- Lecture theatres are out-of-bounds, whether or not a lecture is in
progress.
- Official practicals and laboratories are out-of-bounds.
- Hospitals, libraries, schools, museums and sports halls are out-of-bounds.
- Churches, chapels, synagogues, mosques, temples, stupas or any other
official places of worship are out-of-bounds.
- Any dining arrangement in which you are obliged to wait for the
attention of staff in order to be seated is out-of-bounds. Anywhere you
get food yourself from a Servery is in bounds. College Formal Halls and
the like are out-of-bounds.
- Any Ball, Event, garden party or similar is out-of-bounds. Regular
college ents are in bounds.
- Seminars, supervisions, tutor or DoS meetings and the like: A
supervisee is out-of-bounds from the time they meet their supervisor
until the time they part ways.. The pre-arranged supervision location is
out-of-bounds for the arranged duration of the supervision.
- Persons engaged in 'serious' activities on the water, such as rowing
or canoeing, are OOB. Similarly, they are out-of-bounds while
transporting substantial, related equipment to or from such an activity.
Punts are not out of bounds.
- Anyone working in a real, proper job is out of bounds while at work.
Anyone working at a college bar or ent is also out of bounds.
- The CUR radio station building in Churchill College is out of bounds.
- The premises of government buildings, banks and building societies
are out-of-bounds. You should avoid using any kind of projectile weapon
in a shop. The immediate vicinity of a shop till or an automatic ATM
machine is out-of-bounds. This includes a queue for one. While you may
usually take shortcuts through such places, none of the areas listed in
this clause should, under any circumstance, be used as an avenue to
escape pursuit.
- Anyone in a car or other motorised vehicle is out of bounds and
cannot attack or be attacked. Players on bicycles are in bounds, but
please be careful only to attack if there is no possibility that you
could cause an accident or injury. Players should also avoid firefights
across busy streams of traffic, both to avoid risk of injury and to
prevent aggravating drivers.
- Public transport vehicles are out-of-bounds. The same is true of
airports, train stations and their vicinities. The Drummer Street Bus
Station in Cambridge is also out-of-bounds.
- Auditoria of theatres/cinemas and concert halls are out of bounds
during and immediately preceding/following a performance. Any area in
which a scheduled public play is being performed counts as an auditorium.
Areas in which backstage preparation work is taking place are also
out-of-bounds.
- Official university society meetings or regularly scheduled meetings
of an unofficial society which take place in college grounds, including
in players' rooms. Players are considered to be out of bounds while inside the advertised location and while temporarily leaving it during the advertised time (players hosting society meetings become OOB as the first person enters and cease to be OOB as the last person leave); those waititng to enter a society meeting are not OOB unless for some other reason (such as carrying bulky or valuble equipment; see below) Pubmeets are not out of bounds. Assassins carrying
bulky or expensive items to and from society meetings may be out of
bounds while doing so, but must specifically clear that you may be doing
this at a particular society with the Umpire beforehand. If you are
planning to attack someone near their society meeting, you may check with
the Umpire as to whether there is any reason your target may be
out-of-bounds.
- Any persons performing/practising with fire poi/fire sticks/fiery
juggling implements are considered to be have a rather large out of
bounds area surrounding them which should encompass all those in the
immediate vicinity who are primarily engaged in
watching/teaching/heckling said persons. This is entirely a safety
concern.
- Organised sports activities are out-of-bounds. This will usually be
taken to mean tournament matches at inter-College level or higher. This
does not include impromptu 'kickabouts'. However, pre-arranged training
sessions of officially-recognised teams may be considered society
meetings. Non-spectating participants are out-of-bounds for the duration
of the match and during any preparations immediately before or after.
- Players working with or riding on horses are out-of-bounds.
- The Cambridge University Wireless Society's Radio Shack is
out-of-bounds.
Computer rooms are in bounds subject to the following restrictions:
- Entirely out of bounds between 9am and 5.30pm.
- Projectile weapons may not be used here. This precludes the use of
any 'gun' type weapon save for making bang kills.
A computer room is, in general, defined as a place where the public (or
any clearly-defined group, e.g. members of a college) are permitted to use
computers. Computer rooms which occupy a completely separate room inside a
library count as computer rooms and so are in bounds outside office hours.
Rooms which function as both computer rooms and libraries count as
libraries.
A Player's room is usually only out-of-bounds for supervisions, society
meetings and sports activities, as described above. If you believe your
room should be made out-of-bounds for any other purpose, or are unsure as
to its status, you should ask the Umpire.
Players should not abuse no-kill zones. You may not take a suspicious
letter into a no-kill zone and open it in safety.
If you are not sure whether a given time or place is out of bounds or
not, please contact the Umpire. Similarly, if there is something not
mentioned on this list you think should be out-of-bounds, ask the Umpire to
consider it.