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(Phenom Gaming Australia) at 11:21pm 9/8/2006 wrote:

We would like to confirm that our ref ( SaVaGe[Ref] ) is a GA ref and also that he is not a member of Ethereal. The reason for this request is that one of my team members has seen an (E)*SaVaGe on a GA server. This is the same clan tag that Ethereal uses, and SaVaGe is also similarly typed.

(E)*SaVaGe's profile can be viewed here:
http://acssr.slowchop.com/playerdetails.php?id=2333616

SaVaGe[Ref]'s steamid can be viewed here
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1050/decbble0010qi2.jpg

(Phenom Gaming Australia) at 12:20am 10/8/2006 wrote:

I would like to add that SaVaGe[Ref] was not a proper ref. He did not know the usual GA referee proceedings. He did not know how to execute war config, and my captain, Mugen, had to do it. Also, for 2nd half he did not ask if both teams were rdy but just lo3ed. We had to remind him to tell teams to submit scores within 2 hours.

(Ethereal) at 08:57am 10/8/2006 wrote:

This is ridiculous!

SaVaGe is from Team Empathy
http://www.gamearena.com.au/pc/games/title/cssource/ladder/index.php?action=teaminfo&teamid=25270

He is also the founder of the team. 

SaVaGe has never been part of Ethereal and as has been said before those stats you show with him wearing our tag clearly show that he was only on for 3 minutes. I was there when this happened and it was a joke between frequent public server players.

He is not a registered user of our forum or anything of the likes.

Anyways you's got beat 16-4, no amount of reffing can hide that score.

(Phenom Gaming Australia) at 09:30am 10/8/2006 wrote:

Ethereal, you mistake our intentions. We are not making accusations. All we wanted to do was bring some discrepencies to GA's attention. 

After the match I was discussing the odd behaviour of SaVaGe[Ref] with some members from other clans, who were admins and had more experience with the system. They confirmed that SaVaGe is from Empathy, but agreed that it was highly irregular that our assigned referee seemed to have close ties with the opposing team. They also warned me that SaVaGe may have been ghosting for Ethereal.

I submitted this dispute because I am not sure what should be done. Hence I hope by providing GA with as much evidence as I can that they will be able to resolve this issue. 

I would also like to ask GA if GA referees are permitted by GA to referee and play on the same ladder, as problems might stem from conflict of interests. However, I also understand that it must not be easy for GA to find people who want to referee matches.

(Ethereal) at 11:25am 10/8/2006 wrote:

There was no cheating, ghosting or general bad sportmanship comming from Etheral.

here is my demo of the match, should anything need to be cleared up.
http://clanethereal.com/downloads/demos/Shoe/09-08-06_e_vs_phenom_cobble.rar

(Ethereal) at 04:50pm 10/8/2006 wrote:

Admins please resolve the issue, there is nothing more to be said. We are completely transparent, you even have our demo of the match. All Phenom have offered is a bogus stat page of SaVaGe playing as an Ethereal clan member for 3minutes. Just have a look at our track record on the GA ladder, we have been playing since the beginning of the ladder and have never had anything like these accusations of ghosting or any form of cheating against us. 

Ethereal has nothing further to add to this matter and we would just like to be able to continue climbing the ladder.

(E)*Mohican