AbsoRuud
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I think your logic is so immensely flawed that I am going to choose to no longer reply.
I think your logic is so immensely flawed that I am going to choose to no longer reply.
Saying my logic is flawed, but giving no proof and simply using the age-old comeback of "I'm just not even going to reply" isn't even an answer to what I said. Unless you can't answer it, in which your entire statement was a lie, there's no reason not to respond to my argument
Then make arguments that are based on actual logic rather than what you feel should be a twisty puzzle.
"The World Cube Association governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as 'twisty puzzles'. The most famous of these puzzles is the Rubik's Cube, invented by professor Rubik from Hungary. A selection of these puzzles are chosen as official events of the WCA."
Turning a dial isn't technically twisting groups of pieces. And a pin isn't twisted at all. If you want to say the clock faces move, they're never actually touched by the solver. The solver simply turns a singular piece(dial) and pushes pins up and down
I also think similarly to prostar.
It's cubing association. Cubing. Solving cubes.
For me and i think a big part of general public WCA is the Rubik's Magic Cube aka 3x3x3 plus variations of it.
Smaller, bigger, solving weird way, turning weird ways, other cuboids all fit.
Clock doesn't fit. It's here because it comes from the same toy company which produced first 3x3.
The only way it might look like it fits is that it has been here for a long time, people got used to it and came up with their definition of a suitable puzzle that includes a clock.
But because it's been here for a while and doesn't hurt anyone I think it's ok for it to stay.
I do think clock is a stupid event, but I don't think it should be removed. The argument that it's not a twisty puzzle is completely bogus though, because nobody has a clear definition of what a twisty puzzle is. People usually go to some definition of "twist" and clock clearly fits the definition of that. There's surely something intuitively different about clock compared to other WCA puzzles, but it's not that it doesn't belong with twisty puzzles.
First of all, half of the community does not do clock, and second, why did you bump a 9-month-old thread?Hello if we remove clock we’re going to remove half of the community.
if clock gets removed the half of the community is in outrage, unlike feet, where only a small portion liked the event.Hello if we remove clock we’re going to remove half of the community.
Even though few people competed in feet, more than half the community was outraged at the removal of feet.if clock gets removed the half of the community is in outrage, unlike feet, where only a small portion liked the event.
Even though few people competed in feet, more than half the community was outraged at the removal of feet.
It's kind of like how if you don't live in sudan, you can still wish they had more water and try to do something about itThat's true, but also ridiculous. If you don't care about the event enough to do it, then why are you mad when it gets removed? For stuff like BLD, it makes sense to have low participation, because it's hard. But the barrier to participation is very low for Feet, as pretty much anyone who can solve a 3x3 could do feet
It's kind of like how if you don't live in sudan, you can still wish they had more water and try to do something about it
I don't personally enjoy solving cubes with my feet, but I know others do, and it's unfair to take that as an official event away from people without adequate reason (which there wasn't). If an organizer thinks it's gross, nobody's making them include it in their competition. Competitors who think it's weird don't have to compete in it.That's true, but also ridiculous. If you don't care about the event enough to do it, then why are you mad when it gets removed? For stuff like BLD, it makes sense to have low participation, because it's hard. But the barrier to participation is very low for Feet, as pretty much anyone who can solve a 3x3 could do feet