Kerim Aydin wrote: >before its dissolution, and specifically said "all other things being equal" >which I take to include the timing of the publication of the existence of >Partnership 1 itself.
I think it is reasonable in this case to take "all other things being equal" to mean that the rest of the things in the message that announced P1C are still in the same message. >Thus, if the publications had occurred in the sequence identified by the >caller (with only the contest announcement moving backwards in time), the >contest wouldn't have been a contest, It wasn't a contest anyway, of course. "Partnership 1's Contest" was the slightly misleading name of a contract that was not a contest. >By the way, if I were to opine on "what is sufficient time for players to >be allowed to join", I would opine that game custom gives a minimal window >of 72 hours, as this is the minimal time window that has been placed in >other rules governing timing. That is reasonable. I concur. -zefram
