What are the top five WCA Regulations that every competitor should know?

[Sa967St]

Choose 5 Regulations (e.g. 2g, A4) other than 2t that you think are the most important for WCA competitors to know.

Here are the current Regulations.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

3a, 3b, 5b, 7h1, A4

I think with this you should get a pretty good idea on how a competition is run, and most of the stuff about inspection and end of solve seems relatively common sense to guess how it would work.
So just to clarify what I picked:
Bring your own puzzles with acceptable stickers, (3a/3b)
Rules about pops (5b)
Stay in the competitor area (7h1)
How to start the solve (A4)

With more allowed, I would probably add in the rest of A and then maybe some more about 3/5

 

[TDM]

1i, 3b, 3c, 4e, 7a
3a, 3h2, 5b, 7h1, A4

 

[Yuxuibbs]

2t is basically all you need to know

but if you're not counting 2t:
3a, 3h, 5b, A4, A6

 

[Stefan]

If a first-time competitor, who knows absolutely nothing about competitions, approached you and asked, "What are the most important regulations for me to know?", which ones would you pick?

None. Instead I'd send them here:
http://www.cubingusa.com/ctutorial.php

 

[Sa967St]

2t is basically all you need to know

That's part of why I made this thread.

None. Instead I'd send them here:
http://www.cubingusa.com/ctutorial.php

You're no fun!

It's supposed to be a hypothetical situation in which you'd have to choose the most important regulations for a competitor to know. I edited the OP.

 

[Ranzha]

3a, 5b, 7h1, A4, A6.

Provide your own puzzles.
Puzzle defect rules (perhaps 5c as well?)
Stay in the competitors area if the org team says to.
Know how to properly start and stop the timer.

 

[Stefan]

You're no fun!

Solly, Sela.

I do think telling them about the procedure is more important than specific regulations. More like "Top 5 things to know". And I think instead of telling him "A6" it would be better to show him how to properly stop a solve. Why does your hypothetical competitor insist on regulations? Has that actually ever happened?

 

[Ranzha]

I was thinking about this for first-time competitors. Perhaps a YouTube video tutorial showing some processes competitors should be familiar with (e.g. the process of a solve attempt, the meanings of the misalignments, brief summary of what the roles of the staff are) made specifically for new competitors would be useful for everyone.
The video could be easily dubbed for multiple languages, and subtitle templates could also be made easily.

 

[jazzthief81]

These two should be up there with the top 5 regulations:
1e2) Capable competitors must be available for judging, if needed by organisation team. Penalty: disqualification from the competition.
1f2) Capable competitors must be available for scrambling, if needed by organisation team. Penalty: disqualification from the competition.

 

[Sa967St]

Solly, Sela.

I do think telling them about the procedure is more important than specific regulations. More like "Top 5 things to know". And I think instead of telling him "A6" it would be better to show him how to properly stop a solve. Why does your hypothetical competitor insist on regulations? Has that actually ever happened?

I wanted to get an idea of which regulations people think are the most important to know. I'm not interested in that specific hypothetical situation; I just needed something to write in the OP. I'm interested in people's answers to the question in the thread title.

 

[Yellowsnow98]

These two should be up there with the top 5 regulations:
1e2) Capable competitors must be available for judging, if needed by organisation team. Penalty: disqualification from the competition.
1f2) Capable competitors must be available for scrambling, if needed by organisation team. Penalty: disqualification from the competition.

Cool. I could have been disqualified from Northern Irish Open if I didn't "judge" (drop Kelsey's cube on the floor.)

Not a regulation but your hypothetical competitor should know that beating up judges/scramblers/delegates is generally frowned upon.

 

[Dene]

2a1 3m 7e 10e All of A

 

[Yuxuibbs]

I think that competitors should know ALL WCA regulations before event. Period.

Not very useful to know the WCA regulations on BLD, feet, clock, FMC, OH, and multi BLD if you're only going to be competing in 3x3 at a competition.
I would say you should know all WCA regulations except the events you will not be competing in (for the articles with capital letters with the exception of article A and article Z) and read over the regulations again a few days/hours before the competition just in case there is an incident so you know the most up to date info.

Examples of incidents that happened/may happen at competition: judge almost gave someone a +2 instead of DNF in clock because all the clocks on top were off by 1, a judge almost gave someone a DNF instead of a +2 in 2x2, and someone might take an edge out to flip a corner if he/she didn't know that the WCA regulations said you could just flip the corner instead of taking an edge out to flip a corner.

 

[Ranzha]

Not very useful to know the WCA regulations on BLD, feet, clock, FMC, OH, and multi BLD if you're only going to be competing in 3x3 at a competition.
I would say you should know all WCA regulations except the events you will not be competing in (for the articles with capital letters with the exception of article A and article Z) and read over the regulations again a few days/hours before the competition just in case there is an incident so you know the most up to date info.

I'd say it's important to know all the regulations. This way, competitors can actively help to make sure that the regs are enforced for any and all events, especially if a competitor is judging.