What happened to Bofan Zhang at the WC2023 Finals?

[Davian]

After the 5th solve, the delegate showed up too him and told him something, then a few minutea after the delegate said ''were giving him an extra, just to be safe'' Why to be safe? what happened? why an extra since they didnt even misscramble?

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

While watching the stream, my guess was that he looked over at the competitor next to him, giving him a possible unfair advantage with the scramble. Haven't heard anyone suggest this yet though.

 

[Torrian]

I may be completely wrong but I heard something about the stopwatch being faulty meaning he may have been given more inspection time therefore he had to redo the solve.

 

[JDAW6]

It was a provisional extra and would be used if it was needed but after they reviewed the situation the deemed the situation unworthy of an extra

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

It was a provisional extra and would be used if it wa after they reviewed the situation the deemed the situation unworthy of an extra

Yeah so the question was, what was the situation that might have been worthy of an extra?

I may be completely wrong but I heard something about the stopwatch being faulty meaning he may have been given more inspection time therefore he had to redo the solve.

It seems unlikely that during a worlds finals, a faulty stopwatch is used. Besides, why would the stopwatch being faulty lead to only one extra? Wouldn't it have been faulty for a while at that point, making all of the previous solves where that stopwatch was used useless?

While watching the stream, my guess was that he looked over at the competitor next to him, giving him a possible unfair advantage with the scramble. Haven't heard anyone suggest this yet though.

If that is the case, it makes sense the extra was discarded, since it would have given him a better average and it doesn't make sense to get a better average because of an extra due to an unfair advantage. But then again, i feel like things like that are inevitable, and if it is very obviously advantageous, wouldn't that be a DNF?

 

[Torrian]

It seems unlikely that during a worlds finals, a faulty stopwatch is used. Besides, why would the stopwatch being faulty lead to only one extra? Wouldn't it have been faulty for a while at that point, making all of the previous solves where that stopwatch was used useless?

Ok sorry, I thought I saw someone mention it while watching the stream and yeah, it wouldn't really make sense.

 

[abunickabhi]

The situation is quite confusing. Was the provisional extra solve considered?