[Ted Craven]

Bill and Patrick - I am making an 'executive decision' and invoking the 'spirit of the game' rule with regards Bill's Finger Lakes Race 7 bet yesterday.

That race counts. Bill did mistakenly state the race date was Nov 30 and not Nov 29. But many of his other races yesterday were also incorrectly specified as Nov 30 even though his RDSS screenshots clearly show Nov 29 and anyone could conclude he meant Nov 29 and not Nov 30. In all cases he meant Nov 29 and to disqualify that one bet because of that technicality is not in the spirit of the game.

Inattention is no excuse - BUT, if anyone checks all the other things Bill is doing on the Contest Management front as well as explaining and detailing his races like no one else - to help us learn better how to use RDSS and the Sartin Methodology best practices - then for my money, forgiving him a small and easily understood mistake on the date should be forgiven by reasonable players.

Bill is not out of the Contest. He has 4 races to post today.

BTW - Bill did not ask me for this ruling. But I made it anyway.

Thanks everyone for your understanding. If anyone has a problem with this ruling, I invite them to take it up with me privately by Private Message or email.

Ted