Clarification:
optakeover's comments require some clarifications from me:
1) I do accuse Yish and his brother (the guy with the eye-patch) of cheating, and have said so explicitly.
2a) I do not suspect any other Singaporean cuber of cheating, or supporting cheaters. I do realize one of my remarks can be interpreted to imply this, but this was not intended. I apologize.
2b) As far as I understand, you're the Singaporean cube club and forum, and I hadn't seen any of you express doubts in the video, your forum, or here. So I was wondering what you'd do if you run a competition. I don't question your honesty, but I'm unsure about your ability or eagerness to detect dishonesty.
3) Mostly, my Singaporean remark was designed to arouse you guys, and to make Yish aware that there's more at stake than just himself. I was the first to publicly express doubts about your group as such, but I'm sure others have felt similarly (in the above 2b way). And I don't want that. I'd much rather see your group take action and see Yish come clean. When I said "lifelong distrust", I was still very angry from his acts. I believe he will have to deal with that, but I shouldn't have said I "hope" for it. That was uncalled-for, and I apologize. (Edit: I read the context again. Actually Pedro had asked what people cheat for and my reply was "Lifelong distrust, I hope". But of course that doesn't literally make sense, and the "hope" was mostly for the cheater being caught, the lifelong distrust then being a consequence of that. But it was still unnecessary, so I still apologize.)
Other issues:
- I didn't attack your cube explorer post and didn't say that you're supporting Yish with it. I applaud you for finding CE and telling your fellow sgcubers about it. It's a great program. I only posted your remark to put Yish's in context. I thought that was obvious. You explained that one can find scrambles for given cubes, and that's exactly what I suspect Yish has done one day after seeing it (that's where the "one day" came from, I did see you posted earlier, but he didn't).
- The "good job" referred to chue.hsien and the sgcubers not expressing any kind of doubts, thereby making me doubt more than just Yish (again in the 2b way). Thus obviously it wasn't my good job but yours (and particularly chue's, for various reasons), and "good" was ironic, in a sad way.
- You said that if WCA is incompetent at detecting cheating in blindsolving, it's also incompetent at that in sighted solving. I don't think so. It's much easier to cheat in blindsolving than in sighted solving, and it also has a much more significant impact. You'd probably understand if you knew more about blindsolving and how WCA competitions work.
Finally, I'd like to say I didn't think this issue would take on the proportions it did. I'm also not happy with some of the added arguments like the tapping of the center, which I agree is irrelevant. I was hoping the whole issue would be sorted out quickly, because to me the evidence is clear, and I consider myself enough of an expert to judge this correctly.
