On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves > >> to clearly label it as one. ais523 has a score of at least 100. > >> > >> Therefore, by rule 2187, I satisfy the Winning Condition of High Score; > >> I do not satisfy any Losing Conditions, therefore I win. > > > > Per the Scorekeepor's office, this is an effective win (even though > > the 100'th point was gained due to my error as PRS contestmaster). > > This is a case where a contest has done sufficient damage to outside > parties (e.g. everyone with points would would reset to 0) to warrant > action. Recommendations? -Goethe > It could have been fixed easily at the time if it had been noticed, and would still have reset everyone's points to 20% of their original value (we just changed the Score Index), with a slight difference in the PBA's asset holdings. I suppose this is one of the effects of pragmatic point awarding...
As is, I don't think there's a lot that can be done. The PRS was acting not-in-accordance-with-expectations due to a mistake, so that can be solved equitably, but the gamestate will have changed a lot in the meantime. Technically speaking, BobTHJ's award of the second point to me was ILLEGAL (although it worked), but a court case on that would have to be UNAWARE, as at the time we both believed it worked. -- ais523 who just won due to a mistake, it seems
