On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Gratuitous response: > > The text of Rule 2234 is "performed duties related to the contest in a timely > manner". There are two ways to read this. The first (which ais523 argues > for) is that "if the contest currently mandates no duties, then the > contestmaster performs them by doing nothing." What I argue for is the > interpretation "If no or negligible duties have been performed, then the > contestmaster has not in fact performed duties, as performing an empty set of > duties is the same as not performing duties, even if that empty set is in > keeping with the contract text".
In my opinion, if it had said "all duties", ais523's argument would be valid; as it is, I think the best interpretation (considering that 'in a timely manner' is located at the end and vaguely defined) is that the contestmaster is merely required to perform some duties related to the contest-- not necessarily all, but e gets no points if e performed no duties even if no duties are required of em.
