Post subject: Extremely unfair GBAtemp forums tournament
nesrocks
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What to do? So much happened and now I don't know what to do, or where to start. It's like a conspiracy and they were all set up from the beggining with set winners. It was a free nintendo DS WFC championship with the game Club House Games, to take place on 3 consecutive Sundays, and the prizes are a Wii, a DS lite, a GBASP and some other smaller stuff. I showed up for my match, but the host didn't leave the room open long enough for me to join, so only 3 people out of 5 played. I immediately started complaining, and 2 DAYS of discussion later, an admin pops up and declares the winner of the 3 players game the definitive winner, and suspends my forum account. http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=4cd9fb71c625d1256976313ba55692faact=Reg&CODE=00 Now I complained about one of the admin's EXTREMELY unfair decision, and he gagged me on the forum and are gagging me on IRC channel. I'm pissed because I wasted 2 weeks preparing for the tournament, and then I didn't even get a chance to play. The admin said that "the host can open the room at the match time and start it whenever he wants. Who didn't get to join had bad luck". This is NOT on the rules, and it makes no sense anyway. The rules only say that a player should be eliminated if he doesn't show up for the match (yes, the rules are loose like that, it doesn't even especify where to show up, so I posted on forum and was on IRC, since 1 hour prior to the match). He said that stupid phrase after a lot of discussing between the players and absense of admins. Notice also that the host was always chosen by "oldest member on the forum". I doubt there's anything legal that can be done because it was a free international tournament, but you should know what kind of people hang around those forums. NOBODY is seeing that it was unfair to start the match without everyone of the players that showed up. And now I can't even read the forums.
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There is pretty much nothing you can do about it now, so just let it go.
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Blech, that sucks. That guy is obviously unfit to be an administrator. Blame it on not having any rules, since it enables the admin to do really whatever he wants.
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Was the tournament done by Google by any chance ;-)
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moozooh wrote:
There is pretty much nothing you can do about it now, so just let it go.
I disagree, there is one thing he can do and that is to inform people about how shitty gbatemp is, and that's what he just did. So I guess I will never use gbatemp, although I hadn't heard of it until today.
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nesrocks
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Yeah, I have been informed that some people actually saw that my arguments were valid so they set up some sort of court trial topic for fun and I don't know how is that going, but the admins are making jokes there.
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GBAtemp is a joke anyways. There are much better more real forums anyways. ^_~
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Sir VG wrote:
GBAtemp is a joke anyways. There are much better more real forums anyways. ^_~
I second that notion entirely.
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Well, they do boast 100000 members, which compared to our ~1500 (would-be 3000 if I didn't run purge once in a while) is rather impressive.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Well, they do boast 100000 members, which compared to our ~1500 (would-be 3000 if I didn't run purge once in a while) is rather impressive.
It's not the quantity, but the quality, Bisqwit. :) (As an off mention, I used to belong to a large forum. Unfortunately, they let a bunch of idiots run around (not to mention like 95% of the staff was in that category). This is why I believe size just makes things worse.)
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GBAtemp wrote:
[...]GBAtemp Forums have just reached the amount of 100,000 registered members![...]and possibly 800,000 posts before the end of this year
So...that's 8 posts per person...if they ran a run purge there'd probably be only 10,000 registered users, tbh
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The only thing that people need to know is that gbatemp's forum is shitty because of the kinds of people running it, and the quality of the regular posters' posts.
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bkDJ wrote:
The only thing that people need to know is that gbatemp's forum is shitty because of the kinds of people running it, and the quality of the regular posters' posts.
Sort of like ||board?
nesrocks
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well, i received the invitation to the tournament by mail, and everybody seemed friendly enough that I could ignore the fact that the rules were too loose. until their true irresponsible and lazy identities appeared (if that's not the case, then they chose to favor the invalid winner of my group for a specific, hidden reason, ignoring that the match was invalid and agaisnt the rules in the first place).
nesrocks
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The tournament is over, and the winner of the unfair match I was in, whitney_christine, didn't get a single prize. I can't help but have a relieving feeling of justice about that.