It's finally over! If there's any good from this, it's that at least I can now be acknowledged as a real person by you guys right? Or at least some of you ha...I don't mind the decision but I'd like to give my side of the story on two things in that post.
"We asked Style to give us the exportable of all her teams. Her R1 teams pastebin was linked to an another pastebin (this happens when you use the "clone this paste" function, see: Screens 1, 2 and 3). The pastebin which was linked to her R1 teams happened to be the team CrashinBoomBang used against her in their second game during the R2 of OST."
Here is the explanation I gave the TDs, a verifiable one too:
http://puu.sh/hvaLM/d56f29d069.png
"However, they refused to give us access and show us this document, because it contained private and personal information about their real lives."
That's not the full reason I refused. I'll summarize below, but here is the message I wrote about my full reasons to the directors that gives more insight into why:
http://pastebin.com/SjpRAQw4
- Everyone is already aware of people joining my school's Facebook group, contacting its president, and sending me emails without having been given the address by me.
- Even if I disagree with the justification for it, my account was logged into by others without my personal consent, even if my friend gave the permission I'd have appreciated it if I was told this was happening prior (not because there's anything to hide). My personal PM conversations with Hugo and 2 PMs from Bloo sending me advice along with him were viewed (hey, one of the PMs was even that they were going to stay out of the blunder series, but that doesn't seem to matter). Neither of these conversations, or any conversation in my inbox, showed any evidence whatsoever of "leaking" or foul play, yet suspicions still stand.
- Their accounts were also accessed without consent and nothing was found. Justification was provided but you can understand why this is touchy.
- Several screenshots of the original documents revisions dating to various dates around the OST rounds and were shown, albeit without the content of the document because as stated before, it contained a lot of personal inside jokes and the like between my friend and I that I wasn't comfortable showing to others, which is why I made a new one to display. They weren't acceptable for reasons I can understand.
- I sent the TDs various pieces of information they asked for and requested it stay private. Yet a few days later, I am told there has been more than one person outside of the TDs making fun of something from a team I showed, which obviously means the information was leaked outside of the intended parties by someone within the circle of people I initially showed.
As you can imagine due to these things, I have a hard time trusting anything on here anymore, something that extended to even the directors of tournaments because of some of the things I mentioned above. Not to discredit them, they were presented with a very difficult situation and did everything in their power to approach it professionally. There's likely more things I'm forgetting to mention, but any defense I gave was either never enough or aroused unintended suspicion for one reason or another, like with the pastebin situation with CBB's team. There was a point where I almost opened up to giving the access, but that was shot right back down after more things occurred that further broke down any trust I had. I no longer wanted to continue bending over backwards trying to prove any of my authenticity because it wasn't doing anything bar causing frustration. After all, doubt was being placed on me, so I grew the same doubt and distrust on everyone else, enough that I didn't mind the disqualification if it meant I didn't have to compromise my beliefs/stance on the situation. That's more important to me than a trophy.
Refusing to give access is entirely my decision, but the decision to deny access was one duly influenced by various factors and people involved in the situation that made me feel a certain way, not one completely influenced by stubbornness or intention to hide something. If certain things were handled a bit differently, there's a chance I'd have been more open to the option., but definitely don't paint it out as if I am the sole one at fault for the feelings I developed that made me hesitant to give people who distrust me and that I don't know access to go through every piece of a personal, private document with a real life friend of mine after everything that's happened.
Closing words,
mister 9 Dragon Wall, sorry you had to get dragged into this drama. I think I speak for us both when I say we didn't expect a Pokemon tournament to result in what it did. Thanks for getting me to join this tournament in the first place and for taking the time to help me out with the situation and during the early rounds until you got too busy. The fact that you were willing to meet people from this website at our school and do all sorts of other things to prove I exist says a lot. You played the biggest role in helping me learn and get into Pokemon and are the best player I know, but never again will I join a tournament you mention :P
Bloo, thanks for the advice during the later rounds. For the person who helped me the least, you got the most flack and hate and I can't help but feel responsible for ruining your experience here. I'm sure there are still skeptics and narrow minded ones out there who will continue to think I am you, but if anything that speaks volumes about how powerful people think you are and what you're capable of, or maybe I should feel proud that people think I'm so good that I have to be you. Girls > boys at this game and I'll keep that legacy of yours alive in my future here. Take it easy.
Hugo, like the others, I am sorry for getting you involved in drama even if you say you're happy it happened. I learned so much from you throughout the tournament and it really helped me improve. You never had to help me but you did and I'm sorry all the time you spent doing so resulted in what it did. You're a great person and I enjoyed our interactions and hope we can stay in contact after all of this is behind us as long as the conversations aren't about how to cover Landorus-I on our teams. I will try to rep the torch you've passed onto me as well as I can.
To everyone else, don't be so quick to judge. You are free to have your opinions but there is certainly no reason to turn into a pack of animals and do everything in your power to attack and taint the names of others with baseless assumptions/unfounded rumors. There is a reason no real evidence of people helping me cheat was found even after rummaging through messages and it's because no one ever did as much as that will fall on deaf ears. There's a reason I was able to prove I am a real person separate from my alts Bloo and Hugo to the TDs: because I am one unlike what people were so quick to assume. Don't go around making things up and spreading it to defame others when it's undeserved. If you want someone to pick on, let it be me. You dudes got what you wanted and this isn't the last you've seen of me and I'll be around plenty to take on any bashing people want to relieve themselves of. If you got nothing out of that, remember that we are all humans here.
Blessings to the new bracket and maybe I'll see you guys in the world cup, I have a few people I would love to knock down a peg.