What event would you like to become WCA official?

Multiple choice! Vote for the events you would like to be WCA official.

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sooland said:
Square one blindfold seems to be pretty popular
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It's not, but most of the people who would/could do it are on speedsolving. I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if less than ten people have successfully done a sq1BLD in competition within the first year. I think I've only ever heard of 5 or so people who have actually done a sq1BLD... not very popular at all, I'd say.
 
qqwref said:
sooland said:
Square one blindfold seems to be pretty popular
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It's not, but most of the people who would/could do it are on speedsolving. I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if less than ten people have successfully done a sq1BLD in competition within the first year. I think I've only ever heard of 5 or so people who have actually done a sq1BLD... not very popular at all, I'd say.
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4 people have posted their sq1BLD records to speedcubing.com

I really want to do a Square-1 BLD, but I find it hard to trace through cube shape, otherwise I could probably do it.
 
Sa967St said:
is this thread just for fun, or will some of this stuff be considered as becoming official events?
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No, but I guess this thread can get people thinking about possible future events and maybe some WCA organisers and delegates can take this thread into account if they decide to create another event. Maybe.
 
I don't know why anyone is saying skewb is popular at all, I've seen less than 3 skewb videos posted on any forums in the past 6 years. Either there are no videos, or no one cares and they get no views and are lost in the Internet. I even have two skewbs and they are just as useless as the 2x2 in competition. My opinion is that there needs to be more difficult categories, and not stupid easy puzzles that anyone can learn to solve in <10 minutes. 3x3x3 speed bld sounds fun, and so does relay.
 
kippy33 said:
qqwref said:
For 3x3 no inspection: how about the fact that it's really hard to organize? You basically have to have the judge uncover the cube at the exact same time that the solver picks up his hands off the timer. It's too difficult to judge whether the solver has taken an extra half second of inspection or not.
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You could just do it the same way BLD is done, where the competitor must remove the cover themselves.
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That's precisely what we did at Clermont Open.
Anyway, although it is fun I definitely would *not* want to see 3^3 no inspection as an official event, because it's really way to close to 3^3 speedsolve, and having to improvize your first step instead of planning it is not a difficult challenge at all.
 
MistArts said:
Multiple Fewest Moves

Solve as many scrambles under X moves under one hour. Number of scrambles are chosen before the event, like multiple-BLD. Successes minus failures will make up your points, like multiple-BLD.
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I also thought how to rise fun with FM - and maybe mean of 3 in FM? 3 scrambles - 1,5 hour (we do this unofficialy in Warsaw Open - and for me that was great fun - much better than actually FM :P)

After J. Coll break WR in FM (btw congrats Jimmy ;) ) probability to break it again or even equalize it is almost impossible.. so maybe we should count a mean of 3 in FM beside of singles? ;)
 
I really like this talk of team bld. Something that would force cubers to practice *together* to get good. As has already been mentioned, a team aspect to speedcubing is completely absent. Besides the database issues, I think the most important thing to figure out would be how to regulate the event. In regular bld, we're very careful to not let the competitor see the puzzle. A blindfold is not sufficient. But for team bld, one of the competitors does need to see the puzzle. Does anyone have an idea to completely block the solver's view of the puzzle, while still letting the caller see? I'm reminded of this: http://www.stefan-pochmann.de/spocc/blindsolving/blindfolds/. Would it work to require each team to bring a towel that would be inspected by the scramblers at the scrambling table (just as they inspect puzzles for legality)?
 
Bob said:
* 2x2x2 - lucky cases are much too frequent, requiring "easy" scrambles for attempts at WR to be possible.
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Huh? You just said before that 1 in every 300 competitions you'd get a FL skip. I thought you were being sarcastic? I'm confused...

Anyway, I think pyraminx crystal should be added. Magics + Feet should be removed.
 
To those who want certain events removed: Do you actually have something *against* them? Or do you just *not* have something *for* them? Because in the latter case, simply don't do them. No reason to remove them from WCA unless *nobody* wants them anymore.
 
Pyraminx crystals are hard to come by. They're almost collector's items. You can't puchase them anywhere, not even on ebay.
Also, let's just focus on events to be added, not removed
 
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