[Second draft. Now as pure tournament regs not contract. Added a
few bits, and slowed the game down].
FANTASY RULES CONTRACT PROTO.
0. G. CANNOT win this Tournament or become a Contestant. G. is the
Judge (gamemaster) of this game.
1. For 4 days after the contest begins, any person can enter the
contest (becoming a Contestant) by publishing a body of text
clearly intended to be a Fantasy Rule, on behalf of themselves (no
zombies or other act-on-behalf play). Entering the contest is NOT
becoming a party to this contract. When a contestant is eliminated
(ceases being a contestant), e cannot re-enter.
2. After 4 days have passed since the contest began, no new
Contestants can join.
3. Only Contestants can publish valid fantasy rules.
4. For a fantasy rule to be valid, it must be consistent with all
previous valid fantasy Rules.
5. When a contestant publishes an invalid fantasy rule, e receives a
Strike. When e received 3 strikes, e is eliminated.
6. For a fantasy rule to be valid, it must be possible for any remaining
contestant to publish a valid rule following it. A contestant or the
judge can publicly challenge that a particular rule makes it
impossible to continue. In that case, the publisher of that rule has
24 hours to send the judge (privately or publicly) a proposed valid
rule that would work. If e does so, the challenger (if not the
judge) receives a strike, otherwise the rule is invalid.
7. If, after a challenge as above, the judge finds that continuation
from the contested rule is Nearly Impossible and not Completely
Impossible, e can declare the rule invalid but the proposer does not
receive a strike.
8. Crossed in the ether: If a contestant would receive a strike for an
invalid rule, but the rule is invalid solely due to a valid rule that
was published less than an hour before the invalid one was published,
e does not receive a strike for that invalid rule.
9. After the first 6 days, the elimination period begins. During this
period, a contestant is eliminated if 48 hours have passed since e
last published a valid rule AND 24 hours have passed since any
contestant last published a valid rule.
10. The judge shall declare whether each fantasy rule is valid or
invalid, and will award between -3 and +3 Style Points to each valid
rule, by announcement, based on the quality of the rule with respect
to the theme.
11. The judge's final opinions are binding, although contestants may
publicly or privately appeal (to the judge) any judicial ruling they
feel was made in error, and the judge may revise eir judgement
within 24 hours of eir first judgement on it.
12. When all contestants have been eliminated from the contest, the
winners are (1) the last contestant eliminated and (2) the person
with the most style points after all contestants have been
eliminated.
13. The judge is the final arbitor of matters of this contract, and eir
decisions can only be overturned if a CFJ finds eir decisions were
made with arbitrary or capricious disregard for the terms of these
regulations. The judge shall adjudicate this contract in equitable
terms, with emphasis placed on the intent of the clauses.
14. The theme of the Contest is "OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ!".
