[SkyBreaker]

Benji pretty much hit the nail on the head. When Nirvana and I first begun organising the BSG Open for sc2sea.com, we did it with the vision of opening up a form of e-sports for the lower league players who weren't quite ready to compete with SC2's big-dogs from the CO, or any of the other tournaments that were open to higher league players. The live-stream, casting and prizes were all added in to cater to help the BSG players improve their game, and perhaps one day make it to the higher leagues where they would be confident competing in the other tournaments on sc2sea.

IMHO, there has been about two higher-league smurfs throughout the life of the BSG Open (Hillboy not being one of them), whilst all other accusations of smurfing have come from a couple of players who are generally BM and get extremely sour over losing. Of course people could listen into the stream while playing; perhaps even invite an observer who will feed them information - but due to this tournament being run the way it is, it's up to the players to make it an honest tournament, and you'd hope they would have the decency not to ruin the fun for everyone else. I guess some players are just too obsessed with winning rather than learning; hence while you'll see things like smurfs, as well as people opting to use a "cheese" strategy instead of actually trying to improve and get better at the game.

In the coming months if this is going on i can see this site/tournament losing creditability for hosting such tournaments and not policing things properly

Highly doubtful, in my opinion. The tournament organisers do as much as humanely possible in order to weed out potential smurfs throughout this tournament and we hope that the SCII community understand this; and ultimately understand things like this can happen from time-to-time, especially in a tournament aimed at the lower league players.