What happened in his last attempt?

[DavidCalvo]

A friend and I usually comment funny-strange situations after checking the WCA database.

That one is very funny:

Amonk Spring Open, in the 2x2 event:

14 Tyler Wilkinson 10.22 14.19 USA 17.41 10.22 12.96 12.19 9:59.06

LOL, almost 10 minutes in the 2x2, with an average of around 10 seconds? That's hillarious, isn't it?

 

[shelley]

Nothing can top this:

Virginia Open 2007, Rubik's Magic:

2 Adam Zamora 1.61 2.02 USA 9:59.63 1.79 1.64 2.64 1.61

He intentionally went for the slowest magic time (and he still got second place). I think that record's going to stand for a while.

 

[Bryan]

Maybe I'm just a fuddy duddy, but if someone was trying to waste a whole 10 minutes just to have the slowest time, I would be kind of annoyed that they're using up the station for such a long time. I know Adam's slow magic solve actually violated A5a.

I suppose I could set time limits and if the user goes over, a DNF is courtesey of the main judge, but not necessarily required, so instruct the main judge that if people aren't actually solving, then DNF them.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

hahaha, The judges must have been a little upset.

 

[shelley]

I think Adam got away with it mostly because he was the tournament organizer for the Virginia Open. He also did it to make a point, i.e. if someone chose to do this, nothing in the regulations explicitly says they can't. Although he did violate regulation A5a, it's still possible for someone to do it.

For the sake of competition judges and organizers everywhere, please don't try this. Especially when the competition is running behind schedule and all the timers have to be used.

Strictly speaking I've violated A5a as well. Tyson laughed at me when I forgot how to do an algorithm one handed and I told him to shut up

On the note of things you're technically allowed to do, you could finish a solve, throw the cube across the room, and hit the timer. Thankfully no one has tried that yet.

 

[Mike Hughey]

On the note of things you're technically allowed to do, you could finish a solve, throw the cube across the room, and hit the timer. Thankfully no one has tried that yet.

Wasn't there some list you CA cubers came up with of various things that were legal that would drive a tournament organizer crazy? I think I remember reading that, but I can't place where it was.

 

[shelley]

Yeah.. I think that might have been on my blog, actually

http://shelley.freeserverhost.com/index.php?id=357

I guess not all of them are technically legal. But they would drive tournament organizers crazy and probably get you thrown out of the competition.

 

[Mike Hughey]

That was it - thanks! It was even funnier reading it the second time.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

Tyler and Peter chose to race to see who could take the longest without the stackmat stopping (or something like that.) While Tyler just hung out, Peter kept intentionally popping his. With only a few seconds left until the timer stopped, Peter's cube popped again, and he was unable to fix it in time. The funniest part of that to me though, was that they chose to do that on the scramble where most people either got a complete LL or permutation skip.

 

[Hadley4000]

I couldn't stop laughing while I read that!

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I think Adam got away with it mostly because he was the tournament organizer for the Virginia Open. He also did it to make a point, i.e. if someone chose to do this, nothing in the regulations explicitly says they can't. Although he did violate regulation A5a, it's still possible for someone to do it.

For the sake of competition judges and organizers everywhere, please don't try this. Especially when the competition is running behind schedule and all the timers have to be used.

Strictly speaking I've violated A5a as well. Tyson laughed at me when I forgot how to do an algorithm one handed and I told him to shut up

On the note of things you're technically allowed to do, you could finish a solve, throw the cube across the room, and hit the timer. Thankfully no one has tried that yet.

Imagine if someone tried to pull this at Princeton xD

 

[Rama]

I think if you pulled this one of at an competition with Ron as organiser then you would be banned till you are a grand-pa/ma and if you are already one then till your grandchild is a grand-pa/ma.

Seriously tough, I think that's why there are 'time-limits' for each event.

 

[Bryan]

Seriously tough, I think that's why there are 'time-limits' for each event.

Yup, and by default they're all 10 minutes. For example, for the 3x3x3, you could set the limit to 3 minutes and that should handle most situations, however, if some 5-year-old comes and solves in 4 minutes, I'd hate to impose a limit that affected him because I was trying to prevent someone from delaying the competition.

Of course, going over the limit DNF is courtesy of the main judge. But yeah, it would be nice if those situations didn't have to be anticipated.

 

[DavidCalvo]

On the note of things you're technically allowed to do, you could finish a solve, throw the cube across the room, and hit the timer. Thankfully no one has tried that yet.

LOL!

What if you miss?

Or even worse... if you hit another person? Would you get a penalty? There are no rules against that, right?

Even if the issue is so funny for me now, seriusly speaking, I definitely wouldn't like something like this to happen when I am judging....

 

[shelley]

Unless otherwise specified, the time limit is usually 10 minutes, the limit of the stackmat timer. Lower time limits are sometimes imposed if the competition is running behind schedule (e.g. we have a two minute limit for 4x4 solves; if you don't get under two minutes in your first two solves you don't get to finish the average).

You could impose a time limit on every event, but you don't want to discourage the beginner who takes 3 or more minutes to solve the cube. And if you don't impose time limits (other than the forced 10 minute limit), you're going to have to deal with the guy who genuinely takes 3 minutes the same way as the guy who's taking as long as he's allowed just to be a jerk.

EDIT: it seems I took too long to post. This is basically the same thing Bryan said.

 

[dChan]

Another thing that would be funny to do would be solve with your feet during the regular 3x3x3 event. I don't believe there is a rule against this right?

 

[signaly]

I wouldn't think there is but you would probably get strange looks. lol I can imagine it's your turn and you just take your shoes off and start solving with your feet and you actually beat everyone else. Man that would be hilarious

 

[fanwuq]

That would be Anssi. He can probably beat half of the people using feet.

 

[van21691]

I couldn't stop laughing while I read that!

Same!
Drop your cube when doing OH solve on the floor, make sure that your cube is very loose so pieces fly

 

[pcwiz]

Tyler and Peter chose to race to see who could take the longest without the stackmat stopping (or something like that.) While Tyler just hung out, Peter kept intentionally popping his. With only a few seconds left until the timer stopped, Peter's cube popped again, and he was unable to fix it in time. The funniest part of that to me though, was that they chose to do that on the scramble where most people either got a complete LL or permutation skip.

Yeah, I was there, and I heard them say to one another "hey, what's the longest 2x2 solve ever?" (they look at their laptop.) "Oh we can totally beat that!" Weird.