Merlin, no offense. In my opinion, if you were about one and a half times smaller in all three of these topics, Volgograd would have won without a doubt.

I completely agree. But I'm just a human being. And for me, the CIS tournament is always an EVENT. An event that I put my heart and soul into. And sometimes I just can't help but respond.
The same goes for Bert and others – they could and should have been simply ignored. There was no need to get involved in these arguments at all...
But sometimes it was necessary. Because Kirill Bamburov might stay silent, but Merlin won't: it's a characteristic of his persona, if you will.