New Top Chef season starts TONIGHT at 8/7 Central Time! Lets review the live season rules.

Live season rules review! Yay!

• From the beginning of a new episode until Saturday morning (also referred to as “24 hours” later in this post) all submitted posts will be sent to purgatory to be manually approved or removed by the mods at the mods discretion.

• Spoilers in titles will get you banned.

• Spoilers in the comments in a “normal” thread (a post not marked with a spoiler tag) will get you banned.

• During the 24-hour period, your post will be removed if it has a current contestants name in the title. Current season contestants (meaning they are still on the main show at the start of the new episode) no longer have names as far as titles are concerned. They should all be referred to as _____. Any attempt to use a nickname to circumvent this will get you banned. Eliminated contestants' names after the 24-hour period is up can be used in the title.

• Posts MUST be flaired. The options for flair are as follows:

     a) Current Episode (from Thursday when the new episode starts until the new one airs the next week. Check the post submission date for past/current episode posts).
  
     b) and c) Episode Spoilers and Season Spoilers (anything considered a spoiler from the upcoming episode, future episode, future season, etc should receive this flair and your post should be SPOILER TAGGED appropriately).
  
     d) Discussion (any discussion that doesn't fall into another flair).
  
     e) and f) Future Season and Past Season (beware of falling into spoiler category with the future season flair. When in doubt, mark it as a spoiler. Past season is for past season discussion).
  
     g) Top Chef IRL (for when Gail likes your content or you run into a chef in the wild or you visit their restaurant, etc).
  

• Posts that are not flaired may be removed or flaired by the mods.

• Accounts that are less than a month old and have less than 50 karma cannot post or comment on the sub.