What event would you want to be made official?

Double OH: Two cubes must be solved by the competitor. Both cubes can either be solved one at a time or both at the same time, but once inspection is over and your left hand touches cube A, then your right hand must only touch cube B for the remainder of the solve.
 
Adding Events

First, a caveat:
I'm very much a noob. I've never been to a cubing competion, and I don't have plans to go anytime soon. I enjoy cubing as a pastime, and I enjoy good discussion.

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I've noticed skimming through threads that there are a lot of people who seem to want to remove official WCA events, especially feet for some reason. I would like to see a coherent defense of that stance. Personally, as I see it, speedcubing is really an inherently esoteric endeavor: relatively few people take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik's cube in the first place, and of those who do even fewer try to do it quickly. I understand that scheduling and officials can be difficult, but as far as I can tell very few competitions even attempt to have all events anyway. Adding more events would make it more likely that you could have more specialized events, focusing on things like FMC, BLD, large cubes, dodecahedrons, etc. If you're going to geek out about who can solve a Rubik's cube in 6 seconds, why not go all in and add a whole bunch of events:

Any mass-produced large cube (8x8-15x15 for the foreseeable future)
Gigaminx, Teraminx, and Petaminx
Cuboids
Megaminx BLD and FMC
Basically any puzzle that is mass produced, preferably by more than one manufacturer.
Heck, go all the way and do a Petaminx FMC. Maybe allow 24 hours for that one. Silly? Yeah, but somebody would do it just to get a record, and what's it going to hurt?
Maybe add official recognition for things like 1-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour records. These would have to be properly adjudicated, but would probably happen outside of a regular competition.

From my perspective it would be just about worth it to pay the $400 or whatever it will be to get a 15x15 when they come out, and find a competition I could go to if I could actually get an official record on it, just because.

If nothing else, adding puzzles to the WCA list would spur design and manufacturing quality improvements.

I really am interested in a rational discussion. Try to keep it civil, but if you want to call names I've got a thick skin, so call me names and be nice to everybody else. I'd love to see ideas for other events not on my list too. Maybe you'll give me ideas for puzzles or skills to add to my currently small collection.
 
It's easy to call for more events if you're not the organiser who has to manage the logistics of a chaotic competition, or the delegate who's got to be familiar with the rules of dozens of different events, or the one who has to sit and scramble a petaminx for a competition, and if you're ready to volunteer to judge a 24 hour petaminx solve, then you're welcome to come and do it. It's enough of a nightmare as it is finding good clock or square-1 scramblers. I'd hate to have to find scramblers for every mass produced puzzle.

If someone wants to do it just for the record, UWRs are there for the taking. Official competitions have to have a much more practical aspect, because although you call it an "inherently esoteric endevour", competitions still attract hundreds of competitors every weekend, all over the world, and they need to be held to the same global standard to have any meaning, and that takes a lot of hard work by a lot of people behind the scenes.
 
SQ2 JUST PLEEEEAAAAAASSEEEEEEE
Also MirrorBlocks would be nice
and 3x3x5 <3 and then I guess also 2x2 MultiBLD would be cool
Also, 4x4 OH and 2x2 OH, and 2x2 FT
 
AlphaSheep said:
It's easy to call for more events if you're not the organiser who has to manage the logistics of a chaotic competition, or the delegate who's got to be familiar with the rules of dozens of different events . . .
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Fair enough. I don't know how delegates work, but would it be possible to certify delegates for only certain events? For longer events like Petaminx, marathons, or very large cubes it would be the responsibility of the competitor to find and arrange reimbursement with a properly qualified delegate.

AlphaSheep said:
If someone wants to do it just for the record, UWRs are there for the taking. Official competitions have to have a much more practical aspect, because although you call it an "inherently esoteric endevour", competitions still attract hundreds of competitors every weekend, all over the world, and they need to be held to the same global standard to have any meaning, and that takes a lot of hard work by a lot of people behind the scenes.
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First, there is a big difference between official records and rankings and UWRs. I could set a record for OH 4x4 while seated on a cow, just because there is little overlap between people who can solve 4x4 and people who have cows to sit on. But that's silly, and everybody knows it, and as long as any record is unofficial it will be associated with silly things like that. Plus how do you rank unofficial records? #1 is relatively easy, as is former #1, but what about 2nd? Top 10?

Second, my point about an inherently esoteric endeavor is that a large part of the appeal (at least for me) of cubing is that there are relatively few people who know how to do it: to the vast majority of people in the world solving a Rubik's cube is bordering on supernatural. If we can figure out the logistics of expanding events we can expand the mystique. Rightly or not I feel like I have no chance of competing with sub-5 seconds, probably not even sub 12 seconds, for 3x3, my fingers just aren't fast enough and at 28 years old, not getting faster anytime soon. I might have a chance of being world-class at some more obscure event, as would many others.
 
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