Julio974
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I found out a few months ago that the Siamese Cubes and Rainbow Cube were official WCA events before 2007, but their results apparently have never been archived.
I decided to create a database of all unofficial official events results. It will include former events (Rainbow Cube, Siamese Cubes, 3x3x3 No inspection, etc.), but also recent events (like Kilominx).
After @Kit Clement giving me a link for some information, I decided to create a spreadsheet before creating the database.
I'm currently rolling through all results to add them to the spreadsheet, so it's completely incomplete right now and may take weeks to finish.
Spreadsheet link (Google sheets): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hjg51l1KMgAR0GNZgdo_-bxBj6hxcH8WPhIWzja1ipQ/edit?usp=sharing
Note: kilominx results won’t be added
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/history/files/regulations_history2010.html
I however tried to find former results using the Wayback Machine, by going to the rankings page right before the events were removed.
By getting to the WCA website homepage's first useful capture (july 15th, 2005), I see a "World ranking" link, I click it.
Rankings page from 2005-11-01:
Siamese Cubes (highlighted) are part of the list (such as Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Master Magic), but the Rainbow Cube is interestingly lacking. I decide to search for Siamese Cubes results first.
Clicking on "Best" then "Average", I discover that none of these pages are available! The next capture from february 2006 (which actuelly seems to be from 2004) doesn't work either. I'll try to find them via other means.
Back to the homepage, I get to the next capture and see a new link: "World records". I again click it. I search in the following page the only like to a competition (one of the only working links), World Championships 2007 (I remind that I'm trying to find at least 1 list of results from before january 1st, 2007!)
I manually change the URL to show the WC2003, and find the oldest capture: june 27th, 2007. I can't find results on the WCA website. Next step: clicking the "competition website" link, getting me to Speedcubing.com page, I see a link for that event, click it...
Only result I can find. I can't find WC2005 by just changing the URL.
Using the same method, I can only find unofficial official results for speed-blind for 2005.
I however tried to find former results using the Wayback Machine, by going to the rankings page right before the events were removed.
By getting to the WCA website homepage's first useful capture (july 15th, 2005), I see a "World ranking" link, I click it.
Rankings page from 2005-11-01:
Siamese Cubes (highlighted) are part of the list (such as Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Master Magic), but the Rainbow Cube is interestingly lacking. I decide to search for Siamese Cubes results first.
Clicking on "Best" then "Average", I discover that none of these pages are available! The next capture from february 2006 (which actuelly seems to be from 2004) doesn't work either. I'll try to find them via other means.
Back to the homepage, I get to the next capture and see a new link: "World records". I again click it. I search in the following page the only like to a competition (one of the only working links), World Championships 2007 (I remind that I'm trying to find at least 1 list of results from before january 1st, 2007!)
I manually change the URL to show the WC2003, and find the oldest capture: june 27th, 2007. I can't find results on the WCA website. Next step: clicking the "competition website" link, getting me to Speedcubing.com page, I see a link for that event, click it...
Only result I can find. I can't find WC2005 by just changing the URL.
Using the same method, I can only find unofficial official results for speed-blind for 2005.
I decided to create a database of all unofficial official events results. It will include former events (Rainbow Cube, Siamese Cubes, 3x3x3 No inspection, etc.), but also recent events (like Kilominx).
After @Kit Clement giving me a link for some information, I decided to create a spreadsheet before creating the database.
I'm currently rolling through all results to add them to the spreadsheet, so it's completely incomplete right now and may take weeks to finish.
Spreadsheet link (Google sheets): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hjg51l1KMgAR0GNZgdo_-bxBj6hxcH8WPhIWzja1ipQ/edit?usp=sharing
Note: kilominx results won’t be added
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