On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, comex wrote: > I'm interpreting "player" using the R869 definition, but "continue to > play" using the ordinary-language definition. > > Arguably this is a bad idea.
Fair enough, but how are you defining "deregister", which is the only actual right? The phrase "deregister rather than continue to play" only makes sense if "deregister" stops you from playing; deregistration as a process is defined elsewhere, but even if that lower-powered definition is only "guidance", the common definition of "deregister" isn't "quit" (I'm not sure what it is if it doesn't mean to be removed from the registration roles). The only way the construct as a whole makes sense to me (or at least, sense beyond "a very tortured stretch") is if "continuing to play" means "continuing to be a player", which is what deregistration stops. I'm also not sure how you invoke the right if it's the way you describe. If you invoke it after ceasing to be a player, it doesn't work (like you just noted for ehird). But if you invoke it before leaving the game, you're just saying that "deregistration" is a synonym for "leaving a contract" which is a stretch I think (and makes all contracts non-binding), and even after you've done it you're still a player so are still continuing to play, so you haven't invoked the right. And since you say it's a separate process that doesn't have to be invoked (i.e. you said that someone could stay in a contest if they chose, or leave) I'm not sure how it's done simultaneously, either. -G.
