ans 10 - 18 daozor

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comment by ans
I stopped short of complaining about this game, simply because it didn't really affect the outcome, I'm just aggrieved at the attitude and gamesmanship displayed by daozor. Playing from the UK, being matched up to a Russian player, it is always difficult to find a fair server and we spent about 30 minutes trying to find one that was equal. Daozor seemed to think that a server where he pinged 37 and I pinged 79 was fair (IOP) which I obviously disagreed and after trying in excess of 8 servers (even discounting one where I had a 5 ms advantage (yes, five)), we finally settled on this one. While he might only have an 11ms advantage in the screenshot (and it's a very 'friendly' screenshot for him, his ping averaged in the mid 40s) when this server was tested he maintained a very solid 71. This 71 suddenly dropped to the mid 40s when the game started.

I'm not blaming this for the loss, I'm used to losing, it happens often, and 99/100, daozor would beat me on any map, that's not the issue. I take great exception to this blatant gamesmanship which someone has taken the trouble to exact simply to gain an advantage over someone as shit as me. It's lame, unsporting and just a downright dirty tactic that, for me, took the shine off the entire game which was very competitive until the last 2 minutes when I was chasing him down and rushing him as he had a 2 frag lead.

Like I said at the start, the result is not in question, it's the manner of the victory. Considering he had to be prompted to say 'gg' or 'pld' at the end of it, this should serve as a warning to his future opponents that they should consider getting an admin to oversee the server selection and don't expect any niceties.

ans 1 - 33 daozor

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comment by ans
I dropped with 1 minute to go because I asked daozor to quit with the smilies every time he got a kill. He managed a full 2 minutes before the urge overcame him and I left.

While it may be considered lame to drop, albeit with less than 60 seconds to go, I was getting extremely irritated with his patronising, unneccesary crap. If you played someone at a real sport, face to face, and after every point they scored, they laughed in your face, eventually you'd smack their teeth in. Unfortunately that option wasn't open to me so I did what I said I would do and disconnected. That is why I said 'I told you' and then 'cya'.

Smiles and jokes should always be between friends and people you know. Doing it to a total stranger is tantamount to taunting and really has no place in a computer game. Coupled with the problem detailed in my first comment, I was less than inclined to ignore it. Bite me.

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comment by daozor
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