Banning 101st from getting to A out of fear that they'll throw their games to lynx is silly. Just ban game-throwers if it becomes an issue.
Also voicing my support for the punishments made; I'd love to tell half my team what to pick every game but it doesn't measure a spread of slots that way. You'd just largely be testing the best player in each clan generally, which is pointless. It's a terrible clan mechanic to encourage (the dynamic that you can succeed more if you listen to X better/comparable player to assist with move ideas; creates pressure by some players to try to intervene vs many players fighting back against this dynamic; just wholly unhealthy in every regard) and really demeans the individual nature of the various games and turns them into games by committee.
Want it noted that I say this despite loving farah and wanting to play vs him in A :(
I despise the idea that a boot can cost a game/tournament/team etc. and I've come forward saying that if I had a teammate that was about to boot and I didn't have the vacations to stall for time to let them replace for AI, and I had their password, I'd 100% set a vacation for them. I think it would have been outrageous for punishment to be inflicted on max or zbd for the cl10 stuff and am glad nothing happened there, although I even wonder if warnings were necessary. The people that had game punishments levied against them did not just do that and fundamentally altered what is expected out of limited slots via providing additional advice/assistance in settings where it ought not be seen as appropriate and the team setting provided through cl competition.
Going forward, I don't think it's an unreasonable suggestion to have it such that players can submit their login info to the cl ethics committee or some other 3rd party through something like cryptobin prior to cl starting
https://cryptobin.co/f7y651s5From there, they can say what the word to encode their cryptobin is to their teammates (they would not share the link if they did not wish to with their teammates; they'd just say the encoding word to teammates, and the link to the ethics committee/other reasonable third party). If a boot looks like it would be an issue, someone in the ethics committee can be given this password by a teammate and take a vacation -- should it be available -- for the player.
While I personally think the whole rigmarole of this is unnecessary and have no problems with what max/zbd did, I feel this solves just about every concern those who DO have issues with vacations during a tournament
Edited 11/25/2018 00:30:42