Till now throughout the period 2003-2020, 6622 competitions have been conducted where a group of registered speedcubers and first-timers gather at one place, and compete according to the schedule while complying the WCA Regulations.
Post the pandemic, 30+ competitions have been held in a few countries where the social gathering guidelines have been eased off by the local government. But for big nations, official WCA competitions cannot be conducted anytime in the foreseeable future.
A possible idea is to see if staggered WCA competition approach might work. Group of 5 competitors called in periods of say 1 hour to solve, in the presence of WCA delegate and 1-2 solving stations. The competition may span a few days and only have a few events which is unconventional till now (3 day competitions until now had all the 17 events, and 1 day competition had 5-10 events).
Few issues that might arise preventing this from being implemented are:
Post the pandemic, 30+ competitions have been held in a few countries where the social gathering guidelines have been eased off by the local government. But for big nations, official WCA competitions cannot be conducted anytime in the foreseeable future.
A possible idea is to see if staggered WCA competition approach might work. Group of 5 competitors called in periods of say 1 hour to solve, in the presence of WCA delegate and 1-2 solving stations. The competition may span a few days and only have a few events which is unconventional till now (3 day competitions until now had all the 17 events, and 1 day competition had 5-10 events).
Few issues that might arise preventing this from being implemented are:
- This approach will definitely take a lot load on the WCA delegate as it will consume a lot of their time.
- The organisers will not be able to hold a spectator friendly finals or prize distribution, and their time will be spent in managing social distancing and staggered arrival and departure of competitors.
- Generating and maintaining new sets of scrambles will also be thing to consider as it will be a cumbersome process for having set generated for <5 competitors. Submitting the comp results might take time.
- Maintaining staggered arrival and departure of participants might take a toll on the organisers.
