The nature of this situation is a bit confusing and I can assure you that are not trying to treat you unfairly. I sympathize with your argument, although, it is not all that uncommon for teams to switch names or sub players during an eSports tournament. We are working to be more transparent with our rules for these situations and we really appreciate your feedback.
Thanks again,
Calvin
Thanks again,
Calvin
Indeed, i agree that the situation is weird. And i am not going to pretend that my argument is 100% correct and i cannot be wrong here. I can definately see where you are coming from, its just in the end i feel that my side is a little bit stronger when you look at it objectively.
I am fully aware that in Dota teams very often show up with a lot of standins, and i always swallow the loss and never complain, its a part of the variance that i am prepared for. When its trully the same team was playing.
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although, it is not all that uncommon for teams to switch names or sub players during an eSports tournament.
Thats exactly my point, if i would see anywhere that team Slayer no longer exists, disbands, renames or rebrands to "Infuse" i would have no issues with this, i would be like "yep, i should've been more careful"
But its not what happened. Basically i did bet on team X and team Y showed up that KIND of looks like X (2 out of 5 players played there), but there is no info anywhere that team X=Y now.
So i hope you understand where i am coming from - what if ZERO players from Slayers played in team Infusion? Would it still be graded then? I feel like there is very minor difference with 0 or just 2 players being there.
I believe in the end that Slayers were never meant to play in this tournament, and it was a mistake during a line making proccess
But i am also pretty realistic about my chances of changing your ruling in such cases (close to 0%)
I agree with you Magic, and in most cases there are more formal announcements following a team disband or re-brand. In this situation, our team concluded that Slayers was in the midst of a transition and changed their name and line up shortly before the start of the match. Slayers' captain and another teammate remained, and played out the match as scheduled. There is still no formal announcement about the switch and some websites, including Liquidpedia, still have Slayers of Gods listed as playing Elite Wolves later today. Our lines now reflect the team switch and we have introduced a rule to improve the transparency of our eSports grading (See rule 8 under the eSports tab). I do apologize for your frustrations and thank you for your time and feedback.
Thanks,
Calvin
? - i really disagree here. This point only comes close to making sense if the line itself is ALWAYS correct. Like if there is absolutely 0% chance that there is a line with the incorrect matchup appear ever, which is obviosly false)
