Post by Jason on Apr 5, 2005 23:00:03 GMT -5
I'm adding to the rules that I had previously posted at the beginning of the game. Every round of this game has ended up lasting for longer that it really should. I know that everyone has things going on in their lives...and many of those things take precedence over an online game. But when both parts of each round end up going longer than 2 weeks, that's WAY too long. It's unfair to those that submit their songs/votes in a timely fashion. Hopefully all of you will find this rule addition fair.
There is a one week limit to submit your songs AND your votes. Anyone who takes longer than a week to submit either of these things will be penalized 10 points. If you have something going on in your life that is going to cause you to take longer than a week to submit either your songs or your votes to me, please let me know and an exception will be made. But please...only notify me of a delay if your reason is TRULY legitimate.
To clarify: Each round will last two weeks. One week for song submission and one week for vote submission. If you take longer than a week to submit your song, you get 10 points added to your final total in the round. If you take longer than a week to submit your song rankings, you ALSO get 10 points added to your final total for the round. So, it IS possible to get as many as 20 points added to your final total in each round if you are late both in submitting your song AND your song rankings to me.
Of course, if everyone submits their votes and/or songs before the week is over, then we'll move on with the game at that time instead of waiting for the whole week to be over. Just to put this in perspective, the point gap between fith place and last place in Round 3 was only 13 points...so you can see how much damage 10 extra points (let alone *20 points*) onto your point total could do. How much would it suck to know that you finished in 2nd place with the rankings, but because of having points added onto your final score due to lateness, you ended up getting eliminated?
Any questions? Please post them here and I'll try to clarify anything you're not clear on.