After reading through all this and past threads to get a proper understand, I just want to say that it is possible for both sides to be correct. You don't always have to have 1 side wrong and the other side correct.
b4nny had every right to deny payments based on his rules. (its his money and his deal) That said, he is being a douche over a technicality.
phlps had a small price to pay to get a full reimbursement. He made his own poor decision not to abide by the guidelines regardless of how technically he broke the rule. That said, he has had that alias for a long ass time so why give a fuck IMO.
I have a solution:
@b4nny -- honor your word and pay the other 5 members of the team who listened to your rules and got denied because of a questionable technicality. If you do that, I'll reimburse phlps myself and then you can run this again next season with a clean slate.