{"id":80,"date":"2015-10-08T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T05:57:13","slug":"ipg3-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/ipg3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IPG 3.2 Tournament Error \u2014 Outside Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-right: 20px;float: left;width: 80%;margin-top: 0px\">\n<h2>Definition<\/h2>\n<p>A player, spectator, or other tournament participant does any of the following:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 20%;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: -20px;text-align: center\">\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\" role=\"alert\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-top: 10px;margin-left: -10px\"><strong>Penalty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: -6px\">Match Loss<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br style=\"clear: both; height: 1px; margin: -1px 0pt 0pt; overflow: hidden;\">\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px\">\n<li>Seeks play advice or private information about their match from others once they have sat for their match.<br \/>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>As soon as a player has sat for a match, they are not allowed to get instructions or information about the match from other people. Casual chat is not forbidden, unless such chats include information which may benefit the player\u2019s match. This does not include asking for advice at the pairings board or dealer booth, or outside while smoking. Players are going to chat about decks they played against or think they have to play against. We cannot control what they talk about in the restroom.<\/em><\/div><\/li>\n<li>Gives play advice or reveals private information to players who have sat for their match.<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>This scenario often happens to a spectator or a player who is watching a friend playing after just finishing their own match. Especially for players who are still in the tournament, such behavior should be punished and the Match Loss should be issued. Keep in mind we are talking about \u201cplay advice.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t forget to attack\u201d is play advice; \u201cQuit, so we can go get food\u201d is not play advice \u2014 although both may result in the game ending.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During a game, refers to notes (other than Oracle&#x2122; pages) made before the official beginning of the current match.<br \/>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>The form notes take can be varied, but are typically on paper. While looking at these notes between games is OK, during a game it is not permitted. As an exception, official Oracle text is allowed to be checked at any time during the match. Typically players will just call a judge, but if someone has a printout of all the oracle text of all the cards in the set, they can use it as long as they are quick.<\/em><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">These criteria also apply to any deck construction and draft portions of a limited tournament. Additionally, no notes of any kind may be made during a draft. Some team formats have additional communication rules that may modify the definition of this infraction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>During a Limited format event, either sealed events or drafts, players in the deck construction or draft portions shall be treated as though they were \u201cin a match\u201d, and any behavior which fits the definition above is regarded as \u201cOutside Assistance.\u201d Asking what to draft, or how many Forests should be played, or \u201cDid you force White?\u201d are examples. For some formats, such as Two-Headed Giant and Team Tournaments, team members can discuss decks and strategies between themselves, and Outside Assistance does not apply.<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">Notes made outside the current match may only be referenced between games, and must have been in the player\u2019s possession since the beginning of the match.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>These notes may be things like strategies for sideboarding for different matchups. A note taken in game one can be checked during game two. The \u201cbeginning of the match\u201d is the line because there has to be one, and there makes the most sense. Players can\u2019t go online between games and look up sideboard strategy.<\/em><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Examples<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"list-group\" style=\"text-align: justify;margin-left: 0px\">\n<li class=\"list-group-item\"><strong>A.<\/strong> During a game, a player references play notes that were created before the tournament.<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-group-item\"><strong>B.<\/strong> A spectator points out the correct play to a player who had not solicited the information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;margin-top: 20px\">Philosophy<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">Tournaments test the skill of a player, not their ability to follow external advice or directions. Any strategy advice, play advice, or construction advice from an external source is considered outside assistance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>A game is between two players. Not a player vs. another player and their friend, or Google, or the Twitterverse. Outside Assistance can be a word, a piece of paper or a gesture; it can be a request for information. If it can be seen to have offered the player strategic, play or construction advice then it should be regarded as outside assistance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Keep in mind though that asking or telling a player the results of another match is not Outside Assistance, even if that information is used to end the game.<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">Visual modifications to cards, including brief text, that provide minor strategic information or hints are acceptable and not considered notes. Detailed instructions or complex strategic advice may not be written on cards. The Head Judge is the final arbiter on what cards and notes are acceptable for a tournament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>Some players write notes on cards, which may contain some strategic information. Several words, a mark, or a picture are tolerable, but sentences may be beyond the line. Examples include dots on the face of sideboard cards, or \u201cattack with me\u201d on a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Ball+Lightning&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Ball Lightning<\/a>, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Trinket+Mage&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Trinket Mage<\/a> altered to be examining a specific artifact (the intended target). If you are not sure whether such visual modification is acceptable, ask the Head Judge.<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">Spectators who commit this infraction may be asked to leave the venue if they are not enrolled in the tournament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>For the players who are still in the tournament, Outside Assistance may be the Sword of Damocles which prevents them offering advice or seeking suggestions from others. However, spectators do not need to worry about the potential punishment because they do not have a \u201cnext match&#8221; for a Match Loss to apply to. In these case, judges should ask the spectators to leave the venue politely; this provides a warning to other spectators who can\u2019t help talking about the current match when they are watching others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not being enrolled in the tournament doesn&#8217;t protect you from this infraction. If a spectator commits this infraction and is not enrolled in the tournament, enroll them, assign the infraction, then drop them from the event.<\/em><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"width: 140px;text-align: center\"><div class=\"card\"><div class=\"card-header\">Downgrade<\/div><\/div><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 0px\">If the information acquired is information that the player would have access to between games, the penalty is a Game Loss.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\"> <em>This downgrade reflects that the advantage that you might gain for accessing information that you are allowed to access between games is likely to be less than if you access information that you wouldn\u2019t normally have access to between games. Looking at your notes on sideboarding is still likely to give you an advantage but not as much as asking a friend what your opponent sideboarded in and out this game.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition A player, spectator, or other tournament participant does any of the following: Seeks play advice or private information about their match from others once they have sat for their match. Gives play advice or reveals private information to players who have sat for their match. 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