Sock Wars IV
Rules

1. Overnight mail is not permitted. Any other type of mail by any carrier is permitted as long as it is not overnight delivery. Delivery confirmation is always a good idea.

2. If you receive a pair of death socks, you are required to mail your assassin your SIPs. If you didn’t have a chance to start a pair of socks, you must mail enough sock yarn to make a pair of socks to your assassin, or return their death socks to them. It is simply not acceptable to receive death socks and not send SIPs or sock yarn to your assassin.

3. When you are killed, you must mail your SIPs to your assassin as soon as possible. As soon as possible means no more than 2-3 days and definitely never more than 7 days.

4. Communication is important. On the leaderboard, you will find your name linked into a form. Once a week, you must stop by the leaderboard and click on your name, and click on your status (waiting on SIPs, working on socks, dead, retired, etc.) Periodically, I also email everyone for an update on their status. If I email you and don’t receive a response within 4 days, and you have also not checked in for 2 weeks in a row, you will be marked as retired and out of the game.

5. You are expected to work as diligently as possible on your weapon. Your target should expect their death at any time and live in fear of you. If you are not able to kill your target within a reasonable amount of time, please be kind to them and let them know, along with letting the SC know.

6. If you are killed, please be kind and send along a note with your SIPs to let your assassin know where you left off and which pattern you were using.

7. Any modifications of the pattern must be agreed to by the Supreme Commander. Socks significantly off gauge and socks off pattern will be declared a misfire unless prior permission has been granted.

8. Be kind to your fellow warriors and treat them as you wish to be treated. Everyone knits to the best of their ability, and while smack talk is encouraged, unkindness is not. Violations of this rule will result in disqualification.