Criteria for adding or removing events

Addition of a new event

Not necessarily complete list of criteria:

• Community Interest
• Practicality
• Consistent with the spirit and mission of the WCA, as well as Regulation 9a (though any of these could change).
• Interesting to solve and watch (from Sarah)
• A unique challenge compared to other events
• Having a reliable scrambler state generator

See the addition of Skewb for an example (#159, #102).

(copied from issue #183)

Removal of an existing event

Not necessarily complete list of criteria:

• Drop of the number of competitions that held it in more than 5% in 5 years
• Being held by less than 30% of competitions
• Less than 4.5% of competitors participate in this event
• Difficult to hold at competitions
• Having the approval of it removal of at least 50% of Delegates (from an internal poll)

(disclaimer: this list is a draft)