Multi-BLD seems like the best candidate. There isn't any other multi event, and all that it adds is testing how much someone can remember. At least 4/5BLD require different solving methods.
Learning BLD for the first time, tried for two times and ended up with a basically scrambled cube. Third time I did the whole thing right except for the final corner, which I memo'd wrong at the beginning, and I ended up with a completely solved cube except for my buffer and final corner twisted...
I'm not familiar with feet events, however reading through this thread it seems like the main points against it seem to be negative image and grossness.
Negative image is just that, an imaging issue. If the media views it negatively, the two big solutions are to remove it or to work on changing...
I've heard media likes to use numbers more easily understood by the people. They probably felt that "3 billion" would sound larger than the actual figure to most people due to it being more familiar as a large number.
So there is no number N where applying exactly N random moves to the cube will result in each case having the exact same distribution? How does that proof go?
I've never had a 3x3 scramble in Prisma where the front half of the scramble was outside the set <U,D,R2,F2,L2,B2>, something must have really messed up internally for that to have happened.
I have a fairly large spread at times too, I consider myself sub-25 but I will occasionally have two solves in a row over thirty seconds. Often when I do it's because I pause for a while finding the next f2l pair (caused by not knowing how to blindly insert the previous, so my look ahead is...
I would be interested in seeing what came to your mind for the definition. After only brief thought on it, I would figure that things like shape (perfect cube vs. partially rounded for the pillowed), material (uniform/multicolor, opacity), and coverings (stickers, tiles, logos [or colors in...
I feel like a different approach to this whole situation could just be to well-define what a rubik's cube is (and the other puzzles that make up WCA events). The purpose of competing is to see how quickly you can solve a rubik's cube. The specific one you have shouldn't make a difference in the...
I feel like this raises really good points. When pops were common, the rule was (and still is) if there is a popped piece at the end of the solve, it is a DNF (to an extent, I understand there are cases where if the piece is only able to be put back in one way and then it is considered solved)...