Strangely enough, one of the best ways to get peoples attention is by giving them something to complain about.
If you want help with something, claim you are an expert and say something obviously wrong and people will flood in to inflate their egos, not to help you, but to prove you wrong, unknowing to them that they are actually helping you.
Rafka knowingly and willingly got a new player to register on TUS with the purpose of abusing the system, even his own 'code of revenge' which before meant he would only play 1 set of games with anybody in a season. He does not even try to hide it.
My goal is to prevent this from ever happening again, if a new player has just registered to TUS or has no previous games played against other players they should have a game cap of 3 games. I say 3 games because 2 games is standard 1 pick each and a 3rd upon agreement.
I think it's fine to play huge sets of games with players, one example are 2 top ropers like oldsock and blitzed who regularly play huge sets of games, also Xrayez and VoK are doing it a lot recently as well, but those are all highly experienced players and not trying to abuse the system, they simply want high level matches with each other and enjoy it.
In the spirit of competition and actually earning 1st place, you cannot justify proving you are the best player by manipulating a new innocent player into signing up with the express purpose of using them to fast track a favourable position in a league, it is just immoral, especially during the last day of a season.
Edit - I just want to clarify, this is nothing personal against Rafka, I never even knew who he was until a month ago when I started streaming CWT games.
What happened in the last few days show that Rafka is VERY serious about winning, and will do anything within the rules to win, he found a loophole and abused it, and although it is unfair in the sense it is bad sportsmanship and not conforming to the normal standards of competition in this game, it was 100% legal according to the rules/system in place at the time.
We have only ourselves to blame for letting this happen, we can hope to teach Rafka why it was such a bad thing, and try to better educate new players on sportsmanship in the community.
My personal thoughts is that Rafka is a great Intermediate player, one of the best it seems, so it comes as a special shock to me why a top player would even do something like this. He had 3 days to make 19 points but he lost 72 points to cgar, the game chat shows Rafka made a mistake at the end:
[NNN`Rafka] 1 stupid mistake
[cgar] WOOOOOOP!!!!
[NNN`Rafka] when I had practicly
[cgar] omg omg omg
[NNN`Rafka] win game
My instinct tells me that after Rafka lost to cgar he felt negative with himself, and realizing there were only 2 days left in the season and also being 91 points behind 1st place, he became desperate and decided his only way to win the season was to win a lot of games and make sure he didn't lose. From there he decided to convince an innocent noob to sign up to the league, someone that had no chance to beat such an experienced player and secure 14 easy victories.
How can I make such accusations? Based on the timeline of what happened and Rafka's own words and actions as shown in these conversations:
^^ This proves Rafka is well aware of the season ending and is keeping a close eye on the deadline, as well as his desire to achieve 1st place. Don't worry I did not hack them, Albus posted this image on CWT website as you can see in the following image, as well as further confirmation by Rafka himself of his desperation to beat Albus:
And to top it off, more conversations taken from the ONL website:
That last message also seems to possibly contradict his actions. He claims TUS to be a less important league with a less fair ranking system compared to ONL, yet resorts to the most desperate thing i've ever seen anyone in this League do to win it.
Either Rafka feels TUS is so important he would do anything to win.
Or Rafka feels TUS is of such little importance he doesn't care about being cheap and abusing the system to win.
Either way, it's a slap in the face to TUS, and other players who play fairly.