carefull with that, you will need letters on your buffer piece for big cubes bld, not for the buffer sticker itself, but for the other stickers of those pieces. So you need 1 extra letter (or in my case numbers)
I don't think you can request any specific arrangement, but you can arrange them however you want after you start your attempt.
I know, which is why your question wasn't answered with a simple link to the regs.
Exactly. Denying arrangement gives an advantage to rich people who can afford many uniform cubes. It really does take time to find the bad cubes and then arrange them after starting the timer, so time = money. It might or might not be more fair for the judge to arrange them randomly in a cubic shape, but it should at least be decided and mentioned in regulations. It's ridiculous that some people get 8x2 arrangements while others are denied such arrangements. The regulations are considerate in 3x3, 3x3feet (timer can be away from feet if I remember correctly) etc. It's an unnecessary disadvantage to get the cubes in cubic/square shapes, so maybe there should just be some basic regulations like: "Cubes are arranged randomly in 2x4 groups. If less than 8 cubes are attempted, cubes are arranged randomly in 2x3 or 2x2 groups.".
I think you maybe misunderstood me a little. I'm not against random cube arrangements, I just want it made clearer in the regs so that people know what to expect in competition. If I knew I was going to get random cube orders I would simply practise that at home first, just like I know to practise with random orientations after scrambling. I only got into a routine of arranging cubes before attempts because I didn't realise it was an issue, and finding out otherwise at a competition doesn't give me much chance to figure out how I want to approach that situation.
Quahog?
