What Filing Costs — and What It Pays

Filing carries a fee on purpose. A stake keeps the office pointed at real calls instead of every close game.

• Filing fee: 3 LP, charged the moment you submit.
• Ruled valid: your 3 LP comes straight back, plus a +0.5 LP bonus for helping the office do its job. Both land automatically when the ruling is entered — nobody has to remember to pay you.
• Ruled unsubstantiated: the 3 LP is gone. If the filing was baseless or made in bad faith, the office may add a further LP penalty on top.

File when you are confident, not when you are annoyed.