On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:23, ais523 <callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:18 -0600, Roger Hicks wrote: >> If you'd like you can insert "in the judges opinion" after "the >> correct choice", because that is what matters here. Judges have >> latitude to select what they believe to be the best option when faced >> with multiple equally-plausible interpretations of a rule. If this >> case is appealed and REMANDed I will issue the same judgment with the >> addition of those four words. > > It's a judge's job to determine what is true, not to make things true. > Incorrect judgements don't change anything (except in the rare case that > they swing R217); instead, they cause everyone to play on in an > incorrect gamestate, which can only be bad for the game. > You seem to be missing the point here. This is not a matter of what is true and what is false. In this case, because of the way the rule is worded, there are two possible ways to interpret the rule. Both are equally viable ways to interpret this rule. Agora benefits from having a consensus on how the rule is interpreted. Without such a consensus why bother playing a game together? we could all just interpret the rules however we liked, and all have our own little 'perfect' version of Agora without other people to mess it up, right?
In such a case it falls to the judge's opinion to determine which of the equally viable ways to interpret the rule should govern. That is what I have done in this case. BobTHJ
