[nirvAnA]

The bans were supposed to be for one SEAL. Had deth not made that defamatory / slanderous thread he would be able to play in this and might have been unbaned now. That is why Pinder who had the same ban had his lifted early and he isn't banned from anything else, because although he was very unhappy with the decision he didn't make a thread full of baseleess accusations to get back at me. And i certaintly don't want to encourage behaviour like that.

The accusations there are very defamtory and if i were some else, say SlayerS_Jessica there would be no doubt legal action taken. I've talked to deth and I told him he should be able to play in the next SEAL. Im quite sure 95% of people in my position would life ban him after doing something like that but i'm giving him that courtesy.

[NvPinder]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

The bans were suposed to be for one SEAL. Had deth not made that defamatory / slanderous thread he would be able to play in this and might have been unbaned now. That is why Pinder who had the same ban had his lifted early and he isn't banned from anything else, because although he was very unhappy with the decision he didn't make a thread full of baseleess accusations to get back at me. And i certaintly don't want to encourage behaviour like that.

The accusations there are very defamtory and if i were some else, say SlayerS_Jessica there would be no doubt legal action taken. I've talked to deth and I told him he should be able to play in the next SEAL. Im quite sure 95% of people in my position would life ban him after doing something like that but i'm giving him that courtesy.

To be fair the only reason I didn't dispute the tournament ban is because at the time I never planned on taking sc2 seriously anyway. Had i cared more at the time I probably would've taken the same route and supported deth's attempts to get un-banned from the tournament.

[iM tgun]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

The bans were supposed to be for one SEAL. Had deth not made that defamatory / slanderous thread he would be able to play in this and might have been unbaned now. That is why Pinder who had the same ban had his lifted early and he isn't banned from anything else, because although he was very unhappy with the decision he didn't make a thread full of baseleess accusations to get back at me. And i certaintly don't want to encourage behaviour like that.

The accusations there are very defamtory and if i were some else, say SlayerS_Jessica there would be no doubt legal action taken. I've talked to deth and I told him he should be able to play in the next SEAL. Im quite sure 95% of people in my position would life ban him after doing something like that but i'm giving him that courtesy.

I understand your reasoning: but I still disagree with banning him from the SEAL. You already banned him (and subsequently hurt the TA team) from the SEACL - At least, you can't really call it a "SEA Star League" when you're prohibiting one of the top terrans from competing at all. At least rebrand it to the sc2sea league. He served his ban for the SEACL (which was 10 weeks or so?) -- there have been people who have done worse things and less punishment.