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    Re: Cheating or clever use of the rules?

    I am going to say that even testing a 1cc spell against a chalice at 1 is shady and deserves a game warning. I know that it is a players own responsibility to ensure their own triggers are occuring but that is just moral gray area between cheating and playing to win. I would hope that everyone who plays this game has the morals to play by the rules and has fun doing so.
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    Sad times indeed when I am the voice of reason. This is not a Bertoncini situation, where many incidents were documented by multiple players over years of play. We have one unconfirmed act, that it is still not 100% a cheating situation. With no coroboration, save for a few vague comments on being over competitive. Cheating is fucking serious in this game. And so are accusations of such. It is extremely unfair for anyone to catch that label without some significant proof.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Parcher View Post
    Sad times indeed when I am the voice of reason. This is not a Bertoncini situation, where many incidents were documented by multiple players over years of play. We have one unconfirmed act, that it is still not 100% a cheating situation. With no coroboration, save for a few vague comments on being over competitive. Cheating is fucking serious in this game. And so are accusations of such. It is extremely unfair for anyone to catch that label without some significant proof.
    Thanks Parcher, this needed to be said.

    Quote Originally Posted by apple713
    Stuff like this shouldn't be happening. The through process behind it is ...."if i can miss the trigger without my opponent catching on I can gain advantage. When he catches it theres no penalty for me.

    I feel like if there were harsher penalties people wouldn't be tempted to manipulate the rules.
    There are harsher penalties. Your example is textbook cheating:
    Quote Originally Posted by Infraction Procedure Guide
    4.8. Unsporting Conduct — Cheating
    Penalty Disqualification

    Definition
    A person breaks a rule defined by the tournament documents, lies to a tournament official, or notices an offense
    committed in his or her (or a teammate's) match and does not call attention to it.

    Additionally, the offense must meet the following criteria for it to be considered Cheating:

    The player must be attempting to gain advantage from his or her action.
    • The player must be aware that he or she is doing something illegal.


    If all criteria are not met, the offense is not Cheating and should be handled by a different infraction. Cheating will
    often appear on the surface as a Game Play Error or Tournament Error, and must be investigated by the judge to
    make a determination of intent and awareness.
    Examples
    A. A player alters the results of a match after the match is over.
    B. A player lies to a tournament official about what happened in a game to make his case stronger.
    C. A player allows her opponent to put a creature into the graveyard even though the creature has not been
    dealt lethal damage.
    D. A player notices that his opponent resolved only half of the triggered ability of Sword of Feast and Famine
    and decides not to call attention to the error.
    E. A player peeks at another player’s picks during the draft.
    F. A player, after seeing his opponent mana weave and randomize insufficiently, pile shuffles to undo the
    weave instead of calling a judge.
    G. A player adds cards to his Sealed Deck pool.
    H. A player realizes he has accidentally drawn an extra card, then fails to call a judge in order to avoid a
    penalty.
    He is intentionally missing a trigger to gain an advantage from it, that is cheating plain and simple. He should just let the trigger resolve and just target you with the spell. An investigation should have occurred.

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    Pretty obviously cheating and if the same judge came back to the table I would expect a game loss. Allowing the Crop Rotation to resolve is just a wuss move from the judge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meekrab View Post
    Pretty obviously cheating and if the same judge came back to the table I would expect a game loss. Allowing the Crop Rotation to resolve is just a wuss move from the judge.
    Yeah, that it the part that threw me off. I have both played against, and watched Rudolph play. Would I call him over competitive? No. Would I believe he could have missed the trigger for Chalice on Brainstorm? Then made a joke about it to a judge? Sure. That seems right in line with what I have seen from him. But he is a very deliberate, some would say slow, player. And after missing the Brainstorm, his playing too quickly to allow a response on the Crop again seems not only fishy rules-wise, but out of character.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TsumiBand View Post
    That's very nebulous of course, so just examine the player's actions. You can't just 'speed' your way through a part of the game, that's asinine. Can you imagine how great combat would be? "I'm thinking abooooout... maaaaybe.... hmmmmmmmm. I miiight pass the tuuuuurn, or I miiiiiiiight...." opponent: "will you just GO alre-" you: "ZOMGATTACKYOUWITHEVERYTHING" *writes your new life total down* opponent "hey wtf man i'm not at 6 you didn't give me a chance to block" you: "well too bad, I already wrote it down"
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    Of course game loss cause he intentionally didnt pass priority twice. Not so hard?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bed Decks Palyer View Post
    That's how small kids play Magic, don't you now?
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    Re: Cheating or clever use of the rules?

    Quote Originally Posted by Quasim0ff View Post
    We play vintage now
    So the playerbase of Vintage died because of old age?

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    I still remember a time when Legacy was played by adults with jobs.
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    Doesn't it come down in this and the other threat that judges are too soft?

    If rules were enforced accordingly more often instead of this wishy-washy comfort bullshit, than maybe cheating would be less rampant.

    The tournament rule change about missed triggers opened up an entire new can of worms. I'm expecting it to be altered sooner or later since it opens up alot of possibilities to cheat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barook View Post
    So the playerbase of Vintage died because of old age?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Parcher View Post
    Sad times indeed when I am the voice of reason. This is not a Bertoncini situation, where many incidents were documented by multiple players over years of play. We have one unconfirmed act, that it is still not 100% a cheating situation. With no coroboration, save for a few vague comments on being over competitive. Cheating is fucking serious in this game. And so are accusations of such. It is extremely unfair for anyone to catch that label without some significant proof.
    Indeed. And on top of that, there was a judge present, a person, tested and verified for competent knowledge of the game, who decided that a simple sanction sufficed. There's no reason to second guess that judge, post an unverified tale of the event in question, and accuse that person, with his name mentioned, of cheating. The chances that this person is an active member of this forum are slim, it's likely that this person is being tarred and feathered atm without even knowing it. THAT is immoral behaviour.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
    The chances that this person is an active member of this forum are slim, it's likely that this person is being tarred and geathered atm without even knowing it. THAT is immoral behaviour.
    I thought it was pretty common knowledge that he goes by the handle of Rock Lee here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lavafrogg View Post
    I am going to say that even testing a 1cc spell against a chalice at 1 is shady and deserves a game warning. I know that it is a players own responsibility to ensure their own triggers are occuring but that is just moral gray area between cheating and playing to win. I would hope that everyone who plays this game has the morals to play by the rules and has fun doing so.
    Nonsense. There is absolutely no rule in the books against playing into a chalice or counterbalance. For all you know, this guy is filling up his graveyard for a tarmogoyf he intends to cast later. Or he could be building up storm. And even if there is absolutely no other rational explanation than that he speculates on the stupidity/forgetfulness/sloppy play of the opponent, that is absolutely okay in my book. This is no different from the famous 'fear for all legal targets' Profane Command play in that GP top 8 a few years ago. If you can only win the game when your opponent misplays, then speculate on the misplay. A chalice trigger is HIS responsability.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julian23 View Post
    I thought it was pretty common knowledge that he goes by the handle of Rock Lee here.
    If that would be the case, the same effect could still have been achieved if the OP had mentioned 'this forum's Rock Lee' instead of the name.

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    Nonsense. There is absolutely no rule in the books against playing into a chalice or counterbalance. For all you know, this guy is filling up his graveyard for a tarmogoyf he intends to cast later. Or he could be building up storm. And even if there is absolutely no other rational explanation than that he speculates on the stupidity/forgetfulness/sloppy play of the opponent, that is absolutely okay in my book. This is no different from the famous 'fear for all legal targets' Profane Command play in that GP top 8 a few years ago. If you can only win the game when your opponent misplays, then speculate on the misplay. A chalice trigger is HIS responsability.
    100% agreed, suggesting that intentionally playing into a Chalice is cheating is absurd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davelin View Post
    100% agreed, suggesting that intentionally playing into a Chalice is cheating is absurd.
    As a MUD / Workshop player I frequently dump my voltaic keys into my own chalice for 1 to get rid of cards so I can survive under the bridge (ensnaring bridge).

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    i can understand that but his violation was intentional and intentional violations of the rules should have stricter punishments IMO. I deserved a warning for failure to maintain game state but he defiantly deserved something stronger IMO.
    Intentional is up to the judges discretion, but consistently reporting GRVs helps build the case.

    This is why if everyone just calmly calls a judge on everything that merits a GRV (assuming competitive REL) these people will get weeded out eventually. If you are just a benign but awful player you'll quickly learn to adapt or you will stop wasting your $20-40 on entry until you do. It's (correct me if I'm wrong but I have some experience with it), GRV, GRV, Game Loss for each after. The judge has the discretion to determine whether missing the trigger was "beneficial".

    E.g. round 1 vintage champs I am fucking around with Tangle Wires and other crap and forget my Mana Crypt roll. As I move into my main phase I look at the dice and am pretty certain I missed the roll. A bystander confirms with me that I in fact missed the trigger. I call a judge on myself. It's an easy situation since the possibility of taking damage is clearly to my opponents benefit. The judge using his discretion determines I acted out of stupidity and not malice. My opponent confirms he'd like me to roll for it. I bolt myself and we move on.

    If in round 5 I was acting with malice and already had 2 GRVs I'd have to think long and hard about being a cheating piece of dog shit and trying to skip my crypt roll.

    There are scores of cheaters at SCGs, there are also scores of people who actually think they can take Wasteland with Vendillion Clique. It's not my job to determine intent. So I just call a judge every time. If I get a few intentional cheaters in the early rounds and discourage them from cheating later then great. If I'm just catching awful / nervous / new players in my wake then oh well. They'll be better off for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nedleeds View Post
    Intentional is up to the judges discretion, but consistently reporting GRVs helps build the case.

    This is why if everyone just calmly calls a judge on everything that merits a GRV (assuming competitive REL) these people will get weeded out eventually. If you are just a benign but awful player you'll quickly learn to adapt or you will stop wasting your $20-40 on entry until you do. It's (correct me if I'm wrong but I have some experience with it), GRV, GRV, Game Loss for each after. The judge has the discretion to determine whether missing the trigger was "beneficial".

    E.g. round 1 vintage champs I am fucking around with Tangle Wires and other crap and forget my Mana Crypt roll. As I move into my main phase I look at the dice and am pretty certain I missed the roll. A bystander confirms with me that I in fact missed the trigger. I call a judge on myself. It's an easy situation since the possibility of taking damage is clearly to my opponents benefit. The judge using his discretion determines I acted out of stupidity and not malice. My opponent confirms he'd like me to roll for it. I bolt myself and we move on.

    If in round 5 I was acting with malice and already had 2 GRVs I'd have to think long and hard about being a cheating piece of dog shit and trying to skip my crypt roll.

    There are scores of cheaters at SCGs, there are also scores of people who actually think they can take Wasteland with Vendillion Clique. It's not my job to determine intent. So I just call a judge every time. If I get a few intentional cheaters in the early rounds and discourage them from cheating later then great. If I'm just catching awful / nervous / new players in my wake then oh well. They'll be better off for it.
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