RE: Enzonana vs jonfilch
At the request of RoA leadership, Kris and I reviewed the situation surrounding Enzonana vs jonfilch.
As noted by Finchinator, Enzonana’s initial attempt to contact through tagging jonfilch in the RoA Team Tournaments server cannot be seen as a legitimate scheduling attempt. While it is fine if players do schedule outside of VMs and DMs, it sets a bad precedent for hosts to consider a ping in an unofficial Discord server as having the same weight as reaching out via VMs and DMs in an activity situation, especially if it was not marked as an approved scheduling method beforehand.
jonfilch posted on Enzonana’s wall on Saturday afternoon (EST), where they quickly found that they had conflicting availabilities through the deadline. After failed attempts by managers to find a time that worked for both players, the captain of Team Northeast PMed a host to ask for a double sub. The host responded late Saturday night to agree that a double sub should be called, and noted that he had already contacted Argentina about it. However, Team Argentina was not informed about the double sub until 6:02 AM GMT-5 on Sunday, about seven and a half hours later, and Team Northeast didn’t sub a player in until 9:40 AM GMT-5.
Lack of communication between players, managers, and host and significant delays in action on the last day of the round are the main reasons why this series was not completed. However, the blame is spread more or less evenly throughout all parties. Team Argentina does not have a substantial claim for activity.
We are overturning the activity decision. Because part of the blame is to lie with the host, we recommend that jonfilch vs Enzonana be extended to Saturday 11:59 PM GMT-4. If either side is not proactive about scheduling or has limited availability, they should be subbed out immediately.