Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread comex
2009/4/8 Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu: It occurs to me for the first time in this case that there's actually only *one* method, by announcement, and that two different rules happen to agree on conditions where that mechanism can be used.  If the conditions in the two rules are

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:45 -0500, comex wrote: If Rule A says: A person CAN deregister by announcement. and Rule B says: A person CAN deregister by announcement; e CANNOT register for thirty days thereafter. then, by Rule 478, a person takes the action of deregistering by

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Elliott Hird
Thinking about it, I agree. 2009/4/9 comex com...@gmail.com: 2009/4/8 Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu: It occurs to me for the first time in this case that there's actually only *one* method, by announcement, and that two different rules happen to agree on conditions where that mechanism

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread comex
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: That would imply that a player could remove all their Rests by spending just 2 Notes. After all, you CAN destroy a Rest by spending 2 Notes. So your Note spend destroys as many Rests as you want... I don't see what your

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:25 -0500, comex wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: That would imply that a player could remove all their Rests by spending just 2 Notes. After all, you CAN destroy a Rest by spending 2 Notes. So your Note spend destroys as

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread comex
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Hmm... suppose the Scorekeepor is a contestmaster, and e rewards another contestmaster due to monthly rewards. Does that count against the points limit of eir contest? Hmm, so we have (let's assume e is also the contestmaster

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:08 -0500, comex wrote: Is there another possible interpretation I'm missing? It's the difference between awarding points per the contest-award rule, and awarding points per the rewarding-contestmasters rule. The mechanism by which something is legal is part of the

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Alex Smith wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:45 -0500, comex wrote: ... I prefer the latter, and this applies to all such actions-- under the current contest rules, if a contestmaster of two contests awards points to a member of both contests, this counts against eir total

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, comex wrote: 2009/4/9 Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu: However, if you look at the contest rules (R2233), the construct that the contest owns a certain number of points, so the action is actually awarding a subset of these 5N points from this contest while the

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread comex
2009/4/9 Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu: However, if you look at the contest rules (R2233), the construct that the contest owns a certain number of points, so the action is actually awarding a subset of these 5N points from this contest while the Scorekeepor (R2234) awards a subset of [a

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread comex
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I readily agree that it's a stretch.  My first conclusion this morning was the same as yours (Uh oh, this means points are broken), then I was seeing if there was a way to save them.   There is some slight linguistic

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 2424b, 2425b assigned to Yally, root, coppro

2009-04-09 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, comex wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I readily agree that it's a stretch.  My first conclusion this morning was the same as yours (Uh oh, this means points are broken), then I was seeing if there was a way to save them.