AbsoRuud said: So. One could draw a conclusion that Roux isn't so bad after all, and colour neutrality is overrated. Click to expand...

Indeed, the conclusion of the announcers/commentators was that all 5 scrambles had bad cross cases, hence Philipp, doing only white cross, was not at any disadvantage, but rather an advantage, because single-color solvers have (arguably) the most conditioned color-related lookahead (not to mention Philipp would not waste time looking at the other cross cases during inspection), and in this case, neither of the 2 Roux solvers suffered from the bad-cross cases since they don't start with crosses anyway.My personal opinion from watching the finals very carefully was the that the Roux solvers don't have ugly algorithms in their arsenal; the CFOP solvers are faced with numerous LL cases that are very hard to fingertrick, and under extreme competition nerves, almost every single CFOP solver had lockups/messups during some of the ugly LL cases.