Rules & Regulations

Rules

1. Season Format

-Season Will Run 14-17 Weeks
-Contenders Matches will start in week 4.
-Champ Matches will start in week 5.

Summer season may be only 10 weeks long due to scheduling. May just be called Summer League moving forward based on activity. -L.E

2. Schedule

- Check-in by Tuesday 11:59pm Pacific Time, or you lose.
- Post your verse by Friday 11:59pm Pacific Time, or you lose.
- Battles close and New matches set by Sunday night into Monday morning.

3. Verses

- You must make use of the topic given that week in your verse.
- Minimum of 20 lines.
- 60 lines Maximum.
- No Recycling.
- No Swaying
- No Biting
- No Ghost-writing.
- DO NOT post your verse in OPEN MIC or anywhere else on the web until your battle is decided and closed.

4. Voting

- Each Competitor must vote on 4 battles per week, and YOU MUST leave links in your own battle to prove you have done so.
- You MUST vote on the champ and contenders match.
- Your voting participation will have impact on whether or not you get to be in a Contender's Match, your playoff seeding, and some people may be suspended for not voting throughout the season at the beginning of Week 6, and again in Week 10.
- Give a reasonable explanations for your votes. Categorical breakdowns are a great way to do so.
- Do NOT ask someone or in the chat to vote in your battle or you will be DQ'ed
- The mod will decide on an individual basis if votes from people outside the league will count
- Battles will close when votes have reached 3-0 to deter clutter.
- If voting is tied at deadline, an hour's grace period will be appropriate.

5. No-show/DQ Penalties

- If both competitors no-show or get DQed, both get a loss.
- One no-show/DQ results in a loss and you will be signed out. You can sign back in for the next week.
- Two no-shows/DQ's result in a one week boot.
- Three no-shows/DQ's result in a season-long boot.
- I will be keeping track of voting by all members.
- If you are no showed against, you STILL must drop atleast a 10line/5bar verse merely to show you were willing to show up. No exceptions; Failure to do so WILL result in double no show.

6. Extensions

- NO EXTENSIONS.
- If you do NOT check in, the battle is closed. IF you contact your opponent, and he/she/it/those things accept an extension within 24 hours, the battle will resume.
- Verse Extensions will have a one-hour grace period, as long as you are online around the time of the deadline.
- Voting will close Sunday at 11:59PM EST no matter what. New week will be posted as soon as possible.

7. Editing
- If you edit after the verse deadline, you will be DQ'ed and given a loss.
- You may edit your verse until the first vote is casted. Afterwards you're DQed and given a loss.



Being Banned & Perma-Banned From SS

- If you’re DQed three times in a single season, the mod may reserve the right to ban you from the remainder of the season.
- If you’re a nuisance, and have been warned, the mod reserves the right to ban you for the season
- If you’ve been a nuisance in two seasons resulting in being banned from the season, you will be perma-banned.