Changes to the WCA event list.

[abunickabhi]

First half of 2027 will be fun with WCA finally having 18 total events!!

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Interesting

 

[Mike Hughey]

First half of 2027 will be fun with WCA finally having 18 total events!!

The WCA had 19 events for a while in the past. (magic, master magic, feet, no skewb yet)

 

[Martyt7777]

https://www.youtube.com/@ClockUntilTheWCABringsItBack

Shoutout to this guy

 

[thecubicwizard]

any news on the clock thing or is the wca not doing anything

 

[Martyt7777]

Is there any more footage on the clock funeral of Euros?

 

[Martyt7777]

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxottLE5sULm2HqaS4NZrznL-QFjJKvtEj

They cropped the “free clock” hat out of the picture

 

[-Cube Kid-]

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxottLE5sULm2HqaS4NZrznL-QFjJKvtEj

They cropped the “free clock” hat out of the picture

This is just proof that the WCA doesn't want to listen to the community. I am getting fed up with this kind of stuff from them. The board shouldn't have so much power!

 

[Deleted member 27249]

Also, its very sad to see only one event added
i wanted kilominx

Same kilominx Is a good idea to event add, if exist 2x2 why not kilominx? But I understand the decision to remove clock and Is a sage decision.

 

[-Cube Kid-]

Interesting

The fact that the WCA has a "confidential reason" either means that they don't think it is a very valid one or that they are so "high and mighty" that they don't need to tell the community this. This is just sad. I will continue to be mad at the WCA until they become community-focused again.

 

[Clock_Enthusiast]

It feels like the WCA already wanted to add and remove an event, released a poll to gauge public opinion, then disregarded the fact that most of the community really doesn't want to see events removed. I personally feel that "spectator friendliness" and the values of prioritizing twisting geometrical puzzles are weak arguments for detracting from a large portion of the community, and much of the impact will be felt at local competitions (where spectator friendliness is hardly applicable). If we're being technical, the name World Cube Association should most certainly be modified to reflect fundamental values regarding the diverse geometries of validated twisty puzzles.
If scrambling is a concern, why don't we talk about megaminx? I know many competitions don't run it because proportionately, few people even know how to scramble it. Same with Square-1, albeit more popular (this isn't an argument against megaminx being an event, as it should absolutely remain as well). You select the most experienced competitors to scramble these, and I'm sure people wouldn't mind helping a little more if it means the event could stay. If delegates and organizers don't have experience running clock or don't want to, then they don't need to hold it at their competitions. Easy.

It feels like a huge reason for this unprecedented decision was the World Championship scandal caused by a simple error. Any puzzle can have a misscramble, and it reads as collective punishment for unaccountability and unfair calls. In that case, it does not matter how many times you check a scramble if the scramble is wrong. Transport issues are still rare, and the vast majority used to be from pins, which are no longer applicable. Yes, a lot of people voted for clock as a candidate event for removal (still not the highest number of votes), but this was the separate question of: If an event were to be removed, which should it be? This is a subset of all respondents who overall strongly favored no event removal to begin with. The the number of competitors who voted for clock represent fewer than a third of all respondents. It clearly isn't in the interest of the community and feels like a very arbitrary decision. I fully support the addition of FTO, which most of the community seems to support as well; but removing a popular event (with far more methodological development, hardware, and public interest) is completely unnecessary.

The final note that other events will be similarly reviewed isn't reassuring whatsoever; for example, 7x7 and 5BLD. There are MANY people who spend massive amounts of time on these and main them, so should we not get too attached to any event we enjoy? The WCA needs to decide on a balance between commercialization and community, because if competitions and events are now contingent on visual enrichment from certain puzzles for views and sponsorship, then our broader cubing community is no longer the priority. When I started cubing, community and shared interest was of greater significance than results, exclusivity, and clout.

 

[MrCubert]

 

[Martyt7777]

Dan Smith gives his thoughts on the clock removal and the aftermath exactly 35 minutes in

 

[pi=3.14]

6k signatures

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

Dan Smith gives his thoughts on the clock removal and the aftermath exactly 35 minutes in

why a tent of all places gng

 

[Thomas.Caleb]

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The stream quality at nac 2026 was awful.

 

[Davian]

Is there any more footage on the clock funeral of Euros?

This is the only thing that i saw with the funeral, there weren't any free clock chants unfortunately. I sat next to antoni's mom during clock finals and they did hold up a sign with #antoniismyworldchampion.

however, there were alot of people with free clock shirts.

 

[-Cube Kid-]

WE HIT 6K SIGNATURESSSSSS!!!!!!!! https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-...itial&utm_medium=copylink&share_id=QwgGCTtb4W

 

[Cubing_Grandson]

WE HIT 6K SIGNATURESSSSSS!!!!!!!! https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-...itial&utm_medium=copylink&share_id=QwgGCTtb4W

It doesn't matter if we get 1 billion signatures the WCA will still ignore it

 

[Martyt7777]

Oh dear god