On Nov 13, 2007 1:38 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What the rules call for is that any first-class player be allowed to > join the contest, or it's not a contest. To honor that, there must be > a sufficient period of time during which anybody may join; this was > decided in CFJ 1777. comex wanted a concrete precedent of what > constitutes a sufficient period, which Goethe is supplying. What > would you base it on, if not game custom? > I think it is a pretty far stretch to indicate that a contest be in effect for 72 hours to accommodate this requirement. It would seem that logically as long as any first-class player can join the contest while it is in effect (regardless of the duration of time it is in effect) then it has satisfied this requirement. A contest that exists for only one second has still allowed any first-class player to join. The action of joining is permitted, albeit practically impossible.
BobTHJ
