Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-454133-20170511145944

This fascinates me, and it's also got my interest because the other player, Mike, is a local player and an awesome guy.

The player who cheated on camera at Worlds got a pretty light sentence, and they never compensated his opponent, who got cheated out of a win and this affected future placing. From what I heard at the game store last night, the cheater eventually got a loss for that round retroactively, but still ended up in the next bracket (because it was too late to adjust things), and our guy didn't because of that false loss.

Everyone was hoping the cheater would win Worlds, just to create a massive embarrassment for FFG's judges who let him off easy. :)  As I understand, the judges concluded his cheating wasn't malicious (?) and so didn't ban him etc, and just gave him a warning and a loss for that one round.

The crazy thing is, the guy who was cheated out of his win? Good sport about it. He's disappointed, but he wasn't at all livid like I'd be. I am not that good of a sport!

I haven't had the time to watch any full games yet, but I'm fascinated by the machinations at work in a tournament, and the very cool way some people react to a very dirty situation. I need to learn to be that cool-headed; instead my mind immediately goes over various ways to destroy the very soul of the offender and cause his nation (which is probably my nation BTW) eternal embarrassment, which I don't think is mentally or morally healthy. ;) 