I was imagining some future competition with more attempts, maybe 10 or
20, and every solve counting. I'm not arguing against the proposed rule
changes, but against a (perhaps imagined) opinion that there should be
no allowances for mistakes and accidents at all.
I think the origin of the somewhat odd custom of not counting the best
and worst time is to measure a representative average ("average
average") without having extreme cases affect the result, but in
practice it does serve to make it OK to have a few mistakes. And I
think that's good, even though I would agree that those mistakes are
the fault of the solver. Though at the other end, it *is* pretty weird
that the fastest solves don't even count. I can't think of another
sport that does that.
If there were really no pops at all in the latest final, that does show
it's not much to worry about, at least for people in that level.
/Lars
On Dec 26, 2005, at 16:38, Stefan Pochmann wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Lars Petrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I would not want a future where many competitors in a WC final end
> up
>> with DNF results, since they had to choose between going full speed
> and
>> being sure not to pop.
>
>
> Oh, and... more importantly... how come you're talking about DNFs?
>
> You'll only get DNF if you *finish* with a pop, i.e. you pop and stop
> the timer with the pop not fixed. And you'd have to do that *twice* to
> affect your average. How likely is that?
>
> Cheers!
> Stefan
>
>
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