Lawyering

Lawyering is a term first coined in raytan's Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XI contest, whereby if someone made an illegal save that was discovered after the round was officially over, anyone could then save the final character thus booting the character who was illegally saved.

This led to numberous arguments (drama) throughout the contest, people scouring rounds once they were over for illegal saves and people compulsively saving the final character at the end of rounds, just in case.

In SMFFFC XI, five characters were lawyered in total:

Luso Clemens - 74th Place (booted) Locke Cole - 48th Place Zell Dincht - 30th Place Kuja - 19th Place Rydia of Mist - 12th Place

Rydia at the time of her lawyering was a strong contender for the title due to very strong support from multiple users. Kuja's lawyering is significant because it was the first time s/he had finished out of the top ten in a SMFFFC contest.

In SMFFFC XII, the lawyering rule was continued and, so far, two characters have been lawyered:

Ultros - 53rd Place Garnet Til Alexandros XVII - 26th Place

Ultros and Garnet ended up being lawyered because of illegal saves by ray and amyvitality respectively. Garnet's lawyering was significant because it was the first double lawyering of any contest. Sabin was originally laywered in the 26th round, but got a subsequent save after amy's illegal save of Garnet was discovered.