b00060 Game Throwing [ka]

[Lord_Bremen]

Accused:
b00060

The accused are suspected of:
Other: Game throwing

Game number(s):
Game 24162257

This one is a lot more straightforward than the previous one, so hopefully it won't matter that screenshots are broken (but happy to provide them if necessary).

Final turn (round 20) of a no spoils tournament game. I'm (pink) well in the lead, with teal in second and red in third. I have the last turn. Yellow has the turn before me, and decides to knock out one of my stacks and break my bonus. This puts him in fourth place. I can understand him breaking the bonus to get me to fight teal, but that would only work if he was in third place (or second). From fourth place, forcing me to fight would not help him. It's especially egregious because he could have hit a smaller stack and still broken the bonus (Ashkelon instead of Gath). The only possible result of his move - again, in the very last round - was to hand the game to teal instead of me. That's deliberately throwing the game. He's already foed for similar behavior, so it would be nice to see something done this time.

[ancessus]

Do you plan on reporting every guy who attacks you?

I totally understand b00060’s move. He’s the only one with guts in this game. He was playing just before you, and he was the last one who could break your bonus and take the lead if he had good enough dice. (He could also have gone to kill some teal to do so, if the dice allowed it.) But he didn’t get them.
That was a last-hope move — I agree — but he had to do it if he wanted to win. Doing nothing who have lead to offer you the win for free

It’s clear that teal should have made that move before him to secure his win… But maybe he didn’t because he was afraid you might report him too?

P.S.: Is there a rule about spam-reporting players?

[b00060]

I had one chance to win the game, get good attacking dice and take the lead or get you down to where you would have to trim the leader and get me close as you were due 18 men. If I was suiciding I would have just kept attacking. I did the only thing I could to win the game.

[Lord_Bremen]

I had one chance to win the game, get good attacking dice and take the lead or get you down to where you would have to trim the leader and get me close as you were due 18 men. If I was suiciding I would have just kept attacking. I did the only thing I could to win the game.

That logic only works if you're in third place. You kept attacking until you were in fourth place. Once you lost third place, it turned from trying to win into suiciding and throwing the game. As I noted, you didn't go after my weakest stack, and you didn't bother trying to hit the guy actually in third (which would have given you a shot at winning).

What possible way could you have won from FOURTH place on the last turn? You think I was going to hit two separate people and knock them down below you? Don't insult my intelligence. You might have initially have been trying to win, but you kept going even after it became clear you didn't have the dice for it, costing me the game.

[king achilles]

He has been reported in the past for the same accusation and this time he has been given a 72 hour website ban for this. Feel free to rate him accordingly and to put him on your Foe list.