I really find myself shaking my head reading some of these posts... What kind of evidence would it take for you guys to accept that Higurashi cheated? Short of her straight up admitting it? Basically you have to decide between the following two narratives:
A series of
hair-raisingly unprofessional behavior by Higurashi in her function as admin (see bripod's first three points), coinciding with
extremely suspicious behavior in Aether's vault doc, two perfect rounds by them and some highly unorthodox deck choices following a round that must have been very frustrating for Team Aether (4 or 5 RNG losses)
OR
Vault - Mind Gates.
You simply cannot get stronger evidence than what exists.
If I had wanted to cheat, I naturally wouldn't do it through board access changes since they log in the admin log, and if I would've had to, I would've purged the admin log. I would've used a VPN or proxy when logging on to a different account to access boards, and it wouldn't be The Oracle since Admins have the password to that (which is why I used it to see what boards it had gained access to).
Yes Higurashi, if you had actually cheated it would have been the perfect crime... I do not think that you are a criminal genius, just smart enough to have some actual rudimentary understanding how the Time/Aether matchup works. As for what you did, it would have taken another admin to investigate it and antiaverage had been inactive for weeks.
Thirdly I would've made sure we had done well in round 2 as well (at least 4-2) since this bug occurred before round 2
No motive during round 2, War was still going fine for Aether until then.
I would've changed several decks if I had prior knowledge (Guardtal to Vamptal due to no RoF, changes to RoL/Hopes, Psiontal vs Earth, rushier Grabbows, Chargetal vs Light, bigger Sancstall and so on). And lastly I wouldn't repeatedly go for 6-0 since it's suspicious.
You would not have gone back to back 6-0 to reduce suspicion, but you would have used even harder counters than what you played in round 3 & 4. Uh-huh.
Also why even worry about suspicion, even with the massive amounts of additional evidence that WMs have dug up, lots of people are still willing to give you the benefit of doubt...
Uhh... okay, I didn't want to get involved but would you really make Higs resign? Banning from all PvP events would be more suitable than making her resign, but I'm not even sure about that one. Adminship can only be abused in War imo.
Yes, this seems like a good time as any to have a discussion about whether it is a wise idea to have a cheater as the admin of a gaming community. Pros & cons anyone?
