The most important point is that cumulo's unpause did not have any effect on the game. I believe it is important that admins can "forgive" players in some cases like this where the rules are not updated and the violation did not really have any effect on the game. A minor incident that is only worsened by the fact that Cumulo has done the same thing in the past.
Of course unpausing is not acceptable and should be prevented in any case, but sometimes it should actually be acceptable to do so. Say if Eshan paused and started manipulating to save himself. Then it would from my point of view be legitimate to unpause for Cumulo. However, Cumulo's actions cannot be defended on these grounds here since Eshan had not even started to chat or manip. So there is really no defending this.
If Cumulo's unpausing had an effect on the game, like causing Eshan to lose or something along these lines, it would be legitimate to ruin his semi final chances. But in this case I think we should allow him the chance to advance and move on to think about how we can prevent "abuse" in the future.
Redkeekee and observeandlearn are probably favorites in this one. Much depends on the early 1on1 where I see gradient losing to any of these players. Hopefully he stays alive so he can flourish :)
M42 Zs.SuperCumulo Wrecktify GEASS Fetta_ook
Fetta will most likely lose to any of these players in 1on1. Maybe he can pull something off against cumulo who suck vs orc :). In the 3-way I see Geass being teamed the most because of his relatively passive style (lots of gold + human with mass tp and good micro => teaming). Cumulo will overcommit and make a mistake thus leading to win of wrecktify.
M43 Mog[skynet] QQs AlienWareOwnZ Jaody21
Looking forward to this one. I think QQs is the underdog here. Alien is the strongest player on paper, but he will most likely be teamed by jaod and Mog. It will lead to an interesting 3-way where anyone can win. I'll go with Jaod because he is good vs elf and can thus win vs mog in last 1on1.
M44 Pinballmap SecondBreathe zTsoso Slythe
Please be nice
M45 Eshan TheTrumanShow j33. AJIKAIII
This will be a close game. I predict trumanshow or eshan exiting first. Ajikaiii will surprise in the end with his ultra tryhard mentality and win :-)
M46 Dinamo Persuade XoZ_Magadansky noexxx
Noexxx is a beast lately. If he survives through the early game vs maga he can win. If not, maga is sure to take this. Dinamo needs to step up his game to win here! Best chance for him is probably to get a sub instead of persuade on his level :-)
M47 WeAkUD Red7z7 qwest WorpeX
Qwest plays really well most of his games and then starts to make idiotic mistakes in the end. This seems to be his style in FML. On bot ladder he is a beast. Anyway, I predict that weakud or qwest will win this one. I can't see red or worpex winning vs either weakud or qwest in 1on1.
M48 b100death SteppinRazor Renaud Junkerzam
Razor can take an underdog win if he plays smart. Junker hasn't impressed this season. Renaud is playing solid, but i think he might find himself in a position where he could get teamed rather hard here with b100death out.
M49 Tleilaxu DV- NoMercy2 svedirko
This will be the worst game of this round. I don't even want to predict it, but I think it is enough to say that DV will most likely be teamed to death.
I am not home at weekends so that doesn't really work for me. Only exception is this sunday where I may be able to play a game from 20:00 CET - 23:00 CET.
yep. From what I can see thetrumanshow can't play on friday either. He only mentions saturday this week.
I am not so familiar with EST time to CET time, but I hope we can work something out with the availability we have for next week? If not I am willing to compromise
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