Events to remove

Remove 3x3 cuz I suck at it and me no likee.

Seriously, WTF???

In general, I think we shouldn't remove any events. If you don't like an event, don't participate in it, don't have them at competitions you organize maybe, and that's it. If you do like it, practise and have fun with it!

Why should we remove clock? It's an original Rubik's puzzle, and I don't see why would it be bad to have it. And no, it's not hard to scramble. It's like you said that "omg it's so hard to understand the scrambels for 3x3" when you couldn't scramble it.

Why sould we remove feet? Ok, feet can smell bad. But not if you wash it... And scramblers can wear gloves or something. And it's not a reason that it's slow. It's almost exactly as fast/slow/whatever as BLD (single WR 36 in feet and 30 in BLD, and the ones who doesn't practice it get ~5-10 min solves in both).

And why the f*** should we remove 4x4/5x5 BLD? I bet that all the people who said that can't solve them blindfolded. It's a way bigger thing to do than just solve a 3x3x3 (not bld). And it's not unpopular, it just needs a lot time of practice which most of the people would rather use for practising something else. And it doesn't mess up the time schedule: you put them in as a side event, and you lost 0 exact minutes.

(2x2x2, magics an pyraminx are pointless to remove, too. Each of them needs a lot of practice to be good at it, and if we just removed it, all the time the people spent with practising would worth sh*t, and that's btw true for all events you want to remove)
 
theanonymouscuber said:
Doesn't matter. 4 and 5 BLD are disliked because they:

1.) Take forever, even if you are quite good.
2.) Are unpopular. I've seen competitions where only 1 person out of 50 signed up for 4/5 BLD.
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1.) 30 minutes ain't forever. And then why don't we remove multi? it takes an hour :fp
2.) Are unpopular BECAUSE people who maybe want to practice it don't do it because they rather practice something easier. And hold 4/5 blind only if you have enough competitors. I've seen competitions where 1/10 of the competitors signed up (still not a lot I know). It depends on the competitors.
 
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As far as popularity is concerned, there is another aspect of popularity that at least might be considered: popularity among spectators. I know that often, big cubes BLD is quite interesting to spectators, even though not many compete in it. And as for feet, I have never seen anything generate as much attention from a very busy room as when we held feet at Indiana Winter 2010. The entire room suddenly started paying attention; people were falling over each other to get a good spot to watch. And our kid judges couldn't wait to be a judge for it! Many people certainly went away talking about that event in particular.

Of course, one could argue that's not the kind of attention we want for cubing, but it was certainly popular, from a spectator perspective.
 
Yeah, getting a clue about commutators and learning two parity algs. That's a lot of extra knowledge for big BLDs, for sure.
 
@Kirjava: if you're on e.g a bus you won't start an 5x5 blind attempt cause it requires more attention. you'd rather start normal 5x5 solving. sorry if I'm not understandable, I know I fail at expressing myself in English:(

@theanonymuscuber: I mean 30 minutes for a safety 5x5 solve (for the people who're kinda practice it). 30 minutes is enough for maximum 7 cubes in multi (not for everyone, but for most). And what does this topic have to do with extra knowledge? I didn't get it sorry.

I can just keep saying that events which require more time are usually side events and don't mess up the schedule.
 
Slash said:
@Kirjava: if you're on e.g a bus you won't start an 5x5 blind attempt cause it requires more attention. you'd rather start normal 5x5 solving. sorry if I'm not understandable, I know I fail at expressing myself in English:(

@theanonymuscuber: I mean 30 minutes for a safety 5x5 solve (for the people who're kinda practice it). 30 minutes is enough for maximum 7 cubes in multi (not for everyone, but for most). And what does this topic have to do with extra knowledge? I didn't get it sorry.
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We're talking about why big cubes BLD is unpopular. And this argument is getting nowhere. Bai.
 
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