DNF or no DNF...?

[Mike Hughey]

Come on, you know the WCA regulations are written vaguely and with mediocre English.

So whatever happened to this? It sounded like it could have been such a good thing.

 

[qqwref]

I did about half of it, forgot a few days later, and then found it again a few months later and realized I didn't want to work on it then. I sent what I did complete to Ron.

 

[Bryan]

Is it a cap or a center piece? Without the center piece there, then you can actually shift around centers like a 15-puzzle. While this doesn't help if they're all the same color, it can help if you're early in the solve and haven't done the centers yet. But with this piece missing, it is a new move, which the regulations don't allow.

 

[oranjules]

if you pop 2 caps of the same color, isn't it ok ?

 

[Stefan]

Come on, you know the WCA regulations are written vaguely and with mediocre English.

Actually, I don't. I think they're generally quite alright (though I haven't read them in a while, so my memory might fool me).

Don't be an ass about it.

And here I was, thinking I'd just point out a flaw so that it might get improved if others agree. Guess I shouldn't do that.

 

[qqwref]

Without the center piece there, then you can actually shift around centers like a 15-puzzle.

What? I've never known anyone to be able to do this (including me, when I had an ES back in the day).

And here I was, thinking I'd just point out a flaw so that it might get improved if others agree. Guess I shouldn't do that.

"Pointing out a flaw" would be posting on the WCA forum to draw Ron's attention on the issue. What you're doing here is just confusing someone who is already unsure on exactly what the regulations say.

 

[masterofthebass]

Is it a cap or a center piece? Without the center piece there, then you can actually shift around centers like a 15-puzzle. While this doesn't help if they're all the same color, it can help if you're early in the solve and haven't done the centers yet. But with this piece missing, it is a new move, which the regulations don't allow.

Eastsheens have a cap that contains the sticker for center pieces. What happened to the OP is really no different than a center cap coming off of a 3x3.

 

[Georgeanderre]

do you mean a 5x5x5 wing ? because an edge would be DNF (and this is unambig...ly solved too, because you can't flip a single edge, and, if you didn't pop, the edge is oriented...)

No, if you read the first line of the description you would know its a "centre cap" from an Eastsheen 4x4

 

[calekewbs]

So, semi on topic, if a corner cap comes off on a ES,V-cube,etc. 2x2 during the last alg or so, you wouldn't need to worry about it?

 

[masterofthebass]

No, if you read the first line of the description you would know its a "centre cap" from an Eastsheen 4x4

I think he was replying to my post.

Also, I did mean wing. On any 5x5 design in production how, I think it would be a little difficult to just have an edge missing