The WCA’s New Scrambling System

[snmcubing]

This has just been shown on the WCA’s announcement page. WCA Delegates will now randomly pick scrambles from a linked Google Form (that you can contribute to!) and use it for official WCA competitions! The way this works is 12 scrambles will be voted to be put on to the WCA Set of Standard Scrambles forever. Those people will no longer be able to compete, unfortunately. This Set of Standard Scrambles is where the delegate chooses from.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

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This has just been shown on the WCA’s announcement page. WCA Delegates will now randomly pick scrambles from a linked Google Form (that you can contribute to!) and use it for official WCA competitions! The way this works is 12 scrambles will be voted to be put on to the WCA Set of Standard Scrambles forever. Those people will no longer be able to compete, unfortunately. This Set of Standard Scrambles is where the delegate chooses from.

then those scrambles wouldn’t be random anymore right?

 

[Lord_Oscar]

then those scrambles wouldn’t be random anymore right?

The ones generated by tnoodle will, but the ones submitted to the WCA database won't. (We're not speed climbing, thankfully.) This is to save approximately 8MB of space, which is a massive amount of text.

I doubt that many people will submit scrambles, because not being able to compete is a major disincentive to many people.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

The ones generated by tnoodle will, but the ones submitted to the WCA database won't. (We're not speed climbing, thankfully.) This is to save approximately 8MB of space, which is a massive amount of text.

I doubt that many people will submit scrambles, because not being able to compete is a major disincentive to many people.

so what do we use the scrambles submitted for? Will we be using both TNoodle and the WCA database scrambles?

 

[Lord_Oscar]

so what do we use the scrambles submitted for? Will we be using both TNoodle and the WCA database scrambles?

My above post was incorrect. Here’s what I understand so far:

Once the set of scrambles is determined by the board, each competition’s delegates will randomly choose 5 scrambles from the set to use in the competition, and submit the results normally.


I had to read the announcement a few times, so sorry for the incorrect post.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

My above post was incorrect. Here’s what I understand so far:

Once the set of scrambles is determined by the board, each competition’s delegates will randomly choose 5 scrambles from the set to use in the competition, and submit the results normally.


I had to read the announcement a few times, so sorry for the incorrect post.

same lol

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

Ok wait I still seem to be lost. So from this point forward, there will be no new scrambles? So if someone gets a WR and then later that day at a diff comp someone gets that same scram and gets WR... idk just doesn't seem right.

It's also 11:30 and I'm exhausted so who knows if I'm reading it right

 

[Lord_Oscar]

same lol

It's a very confusing announcement. I'm very much opposed to this decision, so much so that I'm fairly tempted to start a petition against the decision - it might have justification, but it's against the very nature of and purpose of scrambling IMO.

there will be no new scrambles?

From what I understand, apart from the selected 12 scramble in each set, yes.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

@Lord_Oscar has confirmed it's a joke

 

[Lord_Oscar]

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@Lord_Oscar has confirmed it's a joke

Was just about to post this. Thank heaven it's a joke.

 

[1x1 wr holder!]

W hunger games reference

 

[Mike Hughey]

I got all the way to the second sentence of the second paragraph before I realized what it was. Nice one.

 

[bldcuber314]

Only true part is 'Even a broken Clock is right twice a day'

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

Only true part is 'Even a broken Clock is right twice a day'

thats what made me suspicious of this announcement

 

[snmcubing]

guys I was being sarcastic dw

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

imagine we actually implemented this

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

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[bldcuber314]

Dear WCA,































































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I spent like a full minute waiting for the video to load before I realised there was no video

 

[FaTyl]

before you criticize the wca for making this decision, please remember that 8 megabytes is actually quite a lot, especially considering the price of computer storage these days

 

[OtaMota]