Split Unicon rules from Competition Rules
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In order to make the rules scale from newcomer competitions up to Unicon, the rules themselves must be independent of a certain competition. Especially since there are now Recognized, Endorsed and Sanctioned events. As much as we have these words, the rulebook shall have defined terms, that a "Unicon Rulebook" would specify for Unicon.
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For example qualification
Rulebook: speaks about starters for a competition.
Unicon rules: Starters to be nominated by IUF country representatives. In case the number of starters exceeds a countries contingent, the nomination has to be based an a national endorsed event.
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I expect plenty cases that can be extracted. That opens up countries to work out similar documents to explain their national endorsed events. That is especially necessary for countries that need to provide a qualification system, as I explained in length here. Also the started work of defining terms in this chapter contributes to this.
I like the way soccer puts it: you can grab a bunch of friends playing soccer on a field nearby following competition rules. But running soccer world cup needs FIFA rules.
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In general, I am of the opinion that the rulebook should contain as few Unicon-specific rules as possible, as the rulebook must work for all competitions. Especially in the track area, I think we have found a very good way in recent years to formulate the rules in such a way that they contain practically no Unicon-specific rules or only differentiate between large international events such as the Unicon and smaller events where necessary, because not every rule makes sense for every event, but is still not necessarily a Unicon only rule.
All in all, I would not be against splitting the rules in principle, but I wonder whether it would be possible to formulate the rules in such a way that one set of rules is sufficient without (many) Unicon-specific rules appearing in this single set of rules.