@Funkmaus said in #18:
> Having played ONE single game in the tournament should not trigger the sanction - playing just one game is fine; many people tend to "ragequit" after the first loss and try their luck in the next best one. The system should not punish this behavior. The person was clearly going to play the tournament, but it went not their way. :(
> It would trigger only if there is someone with "games played 0" at the end of the tournament.
> As I said above, that fakes the stats for players as the percentile depends on the amount of players who joined - and it does not matter whether someone "strong" or someone "weak" does it.
> It should not apply to team tournaments as well, dear CSKA_Moscou - team leaders join several events for them to be visible on team-page while they are not going to play themselves. Only individual, official tournaments that are visible on our tournament tab.
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> It is clear that people would still be able to abuse it by joining and playing that one game, but it would still prevent the behavior of joining all hourly arena tournaments while actually (competitively) playing another major event.
I see your point. Clearly, you've thought this through and yes I agree that it'd prevent such scenarios where people join individual tournaments with the intent of not playing.
However, it could be worthwhile to consider how frequently such behavior is happening. If this is a rare situation, that is, in most tournaments suppose the top 10 seeds are not joining with the intent of not playing. Then one can argue whether it would be worthwhile to invest time and effort on this and add additional complexities into the system.
As a good rule of thumb, I'd say that we should not solve a problem before it arises or if it's only a minority and the impact that it has is small.