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It is my intention to start allowing 3 attempts at Fewest Moves in the Weekly Competition at the start of 2019. The question is whether the "winner" of the event (and point scoring and Kinch scoring) should be decided by mean of 3 rules or by best of 3 rules. Remember that with WCA mean of 3 rules, while an invalid mean of 3 means a DNF for the mean, winners are still ranked by the best result for those who get less than 3 valid results.
Originally, I was leaning towards mean of 3, but lately I've changed my mind and decided that best of 3 might be best. We would of course track mean of 3 in the statistics pages, even if the "winner" is not decided that way, just as we do now with the BLD events. Going with best of 3 gives a slight advantage to those who do more than one attempt per week, simply because they have more chances to get a good solve, but still gives someone lucky the chance to "win" even if they only do one attempt.
So I'm now leaning now towards best of 3, but I could still be easily persuaded. Hence the poll - what do other people think?
Originally, I was leaning towards mean of 3, but lately I've changed my mind and decided that best of 3 might be best. We would of course track mean of 3 in the statistics pages, even if the "winner" is not decided that way, just as we do now with the BLD events. Going with best of 3 gives a slight advantage to those who do more than one attempt per week, simply because they have more chances to get a good solve, but still gives someone lucky the chance to "win" even if they only do one attempt.
So I'm now leaning now towards best of 3, but I could still be easily persuaded. Hence the poll - what do other people think?