One-Answer WCA Competition and Regulations Question Thread

I was just wondering the same thing. Thanks for this guys, now I can check whether I really did get harder scrambles at the competition or I just crumbled under the pressure and messed up (probably the latter) :(
 
I'm just wondering if it's hard to get into WCA competitions or easy because y'know they only have roughly around 100 per competition. I live in Australia and I am aware that the only one available is the Cube for Cambodia event, which is full. But it seems to get full pretty fast, so is it hard to get into competitions? Like, do you have to sign up the day it's announced or do you have a week or two? Also how long does it take to make a WCA competitions?

Also is there any non-WCA competitions in Australia or any websites that list competitions?

Thanks!
 
UnlimitedBacon said:
I'm just wondering if it's hard to get into WCA competitions or easy because y'know they only have roughly around 100 per competition. I live in Australia and I am aware that the only one available is the Cube for Cambodia event, which is full. But it seems to get full pretty fast, so is it hard to get into competitions? Like, do you have to sign up the day it's announced or do you have a week or two? Also how long does it take to make a WCA competitions?

Also is there any non-WCA competitions in Australia or any websites that list competitions?

Thanks!
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A quick googling brought up this
In general (at least in the uk) you have about a week or maybe slightly more though it's usually a good idea to sign up as soon as you can to guarantee a place.
 
Just something I've been curious about regulation 9m. Why is 4 rounds considered the maximum number of rounds? And why don't we allow more? I know that a 5th round would most likely require a lot of competitors, (at least 300 competitors would be a good lower bound), and would take more time. But, if a competition had the competitors, time, and many competitors were willing to have 5 rounds of an event, why not allow it? Maybe an article could be added that says something like:

An event that has more than 4 rounds must be approved by the WCA Board before the competition is announced.

Now I don't really mind about the max round number being 4, but I was just wondering if there was a specific reason as to why it's like this?
 
Ordway Persyn said:
Just something I've been curious about regulation 9m. Why is 4 rounds considered the maximum number of rounds? And why don't we allow more? I know that a 5th round would most likely require a lot of competitors, (at least 300 competitors would be a good lower bound), and would take more time. But, if a competition had the competitors, time, and many competitors were willing to have 5 rounds of an event, why not allow it? Maybe an article could be added that says something like:

An event that has more than 4 rounds must be approved by the WCA Board before the competition is announced.

Now I don't really mind about the max round number being 4, but I was just wondering if there was a specific reason as to why it's like this?
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I think the WC 2017 is planned to have 5 rounds of 3x3. It would be great if someone more qualified could confirm this.
 
So I was thinking that it would be funny to buy one of those 32cm 3x3 or use one of those Rubik's cube keychains at comp. so my question is can I use this? GAN 356 Air for scale.

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I've seen people using these as well as those gigantic cubes... For OH.

It's up to the delegate.

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But then the piece that had the chain would be different from the rest.
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It doesn't provide significant advantage, IMO. You can barely feel the difference, and a set of chipped stickers would not be much different.
 
I think it may be against the regulations to intentionally use a cube like this (or like the giant 3x3) if you have another available, but I'm not sure.
 
Fábio De'Rose said:
It's up to the delegate.

It doesn't provide significant advantage, IMO. You can barely feel the difference, and a set of chipped stickers would not be much different.
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Reasonable wear is up to delegate discretion, but any significantly distinguishable differences between similar pieces is not up to delegate discretion. A piece being made differently than other pieces does not qualify as wear, so it shouldn't be up to the delegate on this one. Chain or not, the puzzle isn't legal.

3j) Puzzles must be clean, and must not have any markings, elevated pieces, damage, or other differences that significantly distinguish any piece from a similar piece. Exception: a logo (see Regulation 3l).
  • 3j1) Puzzles are permitted to have reasonable wear, at the discretion of the WCA Delegate.
 
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