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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grama said:
StefanPochmann said:
[...] No reason to remove them from WCA unless *nobody* wants them anymore.
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I disagree, there are plenty of reason to take out an official event, one of them is time, if you have too many official events, a competition that wants to make them all may be in trouble at organizing everything. So if someone considers an event too "stupid", "unpopular" or for some reason unsuitable for being official, they should manifest it.
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But there's no requirement that a competition must hold every official event.
 
grama said:
that's why i said "a competition that WANTS to make them all"
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But if you really want to do them all, you can still do them all. If you don't want the trouble in organizing to do that many events, then you don't want to do them all.

It seems like you're more interested in a competition that wants to be able to claim (meaning "brag") that they're doing them all. Admittedly, having more events makes that difficult.

Maybe we could have different classes of events - something like "main events" and "side events". Not just for a given competition, like it is today, but as an overall WCA designation. If we did that, we'd probably want most of the current events to be "main events", with just the ones lots of people don't like as "side events". (I realize that would probably mean 5x5x5 BLD and maybe even 4x4x4 BLD becoming "side events", which would disappoint me, but I could live with it. And I'll argue that 4x4x4 BLD is really starting to become mainstream, so I'd resist that one becoming a side event.) So solving with feet, magic, and master magic might become side events. And then we could add a whole bunch more if we like to the side events. (Like 6x6x6 BLD, 7x7x7 BLD, megaminx BLD, Square-1 BLD, 7x7x7 multiBLD, etc. :))

Then a competition that wants to claim (brag) they're doing them all can simply offer all main events, and not even worry about side events, since they're "just side events". But it would still be a thing of (admittedly more limited) honor to be good at a side event, so fun for everyone, no?
 
grama said:
that's why i said "a competition that WANTS to make them all"
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By this logic, we shouldn't allow any new competitors, because a competition that wants to hold all events may not be able to due to time constraints because of an increase in the number of competitors.
 
2^3 FMC is fun, I would like to see it sometimes in competitions, but not as an official event. And 5 minutes is ridiculously low, 15 or 20 minutes would be better to prevent it from being pure luck.
 
That would be strange to have both old and new multi blind.

I want speedblind ! :d
(with a time limit for memorisation, like 20 or 30 min it wouldn't be so hard to organise, and it's a very different event from all the other official ones)
 
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Mike Hughey said:
(And I'm talking about the extreme end. It's simply not all that extreme. Compared to the big pi memorization efforts, it's, well, as easy as pie. :))
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So 8.53973... ?

Bob said:
Events I would like to see added:
* Team BLD - there are some administrative & database integration issues that would have to be considered, but it's a great event, a lot of fun, very different from existing events, and offers a team aspect to our currently individualized sport.

* Skewb - this puzzle is easily available and is sufficiently different from the existing puzzles. it is also very easy to learn and does not take too long (shorter than square-1) to solve, and especially scramble. Scrambling would be very easy because the puzzle's depth is only 11, so would be somewhere on par with 2x2x2.
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Agreed.


Bob said:
Events I would like to see altered:
* Magic/Master Magic - going from scrambled state to linked rings. This is tricky because a notation would have to be developed, but it wouldn't be too hard if shapes remained flat. However, IIRC, for magic there are only 2*8*4 = 64 flat shapes and the Master Magic has only 15*8*6=720 flat shapes. Thus, the probability of a "lucky case" (ie - 3 unlinked rings or just needing 6 flips for the Magic) is very high, especially when compared to 2x2 or 3x3.
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Disagreed until magic strings are more widely available for purchase.

I would like to see a braille cube (or something similar) and void cube added.

I'd also like to see a throw-your-speedcube-against-a-wall-and-the-biggest-pop-wins event. Should be amusing.
 
Garmon said:
byu said:
Speedblind would be fun, but I take over an hour to memorize... :)
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That would be interesting, with practice people could get very fast.
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You could learn what F2L algorithms do to the rest of the pieces... In sighted solves that's not important, so you don't know, but you could learn them, just like how you could learn what permutation an OLL would perform:

FRUR'U'F' is a Y-perm, b-i-t-c-h-e-s!!!
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Oh, on topic: Mirror blocks :)
 
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