Klaudiusz Szyprocinski
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- Dec 12, 2018
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I read WCA regulations over and over again and this is something I need to speak about. There are so many issues with all BLD events and OH that we should do something about this.
So, as you know the regulations doesn not always make sense. For example in the past literally nobody would think that introducing 3BLD means is a good idea. People were confident with just single being recognized, so they can push their attempts as fast as possible to get a golden medal or to set a new record. At the time they made the thing official, people argued that the same thing should be done with 4BLD and 5BLD. Why this took 6 years, I don't know? It's unfair to every world class big blinders with a good effectiveness. They could have go for WR mean but didn't do because there was no point in doing that. Retroactive WRs just doesn't give so much satisfation and I feel they are sometimes even random as people simply don't care enough. Also it is 7th January already and I don't see the means on WCA website. It should be done a week ago, come on it's probably a few minutes of work.
I won't be surprised if they make a MBLD mean in the future. Obviously current MBDLers and organisers will be affected if that will be introduced and announced just a few weeks before like it was done with Big Blinds.
Cheaters:
BLD events has a highest percentage of people cheating on world class level. It all started with Matyas Kuti and you thought a piece of paper will solve the problem.
Matyas. Maskow. Zalewski. Hessler. Fabio de Rose. Haiyan Zhuang. And possibly many more we don't know about.
My suggestion: delegate has to be present and oversee the solves of all blders. Harmonica holders are mandatory for everyone - judges tend to hold the paper too low or too high so competitor can sometimes peek under the blindfold. That could solve some of the problems.
Cameras:
WCA grows exponentially. There are more and more competitors and competitions every year. For the same reason there are more and more incidents which not always can be honestly handled - not always you have witnesses and not always you have proof of cheating on camera.
Speedstacks timer costs ~30$. Tournament display can cost around ~200$ and the mat with cables ~15$. That's almost 250$ per one station. Sooo...
Is it really so hard to equip every station with some cheap cameras you can find on aliexpress? You can buy them for as little as 20-30$ and the quality is just right. That's 10% of costs of the whole station and if mandatory on every competition on earth, this will basically solve every single problem with cheaters and incidents. Of course you will need some kind of database to keep them for I don't know, 1-2 years?
OH:
Please ban heavy table abuse. Rouxers will dominate that event and it will basically become as retarded as 2x2x2 single solve. You should use one hand to hold the cube. Currently rouxers use one hand but they replace the other one with the table which holds the cube for them. It just doesn't feel right. Of course CFOPers also abuse the table, but the cube has contact with its surface for a fraction of a second. They use it continuously. Rouxers can have 6 seconds average for TH and 7 seconds average for OH.
That's all for now, I will update when I have more time.
So, as you know the regulations doesn not always make sense. For example in the past literally nobody would think that introducing 3BLD means is a good idea. People were confident with just single being recognized, so they can push their attempts as fast as possible to get a golden medal or to set a new record. At the time they made the thing official, people argued that the same thing should be done with 4BLD and 5BLD. Why this took 6 years, I don't know? It's unfair to every world class big blinders with a good effectiveness. They could have go for WR mean but didn't do because there was no point in doing that. Retroactive WRs just doesn't give so much satisfation and I feel they are sometimes even random as people simply don't care enough. Also it is 7th January already and I don't see the means on WCA website. It should be done a week ago, come on it's probably a few minutes of work.
I won't be surprised if they make a MBLD mean in the future. Obviously current MBDLers and organisers will be affected if that will be introduced and announced just a few weeks before like it was done with Big Blinds.
Cheaters:
BLD events has a highest percentage of people cheating on world class level. It all started with Matyas Kuti and you thought a piece of paper will solve the problem.
Matyas. Maskow. Zalewski. Hessler. Fabio de Rose. Haiyan Zhuang. And possibly many more we don't know about.
My suggestion: delegate has to be present and oversee the solves of all blders. Harmonica holders are mandatory for everyone - judges tend to hold the paper too low or too high so competitor can sometimes peek under the blindfold. That could solve some of the problems.
Cameras:
WCA grows exponentially. There are more and more competitors and competitions every year. For the same reason there are more and more incidents which not always can be honestly handled - not always you have witnesses and not always you have proof of cheating on camera.
Speedstacks timer costs ~30$. Tournament display can cost around ~200$ and the mat with cables ~15$. That's almost 250$ per one station. Sooo...
Is it really so hard to equip every station with some cheap cameras you can find on aliexpress? You can buy them for as little as 20-30$ and the quality is just right. That's 10% of costs of the whole station and if mandatory on every competition on earth, this will basically solve every single problem with cheaters and incidents. Of course you will need some kind of database to keep them for I don't know, 1-2 years?
OH:
Please ban heavy table abuse. Rouxers will dominate that event and it will basically become as retarded as 2x2x2 single solve. You should use one hand to hold the cube. Currently rouxers use one hand but they replace the other one with the table which holds the cube for them. It just doesn't feel right. Of course CFOPers also abuse the table, but the cube has contact with its surface for a fraction of a second. They use it continuously. Rouxers can have 6 seconds average for TH and 7 seconds average for OH.
That's all for now, I will update when I have more time.
Feliks seems to only sometimes use the table for megaminx, which is in stark contrast to most other top megaminxers. He probably could be about as fast as he is now, even without any table abuse.
