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US Nationals 2016 - July 29 - 31, Portland, Oregon

Tim Reynolds

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Awesome!

But I'm laughing so hard right now. No feet? Woooooooooow lololol. Is it being removed? lol

We're choosing not to hold it this year. We have limited time and we're using that time on more popular events. I don't have any idea whether the WCA Board or WRC is planning to remove feet, but we're not planning on holding it.
 

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We're choosing not to hold it this year. We have limited time and we're using that time on more popular events. I don't have any idea whether the WCA Board or WRC is planning to remove feet, but we're not planning on holding it.

By that logic shouldn't y'all have eliminated 4bld and 5bld indstead, both are less popular and take more time than feet.

Edit: y'all also cut 6x6 cutoff by 30 seconds, which I'm not too happy about :p
 

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By that logic shouldn't y'all have eliminated 4bld and 5bld indstead, both are less popular and take more time than feet.

Edit: y'all also cut 6x6 cutoff by 30 seconds, which I'm not too happy about :p

That's not exactly a fair comparison, as the barrier to entry is far greater for feet than 4BLD and 5BLD. The people who do feet at nats generally don't seem to care about the event, as evidenced in this thread:

Wait where am I going to do my annual round of feet?

Those who do 4BLD/5BLD had to necessarily put in a decent amount of practice and learning to compete in the event in the first place, and thus are more likely to care about the event than the average feet competitor. That's not to say that there aren't people who take feet seriously, but this just shows that comparing the number of competitors here isn't really a good comparison for popularity.
 

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That's not exactly a fair comparison, as the barrier to entry is far greater for feet than 4BLD and 5BLD. The people who do feet at nats generally don't seem to care about the event, as evidenced in this thread:



Those who do 4BLD/5BLD had to necessarily put in a decent amount of practice and learning to compete in the event in the first place, and thus are more likely to care about the event than the average feet competitor. That's not to say that there aren't people who take feet seriously, but this just shows that comparing the number of competitors here isn't really a good comparison for popularity.

Why not just make the feet cutoffs very strict? if people are taking 10 or more minutes to solve a cube with their feet, just make the hard cutoff 3-4 minutes. any dedicated feet solver could likely solve a cube in much less time than that.
 
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