coL/Dev Aftermath: The Match

I started writing this yesterday, and I was going to include
it in a piece with the controversy surrounding Warden, Sasquatch, and the
infamous match.

Then people threw some extra kerosene on the fire -- gallons and gallons of kerosene --- along
with a firecracker or two, and I changed my mind. There's so much to say about
the other situation that this subtopic completely lost its place. If nine out
of ten words were going to be about the "bribery", or whatever we want to call
it, I might as well make it 10/10 and take the misfit words out.

But I still wanted to weigh in on CEVO's decision regarding
the actual match, so let's take a quick look at that. This will deal with
everything regarding the actual forfeiture of the match, e.g. Sasquatch's lack
of demos, the packeting, match pausing, etc.

CEVO's official stance was that Devastation forfeited the
remaining rounds after the pause due to Sasquatch's failure to produce demos
during the standard twenty-four hour window. That resulted in a 10-8 win for
compLexity.

I have small complaints with this ruling. The first is that
it doesn't follow any of the listed rules in CEVO's official page. Here are the
rules governing missing demos.

10.40
Evidence Requests

20.30 Player POV (First Person Demos)

Sasquatch didn't turn in a demo, and the rules are pretty clear:

"If a player has been requested to submit demos to an official for
whatever reason, the player has forty-eight (4 hours to comply. If the player
does not have the requested information, THE FOLLOWING PENALTIES WILL BE
ENFORCED:

• 1st Offense: Warning + match overturn ...

...If a player fails to start their demo prior to the beginning of match
play, any round not recorded in the demo will be overturned and
rewarded to the other team."

The window is something of a technicality since the
forty-eight hour standard would have interfered with the playoffs, but
according to the letter of the law, the match should have been overturned and a
warning issued to Sasquatch. Neither of those happened. The match went into the
record books as 10-8, and no warning was issued to Devastation or Sasquatch.

But besides the actual wording, I disagree with the thought
that the match should be decided with rules and regulations instead of Colts,
AKs, and AWPs. I'm aware this flies in the face of the first sentence, which
clearly states "for whatever reason", and Sasquatch's demos were requested to
verify his money. My only qualm is that Sasquatch's money wasn't an issue. His
team had won five rounds in a row, and he offered to take the worst-case
scenario. If we're going to ignore the exact wording of the rules, we might as
well get some dramatic CS out of it, as fans.

Still, I realize I'm not arguing from a position of
strength, here. I'm not presenting this as an argument that CEVO did something wrong, just as something that I would have liked to see. I want to know who would have won that match if they had played out, and I think CS fans would agree.