05-01-2020, 12:38 PMcaltroit_red_flames Wrote:

05-01-2020, 12:35 PMFuzzSHL Wrote: I wasn't trying to throw them under the bus. They came out and tried to put the blame on themselves since they're the ones who did lines. Its not like nobody said anything at all and I said what I said.

Also. I know this isn't going to make things any better, but you guys dominated us Game 1. We got Game 2 from this situation. Game 3 saw both teams have actual lines. Its a clean best-of-5 now. I know that doesn't make any of this better, but...

This is an ugly situation. We all just want to move on from it. Lessons have been learned, no one from NOLA is trying to fight it. I can't make things better, I can't and won't make excuses. All I was trying to ask with my last comment was to not trash the two guys who are fucking furious that this happened.

Considering what Slash said in that quote above seems like he isn't being thrown under the bus, he's literally coming outright and saying "this is on frith and I"

This is entirely correct. Let this fall on me. I've read the response post and the guy's right, I never read the entire rulebook. Ignorance of the rules isn't an excuse, and I'm not trying to make one. You can read my post to see exactly what happened and how. I'd hope that my reputation on the site as an honest and open person proceeds me. I believe wholeheartedly in the spirit of competition and I'd never knowingly do something to undermine it.

I fucked up, there's no two ways about it. I've made my apology in public as well as an apology to Wasty in private and several other LAP players who I know on a more personal level. It's on me for not knowing the rules, it's on me for making those lines.

For what it's worth, early in the season Joe approved every line change I made and was often involved in improving the lines himself. Before the post season Slash and I were simming so much and trying so many different things constantly we didn't even bother running them by Joe. We absolutely should have, and we kept our GM in the dark. Joe would have had absolutely no reason to believe we were breaking any rules because, to that point in the season, we had submitted 100% legal lines.