Unity Ruleset Committee: Difference between revisions

During GENESIS 2's first round of pools, {{Sm|Mew2King}} had swept the rest of his pool with his standard {{SSBB|Meta Knight}}, but against his last opponent, {{Sm|Sade}}, he elected to [[sandbagging|sandbag]] instead by playing {{SSBB|Falco}} and the bottom-tiered {{SSBB|Ganondorf}}, neither of which he ever used previously in serious tournament matches  nor been known to seriously practice otherwise. This resulted in M2K losing the set when he should have easily won 2-0, potentially disrupting seeding of the next round of pools and the advancement of other players in the pool, though Sade reported the match as a 2-0 win for M2K to prevent this, feeling the win as undeserved. In response to this apparent [[bracket manipulation]] attempt, the Unity Ruleset Committee gave Mew2King a red card under their infarction system; they officially stated that it was due to having previously received a yellow card for bracket manipulation at [[KTAR 5]], as well as alleging that Mew2King's conduct was sexist in nature, as Sade was a female smasher, and Mew2King's actions implied he did not consider her a serious opponent because of this. The decision to red card Mew2King, however, proved controversial; a number of players believed that as he had already advanced to the next round, Mew2King was allowed one "non-serious" match, particularly if Sade did not voice any complaints about it. And the decision to ban one of the best players from tournaments was controversial in itself, as it was seen from the anti-ban players as diminishing the prestige of any tournament he was not allowed to participate in. Additionally, it was pointed out that the next highest placing player in the pool after Sade, {{Sm|KirinBlaze}}, still didn't make it out of the pool instead of her even with the match being officially recorded as an 0-2 loss for Sade, so it would have had no impact on the advancement of other players, while disrupted seeding wasn't considered a serious concern. Although officially banned from tournaments using the Unity Ruleset until his red card expired, a number of major TOs chose to ignore Mew2King's ban and allowed him to take part in their tournaments if he wanted to; most notably, {{Sm|Keitaro}} and {{Sm|Alex Strife}} refused to recognise the ban and allowed M2K to participate at [[KTAR 6]] and [[Apex 2012]] respectively, one of the biggest and the biggest upcoming Brawl tournaments after Genesis 2, undermining the ban and the URC.