On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:00 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > (sigh) I knew someone would do this. This is why no-one likes us. > This isn't meant to be criticism of your actions; I just thought it was > an interesting CFJ, as it's an edge case I don't think has happened yet.
I do know that. It would be interesting if not done in a contest where a "contestmaster has general interpretation power" was put in the regulations explicitly, in a direct and purposeful attempt to put this contest on a more equity and less legalistic basis. If that sort of text is insufficient for those purposes, then it's really not possible to have flexible contests here. I think several years ago (I think when I was doing Cards the first time?) I actually tried this on purpose. The rules said "The Dealor will deal cards at random" and I actually did something like: "I hereby pick these numbers randomly that I will use to deal cards, but I will deal them in 24 hours with game consequences." Unfortunately I can't remember enough details to search, or maybe I just talked about it and didn't do it, or someone else did it, or something. -G.
