Add “A Round Action is an Action which a Wordsmith may take if and only if they have not taken that Action since the last time Acrogenerate was performed” to “Acronym”

In “Backronym” replace “If they have not done so since the last time Acrogenerate was performed” with “As a Round Action”

Add a new dynastic rule called “Showdowns”

As A Round Action, a Wordsmith (The Challenger) may post a Showdown.

A Showdown is a story post whose title has the form “SHOWDOWN: [X] [Y] [Z]” where [X] is the name of another Wordsmith who has a non-negative number of points (the Challengee), [Y] is a positive integer number of points which is not more than 5 (the bid), and [Z] is a string of between 3 and 10 letters (the Challenge Word).

Showdowns have a status, which can be Pending, Replied, Contested, Waiting Resolution or Closed and by default are Pending.

The challengee may respond to a Pending showdown either with an or marker

If they respond with the Showdown is rejected and instantly becomes Closed. If a Challenge is Pending for more than 48 hours, it also immediately becomes Closed.

If they respond with a their respond also must include an Acronym for the Challenge Word (i.e. the beginning letter of the first word must match the first letter in the Challenge Word, the beginning letter of the second word must match the second letter in the Challenge Word, and so on). Their respond may also include flavor text, but it must be clear in the response what the response Acronym is. At this point, the Challenge becomes Replied.

If a Challenge is Replied, the Challenger must make a reply on it containing their own Acronym for the Challenge Word. It may not share any words that were used by the Challenge in their response to that Showdown. Once they do so, the Challenge becomes Contested. If a Challenge is Replied for 48 consecutive hours, it becomes Closed, the Challenger loses the bid in Points and the Challengee wins the bid in Points.

If a Challenge is Contested, any other Wordsmith who is not the Challenger or the Challengee, including the Puzzler, may comment “Vote [name]” where [name] is the name of either the Challengee or the Challenger, indicating which of the two Acronyms used in the Showdown that Wordsmith preferred. Whichever they mention last is considered to be that Wordsmith’s vote. If a Challenge is Contested for 48 hours, it becomes Waiting Resolution.

If a Challenge is Waiting Resolution, any Puzzler or the Wordsmith may total the votes on that challenge. If the Challenger got more votes than the Challengee, the Challenger wins the Challenge. They wins the bid in Points and the Chalengee loser the bid in Points. Otherwise, the Challengee wins the Challenge, They win the bid in Points and the Challengeer loser the bid in Points. Either way, the Challenge then instantly becomes Closed.

In Scoring replace ” number named Points” with ” possibly negative number named Points”