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I'll risk expressing my opinion. Personally, as I already wrote, I don't know whether Britvotchka cheated during the game or not. But I always thought that the AC would make such a decision, and it's the right one. The move is very suspicious, and I strongly suspect that he cheated, but it's impossible to rule out the possibility that he simply has such a playing style and he really went there without knowing that there was a Utopia and accidentally stumbled upon it. As I see it, when most of the AC members who managed to distance themselves from their hatred of cheaters or those who unfairly accuse strong players also thought about this calmly, they also couldn't give a definitive answer to this question, and many of them thought that he cheated, but for them, making a decision in this case came down not to answering the question of whether he cheated or not, but to answering the question of what is worse: not to give him the "Mark of Shame" (MoS), but he is actually a cheater and will cheat again sometime, or to give him the MoS, but he is not a cheater, and this will effectively end his participation in online games and put an end to his heroic career... Here, probably, as with me, most of the AC members thought that the second option is worse, because if he is a cheater, then something can be done about it - collect some evidence and then give him the MoS with much more confidence, but if he didn't cheat, and they give him the mark... that's really terrible... As they say, let the judge fear the power of his own judgment... it's not a fact that tomorrow someone of us, who is now writing in this topic, votes in this poll, for example, in a hurry, when the timer is already ticking and the main hero hasn't even moved yet, or for some other reason, will make several illogical, rash actions as if he knows the map and finds some good artifact, and they will be discussing not Britvotchka, but him... Honestly, I also had several moments when opponents were surprised how I found them, how I knew they were there... why I attacked a strong guard without checking the number of monsters, etc. Sometimes, I myself was surprised how my opponent found me exactly in the treasure room without scouting, without reconnaissance... In general, the move is very suspicious, but giving the MoS based on just one such move is, in my opinion, too much...