International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest
                           Year 2005 Official Rules and Regulations

0. The Official IORCC Rules may be found at http://iorcc.dyndns.org/official.rules
   Its the definitive document, accept no substitute.

1. a.  Your final entry must be a functional complete original work by you.
   b.  Your entry must execute to completion without error using Ruby 1.8.2.
   b.  Using 3rd party libraries other than those included as part of the Ruby 1.8.2
       source distribution is disallowed.
   c.  Warnings of any type are allowed yet discouraged.

2. Your code submissions must be no more than 4096 ASCII characters in size.

3. Your submissions must follow this format:

     date: MM/DD/YYYY
     title: 80 chars or less
     author: Author's legal name
     email: Author's valid email
     comments: <= 512 ASCII chars
     code: <= 4096 characters, may be attached OR base 64 encoded (starts on following line)

4. Your submissions may not be a library.

5. Your submissions must be licensed under the same terms as Ruby(1).

6. Your submissions must be received at the official submission email account:

     iorcc@yahoo.com

   prior to 31-Mar-2005 23:59:59 UTC.  The Subject: field must contain ONLY 'iorcc entry'
   without the single quotes.  Three submissions per person per contest year are allowed,
   the last submission will be considered your one official entry.

7. Any submissions requiring special privileges (setuid, setgid, super-user, special owner
   or group) will be disallowed and count towards your limit of three submissions per contest.

8. The IORCC People's Choice Award voting system will come online from April 2nd 2005 to
   April 15th, 2005.  One vote per registered user will be allowed, hopefully avoiding
   spam|flood voting and cheating.  At the time of closure, the IORCC entry with the most
   votes will win the IORCC People's Choice Award.   Any prizes associated with placements
   are the responsibility of said sponsor and winners.


Last Modified: Sun Mar 20 00:47:21 CST 2005 - Todd Nathan (SeaForth), et al.

(1) http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt