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| Rules Enforcement Level: Regular |
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| Focused on fun and social aspects, not enforcement. Players still responsible for following rules, but penalties less sever, and focus is on education and sportsmanship. Judges should be more lenient about chatter, but overt strategic or disruptive statements are still illegal. |
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| Rules Enforcement Level: Competitive |
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| Significant cash prizes, pro points, invitations to Professional events. Players are expected to know rules and be familiar with policies and procedures, but unintentional errors are not punished severely. Protect the interests of all players by providing event integrity, while also recognizing not all players intimately familiar with pro level structure. |
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| Rules Enforcement Level: Professional |
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| Large cash awards, prestige, and other benefits. Players held to higher standard of behavior and technically correct play. Offenses receive a harsher penalty even for minor errors. |
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| Verbal admonition to a player. Lightest penalty, used for common mistakes in Regular where potential for advantage is low. No extra time. Tracked for tournament incase of repeated offense but not reported to the DCI |
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| Officially tracked Penalty. Used in situations of incorrect play when a small amout of time is needed to implement the corrective procedure. Alerts judges and players involved that a problem has occurred and keeps a record of the infraction in the dci penalty db. Time extension issued if ruling takes more than a minute. |
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| Issued in situations where the procedure to correct takes significant amount of time, or where it is impossible to continue the game. Also used for infractions that have a high probability for advantage. Ends current game immediately and player who committed infraction is considered to have lost the game and may choose to play or draw if applicable in the next game of that match. If issued before match begins neither player may use sideboards for the first game. Applied to game the offense occurred unless players have begun a new game or tournament is between rounds. then it is applied to the players next game. |
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| One-point loss assesed against a players total match points for the torunament. Replaces Game Loss in Swiss round matches that consist of a single game. Never used except as detailed in IPG. |
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| Severe penalty usuallly the result of repeated offenses. Applied to match the offense occured uless match already ended, then applied to next match. |
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| Penalty: Disqualification |
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| Issued for activity that damages the integrity of a tournament as a whole, excessive repeat offenses, or severe unsporting conduct. May also be applied to spectator or other bystander. Can occur without proof of action with Head Judge's determination. Competitive and Professional events all DQs must be reported to DCI investigations Manager, Regular only Unsporting Conduct DQ must be reported but any DQ should be entered into DCIR or WER as usual. Removed from standings and does not get prizes unless they were already received. |
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| Repeat Offense Upgrade Path (Other than Game Play Errors) |
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| Caution - Warning - Game Loss - Match Loss - Disqualification |
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| Repeat Offense Upgrade Path (Game Play Errors) |
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| Caution-Warning-Warning-Game Loss-Match Loss-Disqualifaction |
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| Repeat Offenses at REL:Regular |
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| may be upgraded at the head judge's discretion |
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| Warnings + reported to DCI Penalty Database. Game Loss + reported to Head Judge recommended that only HJ issue penalties. With the exception of Tardiness/Deck Errors. |
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| Many are not covered by a specific infraction should be handled initially with a caution. If repeated, directly instruct the player not to repeat the offense, and handle further offenses as Unsporting Conduct - Major for failing to follow the direct instruction of a tournament official. |
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| Deck Error: Illegal Decklist |
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| Illegal # of cards for the formant, illegal cards for the format, card listed on decklist is not identified by full name and could be misinterpeted. cards that would violate a game rule(4 card limit) Penalty: Game Loss |
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