Rules

Road Rules
(Pun Intended)

RULES OF 24/7 USA

GAMEPLAY
1. The game will start with twelve (12) contestants.
2. Each round will consist of three (3) components: a minigame, a main challenge, and an elimination (hereinafter referred to as ‘exile’).
3. The minigame can involve any number of contestants, and basically anything can wind up happening.
4. The main challenge will involve all contestants and will be played for Safety Stones.
5. After conclusion of the main challenge, phone lines will open and non-competing people may vote for who they want exiled. Each audience vote will be equivalent to one thousand (1,000) exile votes.
6. Each contestant will be expected to turn in one (1) confessional per round. Failure to do so will result in a five hundred (500) vote penalty.
7. The contestant with the most votes will be eliminated. The next round will then be conducted with the remaining contestants.
8. It looks all good and legal when you stick the numeral in parentheses after the written-out number, such as three (3) or two hundred eighty seven billionish (287,000,000,000-ish).

LOCATION
1. The game will begin at an undisclosed location in the contiguous forty eight (48) United States with a minigame.
2. Each minigame, main challenge and exile in the game will be conducted at a different location in the contiguous United States.
3. The producers have done their best to gradually move about the country. Contestants will not be asked to conduct a particular round’s minigame in, for example, Houston, then the main challenge in Boston and the exile in Salt Lake City, with the next minigame in Detroit and so on. However, the producers may have you do a minigame in Houston, then a main challenge in Dallas, an exile in Hot Springs, Arkansas, then the next minigame in Nashville.
4. All activities will have something to do with the current game location. An exile in Milwaukee, Wisconsin could see the Miller Park retractable roof crushing the exiled contestant.

BUS STOP
1. There will be three (3) Bus stops during gameplay.
2. A Bus Stop is a head-to-head challenge between the bottom two finishers in a given round.
3. The winner of this challenge shall advance to the next round of play. The loser will be exiled.
4. Bus Stops will occur in 3 predetermined, but random, rounds. In Global 24/7, the first (1st) occured in the first (1st) round of play. The next occured in Round Six (6), and the last one in Round Nine (9). In that game they were referred to as "Delayed Flights". They would be here, too, but the producers considered a bus to be the more logical mode of transport.
5. And furthermore, five million four hundred sixty-three thousand ninetytwo (5,463,092).

SAFETY STONES
1. Safety Stones are items won in challenges, and used to remove votes from your total at exiles.
2. Each Safety Stones is good to remove ten (10) percent of your vote. Thus, using ten (10) Safety Stones in a single round will make you immune for that round.
3. If a contestant is exiled and has Safety Stones remaining, those Safety Stones will not be redistributed.
4. Safety Stones can be donated or traded for votes or favors to any other contestant, barring special circumstances. To execute a donation or trade, both parties must agree. For reference, the producers have determined the standard cash value of one (1) Safety Stone to be around two thousand five hundred (2,500) votes.

HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
1. Prior to gameplay, each contestant will be asked to select a color. There are five (5) colors, each containing a different number of states.
1a. States were assigned colors based on a jigsaw map the Producer saw in second (2nd) hour English class. The color the state was on that map is the same color the state is here.
2. Once a color is chosen, the contestant will choose a state from that color group.This state will be where the contestant has a Home-Field Advantage.
3. A Home-Field Advantage is a small edge the contestant will have while in that state. If the state contains a minigame, the contestant will have first option of whether to accept the minigame. If the state contains an exile, the contestant will get a two thousand five hundred (2,500) vote deduction from their pre-count total. Advantages in main challenge locations will vary depending on the challenge.
4. Should the contestant select a state in which no event occurs, tough noogies for that contestant.

RULES OF CONDUCT
1. In Global 24/7, the contest lasted the better part of three (3) months. It is highly probable that soooner or later, contestants will have schedule conflicts. May be sooner, may be later. Don’t worry. If a contestant has preceded this absence with strong performances, he or she can ride that for a few rounds. The producers take anything they can readily remember in recent rounds into effect when determing the pre-count.
2. Should it happen that a you need to withdraw from further play for any reason, they are to contact the producers and let him know. You will be asked to complete the current round, then the producers will happily accommodate you.
3. Hear ye, hear ye, if a player is caught cheating, these Rules hereby decree that he or she shall be strung up by his or her neck in the Town Square, until dead. (Translation: Cheating=Disqualification. I'm pretty sure I've got it so you couldn't cheat even if you wanted to, but still.)
4. The producers, when tabulating the pre-count, frown on alliances. Just so you know. The game is meant to be everyone for themselves. (It’s more evil that way.)

TERMINOLOGY
In 24/7 USA, the following terms are likely to be uttered. What they mean:
1. Safety Stones- the objects used to reduce vote totals in a given round.
2. Exiled- eliminated.
3. Bus Stop- see "Bus Stop".
4. Inoculation- immunity for a given round
5. Sudden Death- in the final round of competition, the two (2) finalists will be asked several questions concerning their performance and the performance of other contestants. This will strongly determine the final round’s vote totals.
6. Pre-count- At the conclusion of the main challenge, the producers make a preliminary vote total for each player that, if the exile were conducted without Safety Stones or audience votes, and at that moment in time, would be the official count. This is called a pre-count.

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