If you had to remove one WCA event and add one WCA event, what would you remove and add?

[Fred]

I do 6x6 in 4 minutes and 7x7 in 6 minutes, and here's my take on differences between 6x6 and 7x7. I find 6x6 centers to have more room for creativity. I often do the standard bars, but I'll also do various kinds of blocks. On 7x7, you don't have to solve the central bar first, but you do have to solve it before too long or you'll have too many trapped pieces and lose time taking them out. I also find blocks harder to keep track of on 7x7 and stick with bars usually.

Then for edges, both of them will often have some lucky cases with a couple edge pieces already paired up or very easily paired up, but more so on 7x7. And for last four edges, I usually take the strategy of pairing up the central-most edges to reduce to 5x5 L4E, but on 7x7 I sometimes have to do a L2E parity alg to achieve this, which means I sometimes do two L2E algs. There are some 7x7-specific L2E algs to handle inner and outer wings at the same time, but I haven't learned any of those.

My biggest argument to remove 7x7 is that many competitions have pretty strict time limits/cutoffs, making the event very inaccessible for beginner big cube enthusiasts. But the obvious better solution is to have more lenient time limits, like this comp, which even allowed 10+ minute times!

 

[Garf]

I do 6x6 in 4 minutes and 7x7 in 6 minutes, and here's my take on differences between 6x6 and 7x7. I find 6x6 centers to have more room for creativity. I often do the standard bars, but I'll also do various kinds of blocks. On 7x7, you don't have to solve the central bar first, but you do have to solve it before too long or you'll have too many trapped pieces and lose time taking them out. I also find blocks harder to keep track of on 7x7 and stick with bars usually.

Then for edges, both of them will often have some lucky cases with a couple edge pieces already paired up or very easily paired up, but more so on 7x7. And for last four edges, I usually take the strategy of pairing up the central-most edges to reduce to 5x5 L4E, but on 7x7 I sometimes have to do a L2E parity alg to achieve this, which means I sometimes do two L2E algs. There are some 7x7-specific L2E algs to handle inner and outer wings at the same time, but I haven't learned any of those.

My biggest argument to remove 7x7 is that many competitions have pretty strict time limits/cutoffs, making the event very inaccessible for beginner big cube enthusiasts. But the obvious better solution is to have more lenient time limits, like this comp, which even allowed 10+ minute times!

Exactly as I was saying! I get that organizers want to make comps run faster, but this comes at the cost of not letting people get more solves added to their profile. I think that's an unfair exchange for big cubes, as for beginners it's hard to get times under 6 minutes as stamina with turning and lookahead.

 

[Discomantis]

If I had to remove an event, I wouldn’t remove 5BLD and would instead remove 7x7.

7x7 adds nothing to the WCA, and adds nothing new. 5BLD on the other hand is extreet difficult. Getting a 5BLD mean is one of the hardest things to accomplish in all of cubing. Only about 150 people have done it, and even getting a success is extremely difficult.

Also, to add on to this:

To most cubers, 5BLD doesn’t affect them that much. I’ve been to over 50 comps, and only one of them have had 5BLD at a comp that held non BLD/FMC events. And even then, it only took about an hour.

7x7 on the other hand is at some standard competitions, eating time up from other events. If you really want to remove 5BLD, consider the fact that most comps you would be going to don’t have it. (and if you don’t go to PBQ comps, almost none of them would)

 

[Chris Choi]

i would remove 7x7 and 5bld and OH and add FTO

 

[An Animating Cuber]

i would remove 7x7 and 5bld and OH and add FTO

*my experience reading this post*
mhm, yeah makes sens- WHAT THE ACTUAL FU- yeah everyone wants to add that.

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

*my experience reading this post*
mhm, yeah makes sens- WHAT THE ACTUAL FU- yeah everyone want to add that.

Real

 

[Lord_Oscar]

add mirror Cube or ghost Cube. This is maybe a bad idea, but I think it would be very interesting to see some more shapeshifting official events.

While I don't disagree with the fact that it would be interesting to add a shapeshifting puzzle to the WCA, scrambling these would be painful, especially when it comes to checking the scramble. I doubt the WST would be down with implementing scrambles for puzzles like these as well.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

i would remove 7x7 and 5bld and OH and add FTO

why OH

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

why OH

yeah

 

[LukasCubes]

Remove: Nothing I like all events
Bring Back: Feet, Magic, Master Magic
Add: FTO, Master Pyraminx, Kilominx, 4x4 OH, Master Kilominx, 4x4 FMC, FMC with STM notation.

 

[isaacvr]

Remove: none
Add: FTO.

 

[Thomas.Caleb]

I would remove clock and add F T O

 

[Garf]

If I had to remove an event, I wouldn’t remove 5BLD and would instead remove 7x7.

7x7 adds nothing to the WCA, and adds nothing new. 5BLD on the other hand is extreet difficult. Getting a 5BLD mean is one of the hardest things to accomplish in all of cubing. Only about 150 people have done it, and even getting a success is extremely difficult.

I see 6/7 as the distance events in the cubing world. Doing 7x7 would be like running a 5k, where the guys that average ~17 minutes in a 5k would be the guys that average 2:30 in 7x7, or maybe 2:25.
6x6 would be like running a 3200m, and the guys that average 10 minutes would be the guys that average 1:45 or something.

 

[bldcuber314]

I see 6/7 as the distance events in the cubing world. Doing 7x7 would be like running a 5k, where the guys that average ~17 minutes in a 5k would be the guys that average 2:30 in 7x7, or maybe 2:25.
6x6 would be like running a 3200m, and the guys that average 10 minutes would be the guys that average 1:45 or something.

I think that the difference here is that endurance is something completely different in running than cubing. You wouldn't see people who are bad at big cubes because their endurance isn't good enough. It can be a slight challenge, but stamina is almost never the limiting factor in a big cube solve. I would say that the only WCA events where stamina is a real part of what makes them interesting are big BLD and MBLD(maybe FMC, not sure because I don't know much about it).

 

[Cubinginatree]

I see 6/7 as the distance events in the cubing world. Doing 7x7 would be like running a 5k, where the guys that average ~17 minutes in a 5k would be the guys that average 2:30 in 7x7, or maybe 2:25.
6x6 would be like running a 3200m, and the guys that average 10 minutes would be the guys that average 1:45 or something.

17 minutes in a 5k is a lot easier than a 2:30 average in 7x7.

 

[OrangeCenterCap]

I would remove 5BLD. Honestly, who mains the 5BLD event??

It would be a really good challenge to face once you are actually good tho

 

[EvanCuber1]

I would remove 5BLD. Honestly, who mains the 5BLD event??

@BVCuber13

 

[BVCuber13]

@BVCuber13

well yeah I main clock but BLD events are my second main

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

5BLD SHOULD NEVER BE REMOVED even if i cant do it along with 95% of the community

 

[EvanCuber1]

5BLD SHOULD NEVER BE REMOVED even if i cant do it along with 95% of the community

Agreed, 5bld is hard work, dont take that away from people