Rules and Scoring: Battle of the Seasons

After some rules hiccups last year, we're revisiting them this time out. For one, there was some confusion about whether the finals winners got a bonus (+7) on top of the points for making the finals (+5). What we've decided is that it will be +5 for making the finals for everyone and then an additional +7 for the overall winners.

Also, we are firming up the definition of "kissing" and "crying." If there's no romantic or carnal kissing, or even just fun on the lips for a dare type kissing, and it's just a congratulatory peck or a greeting, or something you'd feel comfortable exchanging with a sibling, then there's no points. We were handing out way too many easy points for not real kisses. Let's tighten that definition.

For crying, if we have to go back to the tape to review for tears, then it's unlikely to be crying. Weak stuff like sniffling, almost tearing up, a scrunched up face are mostly "no's." Hopefully this will give us a better way to properly reward crying points.

Things added this year: +2 for sex. Self explanatory. If two contestants are having sex that episode, then two points! Also, +3 for getting kicked off the show. This great act should be richly rewarded. This could be from physical violence, emotional intimidation, whatever. This can't be a voluntary leaving though, it has to be something where the person is tossed off the show -- usually by the producers. Or having to leave due to injury, which happened to Dustin last year as I recall.

Last change, I removed the +1 bonus for physically fighting with your rival/ex/teammate. It seemed superfluous and we only used it once -- take a bow Jasmine. And upon voting, we decided not to award points for voluntary DQs in challenges. Any other new rules we should incorporate?

Draft

• Six team owners will each select five players each, in a snake style draft.
• If any contestant shows up midway through the game, they are given to the team that loses all of their players first. Retroactive points do not count however, only once they appear on the team do their scores start tabulating.
• There will be two players left over and they will be available for selection by the team(s) that get all their players eliminated first. So if all your players are out by WK5, you get to select one of the originally undrafted players for the remainder of the season.

Scoring and Points
As we don't know the exact rules Battle of the Seasons will be using, we might tweak some things after the first episode.

Competition Points (awarded per episode)
+1 point for each week your person stays on the show
+1 point for winning the weekly Challenge (each individual on the winning team gets this)
+1 point for being sent into the Elimination
+1 point for winning the Elimination

Bonus Points (awarded per episode)
+2 point for kissing (romantic, carnal, or via dare, not for congratulatory or "hello" pecks)
+2 point for sex (must be shown on-camera, or acknowledged by both parties, with no doubt)
+1 bonus point if you own both contestants who hooked up
+2 points for getting into a physical fight
+2 points for "crazy ass tirade," including throwing or breaking things
+2 points for going to the hospital, or being treated by a medical professional
+2 points for throwing up, from drinking, exhaustion, food poisoning, etc. Throwing up should be on camera, not just gagging sounds
+2 points for crying, must be a very clear case of crying, not just red face, puffy eyes, watery eyes, but actual tears
+3 points for getting booted off the show, be it physical altercation, safety reasons (injuries), etc. Does not apply if the person chooses to leave the show
+1 points for having a body part blurcled (only awarded once per episode, and for nudity versus logo blocking out, or flicking someone off, etc.)
+1 point for reading the clue

Finals Points
+5 for making the finals (awarded to everyone who makes the finals)
+7 for being the overall winner (awarded only to members of the final team)

Any subjective calls will be cleared up by arguing and then voting. Below were the details laid out for some of the subjective rules:

• It has to be shown or be provable on camera, then from there we can vote/argue about if something constituted a hook up.
• No "extras" or "behind-the-scenes" specials or aftershows or "web clips" don't count.
• You are awarded one bonus point for each instance of hooking up (but not for each instance of crying). If Veronica hooks up with Cyrus and MJ during the episode, that's +2. However, if she hooks up with Cyrus over and over that episode, that's just +1. If they hook up again next episode though, then they can get more points.
• Hook ups aren't just kissing, or a congratulatory peck. There should be some level of lust and passion, some measure of potential hookupability. Example, Laurel and Pete's Truth or Dare kiss in Meet the Meat counts as a hook up.
• A three way kiss only awards +2 to each participant (not +4 each).
• Examples of a crazy ass tirade was Eve going bananas and knocking things around the house after getting sent in against Kelly Anne, or Katie going nuts after the plunger incident in her bed.
• Physical fights, do they include wrestling? I say yes, like if two people engage in an attempt to do physical harm, even if it's not actually punching/kicking, that's a point.

Arbitration Details
Majority wins the vote-offs (which must be done before the next episode). If there are five owners voting, that should be easy. However, if two separate owners have to abstain because it's their contestants involved, then it's four voters. Ideally a 3-1 majority would take it but if there is a tie, then no points are rewarded. Try to be objective if you can, when voting. And we can cite previous precedent or whatever in our arguments. No bribing though!

In addition: According to the Wiki rules of this challenge, there's basically two levels of the Arena -- being the last place team and the selected team to go in, and then the male/female pairs chosen by each team to compete and stay or go home. Because this is kinda complicated, I say only the pairs chosen to compete should get the "sent into Elimination" points. So the rules should clarify to say "+1 point for being part of the pairs sent to compete in the Elimination." The other team members in the Arena who do not have to compete should not get these "sent to Elimination" points.