Changes to the Weekly Competition website

[Mike Hughey]

Tried to use the website for the first time, but I got "error: Username is already in use" when trying to make an account (same username as here, "xyzzy").

I believe you got added somehow as Mats was attempting to add results from the forum. Perhaps it was because he was including you with the intention of eventually including your results from recent years from the forum into the website.

I will PM you with instructions to get you going.

To anyone else who would like to sign up to use the website and is having any sort of trouble, please PM me and I will be happy to get you set up to use the site.

On another topic, I think I am going to have to start removing DNF results that are obviously people who have not even attempted the solve. In order to enter a DNF, you must actually have genuinely attempted to solve the puzzle. For non-BLD events, I'm going to assume that having all 5 solves DNF implies that you probably didn't really try to solve them. For BLD events, I will be generous if I know you really have a history of doing BLD solves, but if you want to be sure I don't remove your BLD results, please include some information about how the solve went so that I know that you really tried it. With the new BLD timer, it's pretty easy to at least include the memorization split for your DNF.

If you have a problem with DNFs that I removed, please PM me about that as well and we can discuss it.

 

[Shadowjockey]

I'd love to see an option to change the colors of the site bcause:

#1: the yellow/green is kind of ugly

#2: i usually time with cstimer (everything black or grey) and the bright colors illuminate my cube in a way that makes it harder to recognise the colors

#3: i can't F12 to change the colors because that starts the timer

 

[whatshisbucket]

There appear to several fake single results that were missed when they happened and now sit at the top of the rankings in several events.

 

[CarterK]

There appear to several fake single results that were missed when they happened and now sit at the top of the rankings in several events.

yeah. Quite a few events that shouldn't have fast singles have singles that are obviously not real. Such as 2.20 megaminx single

 

[Mike Hughey]

yeah. Quite a few events that shouldn't have fast singles have singles that are obviously not real. Such as 2.20 megaminx single

Mats is going through adding old results that were entered in the forum but not on the website. I see I need to go through and clean up those results. I'll work on it.

 

[MatsBergsten]

Mats is going through adding old results that were entered in the forum but not on the website. I see I need to go through and clean up those results. I'll work on it.

There are lots of typos in old results (not necessarely cheating) and those were not so
easy to spot earlier as you most often only saw the averages. Please point out obvious errors.

 

[MatsBergsten]

yeah. Quite a few events that shouldn't have fast singles have singles that are obviously not real. Such as 2.20 megaminx single

Now at least those mistakes are corrected (there were five singles sub-11)

 

[whatshisbucket]

The obvious ones have been removed. The only one I noticed that is definitely not real is the 5.08 3x3 single (was probably supposed to be 55.08 or something like that).

 

[MatsBergsten]

The obvious ones have been removed. The only one I noticed that is definitely not real is the 5.08 3x3 single (was probably supposed to be 55.08 or something like that).

Fixed that one too. It was the standard deviation that was 5.08

 

[Mike Hughey]

A low priority feature request: it'd be nice to see your PB single / average on the Compete page for an event.

I just added this. Let me know if you see any problems with it.

 

[CornerCutter]

Thank you guys for adding inspection and the PB stuff!

I regards to a discussion a few weeks ago. I think if there is over 100 people competing then you should have a chance to win the gift card every week.

 

[CarterK]

Thank you guys for adding inspection and the PB stuff!

I regards to a discussion a few weeks ago. I think if there is over 100 people competing then you should have a chance to win the gift card every week.

How is this different from before? There are rarely any weeks that are under 100 people.

 

[dnguyen2204]

How is this different from before? There are rarely any weeks that are under 100 people.

I think there's some rule right now that says you can't win a card more than once in 5 weeks.

 

[CarterK]

I think there's some rule right now that says you can't win a card more than once in 5 weeks.

Still, I don't see why you would change it.

 

[CornerCutter]

How is this different from before? There are rarely any weeks that are under 100 people.

Still, I don't see why you would change it.

Last year when the gift card started there were only 50-70 people competing every week so people had a much greater chance. Now there are 130+.

 

[One Wheel]

Last year when the gift card started there were only 50-70 people competing every week so people had a much greater chance. Now there are 130+.

That really doesn't seem like a reason to change it. If anything having more people reduces the chance that one person will win it twice but makes it even more unfair if someone does.

 

[ichcubegerne]

How about a overall Kinch Rank in the Profile along with the overall PBs? Would be pretty cool and doesnt seem like much work

 

[Mike Hughey]

Overall Kinch score would be easy, but overall Kinch rank would be quite difficult because I currently do no preprocessing on the database (and telling you your Kinch rank relative to everyone else would require calculations against every single result in the entire database!).

But I do hope to add some preprocessing someday, so I'll try to make sure I can add that when I do - thanks for the suggestion!

 

[xyzzy]

I have a 0/-1 MBLD result on the competition site for 2017-43, which is supposed to correspond to a DNS, but it also counts as one point since (cubes solved − cubes unsolved) = 0 − (−1) = 1. The actual result for that week was a 0/2 12:xx, though.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I have a 0/-1 MBLD result on the competition site for 2017-43, which is supposed to correspond to a DNS, but it also counts as one point since (cubes solved − cubes unsolved) = 0 − (−1) = 1. The actual result for that week was a 0/2 12:xx, though.

Thank you. I have hopefully fixed it.