QUESTION, IN in a freestyle doubles match, if a team are continually playing at the same time of a turn, in a freestyle game, is that potential cheating? How are they managing to always be playing at exactly the same time? i suspect diplomacy beyond their game chat.
the rules on secret diplomacy say, and i quote "Any form of diplomatic discussion between opponents must be posted in the game chat in English or in a language that all opponents understand." It specifically says opponents, not allies.
Think you've missed the idea of doubles games. The whole point is for teams to work together- that's why there is the option of 'team chat' and 'game chat'. You cannot break the secret diplomacy rule if there are only 2 teams, since all team chat is secret to that team. (Unless one member of the second team, secretly works with the other team, to deliberately loose.. which is very unlikely). You would need to be in a game with more than 2 teams, where at least 2 teams were working together secretly against another, to be breaking any diplomacy rules.