On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM, comex <[email protected]> wrote: > Murphy seems to be arguing that by "announcement" the rule really > means "the action described in the previous paragraph, which is a > special case of an announcement", but this goes against the wording of > the rule.
No, e's arguing that by "such an announcement", the rule means that. It actually seems rather intuitive that "such an announcement" would refer to a subset of announcements. > It explicitly states "a player makes such an announcement", > not "that player makes such an announcement" or "such an announcement > is made", which would be more natural wordings in context. Certainly not. "That player makes such an announcement" would make no sense, as the previous paragraph refers to the contestmaster of each contest, not a single contestmaster. And I fail to see why "such an announcement is made" should be interpreted any differently, other than not implicitly requiring the contestmaster to be a player (which of course is already required by other rules). -root
