I'm not attacking either Von, A_E or DevM. Personally, I don't care who won that. My issue comes from the lack of transparency. I want to keep this mutual without bias. A_E has declared his bias (
https://www.coh2.org/topic/61003/a-e-declaration-of-bias-regarding-aimstrong-and-devm) From this he shouldn't have any involvement in decisions or opinions towards any refs or players backstage due to conflict of interest.
It's clear that DevM was winning due to that off map ability but before then if he bug splatted then Von wins after, DevM wins. Now, this is just my personal opinion, I don't think this should be a deciding factor on who should win the game as Von could have used an ability to come back. These are all what if scenarios and shouldn't be considered, what should be is VPs as they're certain and should have been Vons win and continue the series as normal rules dictate.
I do understand that his game has bugs and causes the games to crash however this is DevMs 2nd time in this tourney. Whether he should be given more benefit of the doubt that its the game and not his hardware is not for me to decide. I just don't believe that a "what if" scenarios should be considered, by that I mean DevM was winning after the off map and Von before. Why don't we say "Hey Von could have called off map and come back?" Therefore I believe that VPs should be the deciding factor on who should win the game. However, people could abuse this rule and therefore be situational.
From what I've written I believe more rules should be in play, ones that can't be a conflict of interest or bias. If you're biased I believe you shouldn't have any communication to refs or players. This would remove the drama of the bias persons involvement and speculation from the fans.
How many bug splats happened in this tourney? Does anyone have a number? From those stats, we can come up with a solution to some degree. A permanent ruling that if you bug splat outside of 10 minutes you lose outright for instance. No interpretation needed,