# Doggo 108 — Rules of the Game

_June 2026 Edition · Governing Season 1 (commencing Monday 7 September 2026)_

This is the consolidated edition of the Doggo 108 rules, published for download so that the curious, the meticulous, and their lawyers can dig in, pull apart, and query. It comprises these **General Provisions** and four companion rulebooks, which are incorporated by reference and form part of this edition:

| Part | Rulebook | Governs |
|------|----------|---------|
| I | _The Weekday Challenge — Official Rules_ | Daily pattern-walking and scoring, Monday–Friday |
| II | _Dognami Libre — Official Rules_ | The free-pool team-stacking game |
| III | _Doggo 7s — Official Rules_ | The managed-team competition (Manager League) |
| IV | _The Weekend Challenge — Official Rules_ | The Saturday–Sunday team competition, across all three team leagues |

**Editorial note on supersession.** Part IV (June 2026) supersedes Doggo 7s §6 in its entirety. Earlier descriptions of weekend play — the committed Reference Walk, the Manager Weekend Miss penalty, and Pattern-class-or-zero matching — no longer apply. Where any companion rulebook conflicts with Part IV on weekend play, Part IV prevails.

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## GP-1. The Game and its Leagues

**GP-1.1** Doggo 108 is a dog-walking game. Walkers record real walks with real dogs; the System scores the geometry of those walks against published challenges.

**GP-1.2** The game comprises two weekly challenges and four competitive leagues:

- **GP-1.2.1** The **Weekday Challenge** (Part I) runs Monday–Friday and is open to every Walker.
- **GP-1.2.2** The **Weekend Challenge** (Part IV) runs Saturday–Sunday and is the ranking mechanic for the three team leagues.
- **GP-1.2.3** The four leagues are: **Dognami Libre** (Part II, free pool); **Doggo 7s** (Part III, managed teams); **Doggo Pro Teams** (brand-led teams); and **Doggo Packs** (creator-led teams).

**GP-1.3 The football model.** A Walker may belong to at most **one Team per league** simultaneously, and to Teams in several leagues at once. One walk a day; its points cascade into every competition the Walker belongs to.

**GP-1.4** Doggo Pro Teams and Doggo Packs are governed, as to team composition, commercial terms, and membership movement, by their respective agreements and league pages; as to play, by Parts I and IV.

## GP-2. The Season

**GP-2.1** Seasons begin on the **first Monday of September**. Season 1 runs from Monday 7 September 2026 to Wednesday 28 July 2027, followed by an inter-season **Festival window** of approximately 40 days.

**GP-2.2 The freeze.** Game mechanics, scoring formulae, and tuning constants are **frozen for the duration of a Season**. They may change only between Seasons, during the Festival window, following the annual review (GP-6).

**GP-2.3** Festival-window events (themed tournaments, local knockouts, cups) are governed by their own published event rules and do not alter Season standings.

## GP-3. Fair Play

**GP-3.1** Fair play is a founding value of Doggo 108, with two faces:

- **GP-3.1.1 In the game.** Scoring is computed from the truth of the recorded walk. The System measures original GPS paths, publishes its rules, and adjusts scores only through public, reasoned rulings (Part IV §11).
- **GP-3.1.2 In the commercials.** Every commercial partner of a given class is offered the same standard, non-negotiable terms. Differentiation arises only from transparent, uniformly applied, time-based categories — founding status, not size or power. The order in which partner teams joined the league is a published register.

**GP-3.2 Rational and mechanical.** Complexity in Doggo 108 is part of the fun, and it is always rational and mechanical — never random, never fickle. Every mechanic in this edition is designed so that a thoughtful player can predict how it behaves.

**GP-3.3 Neutral infrastructure.** Doggo 108 operates the mechanics and the canonical record of the game. What Teams, brands, and creators do off-platform — marketing, offers, discussion, enrichment — is their own affair, subject only to: protection of Doggo 108's name and brand assets; the values alignment required at team approval; and the safety of the platform community.

**GP-3.4 Player autonomy.** Membership of any team league is voluntary and movable. Mechanisms of joining and leaving are defined per league; no rule of this edition binds a Walker to a Team against their wish beyond the procedural windows defined in the companion rulebooks.

## GP-4. Bones 🦴

**GP-4.1** The **Bone** is the game's banked currency of conscientiousness. Bones are owned by the Walker, never by a Team, and persist through team changes, collapses, and Season transitions.

**GP-4.2 Earning.** Bones are minted by perfect Weekday Challenge weeks (five correctly matched Walks, Monday–Friday):

- **GP-4.2.1** A member of a Dognami Libre team of Tier 2 or higher earns **one Bone per perfect week**.
- **GP-4.2.2** Every other Walker — including Free-pool solos, Indies, and members of teams outside Dognami Libre — earns **one Bone per four consecutive perfect weeks**. The streak resets on any non-perfect week.

**GP-4.3 Spending.** Bones are spent voluntarily, and only ever **for the benefit of others**:

- **GP-4.3.1 Dognami rescue.** Donated to save the Walker's Dognami team from a Crash, under the donation mechanics published in Part II's companion material (1 Bone = 10 points of survival credit; individually owned, individually committed; no leader may compel a donation).
- **GP-4.3.2 Weekend restore.** Spent to restore a **teammate's** overwritten Weekend Challenge upload (Part IV §12.3).
- **GP-4.3.3** A Bone may never be spent on the spender's own walk or own score.

**GP-4.4 The Bone record.** Each Walker's public record shows Bones **earned** (conscientiousness), **spent** (generosity), and **held** (reserves), with per-Season career lines. The record is permanent.

**GP-4.5** On account closure, a Walker's Bones are donated to another Walker of their choosing or to a listed dog-rescue charity account; Bones never silently evaporate.

## GP-5. Records and Rankings

**GP-5.1** The System maintains permanent public records: Season league tables; Team histories (Teams are dissolved, never deleted); per-Walker career records organised by stint (Walker × Team × Leader × period); the Leaders' table; the Bone record; umpire records; and appeal rulings.

**GP-5.2 The World Ranking.** All Walkers on Earth are ranked by personal score. The personal score is earned identically by every account type and is unaffected by paid competitions (Part IV §7.7): the World Ranking compares every dog on equal terms.

## GP-6. Governance and Amendment

**GP-6.1** These rules are reviewed annually. Proposals for the following Season are discussed at the **Annual Summit**, held during the Festival window, attended by player representatives, team operators, and commercial partners. The first Summit convenes in **August 2026**, before Season 1 opens.

**GP-6.2** Amendments take effect only at a Season launch (GP-2.2). Each Season's edition of the Rules of the Game is published and archived; this document is the **June 2026 Edition**.

**GP-6.3** Questions, corrections, and challenges to these rules are welcome: the publication of this edition for scrutiny is itself an application of GP-3.1.

**GP-6.4 Final authority.** Final appeals, and questions of interpretation of these rules that cannot be resolved under the mechanisms of Parts I–IV, are referred to **Paul Youlten, founder, CEO and chief architect of Doggo 108**, whose determination is final for the Season in which it is made. Determinations of general application are published and, where they amount to a rule change, take effect per GP-2.2 and GP-6.2.

**GP-6.5 The Game Council.** The **Doggo 108 Game Council** ("the Council") is the standing advisory body of the game. The Council counsels; the founder decides (GP-6.4). The Council's role is advisory and is exercised through three functions: preparing the Annual Summit's agenda; providing standing counsel to the founder; and serving as the standing liaison channel for the game's stakeholder constituencies. The Council holds no power to amend rules mid-Season (GP-2.2). *The Council prepares; the Summit debates; the founder decides.*

**GP-6.6 Published responses and the governance register.** Every proposal formally docketed by the Council receives a published, reasoned response from the founder — accepted, rejected, or deferred, in writing. All docketed proposals, responses, Council meeting agendas, and the Council's annual report to the Summit are published in a permanent public **governance register**. Council and sub-committee discussions are otherwise private, to protect candour; the work is public, the talk is not.

**GP-6.7 Composition.** The Council comprises seven seats: the founder (chair); one seat for the brands (Doggo Pro Teams); one seat for the Pack owners (Doggo Packs); one seat for a Team Manager from outside the Pro Teams and Pack owners; one seat for a team-league player; one seat for a free-pool player; and one wildcard seat, filled annually by the Council itself with any voice the year requires. Commercial seats shall never outnumber playing seats.

**GP-6.8 Selection and terms.** The brand, Pack-owner, and Team-Manager seats are elected by their constituencies on a strict one-member-one-vote franchise, regardless of size. The two player seats are filled by **sortition**: a random draw from an opt-in pool of eligible players, weighted by civic record (umpire service and Bone record). Terms run Summit to Summit; re-selection is permitted. **Founding cohort:** the inaugural Council is appointed by the founder, is publicly identified as appointed, and stands down in its entirety at the second Summit (summer 2027), when constituency selection takes effect.

**GP-6.9 Sub-committees and co-option.** The Council may establish sub-committees for specific domains (for example: a Pro-Team Sub-committee for proposed changes to the standard brand agreement, which — being uniform and non-negotiable — can evolve only through collective consultation; and a Technical Rules Sub-committee for the rules as written and as parsed by the System, including review of the Season's instrumentation). The Council and its sub-committees may **co-opt** outside specialists for specific issues, on a per-issue, time-bounded basis. Sub-committees report to the Council; the Council reports to the Summit.

**GP-6.10 Proposals.** Anyone — player, manager, owner, brand, or member of the public — may submit a proposal to the Council through the published channel. The Council curates the docket: docketed proposals receive the full GP-6.6 treatment; declined proposals receive a one-line published triage note. A proposal supported by a published threshold of player signatures **must** be docketed.

**GP-6.11 Funding.** Governance is a cost of running the game, borne by Doggo 108: the Council's operation, the Summit's governance sessions, members' reasonable travel, and co-opted specialists. **The governance sessions of the Summit are never sponsored.** Commercial sponsorship is welcome in every other part of the game's calendar and of any wider conference around the Summit, but never in the room where the rules are debated.

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_Doggo 108 — Rules of the Game, June 2026 Edition._
_Parts I–IV follow as companion rulebooks: The Weekday Challenge · Dognami Libre · Doggo 7s · The Weekend Challenge._