Lucas Garron said: Pre-signing for an attempt will now get you a DNS. Click to expand...

I also don't like the idea of retroactive results for FMC mo3. It was not an official event format, and in many cases, the 3 solves were not even considered to be part of the same round. The vast majority of competitions holding FMC did not do 3 solves because they did not have time or did not think anyone needed more than one. At least for BLD it was always understood that a typical round has 3 attempts.EDIT: and in response to 3a4, I think almost every 3x3x3 I've ever had has had a core of a different color than the rest of the puzzle. Is this illegal now? Where can I buy dozens of white or black cores?EDIT 2: "The "Best of 3" round format has been removed as an option for events that have a "Mean of 3" format."? Does this mean that for something like 3BLD we now have to rank by Mean of 3? Isn't this exactly what we wanted to *avoid* when including a mean? Surely 28 31 DNF is better than 2:50 2:40 3:20.I'm sorry, but this is a crazy rule - far too harsh, especially since you cannot UN-sign with pen, and indeed, signing is a subconscious habit of some people by now, which most judges will not know to stop. I understand you want to stop people doing this, but immediately and irrevocably DNSing one or more solves as a penalty? That's pretty major. Especially with the wording of the rule - sign "or otherwise mark"... so if the delegate is strict enough this could include marking up the score sheet, having a signature that goes out of the box, or of course signing the wrong box by mistake. Do we really want to have to tell people "I'm sorry, we have to DNS this next solve because you signed the sheet wrong, I know you really want to do the solve but those are The Rules"? Does anyone else see the problem here?Rules like this make me feel we are valuing rigid adherence to the rules over actual solving skill. We're humans, we all make errors, and we should forgive the errors of others. Stepping slightly out of line should not be enough to lose you a solve or kill your chances at the event entirely. It's not fair and it's not fun.