Colonel Iyam A Heita
what is discussed in the the judging quarters that is off limit to the public?
Profile grading and fight grading, as well as delegating stuff like PMing information, dealing with judge issues, etc. It's private so that results aren't leaked, people don't have access to their opponents' profiles, etc.
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Because as far as I am concerned signs of favoritism can be shown in the voting poll example alone. My team didn't register as the bitchy hoes... we registered as the save-a-hos.
and since you wanna use "REAL WORLD LOGIC AND LEGAL PREMISES" to refute my statement. That alone is enough grounds to debunk the legitimacy of objective and fairness of the tournament.
Which.. would be your interpretation, again. Someone else could interpret it as a joke. Again, not really hard evidence - although if you had more concrete evidence, I'd say that this would support it. But in and of itself? Not really. That's like saying people are biased or show favoritism for making jokes about me being Indian in their judgments, or about Deitric being an Indian when he's not.
If there was serious evidence of rigging or favoritism, then I would definitely view this as being an indicator in support of the argument.. but there's no actual evidence of a judge going "You know what? ******** these guys and ******** their team, they lose because I say so regardless of how the fight went." Again, what you're talking about could be construed as bias against you.. or as a joke. A really shitty joke. A really, really shitty joke. But there's not enough evidence to tip it towards being construed as evidence of favoritism for the other team or against yours.
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Not to mention what Crawley stated previously.
Which.. is an opinion, and not evidence?
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Also my example given on power spamming or abuse. When you are talking about competition there is no such thing as limited use of an ability.
Wrong, tournaments regularly impose limits on ability use. For example, in 2009 and 2011, Deitric was only allowed to his roughly eight abilities per fight unless provided with an outside source of electricity, and he usually had to wait a couple of posts between ability uses.
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Lastly. You, yourself argued that rubric leaves room for bias... if having a bias isn't rigging something intentionally, especially if your bias isn't documented. I don't know what the ******** is.
Actually, I argued that most judging rubrics allow for subjectivity, which isn't the same thing as favoritism or intentional rigging. Subjectivity and the bias that comes with it is unconscious, but we can be aware of it and try to minimize it. Favoritism or intentional rigging would be the opposite, where you're going "******** it, I want you, you, and you to win, and I want you, you, and you to lose because I like/don't like you."
Also, you missed the part where my original post didn't say that you said it was rigged. My original post:
The Thunder Tyrant
HoH has never been rigged. People who make that suggestion seriously are usually just sore losers.
I've both participated and been on staff, so I've had access to all the judge calls, discussions, etc from every year and there has never been any evidence to suggest that there has been any rigging.. other than people complaining when they lose.
Which isn't to say that there haven't been poor judge calls or the like - people make mistakes, so there's no such thing as a perfectly run tournament. But rigged? Definitely not.
Simply said that it wasn't rigged, and I didn't quote or directly respond to you, since, as you said, you didn't originally say it was rigged. You responded to me - not the other way around. Am I pursuing shenanigans.. or are you? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE?
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