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Where exactly in Vik's words is the nonsense? If documented facts are nonsense, then what is normal reality?

I'll disappoint you, but many good players, with whom you generally communicate normally and who directly tell you that you are wrong, all these people consider your award to be a sham, and so do I. You can only win a tournament in one way: you sit down, play everything yourself, and get your result. And if you play well and are lucky with the draws, then you have a good result, and if this result is also in a tournament with a lot of strong players, then respect is doubled. This is, of course, my vision of normal reality; you may have your own reality, and there is nothing to argue about here. But your reality concerns not only you but also other players who also contributed money to the prize pool, who played, and if they were not lucky, then they honestly lost.
You probably didn't read the rules to the end:

Fair play
The most important point: players must play fairly and respect each other.

Everything else is complete nonsense... no one is interested in your financial relationship with Redwave, that he was broke... that you jumped out of your pants trying to win... These absurd posts from Vik, who says that he would have come up with such a cunning trick... Everyone comes with some hope of winning... well, you "won," and then what?? As Leader said, only to brag to his wife or to people who don't know anything about it?
This situation is absurd in every way, that they allowed such a result... that they gave you an award on the forum... I can bet that if Pete had been on the forum at that time, such an injustice would not have happened... but with the current state of affairs, such mistakes happen... and the Creator doesn't care; he was told, and he gave the award...

In conclusion, this victory is unfair; these actions can also be equated to the actions of all cheaters who violated 1) the rule of fair play and 2) deceived other players... I see no difference. All those who try to justify it are like people with a cat in the microwave. For whom they forgot to write that you can't do this...
I think that in the next CIS tournament, few people will want to play with Lizard, or this opinion will remain with them... But Kostya has one way to fix everything (and, as I see it, it is the last, because a person's reputation hangs by a thread due to such actions)... - this is to apologize to those who played there, remove this fake award, and win it next time in a fair fight. And get real emotions of joy from the victory instead of a bunch of negativity.