OSAKA 09 results

blah said:
Inusagi said:
That's a funny rule...
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Time constraints.
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Huh. But we never have to do that in California. Even at San Francisco Open 2009 (the 2nd biggest competition ever, although most people just did 3x3) we could compete in a lot of events, although we did have the advantages of (a) tons of timers, and (b) tons of available judges/scramblers (the majority of the fast or very experienced cubers in the area are part of the judging team).

But even if we did have time constraints, I'd definitely try to make an exception for people like Nakajima! I can understand not wanting random people to waste time doing events they're not good at, but for someone like Yu or Yumu or Syuhei there would be no hesitation.
 
Why is everyone so surprised?
Yumu had many AsRs in many events, why not a 3x3 WR?
I'm not surprised that Nakajima did not participate in 3x3. I've seen the post that he said he would do 5, 6, 7, and Megaminx. Also, David Woner didn't do 3x3 at UPenn. Rowe Hessler didn't do 3x3 at Captain's Cove competition 2008.
Edit: apparently there was a rule that you can only do 4 events. Although the reason for that is time restraint, the fastest people won't waste much time, it is still unfair for slower people. A slower cubist doing magic, pyraminx, master magic, 2x2, 3x3, and clock could still easily do all these events faster than a fast cubist doing 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, and megaminx.
 
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qqwref said:
blah said:
Inusagi said:
That's a funny rule...
Click to expand...

Time constraints.
Click to expand...

Huh. But we never have to do that in California. Even at San Francisco Open 2009 (the 2nd biggest competition ever, although most people just did 3x3) we could compete in a lot of events, although we did have the advantages of (a) tons of timers, and (b) tons of available judges/scramblers (the majority of the fast or very experienced cubers in the area are part of the judging team).

But even if we did have time constraints, I'd definitely try to make an exception for people like Nakajima! I can understand not wanting random people to waste time doing events they're not good at, but for someone like Yu or Yumu or Syuhei there would be no hesitation.
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There are a number of ways to solve this problem. You could limit people to N number of events, not counting events that they 'qualify for.' Qualification can be something like 'Top 50' world rank, or something along those lines.

I've set up nationals the way it is so that unless people reach a certain standard, they don't have a guaranteed spot in the first round. However, the qualification scheme gives EVERYONE a chance to theoretically win an event, however unlikely that it is. But it makes sense that if you had some sub-10 cuber who had never competed before, perhaps he doesn't qualify for the first round, but he would easily make it out of the qualification round.

Consider the 'qualification round' an opportunity for people to qualify for the main event at the event itself.
 
Aah, Japanese competitions always have so many records. It looks like Yu Nakajima had been studying big cubes for a while.
 
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