Competition Fairness

[Stefan]

Guus, where are you...

Sorry dan, I was talking about my post, not the entire thread. I replied to someone, but upon rereading their post, felt my post was wrong and useless.

You can delete your own posts.

 

[flan]

Did the five people (well, four if you exclude the OP) who voted for standardised cubes, do so ironically?

I did.

@blake breandan still would've beaten us, probably just cba'd lol

 

[Owen]

You are responsible for your own hardware.

 

[chris410]

also may i add an example

The same driver has an amazing set of skills, and he drives a racecar, he shows awsome skills, give him a ford and he the skills will decrease

same goes for cubes.

That's not how it works...skill is skill...a cube will not make the difference you are suggesting especially if everyone is using the same cube.

Also, when it comes to racing it comes down to skill, for example...I have beaten people on more powerful, better set up, and better equiped bikes on a stock bike. Again, it comes down to skill...Faz, Rowe, etc...with a crap cube are still going to blow away your times...especially if you are using the same crap cube so your suggestion simply does not change anything in the end.

 

[MEn]

ban japanese colour scheme

 

[prostx23]

ban japanese colour scheme

If everyone is using non standardized cubes, what difference would that make?

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

everyone should agree with me that a Competition should be fair right?

Me: Yes
well i hate to break the bad news but i believe that the Competition's that we all compete in are not fair... How so?

First of all let me bring in my main point, all speed cubes should be equal.

= corner cutting
= lubricant
= tension
Me: Everyone has different tastes and different attributes.
The reason is this, lets say you use a Rubik's brand because you don't prefer the DIY's or you cant buy one because you don't have a credit card. You go to a comp and try out faz's cube and you love it! and whoopse do your time improves by

15 seconds!

but crap you have to use your own cube and now your time sucks!
Me: Who says I like Faz's cube?
but if all the cube were the same then it would be Equal and faz you and everyone else would have the same cube

then at the end of the day its up to your skill to get the best time!

Me: So does every single damn sport, kid.

ban japanese colour scheme

for Nakajima

 

[endless_akatsuki]

Ban color scheme. This eliminates any sort of color bias whatsoever.




But I suppose if you truly want things equal, you could petition to ban cubes altogether.

 

[prostx23]

In all sports (well most I guess) The equipment can vary. In golf, golfers use different brand clubs that have varying atributes that suit that particular golfer. Baseball, players use different sized gloves and bats (and the bats are ocassionally made of different types of wood. Same with American football, the ball is the same for everyone but, the athletes use different pads and cleats to suit how they play. There are regulations for the equipment for all these sports, but all allow for players to tailor their equipment to suit. There is no logical reason why cubing shouldn't be the same.

Mike

 

[splinteh]

Life ain't always fair.

 

[blade740]

Cons:
-Competition organizers have to provide cubes. Nobody who has ever run a competition will agree to this. A large competition would require, at the very least, 20 or so EACH of 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and at least 10 of each side puzzle. We're talking hundreds of dollars worth of cubes.
-Even standardized cubes like storeboughts can vary greatly in turning speed. What if someone wants to try all the provided cubes and find the best one? And then everyone will want to use that one after that.
-Cubers can't practice on the cubes they will compete with. A lot of cubers would do poorly on an unfamiliar cube.
-This disadvantages a large portion of cubers, as opposed to the handful that are able to attend competitions but unable to order a $10 item on the internet, and are too lazy to get another cuber to order it and then pay in cash at the competition. That's right, your way is LESS FAIR than letting cubers use their own cubes.

Pros:
-none

 

[MEn]

they should ban chairs and make us all stand!

 

[cmhardw]

Ok I think we've hammered the point in over and over, rubbed salt and vinegar into the wounds, and beat the horse to death and then some. The point has been made many times over, and now this thread is becoming repetitive. Closed.