cincyaviation
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You will burn!
Is it weird that I found this thread through facebook?
You will burn!
You pull off the cover, and see that only 2 edges and 2 corners need to be solved. (Remember, this is hypothetical) You realize the scrambler must have messed up
idk, why don't you just shoot them an email and complain.If only. Who would ever ban the great Rowe Hessler?
That doesn't make sense. An easy scramble will never tell you anything about the validity of it.
Its been killing me for a while and i just decided to tell them and come clean. Its been a major depressing thing for me and the worst part was not being able to talk about it with anyone. I just decided to tell Ron and hope for the best. It's another reason i stopped BLD, i was just ashamed of myself. I'm practicing now hopefully I'll break that 52 and actually deserve a good time.What finally motivated you to announce this? Also, are you going to get back into Bld and bring down your pb?
While I am disappointed in you for doing what you did, I cannot help the fact that you confessing is very brave to me, regardless of the fact that you didn't end up getting punished for it. As you are a local cuber to me, and a very fast one at that (But more importantly, a nice, intelligent person), I do look up to you, and this doesn't change that. Thank you for confessing and apologizing, as I'm sure it will cause some people to rethink how they act in situations like this. You're still a cool dude in my eyes, Rowe.
and I hope someday you can all look past this terrible decision and forgive me
But I'm saying if it was unusually lucky, or unheard of (like only 4 pieces unsolved in a scramble) there would be a pretty good chance that it was mis-scrambled, if that's a word. So would you afterwards check the scramble with the delegate or competition runner to make sure it was legitimate, or just take your solve.
Once that moment passed it must have been incredibly difficult to come forward.
Rowe exhibited maturity in telling a truth he absolutely did not have to.
I've already told Rowe personally, but I think it is worth noting how proud I am of him right now.
Rowe made a mistake, of course. He made a lie of omission. Once that moment passed it must have been incredibly difficult to come forward. It is OK for you to be shocked by this and even to be a little bit pissed about it, but that shouldn't carry over into a damnation of the man. It's easy to sit at home and say there's not anything you did in your lives that you're not proud of, but you all know it's not true. I am absolutely sure that there are people in our community who have done unsportsmanlike things that we will never know about. Maybe this will encourage others to come forward, maybe not. We need to be willing to accept an apology that is asked for in good faith. I ask everyone to not judge a man by the mistakes he makes, but by how he rectifies them. All men do the former, far fewer do the latter.
Rowe exhibited maturity in telling a truth he absolutely did not have to. It is important that we as a community embrace truth, however latent. I don't think many of the people on this forum understand how different a person Rowe is than he was when he set that record. He has truly become a better person over the last four years that I have known him and he is a deeply good man. Nobody here has the right to call him otherwise.
And so, in many ways, I have more respect for Rowe today than I did for him yesterday. I don't know that I would be strong enough to do the same thing myself.
-Kian Barry: competitor, friend, and WCA delegate
Ah, that sounds much better than "It is very tough to say something, especially as time passes". I almost called you out on it.
I've already told Rowe personally, but I think it is worth noting how proud I am of him right now.
Rowe made a mistake, of course. He made a lie of omission. Once that moment passed it must have been incredibly difficult to come forward. It is OK for you to be shocked by this and even to be a little bit pissed about it, but that shouldn't carry over into a damnation of the man. It's easy to sit at home and say there's not anything you did in your lives that you're not proud of, but you all know it's not true. I am absolutely sure that there are people in our community who have done unsportsmanlike things that we will never know about. Maybe this will encourage others to come forward, maybe not. We need to be willing to accept an apology that is asked for in good faith. I ask everyone to not judge a man by the mistakes he makes, but by how he rectifies them. All men do the former, far fewer do the latter.
Rowe exhibited maturity in telling a truth he absolutely did not have to. It is important that we as a community embrace truth, however latent. I don't think many of the people on this forum understand how different a person Rowe is than he was when he set that record. He has truly become a better person over the last four years that I have known him and he is a deeply good man. Nobody here has the right to call him otherwise.
And so, in many ways, I have more respect for Rowe today than I did for him yesterday. I don't know that I would be strong enough to do the same thing myself.
-Kian Barry: competitor, friend, and WCA delegate
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