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With all these people being denied participation in the tournament, is there any chance for late entry via replacing one of these players? I missed the initial sign up but if there are open spaces I would be willing to fill any of them and do any missed group matches or whatever.

Sorry Nosliw nice initiative! If you realised this last week during the placement games we could have done something, but not now sorry.

We are sad to announce that there have been four players denied entry due to uncompetitive behaviour i.e. not playing to full potential. This tournament will start on Saturday and ensuring all the players are of a fair and competitive mindset for one of the largest tournaments in our community's history is crucial.

Note to readers: apologies that we have to get this 'drama' out of the way, the good stuff is being worked on and all the hard seeding work is being done and seeds will be released by the end of the day

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Official Declaration of denial of entry into Grand Championship Series
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CaptainSPrice “Price” and -HOI- Sanka “lmctx”.

Based on all evidence given from multiple sources it appears that Price had a game against Lmctx that involved ‘boosting’ i.e. agreeing to lose to grant points from Price. A player whose position in the tournament was secured based on very strong rankings, to lmctx someone that’s position in the tournament was in doubt.

The replay was uploaded to COH2.ORG and the chat in the replay appears to line up with this logic. Several players alerted tournament admins to this and called the Price and lmctx out on it in chat. Lmctx admitted to it in chat and said they would replay game 1.

Price asked COH2.ORG admins to hide game 1 without alerting tournament admins.
Also based on past history of both players – Price attempting to troll in ‘King of the Hill’ game and faking an ESL final – Lmctx numerous counts of racist trolling and multiple bans from COH2.ORG. We think based on past reputation this official ruling should not be seen as in any doubt.

Screenshots of all evidence:

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Note to these two players: there will be future tournaments, so we suggest both players take future competition more seriously, and we may be willing to give them another chance in the future.

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Momo4oSho “Momo” and warning to Burmie.

Momo4oSho is not allowed entry to tournament on account of agreeing to report a 1-1 with Burmie when no games had been played.

Upon absolutely knowing that these games were not played due to Siphon X’s automated reporting for all custom game activity - the tourney organiser asked both players in IM whether they agreed to report a 1-1 in their games:

Momo denied it (was untruthful), Burmie owned up to it (was truthful).

This means Momo is now not allowed entry, but Burmie is allowed entry albeit with an official warning to read rules and compete properly in future.

Screenshots:

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Note on Momo4oSho. Momo is a fantastic player, a great analyst, and a good community member. This ruling is made with deep regret, and it is urged in future utmost honesty is maintained at all times with regards to competitive activity.

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[The]Crazyman64335 "Crazyman"

"Crazyman" decided to throw his game against momo4sho in an act of very obvious trolling, and is therefore now not allowed entry to the tournament.

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Further to this two players have been kicked for inactivity:

Don'tKnow and Hon3ynuts

Neither of these players played any of their placement games and so are not entered into the tournament.


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Note on other players: PaulaD was allowed entry after deliberation but couldn't compete due to visa issues. Jove is in the Army for a year, and Noggano has end of university exams.

I would be very interested to see the process behind how A_E ranks people in this group.

All will be revealed tomorrow.

Me and Zarok will play on monday.

This is ok because you have communicated with me in steam, deadline extended.

Weeeell, ok:

I use the API that the official leaderboards use to display the player game history. And true, that history does not list custom games. However, the API actually does send the data for custom games.

In fact, you will receive the last 10 games no matter what type of match that was (automatch or custom), but the webpage will only display the automatch games. The package contains a match_type_id, which is either 1, 2 3 or 4 for 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 respectively, or some other value (e.g. 0 or 22 or something) for custom games.

If you check e.g. Momo's history you see that it currently lists only 8 games, so 2 likely are custom games and not shown.

My script polls the history for all players in the GCS every 3 hours and then extracts the custom games between players that are in the same group. And the script this morning didn't show the Momo/Burmie games. Of course it is possible that they both did more than 10 games after they played their matches, in which case they would be lost...

Problem is, I'm currently on vacation and away from the machine that downloads the data. It mails the result to me every 3 hours so I can update the post, but I can't look into why the two games don't shown up in the list now...

Ok lets take this to PM, I need to know some specifics when you get back from holiday.