact same events which it would if Kilominx were not added as an official event. Local competitions miss events all the time. Hardly any competitions have all events. If I practiced Skewb (lol I will never), learned full Skewb EG, and did tens of thousands of solves, and there is a competition in my area that does not hold Skewb, should I complain? They weren't taking into consideration how much effort I put into Skewb and just ignored it. It's not the responsibility of every competition to hold every event, even bigger ones. If every competition had every event and a super high competitor limit, it is just basic math that the cutoffs would be insane. Many of us would never get, say, a 6x6 mean, given that they would need to make a harsh cutoff. tl;dr More events is not worse. That is stupid.
Listening to the request of community pays off.. always
