Mass Suspensions and SCG

[Jeff Kruchkow]

I assume by now many of you have heard about the mass of suspensions starting 2/20/12 which includes Calosso and Edgar Flores and like 50 more people. Wizards has as of now said nothing yet but I can't help but think maybe this is all due to the Open Series making not only for more video coverage and evidence, but also simply more big tourneys with a real judging staff.

Hopefully this round of suspensions sends a message that Wizards is finally getting really serious about rules enforcement.

Anyway, any other thoughts on the suspensions?

[OurSerratedDust]

I'm a little lost. Why did Flores get suspended?

[socialite]

Linky please.

[CorpT]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dci/suspended&tablesort=7b

zhiqing cai 51765420 shanghaishi China 2012-02-20 2012-05-20 All
Edgar Flores 8208049602 Brooklyn NY United States 2012-02-20 2012-05-20 All
SIMON PERRY 6213937668 WILMINGTON NC United States 2012-02-20 2012-05-20 All
Tommaso Badiali 89387153 Viareggio Italy 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
ryan beaupre 7210524775 Unknown FL United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Matthew Breis 39666767 Canberra ACT Australia 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Kirill Buylov 62801470 Moscow Russian Federation 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Alejandro Caputi 1425587 Buenos Aires Argentina 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Maxime Choquette 61705276 varennes QC Canada 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Phu Dao 69790166 Houston TX United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Calosso fuentes 89525868 Fairfax VA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Jose Holguin 60551136 huntington park CA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Andrew Huang 59541912 Fremont CA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Jerome JACQUES 8300059174 Unknown NOR France 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Derrick Javier 89987484 Pensacola FL United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Nathan Klein 4223917418 Unknown MA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Tatsuya Kotouge 1200959231 Ebetsu-shi HK Japan 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Dominic Le 1205381956 Sugar Land TX United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Martin Lecce 89512128 Buenos Aires Argentina 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
ALBERTO LOZANO 1203784793 Granada Spain 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Kevin Luong 7208423972 Unknown CA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Mario Maddaluno 6207147118 San Giorgio a Cremano NA Italy 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Raphael Muller 78574224 Basel Switzerland 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Rishi Nijhawan 69558584 Lexington MA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
daniel ormeno 51791629 rancagua Chile 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Nikolay Peshkov 3300033550 Unknown Russian Federation 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
James Pirkey 29912822 Revere MA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Hiroyasu Sakamoto 7207247890 Unknown HK Japan 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Daniel San Pedro Herrera 68158425 Salamanca Spain 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
NATE SOULE 1300456620 MONTEREY CA United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Felipe Tapia Becerra 79113747 santiago Chile 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Michael Zdunich 9223927770 Pensacola FL United States 2012-02-20 2012-08-20 All
Lukas Baker 2214029108 Unknown CA United States 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
JARED FRAUSTO 3209510719 SAN RAFAEL CA United States 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Souichirou Furusawa 3207236930 Unknown TK Japan 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Alexander Hale 2208264018 Unknown NY United States 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
rafael peralta 69511983 montevideo Uruguay 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Daniel Sanchez 39513951 Santiago Chile 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Kyle Stults 1206706902 Anahuac TX United States 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Brett Thompson 1223831025 Parksville BC Canada 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Robert Tinsley 5208047750 Peterborough ENG Great Britain 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Andrei Zustrijnyi 4223960819 scotts valley CA United States 2012-02-20 2013-02-20 All
Cameron Contreras 49782907 Concord CA United States 2012-02-20 2013-05-20 All
Adriel Crego 59622234 Mar del plata Argentina 2012-02-20 2013-05-20 All
Di Hui Gong 51764401 Shanghai SH China 2012-02-20 2013-05-20 All
Juan Jose Ramos Padero 1201049489 Unavailable Mexico 2012-02-20 2013-05-20 All
Tuohan Yim 7223802624 Unknown CA United States 2012-02-20 2013-05-20 All
Sebastien BIS 4208150439 cagnes sur mer SUD France 2012-02-20 2013-08-20 All
Andres Camargo 92601626 Santiago Chile 2012-02-20 2013-08-20 All
Cristian A. Cespedes H. 72606151 vina del mar Chile 2012-02-20 2013-08-20 All
Maximiliano Conca 11427578 San Miguel de Tucuman Argentina 2012-02-20 2013-08-20 All
James DuBose 1214032840 Syracuse NY United States 2012-02-20 2013-08-20 All
Dominic Georgion 6208083609 Unknown QLD Australia 2012-02-20 2014-02-20 All
David Kaliski 88757272 Santiago Chile 2012-02-20 2014-02-20 All
Calle Orbelius 79153223 Stockholm Sweden 2012-02-20 2015-02-20 All
Marco Ambrosini 1204710131 Unknown Italy 2012-02-20 2017-02-20 All

[Aggro_zombies]

I'm a little lost. Why did Flores get suspended?
I've seen two explanations for it.

The first, and more common one, involves him drawing extra cards during a feature match. He's on the play, plays a land, and passes, and before he draw you can clearly see seven cards in his hand. Then he draws, plays a land, casts Stoneforge Mystic (or something), and you can clearly see he has six cards in hand.

The second explanation involves something with Bitterblossom tokens in a Legacy event. I think he ended up deliberately missing a point of life loss or something and then won the game at one life.

Nothing official has been announced about it, though.

[AriLax]

I've seen two explanations for it.

The first, and more common one, involves him drawing extra cards during a feature match. He's on the play, plays a land, and passes, and before he draw you can clearly see seven cards in his hand. Then he draws, plays a land, casts Stoneforge Mystic (or something), and you can clearly see he has six cards in hand.

The second explanation involves something with Bitterblossom tokens in a Legacy event. I think he ended up deliberately missing a point of life loss or something and then won the game at one life.

Nothing official has been announced about it, though.

The later of these two resulted in a DQ from an event, so more likely that one.

[TheAardvark]

Typically, it's a pattern of behavior that leads to suspensions like this, not one particular instance. I am sure the DQ was a significant factor, but I also believe he was under investigation for some time, and the DQ was kind of the nail in the coffin. 3 months is a little odd, though.

[Sims]

I'm more interested in hearing what happened to Calosso. That's just funny to me.

[cdr]

Typically, it's a pattern of behavior that leads to suspensions like this, not one particular instance. I am sure the DQ was a significant factor, but I also believe he was under investigation for some time, and the DQ was kind of the nail in the coffin. 3 months is a little odd, though.

That's incorrect. Any DQ goes to the investigation committee, so that's by far the most common source of suspensions. "Pattern of behavior" type suspensions are rare, though past DQs can influence decisions on suspensions. The committee would've looked at the circumstances around the DQ alone.

Edgar Flores only got 3 months, the lightest penalty the committee hands out, so they were clearly not convinced whatever he was DQed for was premeditated cheating.

[TheAardvark]

My apologies; I was given bad information.