DubThink
Out of curiosity, did the report contain a screenshot of the chat somehow? or was the report simply a link to the logs.tf page? and if the report was just link to the logs.tf page, would it not make sense to do some kind of follow up and ask for a screenshot or VOD from the scrim itself? This is a genuine question because right now it seems like there was just no due diligence done. Especially if the ban is going to result in potentially killing one of the few top-level teams, it seems like more effort should have been put in to verifying the information before the ban, rather than waiting until after the ban to find out if there is any extenuating circumstances. As someone who's been on the wrong end of the RGL ban hammer, I know that there at least used to be someone on the admin team that reviewed these bans and made exceptions for extenuating circumstances, is there a reason no such effort was put in for these bans?
I know that what you guys are doing is difficult and time consuming, but your methodology seems like it's at exactly the same level I would expect from an apathetic college student doing a project for a class he hates: in other words, the bare minimum. If you guys want people to stop bitching, stop giving them shit to bitch about. Make sure your shit is water-tight before you let it out into the wild. How many times are you guys gonna think something halfway through, put it out into the wild, and then walk it back when someone points out an obvious mistake you guys have made because you didn't do any due-diligence? How many "we made a mistake" posts are you gonna make before someone steps up and says "we are done with these fuck-ups. TF2 deserves a league with enough respect for its players to put in more than the bare minimum of effort."
If you wanna know why nobody respects you and nobody wants to sponsor you, that's your reason. It's not players saying slurs in what should be unmoderated environs, it's the fact that you keep fucking up and letting TFTV bitch-fits make you walk back on your mistakes. We're what, halfway through the season? and we're already at two "we're sowwy" posts for the season, and I've lost track of how many goofs ya'll have made since ESEA died, let alone before then (FROYO banned for winning too much lol). I mean how much of a joke do you guys have to become before some actual institutional changes get made?