NOTE: I woke up this morning and thought about this message with a thrill...
I wrote something I did not mean.
Now I edited it right. Sorry for that.
EDITED MESSAGE:
Contest rules
I know this is the last of the problems, but just check it out if it is a possible and intriguing format.
There might be the problem that a wild gang tickling from the very beginning could lead to very short playing times and ppl will not enjoy it as much as they can after all...
We might set up different "specialties" to assign points earned by each ticklee. Those points will be summed in order to give the final score to each one. What I am trying to think is a "crescendo" of tickling levels so that everybody can enjoy it at the best.
We might break up for, example, for (1) method (feathers, fingers, toothbrush or equivalent tools, baby oil session, etc) and (2)area (armpit, chest, armpit, bellybutton, tights, feet). Points will be assigned for each method used and multiplied by a factor for each area. In this way we have a comprehensive picture of the endurance level of each contestant or fund raiser, or victim... eheh...
In case we do not have the same number of ticklers in every location we might introduce a multiplier also for this parameter so that we can compare the results fairly.
Each session might look like, for example:
Feathers on chest: x, let's say, five minutes. When the minutes have passed succesfully, tights are tickled with feathers at the same time for x minutes and then feet are added, and so on till when all the areas are tickled at the same time in the gang tickle, in this example with feathers.
The poor ticklee will use a safe word after a while...
at that point he earns a break and gains a partial score.
After the break the same sequence is repeated with another method and so on.
Scoring system:
example of final report:
FEATHERS (1 point/minute)
Chest 30 mins: 30 x 0.5 (multiplier for the chest) = 15
Sides 25 mins: 25 x 0.25 = 6
feet 10 mins: 10 x 2 = 20
etc
TOTAL 41
FINGERS (5 points/minute)
Chest 25 mins 25 x 0.5
etc
TOTAL 60
TOOLS
etc
TOTAL 50
BABY OIL GANG TICKLING (10 points/minute)
TOTAL 120 (that would be 12 minutes! for example)
GRAND TOTAL 270
We might add a final "extravaganza" session in which each ler choses the elective method of tickling... that would be the final blast.
We might also think about a minimum time for each session that cannot be interrupted.
Of course the lers have to decide before the beginning of the contest the scoring system
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Plz, feel free to give a feedback