Posts from Appeals Committee. Disputed situations in tournaments. Auto-translated

Rule:
No one, except the judge/tournament organizer or a member of the Arbitration Committee, is allowed to open save files of an unfinished game, and only in the event of a controversial situation in the game. If, at the moment a controversial situation arises that requires opening save files, there is no communication with the judge/organizer/Arbitration Committee, the game must be interrupted and saved by both participants until contact with the judges is established.

Message from Oelm:
Well, for starters... This rule does not state that save files cannot be loaded during a pause. At least, because the second sentence indirectly contains an explanation of the content - why would anyone need to "load a save" in a controversial situation. Naturally, the judge will open the save from both sides, possibly the map, and based on this, make a decision in the controversial situation. I do not see here any indication that loading a save in single-player is impossible.

Message from NumOne:
Well, well, now you're waiting for something from the Arbitration Committee, sitting back instead of defending yourself when there was a reason and opportunity to do so.

We don't have any rules limiting when one can or cannot defend themselves. And there is always time for a sober assessment of the situation, allowing for defense and accusation.

Pff... you clearly don't know what's going on. During the stream, they were discussing this with the player in question (there are logs from their ICQ conversation), and the player directly asked him to send those save files (the ones seen when loading Oelm's saves). If Oelm had immediately slapped himself on the forehead, saying, "Oh, how awkward," and instantly sent them, and if nothing suspicious had been found, the issue would have resolved itself with a 90% probability. But (!) he went offline (his health suddenly deteriorated), which cast a specific shadow on him. And he only reappeared after a significant amount of time. Any honest player would never allow themselves to do that, or they would be ashamed and burn with shame, and their excuses would sound completely different.

This is an example of how investigations should be more transparent (and by the way, if you assign a black list label to any player, which serves as an indicator for everyone, then you must make absolutely all decisions with an open discussion of the circumstances!)
Even criminal cases are available online for users.

I read that Oelm "supposedly left," but isn't that proof of guilt?< And he doesn't have to react immediately. I'm not defending him; I'm looking at it from a legal perspective.

To clarify, I trust and believe you more than him, but this only confirms my statement that I currently see (in the absence of detailed analysis) bias.

In general, certain changes in the approach to defining fair and unfair gameplay should occur in the near future. Fortunately, corrupted save files have been used consistently for a long time, and, as I believe, it will be necessary to somehow regulate the use of trainers and all the abuses that may result from them.

Details:
Oelm was caught red-handed loading saves without an opponent present during a turn delay. This happened in a tournament match against "Twaryna" in the "Only HL" format.

P.S. Use password-protected saves, everyone, and sleep soundly!

And what did I say? There are two people I KNOW for sure are cheating.
One of them, Oelma, thankfully, was caught.
Now we just need to punish the other one...

As for the corrupted saves, Num, that's not a definitive solution – it's still possible to cheat, it's just not something everyone can do. For example, I think Britvochka could figure it out.

And what did I say? There are two people I KNOW for sure are cheating... For example, Britvochka...

Details:
Oelm was caught red-handed loading saves without his opponent present during a paused game. And I also learned from him that he considers this behavior acceptable and has always done it and will continue to do it "with the opponent's consent" (his words), meaning that loading saves from a paused game is perfectly normal.

Of course, they were playing without password-protected saves.
As a result, we have documented evidence of saves being loaded before the game was finished.

Kilgore, you'll end up toothless and without a kidney.

I don't think Indra is a blatant cheater; I won’t rule out the possibility that this is his first time doing it.

Didn't understand the question, are you suggesting opening something in parallel?

In general, with postponed games, they always do this. Simply because, for example, in the later stages, you need to keep a huge amount of information in your head (I don’t mean pathetic balance-panic, of course), sometimes chains are calculated cell by cell, and there is a plan for the game three or four days ahead, at least among good players, and if there is also time pressure...

Pete's case seems to be some kind of major exception.

Whether it's single player or multiplayer doesn't matter much. After all, can't a hidden map hacker secretly peek at the map anyway?

P.S. Maybe there is a different ethic on blitz controls, but such matches are usually not postponed.