RootPrincess/SixjaxMajor caught smurfing in tourny - Page 43

On July 18 2011 20:52 Ipp wrote:
There is fault on both sides, just because Major has a bad past he is getting the huge PR Hit. Maybe I'm wrong but here is how I understand everything went down.

• The official post states "Anyone with a valid SEA battle.net account can participate."
  
• Major buys a SEA Account expecting to compensate himself with tournament winnings.
  
• Major doesn't get seeded, and asks why.
  
• Admin says "You are not SEA Citizen", which is in the TL Tracker but not the forum post. Expecting a person to read both the TL Tracker + Official post is a little bit much.
  
• Upset Major, decides to smurf even after the admin said he couldn't play as a "F U for making me spend ~$60 for nothing."
  

Was Major right in smurfing? No. But the mistake was on both parties in this case. In my opinion they should not of kicked him out but if he won they should have given the prize money to the account holder. It would be up to the account holder to decide if Major gets the money or not, so if it was just a random person on the internet chances are Major wouldn't get paid anyways and he cannot complain about anything.

Smurfing happens. We had an oGs player smurf one of the RQTV Opens but without explicit rules, I doubt the community would react this way. The only reason this is a "big deal" is because it is infact Major. I could understand if he didn't perform well in MLG but cut the man some slack.

On July 18 2011 21:45 Rayansaki wrote:
Although smurfing is usually seen as cheating, I feel like he was also cheated before he did that.

The tournament rules didn't warn it was citizens only and Major invested his money to get a SEA account to participate in it. I think this was handled terribly, they should've let him participate in this one tournament, and then in the next one just make the rules freakin clear so other people don't make the same mistake.

On July 18 2011 21:46 hippocritical wrote:


:/ Please tell me you had the common sense to read the entire thing before posting. He didn't pay anything to get the account, someone lent it to him, and the rules were made clear by the admin saying no you can't play in this tournament as evidenced by the chatlog. I'm sorry but it would've been impossible to miss if you had actually read the thing.

On July 18 2011 21:06 Ipp wrote:


The tournament admins disrespected him by not seeding him. They state you only need an account to play, so he gets an account then does not get seeded. I agree that Major didn't handle this properly but he was provoked.

I am assuming that chat that was screen shot was on stream, which is another disrespect from the admins; conversations should not be shown on stream, so this stuff does not happen. While he is being kind, all of his words are insulting. It is like me asking you do you know how to spell check? Do you know what that little red line under "proceded" means? Let me help you. Did I insult you directly? No, but the fact that I am asking you such a basic thing probably gets under your skin which could of been the straw that broke the camels back since the tournament already indirectly stole $60.