TheShape and Bam-bam [noted]

[reckedracing]

Accused:
TheShape
Bam-Bam

The accused are suspected of:

Being Multis
Conducting Secret Diplomacy

Game number(s):

Game 3150016

Comments:

2008-08-29 15:18:48 - Scott-Land: was that coordinated?
2008-08-29 15:18:48 - Phlaim: wow that looks like multi

2008-08-29 15:21:24 - msubryan: why lose 17 armies to get a trade in worth 4?
2008-08-29 15:22:08 - TheShape: that wasn't the plan
2008-08-29 15:22:56 - msubryan: ok? what exactly was the plan...

2008-08-29 15:23:05 - Scott-Land: red goes from nw to greenland, hits iceland all the way to ukraine the turn before
2008-08-29 15:23:43 - Scott-Land: conventiently first to cash at 4 to time it perfectly with a 16 auto in sa from another player?

2008-08-29 15:30:25 - Phlaim: pink, this was wasn't just something that didn't go someones way

[Frop]

They've only played one game together. No chance, Lance.

[Gibbo123]

You'd be thick to be a multi and spend so much on 2 premiums, risking getting caught. And plsu there too big ranks, normally multis have one big rank and one small

[Scott-Land]

2008-08-29 15:18:48 - Scott-Land: was that coordinated?
2008-08-29 15:18:48 - Phlaim: wow that looks like multi

Seems as Phlaim and I thought the same thing at the same time. Being in the game and seeing it, it looked extremely suspicious -coordinated. Bam had a big stack in NW Territory, went through some 1s, 2, and a 3 to park in Ukraine the turn before. There wasn't much aggression in SA betreen teal (msubryan) and pink ( TheShape)- just building stacks there.

You can credit Bam's insight by foreseeing trouble and setting up the kill- only problem it was teal ( private) that was the lower ranked of the two players. TheShape was a major- I certainly wouldn't had expected the higher rank to noob up a stack of 16. If it were the other way around and pink's only other terr was Ural- I wouldn't had questioned the play. Setting up the low rank to noob it up in a bonus is one thing. But for Bam, to think Shape would hit MSU instead of vice versa was the strangest part.

I've played enough to realize when a play is being coordinated- most of the time I just chalk it up to poor play or suicides and even both. It was definitely an odd play but again that was TheShape's first freestyle game let alone escalating. Mostly a flat rate player where those types of plays are seen quite often.

Bam's trek to Ukraine could had been a coincidence or jockeying for position since he only had one large front- perhaps it was insightful and perhaps too good of a play that got everyone questioning it.

Frustrating ReckedR but nothing concrete to drag their names through the mud.

[king achilles]

They may have their own strategy and may have took some risk in accomplishing it. Regardless, this is Bam-Bam and TheShape's first game together so far and we would need more games of suspicious plays from the same players pointing to a secret alliance between them to merit a block.