Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[joncleaves]

I certainyl agree that the ump should not be a player in major events, but we
often do that locally to combat exactly this issue:

<<Furthermore there is also the "odd man out" issue and what happens
if you have an odd number of players/teams.>>

And it has worked out fine.

I have submitted to the will on the author-intent issue. I would like to add
for the record that I was not advocating 'intent' being submitted to the umpire
in every case. I was only talking about those situations where two conflicting
rules were present - where rule X says it is one way and rule Y says another.
The ump isn't just 'reading the rules as written' because the rules as written
don't provide a clear answer. I don't personally see why he can't say 'which is
it, A or B?' to the author, but I do want to reiterate that just because I can't
see it doesn't mean I have not heard the voice of the player - we haven't and
will not let that happen. But the effect is you may see it one way at Con X
because that is the way the ump chose to rule and another way at Con Y because
word got to me that he chose the wrong one and we had to clarify the passage
that was wrong or misleading.
I am really done with this, but I do want the record straight that I was not
advocating my intent being used to countermand the rules as written - just in
those cases, like the one in question, where it reads differently in different
sections. That's all.

Jon


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