Regulations Discussion at Worlds (Saturday Lunch)

[HEART]

the only thing i think should be changed is DNFs on M slices.

Man part of me wants to agree, like Lucas said aswhell +2's could possibly just be removed altogether. I like the function of the +2 system, but some cases ( such as the m slices ) is just annoying to be called a dnf. M slices are a big part of BLD and isn't that uncommon.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

(I don't really pay attention to discussions like this) What would happen if the +2s were removed? would it be no penalty even if it's 1 move off or DNF because it's 1 move off?

Spoiler

Can clock not be either no penalty or DNF? is there a way to add +2 to clock? (I know this sounds crazy)

 

[Lucas Garron]

Jim helped me schedule a room for this. We'll meet at 12:30pm on Saturday, in one of the Skyboxes on the second floor. Anyone is welcome to attend and talk about any aspect of the Regulations + Guidelines.
If we get quite a few people, I will moderate the discussion.

(I'm updating the first post to reflect this.)

 

[Ton]

Cubing whilst judging shoud be forbidden worldwide. That is all.

I know what you mean, but with a tight schedule and only two groups , cubers practice for the next round/group while judging. I force all cubers to judge else a small group will just sit and let others do the judging
So I understand what you refer to , It would not be needed/we could forbid it if there are little breaks between each events/round so there is room and time for all to practice between events/rounds
Drawback means less events in the total competition....

 

[Ross The Boss]

i dont think that the plus two should be removed. i just think that the M layer should be treated the same as any other layer seeing as pretty much everyone does M as one finger trick and not something like R r'.

 

[Ton]

Unfortunetly I can't go, but I have a topic to discuss:

In the scramble of the BLD, add a random cube oriantation to the end of the scramble. For example, the scramble is F R2 D' B (...) R2 F' x y'.

This should eliminate (or decrease) the advantage of "if you solve the cube with white on top, green on front, then probably you don't have to rotate the cube first, because most of the time the cube is already in that orientation before you." This is negligible during a regular solve (since inspection time doesn't count to the result), but not in BLD; it could save half a second. I always felt a bit discriminated because I learned BLD with white top, orange front.

The regulation currently says only "A2e) The judge places the puzzle onto the mat in an arbitrary orientation (...)". Which is usually eqivalent to the original one.

For multilpe blindfold scramble I always orientate or put the cube as on the scramble sheet, as I need to check sometimes 20+ scrambles if they are correct. If all scramblers did a random layout, it would impossible for me to check if the cubes are correctly scrambled for multiple blindfold.

For BLD in general it is semi random, but most of the time the yellow will be on top , you may have a point here for BLD , interesting issue as with BLD the start orientation has affect on a total solve