NotDew. aka Pikachu banned 5 days

[Pikachu_]

Your Warcraft III username: NotDew.
Realm/Gateway: entconnect
Why are you banned: game ruining i think?
Why you should be unbanned: i was banned for 5 days for going land mines and sending a very large send on 10 and using rage. the reason that the moderator @astros banned me was because he saw my build as unviable and not a good strategy. (not ban worthy since that is his opinion) there was no ill intent with me using rage on 10 i simply thought that my teammate with hydra, golems, mutants, and upped ogres would easily hold level 10 versus there very small send. Yes i leaked all 10 bosses as that is the byproduct of going land mines, they still leaked triple what we did yet i was banned for "game ruining" for FIVE DAYS. after sending private messages to astros he told me that my warning from a different ban request in which i decreased rage 10 seconds before we won the game because my teammate was flaming me excessively and i thought it was funny is considered "trolling". he also told me that massing land mines is not a viable build and obviously a "troll" which it is not as i use the build on a regular basis. If you watch the replay you see my team in the extreme advantage over the other team so my rage on level 10 is by no means intentionally game ruining. i took a risk to try and win the game expecting my teammate (who is a good player) to hold. Being banned for 5 days because of a failed strategy and a bunch of haters talking shit in my ban request seems pretty lame. Please unban and remove astros moderator ability for hhtd games. thank you.

[Astros]

PikachuToday at 7:53 PM
lmao
i didnt care to win
i didnt lead my team
didnt make decisions when to send
just tested builds
and played the game

This would explain his decision-making this game.

[Pikachu_]

yeah take my words completely out of context. why dont you post the entire discussion where you called me a child on multiple occasions and blatantly antagonized me?

[Pikachu_]

PikachuToday at 4:53 PM
lmao
i didnt care to win
i didnt lead my team
didnt make decisions when to send
just tested builds
and played the game
ZaMaRoKToday at 4:53 PM
"i didn't care to win"
PikachuToday at 4:53 PM
so my elo showed
you can see my recent account
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ZaMaRoKToday at 4:53 PM
that should be enough evidence for me to add on your ban appeal
you admitting you don't care about winning
PikachuToday at 4:54 PM
doesnt mean i intentionally lost
i still tried
still sent with team
ZaMaRoKToday at 4:54 PM
also doesn't mean you tried to win
PikachuToday at 4:54 PM
still held
ZaMaRoKToday at 4:54 PM
which is literally what the games are about
PikachuToday at 4:54 PM
no i just didnt lead my team
i let others make decisions on when to send
and when to up king
ZaMaRoKToday at 4:54 PM
you can experiment on your own
you don't have to ruin it for someone else
PikachuToday at 4:54 PM
i never did ruin it

[Pikachu_]

just because i didn't care to win doesn't mean i intentionally lost. I made that account to test new builds, see what worked and what didnt, find some unorthodox unit combinations. i just didnt try to lead my team by making decisions on when to send or up king or anything like that so my ELO represented that because my team made calls that weren't the best most of the time. doesn't mean i was intentionally griefing every game. im a good enough player to be able to test builds out and still hold, which i did most of the time on that account, of course not every time, the games that my builds didnt work i just ended up going merc to not cause my team to lose

[Merex]

After watching,

I want to start off by saying that any form of ban against the "mine strategy" is hereby voided. We do not ban players for building specific units the same way we don't ban dota players for building specific items unless proven with intent. to throw. So that's done.

Moving forward, since this a 2v2 it is often difficult to grasp any sense of "failure to cooperate" since it's a 50/50 situation. For this case, green did not make any calls to send/not on 10 nor was there any calls to king over sending therefor that's voided.

The situation of the rage however is questionable, but given that I see no real "ill intent" behind the rage and given that the claims here match with the game (west leaking 26 which is more than half of that of the east) I will be voiding the rage. Again, communication is key and if it can't be done then you suffer the consequences. I would like to note however @Pikachu_ he did clearly state with x2 rage, he would've leaked and indeed he did.

What's left of this ban is the refusing to upgrade king past 10.refusing to heal. While I can see the rising tensions between yourself and green, that's no excuse. Especially in this situation - Your 800+ lumber could've definitely held a chance at holding as-well as healing. Most of the kings were half and under, therefor more effort should've be given.

[Pikachu_]

the x2 rage that we were communicating was on lvl 7 which he held which would have led to us potentially winning on 7

[Pikachu_]

but yeah i mean i honestly thought he would hold and wasnt really paying attention. i thought i upped king but maybe i didnt and was controlling the king to kill low ones so missed my heal i guess. dunno dont really remember the game was a while ago.

[Merex]

Nevertheless, you can see why you're banned. Not upgrading the king nor healing could've very well been part of the cause of the loss - Do you understand? Will you be more cautious in the future?

[Pikachu_]

Even if that had ill intention behind it, does not upping the king merit a 5 day ban in a game where both players are in a position to be banned equally?

[Merex]

@Pikachu_ I've already said the ban is partially voided. However, I would've appreciated an answer.

Since the above, I'll go ahead lift here and call it a learning experience on both ends.