My opinion regarding bans. As the coordinators stated, this forum is a fan forum, and its primary purpose is communication, not competition. Based on this, and this is my conclusion, moderators don't ban cheaters, believing that the tournament organizers should exclude cheaters, but they ban those who violate the principles of communication. In general, there is some logic to this.
From everything I've read in these discussions, there was indeed excessively aggressive behavior, resistance, disproportionate to the action. As Smoke recently wrote, "one post and that's it" - and that would have been enough. But Hacker also overreacted. Vbn acted most wisely by simply closing this topic until a better time.