Post by giacomo on Oct 15, 2009 17:02:08 GMT -5
(NOTE: Rules are under constant review and may be changed at any time. This is the December, 2010, Revision.)
Please read the following rules carefully.
THE BASIC VALUES OF THE WiiGA
1. Have fun! ;D
2. Honesty by all members is expected and assumed.
3. Being helpful to and respectful of all members is a core value of the WiiGA.
4. A WiiGA member plays Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods series with the courtesy, manners and adherence to the Rules of Golf as is possible within the context of the EA product and as is expected at any official regional, national, or international golfing event.
MEMBERSHIP:
5. The WiiGA has two levels of membership: full Members and Associate Members. All new applicants who meet the ProBoards Terms of Service will be admitted as full Members except in the case of either one of two conditions:
Applicants between the ages of 13 and 18 are admitted as Associate Members. Associate Members have the same rights of membership as full Members except for one expressed limitation of their rights of membership:
[/li][li]Associate Members may enter chat.[/color]
[/li][li]Associate Members may not hold an admin position.
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Other than this limitation, Associate Members may participate fully in Club activities as long as they are in full compliance with rules 1-4. Failure by an Associate Member to be in full compliance with rules 1-4 or to observe and comply with the expressed limitation will result in loss of all membership priveleges until the Associate Member is eligible for full Membership, at which time the Club admins will rule on any application that the former Associate Member submits.
It is the responsibility of a new member to notify the Club admins if the new member is below the age of 18. Doing so assures that the new member is recognized as an Associate Member and sets the membership’s expectations for the Associate Member’s behavior appropriately. Failure of a new member to notify the Club admins that the new member is between 13 and 18 when that is actually the case is a blatant violation of rule 2 and will result in the new member being banned until the new member is 18.
6. The WiiGA complies with all Terms of Service required by our host, ProBoards, and requires that all members also comply with the Terms of Service as a condition of membership.
7. Anyone signing up for membership and not notifying the Club admins of their age who posts a message on a WiiGA message board, votes in a WiiGA poll, sends a Personal Message on the WiiGA site, enters chat on the WiiGA site or plays in a WiiGA-initiated match using a WiiGA password asserts that he or she is at least 18 years of age and thus is eligible to participate with the WiiGA and pledges to abide by all WiiGA rules.
8. Members of the WiiGA are allowed one and only one registration record. While different personas for the same player are permitted both in chat and in online matches, including official tournaments, only one persona may be registered and used for tournament leader boards, score postings, general postings in threads and voting in polls. A registered persona may create an alias, but only one alias may be used to represent that registration at a time, and its existence must be publicly announced. The intent of this rule is "one member, one vote," and "one member, one presence." Having more than one persona active in the WiiGA at the same time or disguising personas so as to deceive the membership as to a member's identify is inherently a violation of rule 2 and will not be permitted.
GOVERNANCE:
9. The WiiGA, as a Message Board defined by its ProBoards host, is owned by the current individual listed as “owner” with ProBoards. The Board owner has complete authority over the existence of the Message Board within the boundaries of the ProBoards TOS.
The WiiGA as a Club, however, is an association of its members and is operated by and for the members through the offices of a team of Admins who have the ability through their defined roles within ProBoard’s technology to edit the Board and its membership, as directed by the spirit and specifics of these rules and regulations. Admins may make no decisions and may execute no actions at variance with the first three rules of the WiiGA or at variance with the spirit of the USGA Rules of Golf, within the constraints of the technology of Electronic Arts as provided through the current version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf for the Wii.
The Admin team is self-perpetuating within the following parameters:
• The Board owner is required to have a co-owner which he/she must select from among the current membership, with whom the owner must share the owner’s password. The co-owner, by definition, must also be an Admin. This ensures continuity for the WiiGA with ProBoards over time, as ownership, should the need arise, is smoothly transferable through possession of the owner’s password.
• One Admin must be skilled in internet technologies, and must also have the Board owner’s password. This role may be filled either by the Board co-owner or by a specifically selected technology Admin.
• Additional Admins may be added over time as the size of the WiiGA and the demands of Club administration dictate. It is entirely within the discretion of the current Admin team within the constraints of their charter in the second paragraph of this section to determine what roles need to be defined beyond current roles and who should be recruited from among the current members to serve as an Admin.
The selection method for a new Admin may, but is not mandated to, include:
If more than one candidate appears for an Admin vacancy, the Admin team is encouraged to reach a consensus choice; however, barring a consensus, a majority vote of the Admin team is required for a member to receive an invitation to become an Admin.
Additionally if more than one candidate appears for an Admin vacancy, the Admin team is encouraged to find a support role for all volunteers who want one.
• Just as Admins use consensus and majority voting (as needed) to make decisions on adding new Admins, all policy and operational decisions made by the Admin team require first an attempt at consensus, and then, if necessary, a majority vote. Failure to achieve consensus or a majority vote on a question precludes action on that question. When the Admin team is divided or a question affects fundamental ways in which the WiiGA operates, the question is put before the membership for discussion and guidance back to the Admin team. Discussion and guidance may be in the form of polling outcomes. Members are encouraged to post their opinions on matters affecting the WiiGA, to discuss issues in chat, and may create their own polls. Poll results, whether initiated by the Admin team or by individual members are not binding on Admin decisions. but the Admin team is obligated to take such results under consideration. Members may petition any Admin individually regarding any issue; it is an obligation of that Admin to obtain a response from the Admin team such as the question may require.
• Admins have no defined period of service. They serve until they no longer wish to serve or cease participating. An Admin who fails to perform his/her duties or who violates a WiiGA rule may be disciplined by the Board owners. This may involve suspension from Admin status, suspension from the WiiGA, loss of Admin status or even banning from membership.
CLUB TOURNAMENTS:
10. A regular season of the WiiGA will be comprised of a set of tournaments plus a playoff. The conditions for each tournament are defined at the outset of a season, including the number of tournaments that comprise the season, the settings and format for each tournament, the scoring, and the length of the season from start of the first tournament to completion of the playoff. It is up to each member to visit the threads containing the tournament settings, to be responsible for meeting the requirements of the tournaments and their settings, and to meet the time frames for the conclusion of the regular season and of each round of the playoff. Failure of a member to complete all the tournament rounds by the ending date of the regular season may cause that member to be ineligible for the playoffs. Scores submitted after the closing date for the regular season or for any round of the playoff will not be counted. Please note that new members added during a season are eligible to participate in the season in progress, but must still meet all tournament conditions, including deadlines for completion of rounds to be eligible for the playoffs.
11. All official games (games that count toward tournament results) require the participation of at least two WiiGA members. Any OFFICIAL WiiGA match must have ONLY WiiGA members in the match, there can NOT be any non-WiiGA player in ANY official WiiGA match, season play or member tournaments.
12. All tournament settings and formats must be observed. Failure of any member(s) to conform to published settings and formats for a tournament in any match renders the results for the member(s) invalid for that match and requires the member(s) not conforming to replay the round to obtain an official score
13. The tournament password given in the tournament settings must be used by all members for a match to be considered official and for the scores from that match to be posted. Failure to use the official password renders the results from the match “unofficial,” and precludes the scores from being used in tournament standings. Practice rounds may be set up by members using this password instead of the official password: wiigap.
Conversely, any match that uses the official password is considered official, and all scores earned during that match must be submitted as official.
EXCEPTIONS:
14. All members must post their scores following the format provided in the Score Posting thread; score postings must be confirmed by at least one other member from the match.
15. All official WiiGA games will be UNRANKED, regardless of other settings, which will vary from tournament to tournament. This rule applies to regular season tournaments, playoffs, and championships.
16. Members schedule their own pairings and tee times for practice and official matches. Members may arrange tee times on the tee time posting board, and may also arrange tee times in the chat room.
17. All members are required to record their scores during official games. This rule enables rule 18, following:
18. In the event of an inadvertent disconnect, all holes prior to the disconnect will count. Upon restart of the game, official hole by hole scoring will resume after members have played through the last hole with a recorded score from the disconnected game. This rule applies on multiple restarts as well. To facilitate managing disconnects and restarts, it is recommended that all members go to the chat room in the event of a disconnect.
19. Any member intentionally disconnecting from any round prior to the completion of that round played as part of the WiiGA must account for the disconnect and may be banned from league play for disconnects that are neither technical nor family/emergency related. This rule applies to WiiGA practice rounds, official rounds, and even pick-up rounds with other WiiGA members. Disconnecting from ranked EA simultaneous play rounds is discouraged as being opposed to the founding philosophy of the WiiGA, but is not disallowed.
Note: if all participants in a ranked match recognize concession as a reasonable outcome of a ranked match, then a disconnect that is understood by all participants to be a legitimate concession should not be viewed in opposition to the philosophy of the WiiGA.
20. In the event of a glitch during online play in which “glitch” is defined as an improbable or outrageous event that could only be viewed as an unresolved bug, it will be decided by the administrators of this league whether or not official game scores will be adjusted or official games will be disqualified and replayed, or if the original scores should stand. Examples include, but are not limited to drives being interrupted by birds, balls hovering 5 inches in midair, or bouncing from tree limb to tree limb without ever falling to the ground. All admin decisions are final.
21. While TW10, TW11 and TW12 are without question video games, it is the intention of the WiiGA that when questions about the use of game features arise, the simulation of golf should take precedence over exploiting a video game in deciding whether or not a “cheature” should be employed. The first level of control for creating level playing fields in tournaments is the tournament settings and formats published at the beginning of each season or lab tourney. However, even with these settings, the discovery of new cheatures that may be exploited still occur. Whether or not a player should make use of these cheatures is left to the individual, guided by the principle above, unless admins are asked to rule.
21a. EXAMPLE: CHIP TRACERS in TW10: The classic example of this is the use of the chip tracer on greens in TW10. Chip tracers are described on both the WiiGA and EA boards and will not be further explained here. However, it is clear that although the chip tracer was designed to be used when off the green, the chip tracer nonetheless works when on the green, essentially permitting unlimited putt previews. It is the ruling of the admins that chip tracers may NOT be used on the green except in the case where no putt line exists between the position of the ball and the position of the hole. Lab tourneys, of course, could explicitly specify chip tracing as a condition in a tourney without being in violation of this rule.
PROVISOS:
22. The WiiGA reserves the right to change tournament and/or league scoring systems at any time.
23. The WiiGA reserves the right to modify the rules and regulations without prior notice.
24. A player who does not comply with the above rules and regulations may be removed from the Club without notice.
25. See Rule #1![/b] ;D
Please read the following rules carefully.
THE BASIC VALUES OF THE WiiGA
1. Have fun! ;D
2. Honesty by all members is expected and assumed.
3. Being helpful to and respectful of all members is a core value of the WiiGA.
4. A WiiGA member plays Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods series with the courtesy, manners and adherence to the Rules of Golf as is possible within the context of the EA product and as is expected at any official regional, national, or international golfing event.
MEMBERSHIP:
5. The WiiGA has two levels of membership: full Members and Associate Members. All new applicants who meet the ProBoards Terms of Service will be admitted as full Members except in the case of either one of two conditions:
- An applicant has a demonstrated history in violation of one or more of the first four rules of the Club, in which case the Club admins will decide whether or not to admit the applicant.
- An applicant is between the ages of 13 (TOS minimum) and 18.
Applicants between the ages of 13 and 18 are admitted as Associate Members. Associate Members have the same rights of membership as full Members except for one expressed limitation of their rights of membership:
- Associate Members may vote in WiiGA polls.
[/li][li]Associate Members may enter chat.[/color]
[/li][li]Associate Members may not hold an admin position.
[/li][/ul]
Other than this limitation, Associate Members may participate fully in Club activities as long as they are in full compliance with rules 1-4. Failure by an Associate Member to be in full compliance with rules 1-4 or to observe and comply with the expressed limitation will result in loss of all membership priveleges until the Associate Member is eligible for full Membership, at which time the Club admins will rule on any application that the former Associate Member submits.
It is the responsibility of a new member to notify the Club admins if the new member is below the age of 18. Doing so assures that the new member is recognized as an Associate Member and sets the membership’s expectations for the Associate Member’s behavior appropriately. Failure of a new member to notify the Club admins that the new member is between 13 and 18 when that is actually the case is a blatant violation of rule 2 and will result in the new member being banned until the new member is 18.
6. The WiiGA complies with all Terms of Service required by our host, ProBoards, and requires that all members also comply with the Terms of Service as a condition of membership.
7. Anyone signing up for membership and not notifying the Club admins of their age who posts a message on a WiiGA message board, votes in a WiiGA poll, sends a Personal Message on the WiiGA site, enters chat on the WiiGA site or plays in a WiiGA-initiated match using a WiiGA password asserts that he or she is at least 18 years of age and thus is eligible to participate with the WiiGA and pledges to abide by all WiiGA rules.
8. Members of the WiiGA are allowed one and only one registration record. While different personas for the same player are permitted both in chat and in online matches, including official tournaments, only one persona may be registered and used for tournament leader boards, score postings, general postings in threads and voting in polls. A registered persona may create an alias, but only one alias may be used to represent that registration at a time, and its existence must be publicly announced. The intent of this rule is "one member, one vote," and "one member, one presence." Having more than one persona active in the WiiGA at the same time or disguising personas so as to deceive the membership as to a member's identify is inherently a violation of rule 2 and will not be permitted.
GOVERNANCE:
9. The WiiGA, as a Message Board defined by its ProBoards host, is owned by the current individual listed as “owner” with ProBoards. The Board owner has complete authority over the existence of the Message Board within the boundaries of the ProBoards TOS.
The WiiGA as a Club, however, is an association of its members and is operated by and for the members through the offices of a team of Admins who have the ability through their defined roles within ProBoard’s technology to edit the Board and its membership, as directed by the spirit and specifics of these rules and regulations. Admins may make no decisions and may execute no actions at variance with the first three rules of the WiiGA or at variance with the spirit of the USGA Rules of Golf, within the constraints of the technology of Electronic Arts as provided through the current version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf for the Wii.
The Admin team is self-perpetuating within the following parameters:
• The Board owner is required to have a co-owner which he/she must select from among the current membership, with whom the owner must share the owner’s password. The co-owner, by definition, must also be an Admin. This ensures continuity for the WiiGA with ProBoards over time, as ownership, should the need arise, is smoothly transferable through possession of the owner’s password.
• One Admin must be skilled in internet technologies, and must also have the Board owner’s password. This role may be filled either by the Board co-owner or by a specifically selected technology Admin.
• Additional Admins may be added over time as the size of the WiiGA and the demands of Club administration dictate. It is entirely within the discretion of the current Admin team within the constraints of their charter in the second paragraph of this section to determine what roles need to be defined beyond current roles and who should be recruited from among the current members to serve as an Admin.
The selection method for a new Admin may, but is not mandated to, include:
- Publishing a vacancy and collecting possible participants.
- Soliciting volunteers in PMs or Chat.
- Noting unsolicited volunteers or indications of interest for later selection
If more than one candidate appears for an Admin vacancy, the Admin team is encouraged to reach a consensus choice; however, barring a consensus, a majority vote of the Admin team is required for a member to receive an invitation to become an Admin.
Additionally if more than one candidate appears for an Admin vacancy, the Admin team is encouraged to find a support role for all volunteers who want one.
• Just as Admins use consensus and majority voting (as needed) to make decisions on adding new Admins, all policy and operational decisions made by the Admin team require first an attempt at consensus, and then, if necessary, a majority vote. Failure to achieve consensus or a majority vote on a question precludes action on that question. When the Admin team is divided or a question affects fundamental ways in which the WiiGA operates, the question is put before the membership for discussion and guidance back to the Admin team. Discussion and guidance may be in the form of polling outcomes. Members are encouraged to post their opinions on matters affecting the WiiGA, to discuss issues in chat, and may create their own polls. Poll results, whether initiated by the Admin team or by individual members are not binding on Admin decisions. but the Admin team is obligated to take such results under consideration. Members may petition any Admin individually regarding any issue; it is an obligation of that Admin to obtain a response from the Admin team such as the question may require.
• Admins have no defined period of service. They serve until they no longer wish to serve or cease participating. An Admin who fails to perform his/her duties or who violates a WiiGA rule may be disciplined by the Board owners. This may involve suspension from Admin status, suspension from the WiiGA, loss of Admin status or even banning from membership.
CLUB TOURNAMENTS:
10. A regular season of the WiiGA will be comprised of a set of tournaments plus a playoff. The conditions for each tournament are defined at the outset of a season, including the number of tournaments that comprise the season, the settings and format for each tournament, the scoring, and the length of the season from start of the first tournament to completion of the playoff. It is up to each member to visit the threads containing the tournament settings, to be responsible for meeting the requirements of the tournaments and their settings, and to meet the time frames for the conclusion of the regular season and of each round of the playoff. Failure of a member to complete all the tournament rounds by the ending date of the regular season may cause that member to be ineligible for the playoffs. Scores submitted after the closing date for the regular season or for any round of the playoff will not be counted. Please note that new members added during a season are eligible to participate in the season in progress, but must still meet all tournament conditions, including deadlines for completion of rounds to be eligible for the playoffs.
11. All official games (games that count toward tournament results) require the participation of at least two WiiGA members. Any OFFICIAL WiiGA match must have ONLY WiiGA members in the match, there can NOT be any non-WiiGA player in ANY official WiiGA match, season play or member tournaments.
12. All tournament settings and formats must be observed. Failure of any member(s) to conform to published settings and formats for a tournament in any match renders the results for the member(s) invalid for that match and requires the member(s) not conforming to replay the round to obtain an official score
13. The tournament password given in the tournament settings must be used by all members for a match to be considered official and for the scores from that match to be posted. Failure to use the official password renders the results from the match “unofficial,” and precludes the scores from being used in tournament standings. Practice rounds may be set up by members using this password instead of the official password: wiigap.
Conversely, any match that uses the official password is considered official, and all scores earned during that match must be submitted as official.
EXCEPTIONS:
- FUN: members who have already submitted the official scores for the tournament round of a scheduled match may participate as witnesses for players yet to complete the tournament round. The new scores achieved will be for “FUN” only, and may NOT be submitted as official.
- OBSERVERS: members who do not want to participate in a tourney but who want to try playing with that tourney's settings are still welcome to play tourney rounds as an OBSERVER and may act as a witness for members who are competing. They must still report their scores, marking them as "OBSERVER" scores. A member who marks a score as an OBSERVER score may not submit scores for competition for that tourney. If a competition score was submitted prior to submitting an OBSERVER score, the competition score will be deleted from the official tourney score sheet.
14. All members must post their scores following the format provided in the Score Posting thread; score postings must be confirmed by at least one other member from the match.
15. All official WiiGA games will be UNRANKED, regardless of other settings, which will vary from tournament to tournament. This rule applies to regular season tournaments, playoffs, and championships.
16. Members schedule their own pairings and tee times for practice and official matches. Members may arrange tee times on the tee time posting board, and may also arrange tee times in the chat room.
17. All members are required to record their scores during official games. This rule enables rule 18, following:
18. In the event of an inadvertent disconnect, all holes prior to the disconnect will count. Upon restart of the game, official hole by hole scoring will resume after members have played through the last hole with a recorded score from the disconnected game. This rule applies on multiple restarts as well. To facilitate managing disconnects and restarts, it is recommended that all members go to the chat room in the event of a disconnect.
19. Any member intentionally disconnecting from any round prior to the completion of that round played as part of the WiiGA must account for the disconnect and may be banned from league play for disconnects that are neither technical nor family/emergency related. This rule applies to WiiGA practice rounds, official rounds, and even pick-up rounds with other WiiGA members. Disconnecting from ranked EA simultaneous play rounds is discouraged as being opposed to the founding philosophy of the WiiGA, but is not disallowed.
Note: if all participants in a ranked match recognize concession as a reasonable outcome of a ranked match, then a disconnect that is understood by all participants to be a legitimate concession should not be viewed in opposition to the philosophy of the WiiGA.
20. In the event of a glitch during online play in which “glitch” is defined as an improbable or outrageous event that could only be viewed as an unresolved bug, it will be decided by the administrators of this league whether or not official game scores will be adjusted or official games will be disqualified and replayed, or if the original scores should stand. Examples include, but are not limited to drives being interrupted by birds, balls hovering 5 inches in midair, or bouncing from tree limb to tree limb without ever falling to the ground. All admin decisions are final.
21. While TW10, TW11 and TW12 are without question video games, it is the intention of the WiiGA that when questions about the use of game features arise, the simulation of golf should take precedence over exploiting a video game in deciding whether or not a “cheature” should be employed. The first level of control for creating level playing fields in tournaments is the tournament settings and formats published at the beginning of each season or lab tourney. However, even with these settings, the discovery of new cheatures that may be exploited still occur. Whether or not a player should make use of these cheatures is left to the individual, guided by the principle above, unless admins are asked to rule.
21a. EXAMPLE: CHIP TRACERS in TW10: The classic example of this is the use of the chip tracer on greens in TW10. Chip tracers are described on both the WiiGA and EA boards and will not be further explained here. However, it is clear that although the chip tracer was designed to be used when off the green, the chip tracer nonetheless works when on the green, essentially permitting unlimited putt previews. It is the ruling of the admins that chip tracers may NOT be used on the green except in the case where no putt line exists between the position of the ball and the position of the hole. Lab tourneys, of course, could explicitly specify chip tracing as a condition in a tourney without being in violation of this rule.
PROVISOS:
22. The WiiGA reserves the right to change tournament and/or league scoring systems at any time.
23. The WiiGA reserves the right to modify the rules and regulations without prior notice.
24. A player who does not comply with the above rules and regulations may be removed from the Club without notice.
25. See Rule #1![/b] ;D
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