[Kevin Sevcik]

Let me try again. I read it that the exception for <G28> is part and parcel of <G44>. Without the explicit exception for <G28>, your strategy gets you no points whatsoever, because you're initiating contact. Ergo, you're exploiting <G44>'s exception for <G28> to make points by tagging people.

Also, as a practical matter, you KNOW good and well that the GDC doesn't want this to turn into a game of tag and keep away. They'd call it FIRST Tag You're It otherwise. They've given us simpler rules this year. I'd assume in the hope that we'd simplify everyone's lives by not hunting around in the rules for exploits like an explicit strategy of sitting in your alley/key waiting to tag an opponent and score 3 points. That couldn't be more clearly against the spirit of the game. The fact that the rule isn't worded exactly to your liking doesn't change that. It just means you obviously want to return to a massive tome of glossaries, definitions, exceptions to definitions, and exceptions to exceptions that we had before. So, for the sake of my sanity and back, please don't break my nice new lightweight rulebook.