Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-18 Thread David Nicol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:12 PM Alex Smith wrote: > > Come to think of it, "Champion by Championship" is an "artless redundancy." Very practical things, those. -- "At this point, given the limited available data, certainty about only a very small number of things can be achieved." -- Plato, a

DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-17 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Thank you for running a great tournament! On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:36 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Oh yes, and: > > 1t's 0v3r s0 1 haz t4|<3n 0ff mi r0b3s T41s r00l 1nva11d f001. > > [ooc: thank you all] > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: > > I submit the following rule: > > > > I'd l

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-17 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I think it would be appropriate. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:31 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure it's the first *Birthday* tournament/contest win if that's > a distinction worth making. The previous ones were more like the "free > tournaments" rule now, and played out over a longer tim

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
I'm pretty sure it's the first *Birthday* tournament/contest win if that's a distinction worth making. The previous ones were more like the "free tournaments" rule now, and played out over a longer time IIRC, less like an event. the inspiration for the "birthday" tournament was the wholly-unof

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I think I am going to take the approach of renaming it all as a contest. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:16 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > I'll leave it up the the herald, but "Tournaments" are basically synonymous > with "championship" (they used to be called "championship contests"). > But "championshi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
I'll leave it up the the herald, but "Tournaments" are basically synonymous with "championship" (they used to be called "championship contests"). But "championship" is completely unintuitive so I'd rename em all to tournament or maybe the more historically-used "contest"? On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, A

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
That sounds like an interesting mechanism to try to recreate. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:12 PM Alex Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 18:06 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > > Champions by Tournament, huh. I believe that's a new one. > > It's a very similar mechanism to Championship (although admi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
It is, but I couldn't think of something better. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:07 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > Champions by Tournament, huh. I believe that's a new one. > > -Aris > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:03 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: > > > > Okay, that makes sense. > > > > As Heral

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 18:06 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > Champions by Tournament, huh. I believe that's a new one. It's a very similar mechanism to Championship (although admittedly one of the Championship wins was a scam). It may be different enough to list it separately, though. Come to think

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Aris Merchant
Champions by Tournament, huh. I believe that's a new one. -Aris On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:03 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > Okay, that makes sense. > > As Herald, I grant Aris and myself the patent title Champion. > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:58 PM Aris Merchant > wrote: > > > > Re

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Aris Merchant
Regulations 4 and 5 suggest that strikes for invalidity are automatic. -Aris On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 5:49 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com> wrote: > G., could you declare a strike here? I think you need to before everything > ends. > > Publius Scribon

DIS: Re: BUS: [FRC] Striking Out

2018-07-16 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
G., could you declare a strike here? I think you need to before everything ends. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:21 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > I submit the following rule: > > I'd like to thank the court for it's service. This tournament was amazing. > The play was