New Skewb World Records

This is not true. Actually, only the second of his WR averages will count because the WCA only recognizes the fastest attempt of that day.

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9i2) All the results of a round are considered to take place on the last calendar date of the round. If a regional record is broken multiple times on the same calendar date, only the best result is recognised as breaking that regional record.

Is this a new regulation?
Say Sebastian Weyer gets a 23 second 4x4 solve in the morning and then a 22 in the afternoon, the 23 is not even recognised as a world record? I'm not sure if I agree with that.
 
Is this a new regulation?
Say Sebastian Weyer gets a 23 second 4x4 solve in the morning and then a 22 in the afternoon, the 23 is not even recognised as a world record? I'm not sure if I agree with that.

I think it was new as of January 1st, 2013. I'm not totally sure though.

A good example where you can see this is from Guatemaya Open 2013.

In the first round, Adrian Ramirez got a 16.64 average that is not recognized as a national record, but in the final round, he got a 16.44 that is recognized as a national record. This was the first competition where someone from Guatemala had competed, so there were no previous records.
 
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Is this a new regulation?
Say Sebastian Weyer gets a 23 second 4x4 solve in the morning and then a 22 in the afternoon, the 23 is not even recognised as a world record? I'm not sure if I agree with that.

I thought the same thing. I know when you broke the 7.08 as did Rowe, Rowe did not get it because you solved it first, not because it was the same date.
 
Is this a new regulation?
Say Sebastian Weyer gets a 23 second 4x4 solve in the morning and then a 22 in the afternoon, the 23 is not even recognised as a world record? I'm not sure if I agree with that.

On February 1, 2007:
Art. 9i2, new: Regional records are recognised at the end of a round. If a record is broken twice or more in a round, only the latter is recognised.

On February 6, 2009:
Art. 9i2 removed. If registered clearly, all regional records in a round may be accepted. [WCA spirit, clarity]

On Aug 28, 2012:
First draft of the 2012 markdown regulations:
8i2) Results of official WCA competitions are considered to have taken place at the end of the calendar day the competition took place on. If a competition took place on multiple days, the results of each round are considered to have taken place on the last scheduled calendar day of the round.

On Aug 31, 2012:
More revisions by Sarah (Sarah: up through A2c, Lucas: up through 3d):
9i2) Results of official WCA competitions are dated to the calendar date of the competition. Should a competition span multiple days, the results of each round are dated to the last scheduled calendar date of the round.

On Sep 06, 2012:
Various formatting fixes.
9i2) Results of official WCA competitions are dated to the calendar date of the competition. If a competition spans multiple days, the results of each round are dated to the last scheduled calendar date of the round.

On Sep 17, 2012:
Clarifying the rule for resolving multiple records on the same day.
9i2) All the results of a round are considered to take place on the last calendar date of the round. If a regional record is broken multiple times on the same calendar date, only the best result is recognised as breaking that regional record.
 
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It's not that big of a deal it's not like it's gonna stick for 3 years or something.

Actually it's gonna stick forever (on the person page, the competition page, statistics, and other history views).

5BLD (the first WR was over 25 times the current WR)

While the time was slow, I still consider it a world class result for back then (Richard and Dror were faster, but their results were worse). That's not the case with these Skewb records.
 
Still, I feel like one of the reasons people are angry(some people, not all), is because they didn't get it first. The fact of the matter is that anyone could have gotten the WR first. Anyone could've scheduled a competition for today in theory. Are you just angry cause India did it first? The record is probably gonna last like a week and a half or so anyway. Are you still gonna be angry when someone else breaks the WR, but is slower than you?
 
Still, I feel like one of the reasons people are angry(some people, not all), is because they didn't get it first. The fact of the matter is that anyone could have gotten the WR first. Anyone could've scheduled a competition for today in theory. Are you just angry cause India did it first? The record is probably gonna last like a week and a half or so anyway. Are you still gonna be angry when someone else breaks the WR, but is slower than you?

Who here is "angry"? I think MOST of us just find it stupid. But to call the Skewb WR stupid then ex-Pyra, 5bld, etc WRs not stupid...

Still, I think some of the suggestions such as "don't call the first month of times WR" would be fine. But we might as well leave that discussion until the next event is added.
 
oops forgot to finish the post,
the problem will pass in a month or we could have no WR's set in the first 2 months and then the one that would have been wr is set as wr.
 
inb4 in 10 days Sarah kills WRs and nobody is going to care about this. Indians wanted a WR, so they held a comp and got happy for a WR, even though it wasn't particularly the fastest time. Why whine about it?

EDIT: Let them get happy, just wait a couple days for this coming weekend, then the past will fly away. If people still go crazy and brag about a WR that was held on The first day the event became official, that would be when frustration amongst all shall pursue.
The past flew away
 
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Ok, any predictions on how fast skewb will get? (Or is that already somewhere?) I think sub-2 just like pyraminx and 2x2.

Depends if you are talking about the near future or distant future! :p

Sub-2 on average will take a very long time. Not even Pyra is to that point yet.

For the WRs to be sub-2, the Single I can see in the next year or two but Average has to wait until newer advanced skewbs to be released and turning style has to be so improved in order to allow for seamless transitions between moves.
 
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