[Jaii]

Smurphing is fine. In fact it is downright useful! I bought a second account to learn to play protoss and terran on, and to use to roadtest crazy zerg ideas. This works out great as my toss and terran are both about low diamond (I dont even know basic openers!), making it a perfect playground for crazy-idea roadtesting.

BUT the line is drawn at wankers who use smurf accounts (or rating tank, essentially the same thing) just to play in a skill-capped tournament. I would never consider playing my diamond account in the GPD, even on my legitimate diamond-skill-level races. It is cheating the terms of the tournament and a downright disgraceful thing to do. Community bans for proven offenders IMHO

[ProAnnn]

Originally Posted by Jaii

Smurphing is fine. In fact it is downright useful! I bought a second account to learn to play protoss and terran on, and to use to roadtest crazy zerg ideas. This works out great as my toss and terran are both about low diamond (I dont even know basic openers!), making it a perfect playground for crazy-idea roadtesting.

BUT the line is drawn at wankers who use smurf accounts (or rating tank, essentially the same thing) just to play in a skill-capped tournament. I would never consider playing my diamond account in the GPD, even on my legitimate diamond-skill-level races. It is cheating the terms of the tournament and a downright disgraceful thing to do. Community bans for proven offenders IMHO

I disagree with your statement. I actually and IN FACT joined GPD with my diamond account protoss since my protoss is ACTUALLY at a diamond level. I think it is legitimate to join GPD with a diamond acc on a different race since the level of play isnt very low and playing with an off-race at a diamond level is not cheating in the tournament. However, if you are at master level at zerg for example, and join GPD as zerg, i think it is cheating and smurfing and is really an offence. This is only in the case of GPD. Anyone above diamond SHOULD NOT smurf in BSG EVEN with their off-race since their mechanics EVEN with their off-race should be slightly above gold standard.