by danryan on Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:21 pm
First and last post on this, and not as a Team CC member. I'm frankly not surprised by a) this happening and b) the reaction. The whole thing makes me kind of sad. Blitz is a good enough player that he doesn't need this; having said that, the way he got back to conqueror was exactly through the use of low ranking players - it's almost as if the points system were begging to be exploited in this way, on certain maps.
Pelo War, Woodboro, you name the map; it's laughably easy to rise in points if you're willing to play only quads on only those maps and foe anyone who dares beat you repeatedly on them. So in this regard, I don't think you can blame anyone if that's the way they choose to enjoy the site.
I've had situations where clanmates vanished from CC for an extended period - the only "right" thing to do in those cases is sit the games and inform tournament organizers of the situation so they can find a replacement. Clearly, just blindly joining new games is abuse of the trust given by sharing the password, even if there is no deliberate intent to miss turns or lose points.
There are several examples of going above and beyond the call, in order to sit a teammate or clanmate, that I personally know about.
CC should institute an official sitting feature to facilitate both the function and the automatic notification (in-game) that a sitter is taking the turn. Will it still be open to abuse? Perhaps, but it would surely make it simpler to identify that abuse than the current system, which is basically relying on people's good nature not to exploit having someone else's password.
