spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: Mediocraty

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Dan Waldron:
> 
> Create a new proposal entitled "Mediocraty" with text as follows:
> _______
> 
> Enact a new rule entitled "C/RG: Mediocraty" with text as follows:
> 
> The Mediocraty game is an instance of a Challenge/Response game with the
> following attributes:
> 
> game name:  Mediocraty sub-game
> admin title: the Supremely Mediocre
> duration: until repealed
> repetetive: when finished
> entry fee: 2
> 
> The initial S.M should specify what limits are being used for the game
> set. The limits may contrain quantities that include those described below
> or others.  The bracketed number following each quantity is recommended as
> the minimum for that quantity.  However these quantities are only
> guidelines and do not determine compliance.  In some cases a maximum will
> also be listed here.
> 
> The limits may include: 
> 
> (x) The level of mediocraty game to be played (min. 1)
> (y) The number of players required for the C/R game to start (min 3) 
> (z) The number of level n-1 sub-games to play as part of each level n
> game.
> 
> The S.M is encouraged to be creative and come up with other limits that
> may apply to Mediocraty games.
> 
> A level n game of mediocraty sub-game consists of z n-1 sub games, unless
> n=1 in which case it consists of z individual challenges.
> 
> The challenge shall use the following form:  The S.M shall post to the
> public forum a message announcing the sub-game and asking players to
> submit their quantities.  Players then have three days to respond with
> their quantites by private email.
> 
> A valid entry specifies one quantity.
> 
> At the conclusion of a level n Mediocraty sub-game the winner is
> determined.  If n is greater than 1 the winner is the participant who won
> the most mediocre number of level n-1 sub-games during that level n game;
> that is whose number of level n-1 wins is exceeded by as many participants
> as it exceeds.  The winner of a level 1 sub-game is the player whose
> specified quantity is the most mediocre.
> 
> Prizes shall not be awarded for individual challenges making up a larger
> mediocraty game.  Instead, at the conclusion of the game announced by the
> first S.M of the game the entire collection of all entry fees
> collected for the individual challenges that made up that game
> shall be paid to the winner.  This is an exception to rule 336.
> 
> _______

Mediocrity is spelled "Mediocrity". :)

-- 
J.