winniethe2
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So I was practicing a couple of FMC attempts for an upcoming competition and I got this scramble and resulting solution:
Scramble:
R' U' F R' U2 D R2 D B U' D2 R U' F R F2 R' B2 R2 B2 L2 D2 R' U' F
F' U R D2 L2//Xcross (5/5)
R U' L' U' L U2 R'//multislot (7/12)
U2 L' B L B'//last slot (5/17)
B U2 B2 R B R' U2 B' R B R' U//LL (12-2/29-2)
Thanks to some luck and multislotting, I managed to solve it in 27 moves, which is my personal best by quite a bit. I showed it to my more experienced friend who later told me than my solution would not be WCA legal since the first five moves of my solution are the inverse of the last five moves of the scramble. I honestly did not notice at all until he mentioned it since the first five moves made an Xcross and I didn’t see any other good alternatives. And yet apparently, this alone is enough to completely void my best solve to date.
Upon doing some research, I found that this rule is in effect because otherwise, people would simply reverse the scramble entirely and get a very good solve. I also learned that ‘suspicious’ solutions were subject to required explanations of the moves made, and final decisions on the solution’s legitimacy were at the delegates’ discretion. I think these rules are flawed in both the execution of FMC and the subjectivity of determining legitimacy.
Scramble:
R' U' F R' U2 D R2 D B U' D2 R U' F R F2 R' B2 R2 B2 L2 D2 R' U' F
F' U R D2 L2//Xcross (5/5)
R U' L' U' L U2 R'//multislot (7/12)
U2 L' B L B'//last slot (5/17)
B U2 B2 R B R' U2 B' R B R' U//LL (12-2/29-2)
Thanks to some luck and multislotting, I managed to solve it in 27 moves, which is my personal best by quite a bit. I showed it to my more experienced friend who later told me than my solution would not be WCA legal since the first five moves of my solution are the inverse of the last five moves of the scramble. I honestly did not notice at all until he mentioned it since the first five moves made an Xcross and I didn’t see any other good alternatives. And yet apparently, this alone is enough to completely void my best solve to date.
Upon doing some research, I found that this rule is in effect because otherwise, people would simply reverse the scramble entirely and get a very good solve. I also learned that ‘suspicious’ solutions were subject to required explanations of the moves made, and final decisions on the solution’s legitimacy were at the delegates’ discretion. I think these rules are flawed in both the execution of FMC and the subjectivity of determining legitimacy.