let's also hear what Neo has to say
It's funny how Pit twisted everything around, especially the attempt to shift the situation with Reb from a sick head to a healthy one. Good job, Petya! – you'll go far.
I initially didn't want to air all the dirty laundry, writing only what was relevant to the further tournament situation. Now I have to defend myself.
I'll just say that I was very disappointed in Pit as a person first and foremost, and as a Heroes player second. What many people wrote here about the motives of the judging and Pit regarding the situation with Reb, I somehow didn't want to believe at first. But in light of what happened, I think people were right.
BK played against Reb – filed a complaint with Sticky. They tell him – let's wait, see what happens next, and you go to the lower bracket. Well, one could have agreed, if the goal was to gather more solid evidence to later justify the judges' decision (which includes Pit).
And what do we see next?
Reb plays against Yarazap, wins. And did anyone check the saves? – No!!
Pit only now asks Reb to upload them – what if there's something interesting there? – very appropriate, maybe you'll evaluate them yourself?
And then comes Reb's next game against Pit. Pit lost, as he said, due to the generator (just like I did to him). Allegedly filed no complaints (although when I watched those saves and wrote to him in ICQ – Pyotr somehow didn't mention the lack of complaints).
But then the judges decide, enough of Reb "cheating"! Now Pit is the injured party!
Or are the saves with pandoras and the absence of any complaint from Pit exactly what the judges decided to wait for, refusing to investigate BK's case and not even analyzing the saves of Reb's game against Yarazap?
No, well, I'm curious, who is this super-Hunter, who first analyzed Reb's saves against Pit, without the latter's request? Reb, maybe you did it yourself? – because otherwise it all looks kind of strange.
The subjectivity of applying referee authority is obvious. Since no more substantial arguments were added, they should have waited further and allowed Reb to play against me, but why they didn't do this – everyone already understands – to push Pit further in the upper bracket.
Pit kept quiet to appear innocent and fluffy, as was written here on the forum, shifting all objections of the dissatisfied onto the vague collective decision of the judges, which was made by a vote of Sticky and another bourgeois judge, and the Chinese judge didn't even participate in it, because he wasn't online at that moment!
But there was no time – a decision had to be made urgently!
And they also neatly dragged me into the situation. And now Pit has completely twisted even my motives regarding Reb. Thank you, Pyotr – you are falling lower and lower in my eyes, and your goal, to achieve victory at any cost, and most importantly through the hands of others – becomes clearer and clearer. But you can't deceive people for long.
After all, if you claim that Reb might have had maphack all along, then it didn't affect the outcome of his games against you, so why did you accept Sticky's decision about your advancement in the upper bracket? (this is equivalent to me, after your post about withdrawing, going to play with Maretti, since it happened that you suddenly lost the desire to play in the tournament). After all, if you accept a technical win in a match you lost without any complaint, then the motives for banning Reb specifically in that round become more than obvious!
And only when I told you this – did your conscience wake up (or did the truth dawn on you?) and you realized that even if you reached the final, you couldn't achieve a clean victory in the tournament, so you started your shamanic dances in the form of withdrawal?
Further, everything is clear to me. Petya pretends to be a little boy who needs to be led by the hand, but in reality, manipulating the leader, he is now offended by everyone and everything and will return to the tournament only for the sake of the spectators, thus once again whitewashing his thirst for victory. Well, well.
As for me, I told you and Sticky right away: it would have been more beneficial for me to play against Reb in that round than against you.
But I gave an objective assessment of the saves, as the judges asked me, and believed the whole thing was for the sake of fairness, but after reading the topic with the inhabitants' statements later (I haven't read the HeroesWorld forum for about 2 years), I began to understand that the goal was different.
Regarding the extra restart. I was streaming my game, and the viewers were shocked by the generations in the 2nd game and especially the last one, where right at the castle exit there was a stack of genies, but fortunately you could bypass it with a hook. And then arrows after arrows, 20 archers from the start and no money to build horses when I opened the accessible territory. I went for a rush against you, where I also had to fight a stack of magogs and elves, but the secondary hero wasn't captured. A generator victory, pure and simple. I asked for a mutual restart on turn 111, and also, explaining the situation, wanting only one thing – to play a playable layout in a normal game – I asked for an extra restart. You are certainly not obliged to give it, and I have no right to demand it (and I didn't demand it) – that's for sure, and after what you started writing to me about it in ICQ – I wouldn't have taken it as a gift anyway, because I understood your values in this tournament. Maybe my opinion is subjective, as I expected what I myself do in all tournaments, but this is an ethical question and does not concern the tournament rules or the result of our round.
As for Wulma, who couldn't finish the decisive game due to real-life time issues (that's what Sticky told me) and for the same reason he didn't play BK in the lower bracket – what kind of spin are you trying to put on that? – if you have a strong desire to say something nasty about me, you don't need to pick your nose with your eyes closed, especially in someone else's place. The fact that you brought all this to the forum – oh, it doesn't do you any favors.
And don't you dare, Pyotr, be happy about my conscience. You take care of your own.
P.S.: I feel sick from all this and from what's written above, but the truth isn't always pleasant.