Anyone want to agree to this contract with me? 1 - Contractness The name of this contract is "The Fight Arena". This is a public contract. 2 - Referee The Referee is responsible for maintaining this contract. If this contract is a contest, the Referee is its contestmaster. 3 - Basic Contract Stuff Any player may become party to this contract by announcement. Parties to this agreement who aren't the Referee are known as Fighters. Any Fighter may cease to be a party to this agreement by announcement. 4 - Status Status is a player switch with values of Won, Lost, Hosting and Competing (default). A player's Status may only be flipped as specified by this contract. The Referee may flip anyone's Status by announcement. The Referee may be the only player whose Status is set to Hosting. 5 - Motion Motion is a player switch with values of Fighting and Fawning (default). A player's Motion may only be flipped as specified by this contract. The Referee may flip anyone's Motion by announcement. 6 - Experience Points Experience Points (hereafter XP) are a type of currency. Ownership of XP is restricted to Fighters. The Referee is the recordkeeper of XP. 7 - Challenges Any Fawning Fighter may challenge any other Fawning Fighter by announcement. Upon doing so, each of the involved Fighters becomes Fighting. Within four days, the two fighters SHALL send the Referee a Weapon. A Weapon is a phrase containing up to three words. The Referee SHALL determine the winner of the challenge by the secret rule as soon as possible and announce it along with the Weapons each Fighter submitted. If the winner has more Xp than the loser, the winner gains one XP. Else if the winner has less XP than the loser, the winner gains three XP. Else if the winner and the loser have the same number of XP, then the winner gains two XP. The loser loses one FAP, no matter the amount of XP the winner and the loser has. After this is all done, each involved Fighter becomes Fawning. 8 - The Secret Rule When the Referee becomes the Referee, he SHALL create a secret rule, known only to emself. E SHALL NOT change this rule as long as e is the Referee. 9 - Awarding Points At the beginning of each month, the Fighter with the most XP gains points equal to the maximum number of points that a contest CAN award per week per contestant. If there is a tie, the points are split up among each tied Fighter, rounded down. 10 - Final Challenge If there is no valid Final Challenge posted, the contestmaster SHALL post a Final Challenge as soon as possible. The Final Challenge contains 4 Weapons, one of which is not allowed in the Arena. Any Fawning Fighter may attempt the Final Challenge by announcement. The announcement SHALL contain, for each Weapon: a. Whether or not the Weapon is allowed in the Arena. b. If the Weapon is allowed in the arena, a Weapon that e believes beats it. Upon posting such an announcement, the current valid Final Challenge becomes invalid. If all the information is correct, and each of the three Weapons e posts beats the Weapon posted by the Referee that the Fighter selects, that Fighter has eir Status switched to Won and gains points equal to twice the maximum number of points that a contest CAN award per week per contestant. Otherwise, that Fighter has eir Status switched to Lost and loses points equal to the maximum number of points that a contest CAN award per week per contestant. [Example: The Referee posts a Final Challenge of: Google AgoraNomic.org Wikipedia AskJeeves A Fawning Fighter posts the following announcement: Google - Allowed in the arena; Yahoo AgoraNomic.org - Allowed in the arena; magicthegathering.com Wikipedia - Allowed in the arena; Uncyclopedia AskJeeves - Not allowed in the arena]
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