Re: Magic - the Cheatering
People should be wary of everyone they play, not just for the fact that a few bad apples cheat, but also because people make play mistakes during long tournaments.
Some people make more than others. Sam Black isn't known for his play mistakes, certainly, so I don't see how that comparison is relevant. Knowing the names of people who make a lot of "play mistakes" seems prudent if you're going to attend a tournament that has a large prize pool.
We could discuss our opinions on whether or not penalties fit the crimes, but we all know how pointless that is. Making sure everyone is aware of who to be more wary against is all we really can do, unless any of us are high up in the WotC DCI employee chain.
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Played Alex in the last round of swiss, game two he wastelands me then tries to play an inkmoth and quickly pass before I notice
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Humphrey
In other words: Alex was distracted by pulling off a Fetchland-tutor so his opponent could slip in an extra land? XD
It's hilarious that the biggest serial cheater in the games history seriously complains about an opponent potential having cheated him out of the tournament.
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Lemnear
In other words: Alex was distracted by pulling off a Fetchland-tutor so his opponent could slip in an extra land? XD
It's hilarious that the biggest serial cheater in the games history seriously complains about an opponent potential having cheated him out of the tournament.
I thought Mike Long was considered to be the biggest serial cheater in the game's history.
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Lord Seth
I thought Mike Long was considered to be the biggest serial cheater in the game's history.
I thought he was just really good with the Jedi mind tricks.
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Lord Seth
I thought Mike Long was considered to be the biggest serial cheater in the game's history.
I guess up till today more stories were told about Mike than facts. It's impossible to differ fact from fiction over things that happend more than a decade ago and maybe 1-2 people witnessed in person. This is totally different from Alex, which you can google and instantly have 4+ videos at hand with him cheating ON CAMERA. The most famous story about mike was the Cadaverous-Bloom-in-his-lap while Alex has Two-Explores, draw-5-brainstorm, put-1-card-back-brainstorm and many more.
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I thought he was just really good with the Jedi mind tricks.
Well, he made opponents scoop without having a kill-condition left in his deck. That's why we, up this day, ask our opponents to show the Tendrils if he/she goes infinite ;D
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Lemnear
Well, he made opponents scoop without having a kill-condition left in his deck. That's why we, up this day, ask our opponents to show the Tendrils if he/she goes infinite ;D
And why you should always wait for your Elves opponent to reveal the Dryad Arbor when they crack a fetch naming it. :(
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Honestly don't feel the least bit of pity for Alex's opponent cheating against him. I don't like cheating at all but in this case...it made me laugh my ass off; that he complained about it publicly hoping for pity or something? That's the icing on the cake.
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The whole situation feels like the 1988 Olympic 100 meter field. Happy Ben Johnson got screwed over, but Carl Lewis was probably every bit as dirty and does not deserve to be celebrated.
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Schadenfreude, schadenfreude everywhere.
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Arsenal
I guess I don't understand why the OP is suggesting that the offender gets an auto-game loss for any infraction. That doesn't even make any sense. If the referee of a football game penalized the Atlanta Falcons for having 12 men on the field, then says "due to the defense's infraction, the Carolina Panthers WIN THE GAME", what would you think?
If it was the 5th time this afternoon that the Falcons ****ed up in the same way, I'd be happy the charade was over.
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Not Legacy-related, but one player "won" both the Standard Open and the Modern Premier IQ at SCG Worcester this weekend. Blatantly cheating: http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/com..._scg_standard/
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SCG is already at it and investigating the situation. They are holding back prizes until the situation has been resolved.
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As an armchair critic, it don't look good for Humphries.
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Are Mike Long, Bertoncini, and this guy all from NY State?
As an aside of ancillary relation to this, I continue to be amazed at how lenient the entire MtG community is with cheating.
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Julian23
SCG is already at it and investigating the situation. They are holding back prizes until the situation has been resolved.
And, if their investigation finds sufficient evidence of cheating, they will donate the money from his prizes to charity (as they did with Bertoncini). Say what you will about SCG, but that is a terrific thing to do.
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Bertrand Hustle
So obvious
When you're looking for it and you can watch it over and over, yeah. Steaming video is one of the better things that's ever happened to MTG.