Quote Originally Posted by IraTheSquire_1457591 View Post
By that logic you can say, "It isn't anyone's fault but yourself for not being a guildmate of Yue if you end up not getting tokens that you should've". It isn't about the people who are betting, it is about whether or not the players who are fighting in the finals should be allowed to manipulate the results like this in the first place in order to give advantage to anyone. In every other event that involves betting of any kind match-fixing like this is regarded as cheating and can be criminally prosecuted. I do not see why that should not be applied to here.
As it stands it could be considered ethically questionable but not cheating, as there were no rule violations, not ToS violations, no CW violations. WE can say that it perhaps wasn't in the spirit of the game, but not cheating by any means, especially since there is no real currency involved. I propose to avoid this in the future Tynon put a statement in place informing us that it is expected if we are going to compete, to compete to the best of our ability, and if there is evidence anyone has thrown a fight they will have all rewards stripped. As it stands everything they did was well within the rules and I have no qualms with it until such a time as Tynon makes a statement about it.