What do you think in your opinion is the most useless WCA event.

[Zubon]

Magic. I just don't understand the enjoyment of performing one rehearsed solve over and over again. Why can't they "scramble" the magic and the solver has to solve it to either one of the two solved states? That would at least be more interesting.

 

[stoic]

Magic. Don't really see the point.

 

[Godmil]

Magic. I just don't understand the enjoyment of performing one rehearsed solve over and over again. Why can't they "scramble" the magic and the solver has to solve it to either one of the two solved states? That would at least be more interesting.

Magic does seem like a wasted puzzle. It seems to me to be like having a 5x5x5 and all you're supposed to do it put it into and out of the checkerboard pattern.

 

[vcuber13]

magic then 2x2

also feet solving is basically no different than OH

 

[aridus]

Magic. Don't really see the point.

Well, if you think about it, the fact that it is fast actually increases competition in the sense of speedsolving.

I look at it something like this:
Magic = drag racing
Master Magic = NASCAR
2x2 = MotoGP
3x3/4x4 = F1
Larger cubes = Le Mans
OH = drifting competition
Foot/blind = stunt competition

Heh.

 

[Mike Crozack]

Solving with feet. The competition is so low because theres no point
might as well get rid of it and add skewb, that puzzles where its at

 

[uberCuber]

I am voting for 3x3 Feet because I know it is the only official event I will never ever practice. I don't have a Magic or Master Magic yet, but I can see myself getting those sometime. I just like the feeling of seeing a really low time on the timer, regardless of what the puzzle is
Hence a certain thing written in my sig :3.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Magic. It requires no thinking skill (you know what I mean...).
I'm not saying it can't be fun. It's just really useless. (still, I used to practice :/)

Many people do magic because it's just a quick event and easy to get good at it. I only used to do magic, because back then it was the easiest NR to get. And, as said above, it's not really skill-requiring (well, in the sense of dexterity it is).

 

[Antcuber]

NONONO
you guys are all wrong magic is in my top 5 with 2x2 3x3 4x4 pyraminx gah its a totally awesome event!!!

feet solving sucks

 

[sa11297]

if so many people hate feet and want to replace it with skewb, then we should make a petition or something to change it

 

[Kenneth]

7x7x7 and 6x6x6 are the worst events, solving is not harder than 4x4, just more pieces, too many, takes half the day.

Just to scramble those *****es...

Magic is just the competitors problem (and the judge, but we usally let them judge each other so also that goes), does not steal from the rest of the comp, so there is no reason to remove those.

 

[MagicYio]

I know tht a lot of people choose for magic because it's the same thing every time. But what if people like that? For example, I like it because of that (the same for master magic of course).

And the question was what the most useless event was. But if people like an event, it isn't useless. I mean, most of the competitors go for feet because it's just fun. So basically, not a single event is useless if people want to compete in it.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

if so many people hate feet and want to replace it with skewb, then we should make a petition or something to change it

I agree, but it would have to be put on the WCA forums. any volunteers?

 

[Godmil]

Cubing while hula hooping on a pogo may be very fun, but that doesn't mean it should be an official event. I think it's fare to say something is useless if it doesn't add anything that isn't in existing events - probably why the vast majority of twisty puzzle designs aren't events (cause they're not really that different from standard 3x3's - or such like). Also just because something is already an event doesn't mean it's exempt from scrutiny. Kenneth has an interesting point in that 6 and 7 cubes aren't really any different to solve than 4 or 5 - they just take longer. They would seem to fit into the probable reason why Square-2, teraminx, gigaminx, and petaminx aren't official events.

 

[MagicYio]

Everything he said

I understand what you mean, but solving with one hand or solving with your feet aren't that crazy idea's. Just as 4BLD or 5BLD, except that they are very difficult.
(Ok, feet might be an unusual thing to do, but it's just very different. I don't think they should scrap feet.)

And I agree on the 6 and 7. But I find it weird that there isn't a prof pyraminx event.

 

[Kirjava]

feet and bigbld

I wouldn't mind them staying if we could add events that people wanted to do aswell.

 

[freshcuber]

6x6 and 7x7 are similar but not the same as 4x4 and 5x5. The smaller cube reduction is a joke. It's so insanely simple that my friend who had never seen a 4x4 solved it intuitively without any help from me. He could already do 3x3 and dodged parities but still, it's easy. The larger cubes add extra orbits and other challenges. A lot of people enjoy larger cubes than smaller ones.

For the people making the argument that Magic and Master Magic shouldn't be events because they're so fast then we should get rid of 2x2 as well since that's a fast puzzle too.

 

[sa11297]

I agree, but it would have to be put on the WCA forums. any volunteers?

well i would but... I dont have a profile so how would it look that on the first day of signing up I'm trying to erase an event? and I haven't been to a competition yet so somebody else that is respected in the community should do it. otherwise it will be ignored.

 

[Bryan]

But I find it weird that there isn't a prof pyraminx event.

Really? The puzzles been commercially available for maybe 45 days and you think it's weird there's not an event?

 

[amostay2004]

Useless =/= removed, in my opinion. I think magic and master magic are useless but they hardly take up time in competition and is good for warmups, and some people do focus on practising them so I don't think they should be removed.