It doesn't have to involve me, but it needs to involve someone from the WCA for the record to be official. I personally am not a big fan of taking out hours out of my day if someone has no chance for the world record. If they can find another WCA official to preside over for them, then fine, go for it. If you want to do it at Caltech, we request that you practice once. I believe people underestimate the power of fatigue.
We at the WCA need to design a system for dealing with records like these. With all of the other records, there are competitions scheduled so you go to a competition and you do your thing. For a record like this, it's obviously done in a different manner. Obviously, I can't accommodate every single person who has an inkling of a desire to break this record. One possibility is to have a one-hour competition and the winner of the one-hour competition gets a chance to break the 24-hour record. Tyson Mao Astrophysics '06 California Institute of Technology On Feb 20, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Per Kristen Fredlund wrote: > Hi Tyson :-) > > --- In [email protected], Tyson Mao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Seriously, why are people claiming that I say all these things? If > you >> review the posts, you'll see that I requested that someone should be >> very serious about breaking this record. One way of proving to us > that >> you're actually serious is to break the record yourself unofficially > at >> home. I feel this is a reasonable request given the number of hours > it >> requires a team of people to ratify the record. > > This is an unreasonable request. There is ONE guy who is gonna solve > cubes for 24 hrs or up to maximum 24 hrs. If someone feels he/she is > up to it then why not go directly for official record? U Tyson would > not be involved. So what does it matter to u ? If the person going for > it has enough scramblers/helpers why should he have to do it twice > (unofficially then officially). I can't see that u Tyson can request > this. It doesn't make sense to me ;-) > > After all the cube is just a puzzle. And if the person fails badly to > beat the current record, so what ?? > > Cheers! > > -Per > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
