JustinTimeCuber
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Yes, you can, if you take 10 seconds to think about how the score taker would see the writing. It would be pretty easy for a judge to write a 4 that looks kinda like a 9, enough that the score taker would have to enter it as a 9 but enough like a 4 still that the competitor would sign it without thinking twice. I agree that competitors, myself included, should be careful signing a scorecard, but I think that if we just say "Whatever is on the scorecard is final, period" it makes the WCA database significantly less accurate.If they do that you can tell them to fix it before you sign
Imagine that as soon as a competitor and a judge sign a scorecard, it cannot be changed. Then what? Let's say I get a non-cuber friend to go to a competition with me and be a judge. I tell them in secret to subtract 5 seconds from every time I get on the 3x3 that they judge. No one can prove that it wasn't just an honest mistake, that the 9.98 was accidentally written as a 4.98. The judge can't be punished by the WDC as they are a non-cuber. The 4.98 has to go into the database, and boom, I'm third in the world by barely getting a sub-10.