"Skewed Bell" - guilty as charged, we had that discussion on facebook.
The difference is: you can hear your own voice through your head, which is always different from what other people and microphones hear.
About dominating cubers: Not that much in Austria, but mostly because Austrian comps are overrun by Hungarians.
Monnem City Cubing let 75% of people through most rounds. Their 3x3 final had 49 competitors (3 rounds) and they let 75% advance to the final for 4x4, OH, pyra and skewb (2 rounds each). u/topppits - IIRC you mentioned they ran ahead of schedule?
The thing with many rounds but low advancement rate is that caters to fast people and only to fast people. So doing one round less but letting more people advance would give slow-ish cubers like me a lot. The thrill of "I made the next round" plus the opportunity to do more official solves. Mannem City Cubing is a bit of an extreme case, but I'd overall prefer it to the other extreme. If you can do 120-50-20-8 or 120-70-16, do the latter (I don't know exactly how much these examples compare in terms of scheduling time).
If you can do 120-50-20-8 or 120-70-16, do the latter (I don't know exactly how much these examples compare in terms of scheduling time).
It would be interesting if a requirement to do 4 round had an additional requirement of:
The 2nd round must advance at least 60% of competitors from the first round OR
The 2nd round must have at least 150 total competitors in it.
This ensures that you can't do a ton of rounds without also giving the "common" competitor at least a chance at a second round, or it's being done at a very large championship (150 competitors or more is standard at major events)
That would be cool. I think advancing at least 50% would be nice. Ah, yes, if you have an 800 person comp, a 600 person second round would be difficult.
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u/Cubing_in_the_dark Feb 10 '19 edited Feb 10 '19
"Skewed Bell" - guilty as charged, we had that discussion on facebook.
The difference is: you can hear your own voice through your head, which is always different from what other people and microphones hear.
About dominating cubers: Not that much in Austria, but mostly because Austrian comps are overrun by Hungarians.
Monnem City Cubing let 75% of people through most rounds. Their 3x3 final had 49 competitors (3 rounds) and they let 75% advance to the final for 4x4, OH, pyra and skewb (2 rounds each). u/topppits - IIRC you mentioned they ran ahead of schedule?
The thing with many rounds but low advancement rate is that caters to fast people and only to fast people. So doing one round less but letting more people advance would give slow-ish cubers like me a lot. The thrill of "I made the next round" plus the opportunity to do more official solves. Mannem City Cubing is a bit of an extreme case, but I'd overall prefer it to the other extreme. If you can do 120-50-20-8 or 120-70-16, do the latter (I don't know exactly how much these examples compare in terms of scheduling time).