I note that 4 days have elapsed since this intent and that 3 objections
have not been given.
[Sorry if there's a reason for this to have not happened yet, I just
don't want this to end up forgotten and another waiting period to be
required.]
Jason Cobb
On 7/24/19 6:57 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:
I intend, Without 3 Objections, to enact the following as the
regulations for this year's Birthday Tournament.
0. Aris CANNOT win this Tournament or become a Contestant. Aris is the
Judge (gamemaster) of this game.
1. For 7 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 eir own behalf.
When a contestant is eliminated (ceases being a contestant),
e cannot re-enter.
2. After 7 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 a contestant receives eir 3rd strike, e is
eliminated and ceases to be a contestant.
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. 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 by another
contestant less than an hour before the invalid one was published,
e does not receive a strike for that invalid rule.
9. After the first 9 days, the elimination period begins. During this
period, a contestant is eliminated if 96 hours have passed since e
last published a fantasy rule AND 48 hours have passed since any
contestant last published a 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 any person may
publicly or privately appeal (to the judge) any judicial ruling e
feels was made in error, and the judge may revise eir judgement.
If the ruling was made more than 24 hours before the appeal,
the judge may factor the extent to which the contestants have already
relied on eir decision into eir resolution of the appeal.
12. When all contestants except one have been eliminated from the contest,
the victors are (1) the last contestant remaining and (2) the person
with the most style points. The judge shall then, with 2 days notice,
announce them as winners, whereupon they win the tournament and the
tournament is concluded.
13. The judge is the final arbitor on matters of this tournament, and eir
decisions can overturned if and only if a CFJ finds eir decisions were
made with arbitrary or capricious disregard for the terms of these
regulations. The judge shall adjudicate these regulations in an
equitable manner, with emphasis placed on the intent of the clauses
and the fair treatment of all parties.
14. The theme of the contest is the worship, in proper form, of
the Agoran Gods; the Appropriate Punishment of those Heretics and
Blasphemers who show them disrespect; and the maintenance of their Rites
and Rituals. The Judge SHOULD be referred to as "Eir Supreme Eminence,
The
Pontifex Maximus" for the purposes of the competition. Contestants SHOULD
comply with the The Pontifex Maximus's reasonable directives.
