Erik
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During or right before competitions time limits or the number of people that advance in the next round are sometimes suddenly changed.
I think it's a really bad thing if the organization makes one of the following changes:
- less people advanced to the next round
- time limits are harder to meet
In other words: if they make changes that are a disadvantage for the competitors.
Why?
There are a lot of cubers that look at their chances of advancing into the next round when registering for a competition. After all, if you only get 2 instead of 5 attempts at something, or if you know you will probably not make it into the next round, your competition might be over quicker than you'd like. If you know you will not be able to advance in event A, you might consider not competing and only practice event B.
Registering or not (for the whole competion, or just certain events) is something you can decide on forehand based on these time limits.
I think it is unfair to "change the rules while playing the game". After all you payed your registration fee to compete in the events that were promised to you.
What I propose:
Either:
- forbid the organization to make time limits harder, or decrease the # of competitors advancing into the next round, during or right before the competition
or
- disencourage the organization to make time limits harder, or decrease the # of competitors advancing into the next round, during or right before the competition
It can happen that for unforseen reasons you have to save time. For example: if there is an incident, a fire drill etc. I think such reasons are the only valid reasons for making time limits harder. That's why I put the or in my proposal. However, the reason time limits are changed or the # of competitors is being decreased is mostly a bad time schedule. So if you are a clever organization: you make a time schedule which you can make less strict if possible, not stricter if necessary.
I think it's a really bad thing if the organization makes one of the following changes:
- less people advanced to the next round
- time limits are harder to meet
In other words: if they make changes that are a disadvantage for the competitors.
Why?
There are a lot of cubers that look at their chances of advancing into the next round when registering for a competition. After all, if you only get 2 instead of 5 attempts at something, or if you know you will probably not make it into the next round, your competition might be over quicker than you'd like. If you know you will not be able to advance in event A, you might consider not competing and only practice event B.
Registering or not (for the whole competion, or just certain events) is something you can decide on forehand based on these time limits.
I think it is unfair to "change the rules while playing the game". After all you payed your registration fee to compete in the events that were promised to you.
What I propose:
Either:
- forbid the organization to make time limits harder, or decrease the # of competitors advancing into the next round, during or right before the competition
or
- disencourage the organization to make time limits harder, or decrease the # of competitors advancing into the next round, during or right before the competition
It can happen that for unforseen reasons you have to save time. For example: if there is an incident, a fire drill etc. I think such reasons are the only valid reasons for making time limits harder. That's why I put the or in my proposal. However, the reason time limits are changed or the # of competitors is being decreased is mostly a bad time schedule. So if you are a clever organization: you make a time schedule which you can make less strict if possible, not stricter if necessary.