Accused:
ReverandGreen
The accused are suspected of:
Other: <Game throwing>
Game number(s):
Game 19773594
Comments:
In this game, ReverandGreen (yellow) controlled the agate hills. Lime reigned in the north, whilst silver had taken hold of the south. Me (orange) and blue had gotten stuck in the middle without a bonus; blue in the rainforest in between silver and lime, me in the fruit pickers in the junction between silver, lime and yellow. Red was also still kicking around somewhere in the west, but was eliminated fairly soon.
For a few rounds (in the late teens), me, yellow and lime were trading paddys green for spoils (me from mareeba, lime from biboorah and yellow from mba wetlands). As such, yellow and lime had adjoining stacks protecting their respective borders.
Yellow seemed to find this threatening, as he tried and failed to take out lime's stack at least twice. Neither of these times, lime retorted (as far as I can remember, he never initiated an attack on yellow either). The latter time yellow tried to goad me into helping him, claiming in the process that lime was "running away with this 50 round game"; I pointed out to him that he'd actually weakened lime to the point where silver had a clear lead, and attacking lime would only make the situation worse (I felt tactful enough not to point out the idiocy of someone with the 2nd largest bonus and troop count "running away" with a 50 round game on round 20).
Yellow agreed with me in the chat that silver seemed threatening. Thereafter, lime offered me to take control of fruit pickers (presumably to act as a buffer against silver and yellow's antics) and pulled his stack back into his own territory. Yellow, despite his previous message, took another shot at lime and actually managed to break through into his bonus this time, pulling his own troops back into his agate hills bonus afterwards. I took over fruit pickers and matched yellow's troops on our new border. On his turn, silver attacked yellow and occupied innot hot springs. Yellow, in turn, rather than diverting his troops from my border to defend himself, saw fit to run everything he had into me in a mind-boggling kamikaze move, effectively ruining his game and most likely also mine.
I must emphasize here that at no point in the game had I made any aggressive moves towards yellow (or, up to this point, criticized him in any non-constructive way). The only reason he had to act this way was me not playing along with his mindless agenda to ensure silver's victory. He even stated in the chat (indirectly, but unmistakably) that he suicided into me specifically for this reason. Players around his rank and rating being clueless and ruining otherwise decent games with their inane logic is one thing, but being petty and vindictive over someone else not playing into it feels unacceptable.
I don't know if they're necessary, but I've attached my snapshots from rounds 22 and 23 from that game (before and after yellow's kamikaze move). Sorry about the poor colour scheme, I'm using the dark theme on chrome which messes them up.
