Cheater unbanned and playing at Worlds?
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Bigbowlr1037
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Stupid decision. But at the same time hes gonna be watched like a hawk. All his opponents should be smart enough to catch him and if he does cheat again he will be caught and I doubt hell be able to play pokemon competitively again.
DanthePokeMan
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So here's what I was told...he was banned for a year, but wrote a letter to Pokemon and they took away his ban. I wholeheartedly agree that this is an outrage. I guess Pokemon condones cheating now.
Bigbowlr1037
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He lost round 1 it appears.
Makes you wonder what sob story he told them.
Hmm. Sue on what grounds? I was under the impression it was their club so their rules
Not libel when it is true!
This really is a sad outcome for P!P. The message it sends (and heck the message no doing anything about another player who was on video mana weaving, and having full knowledge what he was doing) is a poor one. It is basically saying, yeah go ahead and cheat if we like you. But if you are like that Newman kid, we will ban hammer you into oblivion.
It also seems to indicate that actually cheating in the course of play isn't as bad as playing as someone else at a Pre-Release. Past National Champions stay banned for something relatively trivial, albeit it against the rules and stupid. While this guy get to play.
@ the lawsuit, he did not have one. There is video evidence that he cheated, so that rules out slander, defamation, and libel because it was true.
There is literally not a single line of reasoning that P!P could tell us that makes unbanning him OK.
Curtis started at 0-3 so at least he won't be hanging around in the Top Cut.
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That doesn't matter. He shouldn't be there, period.
It also seems to indicate that actually cheating in the course of play isn't as bad as playing as someone else at a Pre-Release. Past National Champions stay banned for something relatively trivial, albeit it against the rules and stupid. While this guy get to play.
@ the lawsuit, he did not have one. There is video evidence that he cheated, so that rules out slander, defamation, and libel because it was true.
There is literally not a single line of reasoning that P!P could tell us that makes unbanning him OK.
Curtis started at 0-3 so at least he won't be hanging around in the Top Cut.
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That doesn't matter. He shouldn't be there, period.
Bigbowlr1037
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His lawsuit could be that he never gave anyone permission to film him. Since they never had permission the aforementioned recording of his cheating may not be admissable as evidence against him.
I have a hard time believing that. It is common knowledge at all the events I've been to or seen streamed that you can request not to be on stream, and the organizers always ask if they want to be on stream.
We will never know why they did this. TPCI won't say. And do you think he would tell the truth?
Swordfish1989
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Is that the guy that did a terrible shuffle at Canadian nats after looking through his deck mid-shuffle?
SebastianS
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Hes 0/3 start pretty much shows his level of skill.
But funny that they reverted it, but shows how lame tcpi is.
What kinda judge overturns their decisions with blatant evidence.
But funny that they reverted it, but shows how lame tcpi is.
What kinda judge overturns their decisions with blatant evidence.
Charranitar
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I think it's because of a judging issue. Curtis asked a judge if he should shuffle his deck further, after it was brought to the staffs attention and the judges told him he didn't. I'm sure Curtis knew exactly what he was doing but it's hard to ban someone when they follow what pokemon's judges tell them is okay.
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