OYEZ OYEZ OYEZ The Court is Now in Session Without 3 objections (none received), I initiate a sanctioned tournament with the below specified, finalized set of regulations. Please use [FRC] in the subject line of moves made to Business. FANTASY RULES REGULATIONS 0. G. CANNOT win this Tournament or become a Contestant. G. is the Judge (gamemaster) of this game. 1. For 4 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 behalf of themselves (no zombies or other act-on-behalf play). Entering the contest is NOT becoming a party to this contract. When a contestant is eliminated (ceases being a contestant), e cannot re-enter. 2. After 4 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 e received 3 strikes, e is eliminated. 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. Crossed in the ether: 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 less than an hour before the invalid one was published, e does not receive a strike for that invalid rule. 9. After the first 6 days, the elimination period begins. During this period, a contestant is eliminated if 48 hours have passed since e last published a valid rule AND 24 hours have passed since any contestant last published a valid 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 contestants may publicly or privately appeal (to the judge) any judicial ruling they feel was made in error, and the judge may revise eir judgement within 24 hours of eir first judgement on it. 12. When all contestants have been eliminated from the contest, the winners are (1) the last contestant eliminated and (2) the person with the most style points after all contestants have been eliminated. 13. The judge is the final arbitor of matters of this contract, and eir decisions can only be overturned if a CFJ finds eir decisions were made with arbitrary or capricious disregard for the terms of these regulations. The judge shall adjudicate this contract in equitable terms, with emphasis placed on the intent of the clauses. 14. The theme of the Contest is "OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ!".