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.
---------- Post added 08/10/2013 at 04:17 PM ----------
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.
That doesn't matter. He shouldn't be there, period.