Method Development Competition January 2021 - The winner receives a $10 gift card! - Sponsored by SpeedCubeShop.com

[carcass]

@Athefre you worked on atropos and it was your favorite right? I can't tell from the wording in the spoiler. Thank you for the kind words, earlier I kind of skimmed over the spoiler.

 

[Athefre]

@Athefre you worked on atropos and it was your favorite right? I can't tell from the wording in the spoiler. Thank you for the kind words, earlier I kind of skimmed over the spoiler.

The spoiler contains all of the comments that were submitted to the poll form. Individual comments are separated by new lines. My comment is actually the very last one that thanks everyone for participating. The rest are anonymous.

I didn't work on Atropos. I wasn't on a team and just ran the competition. I did however submit a method for the competition, but not to compete. You can see it here:

athefre - CBar

This method was developed for the Method Development Competition January 2021. Because I was running the competition, I submitted the method not as a competitor. This method takes advantage of a flaw that exists within EPLL, ELL, and some L5E and LSE cases. Take for example any EPLL case. Almost

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[efattah]

Where are the links to the actual method descriptions. In the original post I see only rules, and the final post I see only vote tabulations.

 

[Athefre]

Where are the links to the actual method descriptions. In the original post I see only rules, and the final post I see only vote tabulations.

The links were in the survey itself. I've been working on creating a wiki page for the competition, just as there is one for the first competition and one for the overall competition. The plan was also to update the main post with the methods that were developed. I just updated the main post with the method links.

 

[carcass]

Would you guys want an example solve game for ECP, Utah, or Atropos? I think Squall could fit in with LEOR although it is quite different.

 

[Scollier]

Would you guys want an example solve game for ECP, Utah, or Atropos? I think Squall could fit in with LEOR although it is quite different.

I'm up for that! It would be fun.

 

[carcass]

Which method should I make a thread on? or just a "January 2021 Method Example Solve Game" that has all the methods

 

[Sub1Hour]

A Little late to the party, but I'd like to propose a variation of the Utah method.

Provo Variation!

Provo Variation completes EO during Utah instead of belt. I haven't messed with it much and I'm not sure if it's actually better, but I use ZZ a lot and it seems like you could be much more efficient using a zz style EO while block building.

Also, If you do EO completely before Utah that might also count as a new variation, maybe Bountiful variation?

If it sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about it's because I'm not, I've only looked at Utah for like an hour total and thought this would be cool.

These variations are only to reduce move count, I doubt they're actually faster but who knows?