I’m not convinced that this doesn’t have exactly the same problem as the previous proposal.

I would vote for a DOV based on “placed” but not one based on “located”. To place one’s piece on a board is common usage; I’ve never heard anyone say that they located their piece on a board, except perhaps in the context of finding it.

I think it’s more logical to associate Victory with a Piece’s location instead of the action of placing it. The Tudor Court’s Rules state, in their revised 5th edition, that “[one] should win when e is at Mornington Crescent, [regardless] of how e got there, [whether] by choice or by force, [whether] by design or by chance.” Should we use “placed” instead of “located”, one could possibly be robbed of a deserved Victory simply because the rule in effect said “transported” instead of “placed”, [whereas] using “located” circumvents that possible restriction and thus avoids related CfJs.

Also: FINALLY! My collection of “Mornington Crescent Rules Through the Ages (and Beyond)” will be put to use! I think I’ll be using those textbooks a /lot/ in this game. =P

I like located. That seems like the natural goal, to be located at your destination at the end of the game.

@Roujo: You might not have followed the 2009 Métro de Montréal Invitational, but in the grand finals one player set up a trap where he was displaced onto Mornington Crescent during another player’s turn, while that other player was also moving to Mornington Crescent.  The appeals panel (citing a relatively obscure East Canadian timing rule) found that the displaced player won even though he did not announce his presence at Mornington Crescent.

This being Blognomic, however, we’ll use DoV timing in such a situation to decide the dynastic winner.

Just to stop this devolving into a drawn-out DoV as soon as the proposal passes, thematic though that might be. I shall propose a safer version with an explicit (but repealable) lock on moving to Mornington Crescent.

Kevan, there’s no DoV potential because the Blognomic ruleset doesn’t support moving yet regardless of what the Mornington Crescent rules say.

[Bucky] The argument is that by saying “a Piece may be located at a Station”, it can be read as “players may locate their Pieces at Stations” - that players can move their pieces freely.