The 8th stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Tournament (2007).

Well, if we’re touching on geopolitics, of course it’s a murky matter...
Here’s the thing... People created their own world, they know all its flaws, but they don’t know how to get rid of them... And who is without sin? :) They found the only way - ban those who are too smart and idle, and set everything up so there’s a scandal and others are discouraged from raising the forbidden topic. Because voicing it threatens the security of the built “shaky” state... For if there is no state and no subjects, then what kind of king are you?

That’s everything you wrote above. What’s the conclusion. They created this state for themselves. The king gathered subjects - moderators, an inquisition - and they fool the simple, trusting people. And the truly unruly ones, who are few, they’ve taken to sending to the stake under the guise of cheaters. They slapped me with the label - agitation for dishonest play methods!!! I tried different ways to handle that situation. The nice way, with pressure, with blackmail. Nothing worked. They advised me to change my nickname and lie low :) But screw them. And now who’s to blame that in me they’ve made an enemy of their kingdom? I’m not about to protect their peace and prosperity. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect the people they’re fooling there.

:D It’s all clear here. That is, I fully share the position stated above... But you don’t go into someone else’s monastery with your own charter...

Well then let them close their monastery and sit there themselves with their inquisition that can’t check anything and won’t let players check each other. But look what happens - then AmberSoler comes out of there and says how awesome the game is there and all that. They say only kings can check leaders’ results :) And the rest believe them - because those kings get rid of anyone who doesn’t quite believe them by any means necessary :)

So there’s no need to badmouth your colleagues here... I’m saying this about your words “Did the right thing” in post #402. I think you remember

They’re not my colleagues - I’m not the Pope :) And I spoke the truth. If you want to participate in tournaments and know how you were nerfed and bypassed after, and if you’re in the lead you also have to give a full account, then there’s nothing to do there!

also the old Soviet nomenklatura position “We have nothing to do on that shore!” (about the West), and why is that - the Soviet man shouldn’t look there, because we have the best of everything! :) But is that really the case? ;)

So you said that about their clearly organized tournament system. And I corrected you. They’ve spun a nice little fantasy world. But their tournament organization suffers with checks and rules.

To draw your own conclusion, you have to go everywhere yourself and see it all with your own eyes...

Yeah, I’ve been almost everywhere. Notice, I was on the League too and left, but I don’t speak ill of them even though we also didn’t see eye to eye there :)

But you’re creating an aura of a “dirty, unwashed corner” for HP - at least all your posts on this topic over the last year lean toward that conclusion. Someone who hasn’t been there could form a biased opinion based on your words, which isn’t entirely fair of you. Imho.

What do you mean only based on my words?? FireBall writes that Moscow is big and he didn’t hear about the Portal just from me. Yet he’s not going there either. VBN probably knows too. And the aura of an unwashed corner was created by the portal’s own leadership and their moderators. And I’m the one to blame again :) Well, that’s just how they do things - the King is always right. So I don’t give a damn about their kings there. You can give your king my big hello :)
They put me outside the law and I owe them nothing, just as they owe me nothing.
There they have it hanging on their worn-out bulletin board that I was promoting dishonest play methods, and I’m supposed to speak well of them here? They’re getting back what I’m capable of doing. Well, sorry, that’s all I can do :)