New Event ideas (Poll)

[Erik]

Heh, actually it was my post (number 106 in this thread) from before

To be clear: 4x4 OH and 5x5 OH are in my opinion ridiculous events too. Also I don't have anything against multi BLD, 4x4 BLD or 5x5 BLD. I admire those who are good at it deeply!
I just think 3 'big' BLD events are too many for the time we have available at competitions and therefore it would be good if one (just one) of them would go.
So yah you are completely right if you say 3BLD =! multi BLD. I should've said multi BLD/4x4BLD/5x5BLD are too similar and keep 3x3 BLD out of it.

 

[Tim Major]

Skewb and team BLD for me.
I am very surprised relays made it there. It isn't adding anything new. Relays are lame.

 

[TheZenith27]

TeamBld should be official.

 

[Georgeanderre]

Skewb and Relays

 

[bwronski]

team blind and 4x4 one handed

 

[Ranzha]

If Team BLD were up there, I'd vote.
Skewb is great, and relays would be interesting. Scrambling for bigcube relays would be a pain though =P

 

[Michael Womack]

also super square-1, jinx pyraninx, mastermorphinx, Pyramorphinx, tertaminx, 2x2x3, 2x2x4, 3x3x2,

 

[emolover]

also super square-1, jinx pyraninx, mastermorphinx, Pyramorphinx, tertaminx, 2x2x3, 2x2x4, 3x3x2,

Because everyone has those puzzles. Think about what you are going to post and make sure it at least is relevant to the thread. If not get the hell off this forum.

The reason this puzzles you have listed are not part of the weekly competitions is because very few people in comparision to the already implemented puzzles have them.

 

[Cheese11]

also super square-1, jinx pyraninx, mastermorphinx, Pyramorphinx, tertaminx, 2x2x3, 2x2x4, 3x3x2,

Do you have all these puzzles? And why would Tetreminx be an event if Gigaminx isn't even one?

 

[tx789]

Think how long a Teraminx would take to solve

 

[Keroma12]

Think how long a Teraminx would take to solve

It could be done in under half an hour I'd say.

 

[Ranzha]

I like how over half the people voted to have Skewb on the event list, but so few people take Skewb seriously ='(
#headstart

 

[Michael Womack]

Do you have all these puzzles? And why would Tetreminx be an event if Gigaminx isn't even one?

not all of them but i will if there events or when i have the money to buy them

 

[speedcubermicah]

I think that WCA should incorporate some team solving into an event. It would be something totally new from what we have now. I suggest adding Team BLD.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

I think that WCA should incorporate some team solving into an event. It would be something totally new from what we have now. I suggest adding Team BLD.

The thing is with TeamBLD, how do you manage it? Would the times go to the caller, or the solver, or both? And would people be able to choose their own teams? Or would it be random selection on the day, if it is random, how do you get people of similar skill together?

TeamBLD would be cool, but its unlikely itll become official because of the logistics IMO

 

[Michael Womack]

The thing is with TeamBLD, how do you manage it? Would the times go to the caller, or the solver, or both? And would people be able to choose their own teams? Or would it be random selection on the day, if it is random, how do you get people of similar skill together?

TeamBLD would be cool, but its unlikely itll become official because of the logistics IMO

I totally agree with on who who gets the time and who your partner is.

 

[vcuber13]

i think we should make the 15 puzzle official

 

[Ranzha]

The thing is with TeamBLD, how do you manage it? Would the times go to the caller, or the solver, or both? And would people be able to choose their own teams? Or would it be random selection on the day, if it is random, how do you get people of similar skill together?

TeamBLD would be cool, but its unlikely itll become official because of the logistics IMO

Okay. So.

The way I've seen Team BLD working is such that people are given the right to choose their own partner, times go to both participants, and at one competition, a competitor may have only one partner (i.e. a competitor may not be on two or more teams). The caller and solver are labelled as such on the records page and the two participants may NOT switch roles.
That way, everyone wins.
That's how it's gone down at Stanford, except the results aren't official, of course.

As far as actual regulations go, I proposed something a while back (here).

+1 for Team BLD. Easier than one would expect to manage.

 

[Michael Womack]

i think we should make the 15 puzzle official

not a twisty puzzle

 

[vcuber13]

go on...
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisty_puzzle near the bottom