I initiate the sanctioned tournament that I intended to initiate in the
referenced message below.
For reference: I have 2 volunteers: Janet and Kiako, to help distribute
roles.
NOW! Remember to become a participant in this tournament BEFORE the alarm
is sounded! You have 4 days.
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 4:04 PM 4st nomic via agora-official <
agora-official@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> I intend to, without 3 objections, initiate a sanctioned tournament (the
> Birthday tournament) under a single regulation with the following text:
> {
> =============
> I. Amendments
> =============
>
> Any participant can propose changes to these regulations.
> However, under the current Agoran ruleset, actual amendments to these
> regulations are governed by Agoran Rule 2495, which stated,
> "These regulations may thereafter be amended only by the
> Herald or eir designee Without 3 Objections."
> (and this may have been changed, or may be changed in the
> interim/proceedings,
> via the Agoran ruleset.)
>
> ===========
> II. Joining
> ===========
>
> Any person CAN become a participant by announcement any time before the
> alarm has been sounded.
>
> Any participant CAN cease to be a participant by announcement.
>
> ==========
> III. Roles
> ==========
>
> The following are the Roles and their corresponding win conditions:
>
> Protector - Agoran't is not ossified at any point in time between the
> beginning of Agoran't and the end of this contest.
>
> Destroyer - At any point in time before the contest ends, Agoran't was
> ossified.
>
> Metawinner - Have the most wins within Agoran't at the moment
> immediately before the contest ends.
>
> Adder - Agoran't has 5+ more rules than it did initially, immediately
> before the contest ends.
>
> Subtracter - Agoran't has 5+ less rules than it did initially,
> immediately before the contest ends.
>
> Employee - Immediately before the contest ends, having published the most
> reports that pass a standard of acceptance, such as ratification.
>
> Spoiler - If the only other participants that would win are Protectors or
> Destroyers,
> the Spoiler also wins.
>
> The Available Roles are the first N roles on the following list, where N
> is the number of participants at Role Assignment. If there are more
> participants than roles, cycle through the list of roles until N is met.
>
> List: Protector, Destroyer, Adder, Subtracter, Protector, Metawinner,
> Destroyer, Employee, Spoiler.
>
> =======================
> IV. Rules and Gamestate
> =======================
>
> When the alarm is sounded, the following occur immediately and in order:
> - No former rules exist. No proposals exist and no Agoran
> decisions are ongoing. Otherwise, in general, initial gamestate is to be
> construed as default or empty.
>
> - Agoran't begins with the ruleset in this message:
>
> https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2023-June/051757.html
>
> - In the context of Agoran't, the publicity of
> "https://agoranomic.groups.io/g/agorant"; is set to "public".
>
> - All participants of this contest become players of Agoran't.
>
> - For the purposes of quorum and otherwise, an AI-1 referendum on an
> ordinary proposal with ID 0,
> title "Dummy proposal", author 4st, no coauthors, AI 1, and empty text was
> resolved as
> FAILED QUORUM, having no voters, and having been initiated 3 weeks prior.
>
> - For the purposes of activity and otherwise, all players are considered to
> have made eir last announcement.
>
> - All unmentioned switches have their default value(s).
>
> - The results of all CFJs that have been judged in Agora are considered
> "past judgments" in Agoran't.
>
> ============
> V. Beginning
> ============
>
> If it has been 4 days since the beginning of this contest and e has not
> already done so, the Gamemaster and two other chosen players CAN and
> SHALL distribute roles to each participant such that only available
> roles are given out, each participant receives a role, and nobody knows
> who received which role.
>
> When the Gamemaster is confident this has occurred, e CAN once and
> SHALL, in a timely manner, "set the alarm" by announcement. The alarm
> is sounded at the beginning of the first day that starts 24 hours or
> more after the alarm is set.
>
> ======================
> VI. Ending and Winning
> ======================
>
> Ossification, for the purposes of winning the tournament, is taken to mean:
> "Agoran't is ossified if it is IMPOSSIBLE for any reasonable
> combination of actions by players to cause arbitrary rule changes
> to be made and/or arbitrary proposals to be adopted within a
> real-world (UTC) four-week period."
>
> Similarly, for other roles and their win conditions (such as Employee), if
> there exists an ambiguity about it,
> the Agoran Ruleset should be taken into consideration to provide a
> judgement.
>
> When 1 second less than 90 days has passed since the initiation of this
> tournament, the following occur, in order:
> - All participants SHOULD reveal eir roles, and all participants
> whose role's win condition have been fulfilled win the tournament.
> - this tournament ends.
> - Agoran't SHOULD stop running when the tournament ends.
> }
>
> --
> 4ˢᵗ
> Deputy Herald
> Uncertified Bad Idea Generator
>
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