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LMAO. My girl dice is a boss.
Maybe to learn the tiers for the enjoyment of playing pokemon? The same reason i slowly improved my OU battling skills, going from being first rounded in every smogtour i ever entered to at one point, actually having a chance to make playoffs after i made finals one week.
It's like you're justifying ghosting here?
Tbh, the main problem is that these players who get ghosted enter too many tournaments at once and never put the time and effort to build themselves a team or to take it seriously enough to bother learning the tier. It's like, if you know you're not going to put effort in, don't bother entering. If you know you won't build or play by yourself, don't get your friends to play for you, because that's what asshats do.
Ya probably, we wrote the post a ~week ago before we finalized the ghosting definitions thread
We went with six months for consistency, since Mazar/FSK were tourbanned for six months for basically the same thing.
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a quality human being
You calling my life a joke?
Good job! Now they cant surely ghost any further since they are banned! Unless they figure out skype exists, best not tell dice
Whoa, man. Get me a band-aid; I think I just cut myself on your edge.
You said yourself the following:
You said yourself the following:
So what exactly do you want me to do?
I dont know but back when I was little and we played hide'n'seek and we caught someone cheating we usually called it quits and went our separate ways
Maybe we all need to stop acting like tournaments for a game that's basically a glorified dice(kek)roll are a big deal; this is as far as the tours will go; any further growth and this cheating shit will grow exponentially as stakes grow higher.
Thanks for your opinion; you're free to do just that. We don't need people with your unproductive defeatist attitude in this community.
Lol Asian people are mean.
destinyunknown
Banned deucer.
There are no 'stakes' because in 99% of the tournaments in this site there isn't a prize worth money. People play for prestige, if they are shamed for getting ghosted, they aren't winning anything, even less if they are actually caught like it's been happening lately. If you think this game is just a dice roll it's fine, just don't get involved in tournaments, nobody will care.
That being said, can I get my OST9 trophy?
Allright here's the only possible solution; hold the tournaments in a singular place, say New York, where you can monitor the contestants. If for some reason you aren't able to do this, there's no other solution.
Sorry for being harsh but as some may say, it be what it be. Bigger tours equal more glory for the winner(s), which equal more cheaters. With no way to act other than in retrospect, the tournament scene is kinda fucked. What's the point of tournaments even being held in the future when cheaters can gain an unfair advantage and win them, and all you can do is negate the results afterwards and even that only if the cheaters confess?
Prestige and appreciation are things people are willing to cheat for; sure they know themselves that they cheated, but with no way for the major public to find out, they'll still get a prestigious trophy next to their username.
The diceroll thing was a bad meme; sorry.
Where exactly am I trolling? I'm sorry you've been here for seven years and have yet to realize what I'm trying to say; doesnt make it less true though.
he's saying that ladder might be a better competitive environment and that people going off about how ladder sucks and tournaments are the real thing should reconsider what they're saying. nowhere did he claim that you should scrap tours and that's it. did you read his post?
That's because there can be no practical solution, since there is no way to monitor the participants. As I said, the only way to do that, would be to gather all the players in a single location, which isnt practical.
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