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by cyphar 1427 days ago
All cubes in each round are scrambled the exact same way (a computer generates a 40-move scramble that is scrambled by volunteers before the cubes are returned to the tables).
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Scrambles are not 40 moves, they're generally around 25 because they're somewhat optimized scrambles to reach a randomly generated state. Simply using a sufficiently long sequence of moves still provides some bias to certain cube states, which is why they don't do that.
Clearly it's been too long since I've been to a competition.