The End of the Feliks Era?

[casi]

With a stunning win over the Dream Team in a 2x2-7x7 relay(Chris Olsen(2x2), Mats Valk(3x3), Sebastian Weyer(4x4), Patrick Ponce(5x5), Feliks Zemdegs(6x6), Kevin Hays(7x7)) at US Nationals 2018, Max Park secured his status as the best cuber in the world.

Does this mark the end of the Feliks Era and usher in the Max Era? Post down below.

This is the best video covering the race.

 

[joshsailscga]

I mean I would say that the "era" already changed over some time ago, and I believe most top cubers would agree with me. It is also an interesting thing to note that the actual "dream team" to try to beat Max would be more like:
7x7: Kevin
6x6: Feliks
5x5: Feliks
4x4: Sebastian
3x3: Feliks
2x2: Anyone sub-2

 

[rubik2005]

Max Park is really getting fast, and he took almost every WR from Feliks.Max is showing incredible times at home, and at comps. Maybe it is the Max era!!!

 

[LightFlame_]

6x6: Feliks
2x2: Anyone sub-2

for 6x6 either feliks or patrick
for 2x2... maybe maciej or rami

 

[joshsailscga]

for 6x6 either feliks or patrick
for 2x2... maybe maciej or rami

Uhh...Feliks has a 1:23 6x6 mean, Patrick has a 1:40. There's really only 3 people in the top bracket of big cubes right now, as evidenced by results from any comp recently.
And for 2x2, the point is that in the span of ~5 minutes, a couple hundreths of a second doesn't make a difference. Why not Will or Chris et cetera? It can be whoever.

 

[LightFlame_]

General complaint that Kevin decided to be rude and distract Patrick. ???

Though nice job to Max, beating that many speedcubers at the same time is very hard to do, and he made it look easy.

 

[lucarubik]

im confused doesm't this only prove that he is better than the 7x7 guy? I'd asume he has more room to take a lead on the 6x6 and 7x7 than on all the other five combined.
For sure the guy is great and the video is great too but i don't think one is evidence of the other

 

[AbsoRuud]

He beat 2 out of 6 opponents. He just beat them big time to compensate for losing time on the other 4 events. Nevertheless this is an amazing feat by the top cuber today. Max will break the 3x3x3 single and Ao5 soon I'm sure.

 

[Mike Hughey]

One thing I didn't understand from the video - did everyone get to inspect for 15 seconds, or just Chris and Max? If everyone got to inspect, I'd say Max totally killed them.

 

[abunickabhi]

It is the Max era and I am proud of it. Never have I seen a more hardworking cuber than Max.

 

[turtwig]

One thing I didn't understand from the video - did everyone get to inspect for 15 seconds, or just Chris and Max? If everyone got to inspect, I'd say Max totally killed them.

Everyone got to inspect until they started (although not everyone took advantage of this ).

 

[Gomorrite]

I hope we are entering soon the era of specialization in which different cubers dominate different events, but Max Park is actually making it difficult to enter this era.

 

[Galcor117]

Honestly I want to see just Max and Feliks race (same events, 2-7)... or has this already happened?

 

[casi]

Feliks took #1 in Nats, so...

 

[ARobey]

Well, Feliks cant cube forever, and as he gets older and busier, he will have less time to cube. The more time that passes by, the more like someone will overtake him. The same thing will eventually happen to Max, and whoever comes after him. Thats just how things work.

 

[Galcor117]

Well, Feliks cant cube forever, and as he gets older and busier, he will have less time to cube. The more time that passes by, the more like someone will overtake him. The same thing will eventually happen to Max, and whoever comes after him. Thats just how things work.

But busy with what?
Maybe Max may have a different path, but i cant imagine feliks doing anything else than cubing

 

[Tabe]

But busy with what?
Maybe Max may have a different path, but i cant imagine feliks doing anything else than cubing

Do you think he just sits around cubing all day? He goes to school, has done internships, and so on.

 

[Galcor117]

Do you think he just sits around cubing all day? He goes to school, has done internships, and so on.

Be more specific... Do you really know what he actually does besides cubing?

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Be more specific... Do you really know what he actually does besides cubing?

He’s studying engineering at Melbourne University lol you really believe he sits at home does nothing and cubes all day.

 

[h2f]

Be more specific... Do you really know what he actually does besides cubing?

In one of interviews he said hes cubing only during competition. In the same interview he said:
"It's funny that few days after I've broken new WR in single by 9% someone said my era has ended."

It was translated into Polish so it's a translation of translation but the sense is the same.