Interesting situation. I have decided to step in and fix this.
Reading at the comments from objective veteran players, especially the testimony by jmdt, it's clear that kevkev was present when their match was supposed to happen but nilsieboy wasn't. For me, this is a big thing. It's not always easy to organize matches during those 3 days, and if one person doesn't show up during that one time that both agreed to be there, all future "flip-a-coin" decisions will be made
against the person who didn't show up. There has to be a "penalty" for not showing up and wasting the time of others.
What makes it interesting is that not only nilsieboy didn't apologize for not showing up, but he is even denying the whole thing happening and telling a totally different story of how he somehow was "in the other room". The problem is that it contradicts what others are saying. In other words, it's a lie.
The fact that nielsieboy used upped cards while
replacement couldn't, is pretty ridiculous. Had both used unupped cards, I
might have been happy with the result, but the fact that
team was basically penalized for nielsieboy not showing up when agreed, is something I feel I need to fix if I want to look at myself in the mirror in the morning.
ddevans is not to blame here because this situation was unique, and there isn't really any guidelines for Warmasters on how to deal with this. I should probably write some detailed guidelines so that we can avoid this kind of thing happening again.
About this screenshot:
http://d.imagehost.org/0792/water_match.jpg . I don't know how much after the desync it was taken, but looking at the screenshot, it's highly likely that team
would have won. So it is possible that team
might have been robbed of a victory they deserved, but since we can never know for certain, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that nilsieboy didn't show up when agreed, and later "modified the truth" about that. That's all the proof I need really.
Part of me would like to give team
the win, but since there is always some doubt on what really happened and what would have happened, I will give both teams a chance.
Here's what's going to happen:
- The duel will be
fought again using the same exact decks
- both players can use 6 upped cards
- any member of team
can substitute AND use those 6 upped cards (because kevkev already showed up once)
- team
uses default substitution rules
- winner cannot salvage any cards (because round 5 opponents have been posted already)
You need to finish this match before round 5 deckbuilding ends, preferably at least 24 hours before it does, to give the losing team time to discard.
Needless to say that if mysterious desyncs happen, I advice both parties to take screenshots. We will use those screenshots to pick a winner if we have to.
This matter has now been resolved. Further discussion, while allowed, will not make any difference. It's up to Elemental Gods now to decide who gets a better hand and wins. Good luck to both.
