What do you think is the worst WCA decision of all time?

[goober123]

Unimportant title

 

[Jteddy]

Removing feet.

 

[goober123]

Removing feet.

i knew someone would say that

 

[Martyt7777]

Removing clock.

 

[gsingh]

Adding clock

 

[Fred]

Giving Dan Smith a fat salary looks like a great way to discourage volunteers helping out for free.

 

[Powstick]

Removing clock.

#FREECLOCK (there’s not even a point it’s getting removed anyway)

 

[MrCubert]

Deleting clock (how are we gonna tell the time now???)

 

[Michael Wimberly]

Removing clock (how am I gonna wake up on time for competitions???)

 

[microchado]

removing clock, it’s just destroying people’s main event for no reason

 

[Drewe]

though it was undone later, letting the 0.78 stand was pretty bad

 

[That0newe1rdo]

theres too many to pick one, but...

removing clock
adding clock
revoking clock world title
etc etc

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Adding clock

I second this. As someone who used to main clock, it just makes cubing competitions so much more complicated because of all the incidents associated with clock.

 

[Swagrid]

theres too many to pick one, but...

removing clock
adding clock
revoking clock world title
etc etc

this is unironcally the big 3 like this is the correct answer as far as I am concerned
adding clock in the first place was a bad idea which lead to this completely out of place event which was entirely stagnant results-wise, methods-wise, and hardware wise for like over a decade until eventually we got to do 7simul on the qiyi clock and it created a unique event with its own skillset, a lot of peoples first side event which got new people through the funnel and into speedcubing proper, a lot of peoples first good event since learning 7s and grinding solves could get you high in the ranks, volatile rankings, loads of competition, and only THEN do the wca decide to remove it. terrible decision, it spent over a decade stinking out the events pool and the moment it earns its keep and becomes a valuable part of the ecosystem it gets cut.
and Antoni Stojek is clock world champion idgaf it was a terrible travesty that he lost his world title.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

I second this. As someone who used to main clock, it just makes cubing competitions so much more complicated because of all the incidents associated with clock.

Yes clock shouldve never been added, but sometimes those incidents were completely unavoidable.

this is unironcally the big 3 like this is the correct answer as far as I am concerned
adding clock in the first place was a bad idea which lead to this completely out of place event which was entirely stagnant results-wise, methods-wise, and hardware wise for like over a decade until eventually we got to do 7simul on the qiyi clock and it created a unique event with its own skillset, a lot of peoples first side event which got new people through the funnel and into speedcubing proper, a lot of peoples first good event since learning 7s and grinding solves could get you high in the ranks, volatile rankings, loads of competition, and only THEN do the wca decide to remove it. terrible decision, it spent over a decade stinking out the events pool and the moment it earns its keep and becomes a valuable part of the ecosystem it gets cut.
and Antoni Stojek is clock world champion idgaf it was a terrible travesty that he lost his world title.

its only clock they can't make a good choice about I swear

 

[Sub 20 Cuber]

Removing clock. That was a mistake

 

[Drewe]

its only clock they can't make a good choice about I swear

Sliding

 

[iguana]

adding 3x3

 

[Sub 20 Cuber]

adding 3x3

Are u kidding me? Like genuinely bro what

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Sliding

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If your talking about the 4-pad change it is annoying (for sprint event mains) but completely justified. I believe the will be a 2-Pad and a 4-Pad record for sprint events too.