[Official] Keaton Ellis - 5.09 3x3 single (not WR but fastest in competition at the time)

[Tony Fisher]

Oh hey, I remember one of the things people talked about against GMT - this means that Australia and Asia have a huge advantage in setting WRs over the Americas, and the east coast of the US similarly has an advantage over the west coast, simply because their GMT times happen first. Again, consider the case where Kaijun gets an 18 3BLD single at 4pm Beijing time (GMT +8), then Noah gets a 19 at 9am Pacific time (GMT -8), both on Saturday - should Noah's achievement be ignored, then?

Yes of course, Noah didn't break Kaijun's record which happened earlier. That's how it works for every other event in the world or at least 99.9% of them. Ignoring the order of events to make up for one of a million things (age, wealth, facilities etc etc) that could be perceived to be an advantage is ludicrous.

 

[not_kevin]

Yes of course, Noah didn't break Kaijun's record which happened earlier. That's how it works for every other event in the world or at least 99.9% of them. Ignoring the order of events to make up for one of a million things (age, wealth, facilities etc etc) that could be perceived to be an advantage is ludicrous.

Okay, seems reasonable. Maybe this'll provide incentive for California cubers to get even faster, to make sure they can beat any Asian/European/east-coast WRs if they happen

Related, then, if Keaton had gotten a 5.09 on round 2 solve 4, then a 5.04 on round 2 solve 5, should both count as WRs, or just the last one? In terms of consistency, the database would've only assigned the 5.04 as a WR, but consistency is (at least imo) one of the weaker arguments here.