#Free2x2

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

i think they made the decision because yiheng is chinese and they would rather piss off everyone than look potentially racist. Also they show tons of favoritism to yiheng in general

The thing is it's wrong to conclude that everytime a decision doesn't favorite a person of color that it is racist, sometimes that might be the case but in this case DNFing the 0.78 would have been the most obvious decision. The problem could be that yiheng is finding a bunch of loopholes and unfortunately for some reason the board isn't doing the most logical thing

 

[LukasCubes]

When I signed the petition it was at 130-140ish
And now it's nearly 800

i was #732

 

[FenTheGoat]

The 0.78 standing is preferential treatment towards Yiheng. I feel like legal action could be taken here (I don’t necessary know what law, if any, has been broken tho.)

(Also, wouldn’t Yiheng still have a WR anyway? Like the WCA board should know that, assuming their main concern is taking records from Yiheng, then he’d still have a 0.90 wr average…)

Also, signed the petition

 

[precompsubwr]

then he’d still have a 0.90 wr average…)

that was probably sliding too, the only video we have is the 0.49 and he was sliding there

 

[Garf]

So just to be clear, the goal of this petition is to have the WCA/WDC dnf the .78 average and ban sliding, right? I’m not so good at interpreting things so I wanted to ask that.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

So just to be clear, the goal of this petition is to have the WCA/WDC dnf the .78 average and ban sliding, right? I’m not so good at interpreting things so I wanted to ask that.

yes that is the goal because other competitors are not allowed to slide while Yiheng is sitting over here with his 0.78 2x2 average with sliding

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

I signed petition

 

[Sub1Hour]

So just to be clear, the goal of this petition is to have the WCA/WDC dnf the .78 average and ban sliding, right? I’m not so good at interpreting things so I wanted to ask that.

The petition intends to convince the WCA board to reverse their decision to allow the 0.78 "world record" 2x2 average to stand. Despite WRC ruling in favor of DNFing or otherwise applying a penalty to the entire average, the board has abused their power by completely reversing that decision that should have been left to the regulations committee.

Sliding is already banned, which makes this whole situation even more infuriating since the announcement that this record would stand was made on a thread on the WCA forums that mentioned that all national, continental, and world records could now be scrutinized frame-by-frame by the WRC, but not the 0.78 average for some reason.

 

[Garf]

I signed it. Sliding isn’t cool, and it’s skill to cheat the time. You shouldn’t be able to solve while the timer isn’t going.

 

[Garf]

The petition intends to convince the WCA board to reverse their decision to allow the 0.78 "world record" 2x2 average to stand. Despite WRC ruling in favor of DNFing or otherwise applying a penalty to the entire average, the board has abused their power by completely reversing that decision that should have been left to the regulations committee.

Sliding is already banned, which makes this whole situation even more infuriating since the announcement that this record would stand was made on a thread on the WCA forums that mentioned that all national, continental, and world records could now be scrutinized frame-by-frame by the WRC, but not the 0.78 average for some reason.

That’s more confusing but I got the idea now.

 

[That_slow_guy]

Please sign this petition if you want to protest the decision by the WCA Board to overrule the WCA Regulations Committee's unanimous decision to penalize the 0.78 2x2 average. This move means that the illegal 0.78 sliding result will stand, but anybody else who slides in the future will be penalized. It is absurd to allow sliding for a World Record but then tell people they cannot slide to try and beat it.

https://chng.it/ZjYjw86BhZ

What’s sliding

 

[BVCuber13]

What’s sliding

When you slide your hands across the timer at the start to reduce your pickup time

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Bro

 

[bldcuber314]

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OK that's just ridiculous. Is his argument seriously that it's 'only 0.14 seconds' and 'he was barely touching the cube'? The 0.78 was WR by so much it'll take years to break.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

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btw this is a copy-pasta that was created as a joke

 

[Elrit]

Getting rid of stackmats is the only good solution imo

 

[Bingus cuber]

Stucube made a video on this, check it out. It summarizes this situation really well

 

[Davian]

2x2 is ruined atp, I am gonna 'try and be the first person to say ''dnf the .78'' when its 2025

 

[Curunír]

2x2 is ruined atp, I am gonna 'try and be the first person to say ''dnf the .78'' when its 2025

I'll beat you
cause i'm in the future

 

[Sion]

Honestly, favoritism and the new regimental nature of cubing are reasons I don't like cubing anymore. Cubing doesn't feel like a fun, competitive hobby anymore; it's just a toxic mess of sponsorships and young kids getting high-level coaching. Now, scandalous decisions from higher boards are something else getting thrown into this mix.

I miss the 2010s so much. To me, that was the golden age of this hobby. I miss the days where the best cubers were individuals with lots of passion, and weren't trained into the hobby. I don't think we will see those days ever again.

Things like this scandal tell me that cubing is slowly dying. It breaks my heart. I know people aren't likely to look favorably upon my opinion, but I'm tired of being quiet.

Edit: I wouldn't say cubing is dying in terms of popularity, but it's definitely losing the soul that made the hobby so special in the first place.