Firstly, I would like to thank everybody for their patience with this case.
I would also like to thank all the admins, dept leaders, multi hunters and other volunteers who helped with this case.
After taking into consideration all that has been presented, we have come to the conclusion that these actions mentioned here have been influenced or swayed by past rulings in similar tournament related cases such as one where the accuser of this report was the accused:
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If a different ruling was given back then perhaps everyone would have acted differently and this could have been avoided. At the time it was thought reasonable to play using such tactic, as long as it would help you advance to the next round. Looking at it from this point it would seem that we must now re-evaluate questionable tactics that involves sabotaging games for the purpose of advancement. Mad777 has made a very good point that we must always play fairly at all times and never forget to have good sportsmanship above everything regardless if it is a tournament game or not.
For this report, we are clearing them as we believe that their actions were only swayed by my past ruling from similar cases involving tournament games. However, the pre-existing precedent that this is acceptable in tournament games is now removed. Also, multi-player tribe games are to be reviewed by the tournament team and rules regarding them and acceptable actions will be written.
From this point on, all games, no matter what it is, unless specified, shall be subject to all CC rules. This includes tournament and tribe games.
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Please don't make the mistake that just because you are in the lead of a game that doesn't mean that you are now 'untouchable' and therefore anyone who attacks you who has a far chance of winning is automatically doing something against the rules. This is still a competitive game and that everyone should never say "die" until the game is over.
