The Board of Directors would like to receive applications for WCA World Championship 2021.
Please discuss with the Delegates in your country whether this is something you are willing and able to pursue. Bear in mind that organizing a competition of this size takes a significant amount of time and effort before and during the competition.
If you are interested, send your application documents privately to board@worldcubeassociation.org between 00:00 UTC of January 1st, 2020 and 23:59 UTC of June 30th, 2020. Documents must be sent in PDF format in two versions: one full version with all the details for the application, and another version with sensitive details - if any - removed to make public.
Dear WCA Community,
We had another successful year of cubing and developing the WCA as an organization in 2019! We would like to take this moment to share the highlights of what we have accomplished this year with all of your help.
WCA competitions were introduced to eight new countries and there were over 27,750 new people who competed officially for the first time. This year, our competitors broke barriers and achieved 61 world records, 205 continental records, and 3,760 national records.
Dear WCA Community,
The WRC would like to inform you about the versions of the WCA Regulations and Guidelines, which are going into effect January 1, 2020.
You can review all changes in this comparison on GitHub. You can click on “Files changed” to see the complete files of the Regulation and Guidelines, where all changes and additions are marked green and removals are red.
Simplifications
- Clock pins are allowed to be distinguishable. (commit | discussion)
- Fewest Moves: Only the 18 basic moves, <x, y, z> rotations, and wide moves are allowed in solutions (no bracket rotations). (commit | discussion)
- The name for "combined round" has changed to "cutoff round". (commit | discussion)
Accountability
- Required: scramble signatures. Either the scrambler or a scramble checker must certify that the puzzle is scrambled correctly for each attempt. Although competitions must make a full effort to use scramble signatures for all attempts, results cannot be disqualified solely for a missing scramble signature. (commit | commit | discussion)
- Strongly recommended: the WCA Delegate should record a reason for each granted extra (e.g. on the back of the score sheet). (commit)
- Strongly recommended: Organizers should attach O-rings (or equivalent) to all timer buttons to prevent accidental resets. (commit | discussion)
Miscellaneous
- 3x3x3 With Feet will no longer be an official event. (announcement | commit | discussion)
- Fewest Moves solutions are considered public. (commit | discussion)
- Multi-Blind: If a duplicate cube is found and during an attempt, the cube may be re-scrambled using an extra scramble. (commit | discussion)
- Clock stands may be used to place the Clock vertically at the solving station at the beginning of the attempt. (commit | discussion)
Yezhen Han (韩业臻) won the Harbin Open 2019 with an average of 7.69 seconds. Yibo Wang (王奕博) finished second (9.57 seconds) and Jiaming Zhang (张嘉铭) finished third (9.61 seconds).
Full results are on the Cubing China page.
Lukas Shelley won the Shaoxing Open 2019 with an average of 6.92 seconds. Yihan Chen (陈奕涵) finished second (8.35 seconds) and Wong Kin Lok (黃健樂) finished third (8.38 seconds).
Full results are on the Cubing China page.
China records: Xuming Wang (王旭明) 5x5x5 Cube 43.18 seconds (single), Xuming Wang (王旭明) 5x5x5 Cube 50.88 seconds (average).