WCA Hall of Fame

I would put Stefan in, he made some contributions to the community, (Some really good ones), and he is known for being the nicest cuber on the forum!
 
Maybe I could make one on my website, then some of you could import to WCA (hint, hint delegates)? Also, I nominate badmephisto.

Inactive AND Active please!
 
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I think this is a great idea, it'll leave cubers with a sense of pride and a feeling that what they have done was not for nothing...many cubers get forgotten over the years. I'm not going to say who, but I referred to Erik Akkersdijk to a certain cuber in the USA, who is competively one of the fastest in the country, and he did not know who he is....thats just ridiculous
 
rowehessler said:
I think this is a great idea, it'll leave cubers with a sense of pride and a feeling that what they have done was not for nothing...many cubers get forgotten over the years. I'm not going to say who, but I referred to Erik Akkersdijk to a certain cuber in the USA, who is competively one of the fastest in the country, and he did not know who he is....thats just ridiculous
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I agree with this post very much, on all points made.
 
Uwe Mefferts, for making advances in Mass-Produced Non-WCA Puzzles, and Oskar V.D. , Minh Thang, Traphium (did I get that right?) for epic puzzle making and designing (and 3D-Printing)
 
As expected, it didn't take long for this to degrade into a popularity contest. I mean srsly, most of the names mentioned hardly deserve to go down forever in the annuls of cubing...
 
Dene said:
As expected, it didn't take long for this to degrade into a popularity contest. I mean srsly, most of the names mentioned hardly deserve to go down forever in the annuls of cubing...
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I agree with this.

We shouldn't just name people because they are quite fast currently. Winning 1 world championship or breaking 1 world record isn't a valid reason to suggest someone for hall of fame. Otherwise we will have many many new members of hall of fame every year. And that is not what hall of fame should be like IMO. It should be something that only a selected few can ever achieve.
 
tseitsei said:
I agree with this.

We shouldn't just name people because they are quite fast currently. Winning 1 world championship or breaking 1 world record isn't a valid reason to suggest someone for hall of fame. Otherwise we will have many many new members of hall of fame every year. And that is not what hall of fame should be like IMO. It should be something that only a selected few can ever achieve.
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Maybe it could be split into sections e.g. Speed, WRs, whatever. It could also be split into 'levels of honour', in which some people are higher up in the Hall of Fame than others?
 
Seanliu said:
Maybe it could be split into sections e.g. Speed, WRs, whatever. It could also be split into 'levels of honour', in which some people are higher up in the Hall of Fame than others?
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WR holders already get an appreciated title called "WR holder". I think Hall of fame should require absolutely dominating the (several) event(s) for a long period of time (for example Zemdegs for many events or Maskow for MBLD). Also as said before significant contributions to cubing community should be taken into account (for example Petrus, Fridrich for their method developement and Pochmann for his BLDmethod work...)
 
tseitsei said:
WR holders already get an appreciated title called "WR holder". I think Hall of fame should require absolutely dominating the (several) event(s) for a long period of time (for example Zemdegs for many events or Maskow for MBLD). Also as said before significant contributions to cubing community should be taken into account (for example Petrus, Fridrich for their method developement and Pochmann for his BLDmethod work...)
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Wow. Amazing. Do you want to work on guidelines for the Hall Of Fame with me?
 
Hall Of Fame will be announced on the final Saturday of March 2015.

Current nominations:
Gilles Roux
Tyson Mao
Erik Akkersdijk
Rowe Hessler
Jessica Fridrich
Stefan Pochmann
Frank Morris
Kevin Hays (?)


Celebrity nominations
Will Smith, for causing a resurgence of the cube craze
Dan Brown (pogobat), he isn't serious, but his video taught many people how to solve the puzzle.

Submit your nominations and I will draft up some guidelines/history.

Active and inactive will work, but there will be certain qualifications for it.
 
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This is a good idea. I'm also sad to hear Kevin's retiring.
I'm also old enough in cubing community and don't know if I can get some accomplishment in some events. Just see what I can achieve in 2015. Maybe I'll retire by the end of 2015 or just keep going with 2x2.
 
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