"You know the rules; there are no rules..."

The Meta-Comp does not apply rules to the competition. Instead, the contestants are expected to provide the rules on which their game should be judged.

Each entry to the Meta-Comp will include an IF game and a description, including rules, of the competition which that game is meant for. Judges will assign each entry an Olympic score, 1-10, on whatever basis they choose.

Some competitions have rules requiring games be newly-written, or that the competitors comport themselves in a certain way. Meta-Comp has no such rules, but the competition entries themselves may; and judges are of course free to use their votes to reward newly-written games, or especially admirable comportment of the game writers, or indeed any criteria whatsoever.

Is Meta-Comp Really Wide-Open?

Meta-Comp is absolutely wide open. Of course, that means it operates on mutual trust -- or mutual paranoia, as the case may be. A game writer who creates a game with illegal content -- through blatant copyright violation, perhaps -- may argue that although the game is illegal he has broken no rules, and that would be true. But in such an extreme case, the comp organizer would also be aware that there are no rules against removing such an entry...

The expectation is that the mutual paranoia/trust scheme will be fully sufficient, and no such intrusion into the comp will be needed.