FMC is reopening!!

[mrCage]

Hi

As some of you may have seen, Dan Harris is no more running his FMC Challenge. He asked for volunteers to bring it further into the future.

So I am designing a new version of FMC right now. There is not much there yet - but i have released a scramble nonetheless. Proper registration/submission and results will be developed during this week. The system will be fully automated and run without any administration. No need to feed it with manual scrambles. For the time being im using the official WCA scrambler and a length of 25 turns (htm). I may change this to use my own PHP scrambler and length 30 at a later stage

Check it out here.

- Per

 

[guusrs]

Per,

That would be great!
of course I will participate every week
Good luck!

Gus

 

[MistArts]

How do you enter solution?

 

[Jason]

I was under the impression that we had a whole week to solve Dan Harris's Fewest Moves Challenge. I see on you website that we only have an hour

 

[Lofty]

I tried for 30 minutes...
I had nothing good...
I need to practice my block building...

 

[Hadley4000]

My best fewest moves is 65. I'm REALLY bad at it.

 

[mrCage]

Hi Everyone ....

Im still working on the layout. There will be 3 different formats available.

Classic - "unlimited" time (ie one whole week)
Official - 1 hr solving where most of the WCA regulations apply
Speed - 10 minutes linear solving, no taking back moves or restart allowed

I am still wondering if i gonna provide 3 separate scrambles for this. Or just let participants solve in the appropriate order: speed > official > classic.

Any opinions as to which option is best??

- Per

 

[KConny]

Three diffrent. Or else an hour would be 10 minutes longer.

My record is 35, from weekly contest 10. Here it is.

 

[guusrs]

Hi Everyone ....

Im still working on the layout. There will be 3 different formats available.

Classic - "unlimited" time (ie one whole week)
Official - 1 hr solving where most of the WCA regulations apply
Speed - 10 minutes linear solving, no taking back moves or restart allowed

I am still wondering if i gonna provide 3 separate scrambles for this. Or just let participants solve in the appropriate order: speed > official > classic.

Any opinions as to which option is best??

- Per

Hi Per,

I would say provide a separate scramble for 10min linear solve to prevent advantage for the 1hour solvers (or disadvantage if that 10 minutes is part o the 1hour. Scrambles for 1hour and unlimited time could be the same without problems.

Gus