Something is up with the timing here. I realised you were trying this and evicted Qwaz to Indigo, so we need to compare timestamps to see what happened first. However, the timestamp on your GNDT updates is /after/ the timestamp of the DoV, making it hard to tell exactly what moments things happened at. Therefore, you can’t uncontroversially claim to have won; there’s no way to prove that a) you swapped to Orange before the DoV, but b) I evicted Qwaz after it. (The GNDT doesn’t even have a timestamp for the end of your action sequence, just the start…)

I submitted the DoV a few seconds after my last GNDT update.  I began composing the DoV before the update.  (The blog timestamp is the time when I started composing the DoV post)

For historical purposes, the sequence of actions immediately preceding the DoV was:
1)Vote for the Red->Orange merger, moving me to Orange
2)Kidnap Qwazukee, the last remaining non-Yellow non-Orange player
3)weekly action team swap to Yellow.

CoV Rule 2.12 says “achieves victory” not “may achieve victory”, so it’s platonic.

Nicely done.

Well played, sir.

Although, a little oddly, it looks like I actually have achieved victory, along with you, as only the first sentence of 2.12 applies. I just can’t DoV, nor (since we’re in Hiatus) resign in order to be able to DoV. Looks like I should have jettisoned my Leadership before going to sleep.

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CoV   Qwaz is Indigo, which is not friendly to Yellow.

If you read up a bit, DC, you’ll see that that’s due to GNDT timestamp confusion. While it’s not provable that Bucky was in a DoV state when he made the DoV, it is clear that he was in a DoV state at some point, so it seems churlish to deny him based on a timestamp error.

It’s enough to “achieve victory” - you don’t unachieve it if the game changes to a position where you couldn’t achieve it again. (Which is maybe a little odd in that a player can quietly, temporarily achieve victory, but not declare it until a week later. But I don’t think that’s game-breaking.)

Josh and Kevan basically already mentioned this, but I’ll point out that the third paragraph of the Victory and Ascension Rule says that a Player’s vote represents his opinion on “whether or not he believes the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty”

CoV   But we’ll need to make a fix.

What’s your dynasty idea, anyway, Bucky?

@Darth Cliche: Not spilling it right away, but I will give you a sneak peek from the Ascension Address:

“To those of you who think they can make magic by waving their hands and shouting nonsense, pick up your marbles and go home.”

It also contains a 3-way pun off the word “grave”.