Cactus Game Design Message Boards

In case you guys weren't aware, this discussion is moot. Roy has already posted the rules for Teams at Nats this year and he has changed CTB.

I thought the whole point of this Message Board was to make sure that hosts across the country were ruling the same way. Just saying that the Natz host decided to do it this way, oh well, is not accomplishing this. We all need to know what the ruling is and play according to those rules, no offense to Roy. If I host Natz, do I get to decide which rules apply and which ones don't?

You're missing the point. If it has been ruled differently at other Natz, and is still being ruling differently in parts of the country, then it is a problem.

I understand what you guys are saying, and I of course agree that the rules need to be the same everywhere.  I'm just saying that I think Roy's rules are actually the right ones.  There are multiple elders and REPs in this thread who have come to the same conclusion about CTB that Roy has.

I'm not sure why the tournament guide would have a different ruling other than the fact that it is an older/mistaken understanding.  But that is how rulings always work.  We think something for a while, and then someone brings up an issue with it and after thinking it through more we realize that it actually works slightly differently.

I think that the best thing to do at this point is to update the tournament guide and make sure that all the judges at Nats this summer know about it so that all of the rulings will be in agreement going forward.