Remove 3x3x3 with Feet as an Official Event?

Do you think 3x3x3 WF should be removed from the list of official events?

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Tim Major said:
Why not simply host a poll? I feel like if more people want it removed than want it kept, then it should be removed. If 4x4 had as much dislike as feet we could host a similar poll. Why are reasons needed?

Just have 3 options. Remove/keep/no opinion. Public poll.
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I added a poll to this thread. There's no way that the results will solely determine whether the event stays or not, though.
 
Sa967St said:
I added a poll to this thread. There's no way that the results will solely determine whether the event stays or not, though.
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Considering that speedsolving.com is only one forum in a big cubing community it would be bad to do this regardless.Still, depending on results, some arguments may weaken/strengthen and we can get a small idea of what the community wants
 
It seems people want to remove feet because they don't like it. There are other arguments but they're just secondary. I personally don't care if it gets removed just as long as I get to complete in it once. But I think it shouldn't be removed.
 
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One of the needs for event addition has been noticeable community acceptance of the event in question. In the same way, popularity should very seriously be taken into account as it goes with removing events, so I don't see why "I don't like it" is completely invalid. Of course, dislike isn't as workable an argument as the sanitation issue or the static nature of the records as of late, but when a significant number of people express their dislike it becomes hard to keep events.
 
- Feet isn't adding something really new to 3x3x3/3x3x3 Oh
- A lot of people don't like feet

=> we should replace it with other events, more people like.

IMO we should remove feet to make room for Team-Bld, Skewb, ...
 
Let's compare this to something else with a lot of events - track and field. There is a comparable number of events to cubing. Most people don't like some of the events. They don't compete in them. They respect the fact that others do the event and don't petition for then to be removed. Decathletes even hate some of the events they are 'forced' to compete in. They don't complain.
More people would enjoy the e.g. 300m more than the hammer. Doesn't mean it should replace hammer.

Sure, there are people who don't like feet. There are people who do like feet. Let those people compete because I don't believe it damages them (unless they choose to let it for the sake of wanting to be angry at others - Yes this is a general problem across the whole internet) or cubing as a whole.

Btw, what evidence does anyone have that e.g. skewb is more popular than feet.
 
Pedro said:
Please explain why it affects you?
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How does feetsolving affect me. Hm.

I do not believe the media attention lauded as a good thing that feet brings is positive. It sets the focus on how 'weird' we are and leaves cubing as some fringe group of dorks.

Delegates have the power to force me to judge feet and I can be removed from the competition for not doing so. (1e2)

It irks me that something that started as a joke has gotten so out of hand. I wouldn't mind so much if the event actually had any kind of merit.
 
Kirjava said:
How does feetsolving affect me. Hm.

I do not believe the media attention lauded as a good thing that feet brings is positive. It sets the focus on how 'weird' we are and leaves cubing as some fringe group of dorks.

Delegates have the power to force me to judge feet and I can be removed from the competition for not doing so. (1e2)

It irks me that something that started as a joke has gotten so out of hand. I wouldn't mind so much if the event actually had any kind of merit.
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So it has no kind of merit whatsoever? Same could be said about OH.

Thanks for the reply. It's much better when people actually say stuff than make vague statements about the subject.

I voted for removing feet, but as I said before, and Philip too, we are already considered weird because of cubing. I see feet cubing as another way to draw media attention, because it's so crazy and different.

Oh, well, tired of discussing.

As for the brazilian poll, it looks like this after 1,5 hours: (as I thought it would)

Remove-------0
Don't remove--5
Don't care-----1
 
Pedro said:
Thanks for the reply. It's much better when people actually say stuff than make vague statements about the subject.
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Reasons why it affected me were already stated in the thread. You just making me repeat myself. Like the comment you replied to, I wish you would read the thread before posting.

Pedro said:
As for the brazilian poll, it looks like this after 1,5 hours: (as I thought it would)
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OMG YOUR SAMPLE SIZE IS HUGE
 
Kirjava said:
I do not believe the media attention lauded as a good thing that feet brings is positive. It sets the focus on how 'weird' we are
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I am unsure we aren't already considered "weird" dispite feet, just speedsolving puzzles alone.
Kirjava said:
and leaves cubing as some fringe group of dorks.
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What do you think "we" are, and what do you think we should be in regards to the media?

On a side note, I don't think feet by itself is a detriment to any sport alone. Statistically, the most popular sport in the world uses feet.
 
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