By now most know of the "loop hole" that allows a player to attack (be it in a nuclear or escalating game) and not receive a spoil by intentionally timing out their turn. We are well aware that there are some on this site that think this sort of
cheap tactic is fine, if it can be passed off as a loophole in the rules. It doesn't matter how you look at it, it's bollocks. If everyone followed the same cheap tactic, then every escalating game would reach round 4 then become a No Spoils game, whilst the remaining turns all timed out. At least until one team got a stranglehold, then the losing cowards would start to cash, in a desperate attempt to claw the game back.
We were under the impression that most top tier clans on this site would share the same point of view. When playing a normal war it can easily be worked into the pre-war negotiations. But we never expected to run into this in the League Finals.
Agents of Chaos are of the opinion that two wrongs don't make a right, so won't be using the same cowardly tactic. The problem there though, is that it becomes clear that any clan that wishes to play this game in the true spirit (with honour) is at a clear disadvantage in a competition that allows another clan to cheat (be it through a legal loophole or not). The question now is does IA (as a whole) condone or condemn the actions of JBoy and 300 Spartans? We know that you are under no obligation to respond to us, but hope that IA is honorable enough to tell us their intentions and what matter of tactics we have to look forward to for the rest of the match.
Details of the incidence are as follows:
[spoiler=Incident]IA had already deliberately 'Timed out' in one Game
Game 9291368, then a few hours later one of our members had the same opportunity to benefit from this cheap tactic, Game
Game 9289606. After deliberating for best part of the hour, he decided to do the honourable thing and finish his turn. We were sure to let IA know that we had noted their "mistake" and moved on.
They have now done it a second and then a third time in Game
Game 9291365. In this game, we decided we didn't want to be cashing first, so deliberately had Hypo not do an attack. Namor then had a 4-1 attack fail, so missed a card anyway. JBoy also decides he doesn't want a card, however, he takes 2 spots, a bonus and then allows the clock to count down. Justcallmestupid repeated the cheat.
AoC reminded IA leader Lokisgal of her stance on this tactic;
Lokisgal (from a thread discussing the possible abuse with timing out in Nuclear Spoils in the CLA) wrote:boo on the nukes to much room for abuse.
... unfortunately she had no joy in trying to convince her clan, that it's poor form. We proposed everyone miss a turn or time out, until it got back round to JBoy, but they refused (not until after we had missed one turn though).[/spoiler]
It's a shame that they had to resort to these cheap tactics, because they have been playing well in a lot of games and stood a good chance of winning this without cheating.
AOC considers use of this exploit to be cheating. We are likely to state that we want opponents to sign up to not using it ahead of all future challenges in which we partake. Our participation in future events is likely to be dependent on it. We want to play this game the way it's meant to be played, we hope that most people would see it that way.
This is posted on behalf of all of the Agents of Chaos and is our collective view.
Edit: Fixed a lost game link.
Just like how Norway demolished the dreaded Equatorial Guinea by 1-0 last night. They toyed with them up until the 87th minute before scoring the decisive goal. That's how we will toy with The Assissans in this challenge
Everyone that voted for KoRT and TSM to make the finals are putting the jinx on us, by voting our victory. We already have a number of Agents, whose dice engines aren't firing on all cylinders.
You mean "the legendary AoC dice" that weren't as good as the IA dice, in our only 2 encounters? 
