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Underwatercuber
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As can be seen in this video Sebastian touched the cube after getting his 18.84 4x4 world record single. A6e states
“After releasing the puzzle, the competitor must not touch or move the puzzle until the judge has inspected the puzzle. Penalty: disqualification of the attempt (DNF). Exception: If no moves have been applied, a time penalty (+2 seconds) may be assigned instead, at the discretion of the judge.”
The WRC allowed the result to not be penalized, (incident log can be found here) and decided they would adjust the regs to make sure that when accidental A6e would not result in a DNF or +2 penalty. Since then there has still been no adjustment to the regs and other competitors have been receiving +2s for similar situations, I emailed the WRC to see if they would +2 the result seeing how the precedent for the decision was a change of regs which never happened. They denied the request since they already made the decision and don’t want to change old results (in fact they proposed a system which would make changing old results impossible after this discussion).
What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe the result should be given a +2 or should remain without a penalty? Should competitors who received +2s since this incident for similar scenarios have their +2s removed?
“After releasing the puzzle, the competitor must not touch or move the puzzle until the judge has inspected the puzzle. Penalty: disqualification of the attempt (DNF). Exception: If no moves have been applied, a time penalty (+2 seconds) may be assigned instead, at the discretion of the judge.”
The WRC allowed the result to not be penalized, (incident log can be found here) and decided they would adjust the regs to make sure that when accidental A6e would not result in a DNF or +2 penalty. Since then there has still been no adjustment to the regs and other competitors have been receiving +2s for similar situations, I emailed the WRC to see if they would +2 the result seeing how the precedent for the decision was a change of regs which never happened. They denied the request since they already made the decision and don’t want to change old results (in fact they proposed a system which would make changing old results impossible after this discussion).
What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe the result should be given a +2 or should remain without a penalty? Should competitors who received +2s since this incident for similar scenarios have their +2s removed?