WCA Regulations 2010

[04mucklowd]

The WCA Regulations 2010 are now final.

See http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations for the new version.
See http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/regulations_history2010.... for all changes.
See http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/regulations2010new.html for the 2010 version with all changes marked.
See http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/WCARegulations2010.pdf for the 2010 version in PDF.

All competitions starting today (April 14, 2010) must use this new version of the regulations.

Most important changes are:
= Preferred format for Megaminx is now 'Average of 5'.

Other changes for competitors:
= Stricter rules for timer malfunctions. Timer shows 0.01 - 0.05: extra attempt (unless intentional by competitor). Timer shows 0.06 or higher: DNF (unless reproducible malfunctioning).
= Puzzles with textures or painted colours are now accepted.
= Blindfolded: Competitors must bring their own blindfold.
= Fewest moves: Solutions maximum 80 moves and/or rotations.
= Magic: No practice solves on timer.

Other changes for competition organisers:
= WCA delegate is now responsible for providing the scrambles.
= Improved scramble programs.
= At least 25% of competitors must not proceed to round.

Thank you all for your feedback and contributions.
We did our best to cover all your feedback, but it is never possible to make everyone happy.
Feedback is always welcome in the WCA Forum.

Happy cubing,

Ron van Bruchem
World Cube Association

Megaminx avverage of 5!!!!

 

[Tdude]

y did u write Megaminx average of 5 below?

 

[joey]

y did u write Megaminx average of 5 below?

'cause it's his favourite event

 

[Tim Major]

"3d) Twisty Puzzles must either have coloured stickers, coloured tiles, textures or painted colours."

That's been fixed, but also, textures? So I could do bld with a differently textured cube for each side. Will this be fixed, or we may soon have sub 20 bld solves

Edit: B1d) Solving phase must be done on a puzzle with tiles, stickers or paint, without different textures or markings.
So I was wrong.

 

[TheBB]

Yesss... no more having to improvise blindfolds.

 

[aegius1r]

"3d) Twisty Puzzles must either have coloured stickers, coloured tiles, textures or painted colours."

That's been fixed, but also, textures? So I could do bld with a differently textured cube for each side. Will this be fixed, or we may soon have sub 20 bld solves

I don't think that there will be, touching the cube and figureing out which one is the right piece...simply memorise them will be much much easier.
(As no one can do bumpcube blindfolding really fast.)

On topic, shoun't the rule "= Magic: No practice solves on timer." work on mastermagic as well?

 

[Bryan]

Yesss... no more having to improvise blindfolds.

Yes, or have a bunch of competitors show up to do BLD and not have blindfolds, so they have to wait for other competitors to finish....

 

[Carson]

On topic, shoun't the rule "= Magic: No practice solves on timer." work on mastermagic as well?

G1a) Competitor must not use the timer for practice solves in between official solves. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

The way I am reading this is that there are to be no practice solves BETWEEN official solves... so it is still ok to do a couple practice solves BEFORE the first official solve, but once you do your first official solve, you have to finish out your average. Am I reading this correct?

 

[joey]

Must not USE the timer.

 

[Carson]

Must not USE the timer.

G1a) Competitor must not use the timer for practice solves in between official solves. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

Copied straight from the rules... am I just misunderstanding this?

 

[joey]

If you don't use the timer..

 

[Erik]

Why don't they listen careful, after I proposed the 45 degree for magic, then realized 90 degrees would actually be exactly the point between a move.
I posted a repost there saying 45 would be inconsistent with the other regulations for +2 since those are all right in-between a normal move, but it just seems they didn't care to re-read everything that was written in the thread after the initial post :S or they have other reasons?
Plus next year, they must have new regulations from January 1st, not April 15th out of the blue right before a competition...

 

[ben1996123]

Must not USE the timer.

So are you still allowed to do practise solves in between, just not allowed to time them?

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Megaminx!

 

[04mucklowd]

Megaminx!

Megaminx!!

 

[SuperNerd]

...
= Magic: No practice solves on timer.
...

wat.

 

[RyanO]

Can you do practice solves on your own timer?

 

[chris410]

On topic, shoun't the rule "= Magic: No practice solves on timer." work on mastermagic as well?

G1a) Competitor must not use the timer for practice solves in between official solves. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

The way I am reading this is that there are to be no practice solves BETWEEN official solves... so it is still ok to do a couple practice solves BEFORE the first official solve, but once you do your first official solve, you have to finish out your average. Am I reading this correct?

I believe you can use your own timer (If I am reading it correctly) however, this applies to the actual competition timer. So, I believe you can practice with your own timer, not the official one.

If this is incorrect, please provide detail.

 

[JBCM627]

Plus next year, they must have new regulations from January 1st, not April 15th out of the blue right before a competition...

I made a topic about this, but didn't see a decision reached:
http://worldcubeassociation.org/for...46&sid=676b06a67e44087c07b40beb24d93d7a#p4746

G1a) Competitor must not use the timer for practice solves in between official solves. Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

The way I am reading this is that there are to be no practice solves BETWEEN official solves... so it is still ok to do a couple practice solves BEFORE the first official solve, but once you do your first official solve, you have to finish out your average. Am I reading this correct?

Yes, I believe that was the intent. There is a bit of discussion about this, so hopefully it will be clarified soon.

 

[Bryan]

Magic is the only event that doesn't require judging interaction between solves (except for recording the times). This regulation is meant to avoid people claiming bad solves were practice, good solves were official, or just taking up a bunch of time on the stations. Yes, Magic is a quick event, but if every single person was doing 3 practice solves before each offical solve, it takes longer (not just the solves, but adding in communication about what's official and what isn't).