Not even a chess clickbait. I haven't read the pastebin (http://pastebin.com/ufTNVPWc) yet, but this is interesting. I wanna give y'all a fist-bump, 'cause they seemed pretty sketch, but also have some questions.
Why is the charge "excessive meta abuse"? What does that mean, exactly, in this context? That they gave up when against each other, or played to each others' win conditions, consistently? Are y'all confident that these games are representative of their play in recent rounds, and not cherrypicked or anything?
Why the 2 month ban? Why not investigate all the games, 'cause clearly this is a serious paste and ban?
I want to believe that Ruse didn't cheat. They're just kids. Give them a break.
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The 'ruse' case has always been: 13-year-old Aussies play mafia together because no one else is awake at their timezone to fill competitive games.
But because there was so much crying and conjecture from the community over them sharing so many games, people thought it MUST mean cheating. I think mods were pressured to investigate from all that nonsense posting
Yehet and Messi are *not* fantastic players by any measure, yet both managed to have quite decent comp pies after the first 3-4 days.
As soon as Ruse were asked not to play together, Yehet and Messi each lost the majority of their games.
After they were asked not to play together, Stanley defied the ruling by playing on his alt JewishGrandma with other Ruse players.
Snow has stated that Stanley threw games for Ruse players.
I myself played a game with Messi after all of this, and when he rolled mafia he self voted and didn't put up any fight against being lynched, yet there was a Ruse player in town.
Burton and Snow, to my knowledge, never did anything that constitutes cheating, meta abuse, or throwing. Burton especially made an effort to avoid playing in games where Ruse players were already joined so that he wouldn't be banned or punished for rulebreaking.
