Sure its bad if thats why they gave the default (which we dont have sufficient evidence to say conclusively) but like what can be done about this? Are they gonna punish players for giving a default loss rather than playing the game? Are teams not allowed to forfeit matches in ETF2L?
I feel bad for the unexpected guys but if you get to the stage where your playoff qualification depends on the result of other teams' games then you don't really have the right to complain about those factors outside your control - if you're good enough to be a playoff team it shouldn't be up to other teams at all (Lowpander also had a default loss against them despite not all of the roster agreeing on it and they qualified for playoffs all the same).
AF playing with 2 mercs and feeling offclassing when they afaik aren't continuing beyond this season vs a lego trying to qualify for playoffs - who do you think will win? Can you not understand AF not wanting to play this game when they have nothing to lose? Especially considering even if they did play they would probably lose 6-0 anyway because of mercs? If you were a player on a top team and you knew that there was a good chance of losing the next hour and a half of games and underperforming because of your main players being unavailable, wouldn't you consider giving a defwin if it doesn't affect your playoff spot? Or would you play expecting to lose and get tilted in the process?
I merced for them in a map of their warmup before the official and despite how demotivated everyone seemed they were still discussing whether or not to play, and this was days after the thaigrr clip in that vod. I'm not yet convinced that this is match fixing as the vod would suggest, after all, innocent until proven guilty.
edit: I should say, from what I've heard from Domo, they didn't make an attempt to reschedule before the game, so there might be substance to this, but this could also be because of other factors - again I don't think we can say anything conclusively.