Elizabeth's proposed Pinburgh rulebook changes

[ichesh]

Context

There are several items in the Pinburgh rule book that are murky, don't flow properly, or simply don't need to be found in the rules (though they may be of interest and can be linked elsewhere).

Intent of Rule Changes

The intent is to streamline the rule book for the ease of use of both the tournament director and the player. Things extraneous to this specific goal will be removed or reworded.

Proposed changes/additions/removals

- Specify the link to the larger PAPA ruleset. - Change Event Coordinators to be Doug Polka, Kevin Martin, Aiton Goldman, Pete Hendricks, and Brett Berkman. - Shift likeness rights out of Divisions of Play to the introduction - Quick Overview - remove final sentence, which discusses prizes.

• Rewrite Skill Division Restrictions section - Consider removing Fees section from rulebook - consider shifting section to focus on check-in times and/or consequences for being late and move up under Scheduling.

• In Prizes

  • remove Top Qualifier
  • shift that money in to E Division
  • determine if we are using plaques or medals - specify Saturday Afternoon for perfect round medals - change prizes URL

• Day 1 Format

  • remove scheduling information as it has nothing to do with the format

- Playing a Session - contains a section about continuing to play when you've already clearly won. This doesn't belong in a discussion about promptly turning in your score sheets. - This should be moved to Player Conduct.

• Group Assignments
  • remove literally everything describing how groups are assigned. - NEW: The rewrite Aiton provided is much better than what was there before. If we decide to keep this (I am still leaning toward killing it with fire) the example should be rewritten to use a 100 person example field. We've done 840 players before so this can look confusing after we raise the cap, and 100 is just an easier number for people to follow. We also use a 100 person example in #6, and it's best to be uniform.

- Division Assignments - rewrite to use a 100 person example, instead of constantly rewriting it to use the current number of players we take - consider condensing the description of skill division splits

~~- Day 2 Format

• remove player roll call
• remove scheduling and replace with note to be on time.~~
  • Seeding Players
• verify that we suddenly start breaking ties randomly
  • Group Assignments Day 2, Electric Bugaloo
• DESTROY
  • Qualifying for Finals
• remove top qualifier references
  • Final Rounds
• Check the check-in time against the Replay FX schedule and adjust - NEW: Add "Check the tournament schedule for the checkin times." and link to the schedule. - consider removing the seeding and group assignments
  • Beneficial Malfunctions
• examine how this section reads and compare to the larger PAPA rule set.
• This needs to be rewritten to be more in line with the PAPA rules, or otherwise make clear that additional balls are not the ONLY possible beneficial malfunction. If they are the only SIGNIFICANT beneficial malfunction, that point would benefit from having lesser examples, as well.
• Clarify and expand on examples.
  • Absences rewrite rules for 1 player groups to make any sort of sense.

[ichesh]

Once any and all changes are merged, the entire document will need to be reformatted. I'm happy to go through and do that.

[AitonGoldman]

I made many of the suggested changes in your branch and created a PR. If you look at the PR ( https://github.com/AitonGoldman/replay_rules/pull/7 ) you can see them by clicking on the files changed link. When on the "files changed" page, click on the diff settings pull down and make sure that split is selected.

In some cases, I didn't make the suggested changes and actually reverted your changes. I did this because I think we should take a "one thing at a time" approach to rule changes. The main reason is that we are trying out a new process, so I'd like to make each change as simple as possible (for now) so that we can get everyone onboard for this new process and iron out any kinks we might find.

In this case I think we should split the streamlining into four phases

• Phase 1 : Rephrase existing sections so that they are easier to understand ( without removing the actual content being communicated ) - this is what pr #7 is doing.
• Phase 2 : Get clarification from Doug and/or Bowen on certain parts of the rules that are confusing/difficult to understand what is happening.
• Phase 3 : Address conflicts between different parts of the rules (i.e. the rules say one thing and then immediately contradict what was just stated), and add content to clarify things not explained in the rules (i.e. how does a 1 player group work?).
• Phase 4 : Move sections to appendixes ( if needed )

Each phase would be done with a new PR. We will still do all the things you highlight in issue #5, we'll just won't do them all at once.

Note that I also reverted some of your suggestions that make actual changes to the rules. I think we should also do those in separate changes.

[ichesh]

I crossed out all of the items that are completed. I think we're ready for phase 2.

[ichesh]

Removed the names of event coordinators. Changed "seed" to "rank" and "split" to "assigned" under Finals Emailed Kevin to make him math out the change from hard numbers to percentages in the tiering. Remote this under Qualifying for Finals:

Ties for any seeded position, including the qualifying and bye cutoffs and the top qualifier, will be broken by the tied players’ cumulative win-loss records after Session 9, then cumulative win-loss records after Session 8, and previous sessions’ cumulative records as needed. In the unlikely event that players had the same win-loss record through all ten sessions, final position will be determined by the original seeding of the tournament. No tiebreaking games will be held at the end of Session 10.

To be:

Ties for any position, qualifying or not, will be broken by the tied players’ cumulative win-loss records after Session 9, then cumulative win-loss records after Session 8, and previous sessions’ cumulative records as needed. In the unlikely event that players had the same win-loss record through all ten sessions, final position will be determined by the original seeding of the tournament. No tiebreaking games will be held at the end of Session 10.