One-Answer WCA Competition and Regulations Question Thread

If you are judging and the competitor you're judging gets a plus two what do you write down and if the competitor gets a DNF what do you write down?
 
FastCubeMaster said:
Realistically, we all know that can't practically happen.

Especially more so in certain areas.
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Why? Reading the regs is not hard. Competitors are required to read the regs before competing so there should be enough competent people around. If a competition ends up depending on judges who don't even know the rules, the organisers/delegates have dropped the ball somewhere.
 
mark49152 said:
Why? Reading the regs is not hard. Competitors are required to read the regs before competing so there should be enough competent people around. If a competition ends up depending on judges who don't even know the rules, the organisers/delegates have dropped the ball somewhere.
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You're right that it's not hard, but it does take some time and some commitment. I strongly suspect that the percentage of competitors who have not read all the regulations (or even all the regulations that pertain to the events that they compete in) is very high. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's greater than 50%.
 
Blind people are allowed to use textured Stickers or Tiles for Speedsolving but said thing isn't allowed for Blindsolving, how are they supposed to Blindsolve?
(Just curious)
 
Mike Hughey said:
You're right that it's not hard, but it does take some time and some commitment. I strongly suspect that the percentage of competitors who have not read all the regulations (or even all the regulations that pertain to the events that they compete in) is very high. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's greater than 50%.
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I suspect the same, but that doesn't make it unreasonable to require that both competitors and judges know the regs, and doesn't mean it's not a problem if they don't. We shouldn't just accept that poor quality judging is inevitable. Responsibility has to rest with the organisers/delegates to make sure people judging at their comps know what they are doing.
 
Thom S. said:
Blind people are allowed to use textured Stickers or Tiles for Speedsolving but said thing isn't allowed for Blindsolving, how are they supposed to Blindsolve?
(Just curious)
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I would allow those competitors to use two cubes for their attempts. Both cubes are scrambled the same way, and are presented to the competitor in the same arbitrary orientation.
One cube would have textured stickers/tiles and is used for memorisation. The other cube would be legal for blindfolded solving. The competitor would still have to use the blindfold in the same was a seeing competitor would. During the memorisation phase, I would allow the judge to assist the competitor in getting both cubes in the same orientation before the blindfolded phase. During the blindfolded phase, the textured cube would be re-covered with a cube cover.
The end of the attempt is the same.
 
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