Goa MDMA is banned?

[Chris ITST]

Well just comes as a surprise to me.. I read his message on Xbox Live and i always like to hear both sides of a story. If what GOA says is true then how on earth did swifty receive 3 extra days to play the match as well as a walkover?.

IMO GOA was a really good contributor to the site and a good friend. Again like me, he was not afraid to speak his mind.. Maybe this landed him in trouble.

A little explanation would do no harm though...

[Q. Reese]

I thought he was suspended, not banned. There is a difference between the two.

Rob said that he will be suspended for two weeks and then let back at his discretion.

He re-posted something that was deleted by Rob himself. Apparently, it was not good information.

[coke4]

This is an absolute joke

[Cro Morgan]

A little explanation would do no harm though...

Contrary to what GOA said in his Xbox Live message, he was not banned (nor did Swifty receive a walkover) because of problems encountered while trying to schedule their AO match.

In short, a number of GOA's posts were removed from the forum. After removal, he was asked not to post such remarks. He didn't listen and posted them again. He was then suspended for a period of two weeks. He was ultimately banned for the remarks made in a letter he sent a day or two later.

Swifty received a walkover because GOA was no longer available to play the match.

[coke4]

Again, this is an absolute joke and disgrace.
If he is banned for this there are many others who should be banned, and ine in particular

[Mystical Lion]

Swifty received a walkover because GOA was no longer available to play the match.

more detail please!

at which time he was no longer available???
when did GOA asked for a match and when did swifty replied???

This is very strange and I believe GOA because he plays his matches always on time!!!

what's going on???

[Chris ITST]

Ah okay. I can see your decision. Maybe send him a final message telling him he can be allowed back in the future?. Perhaps he got a little hot tempered and overeacted a little. Just think hes a good guy to have around.

Thanks for the reply

[Cro Morgan]

at which time he was no longer available???

When he was suspended, he was no longer available.

[Mack2300]

Ah okay. I can see your decision. Maybe send him a final message telling him he can be allowed back in the future?. Perhaps he got a little hot tempered and overeacted a little. Just think hes a good guy to have around.
Thanks for the reply

I would agree with this.

[emate007]

The newest registered user is CROmorgan is a liar


I would guess this isn't doing him any favors if he wants back in...

[Rob ITST]

OK, just to put this to rest, here is the full story. Grab a snack, because it's kind of long.

Swifty and GOA had a match to play. The deadline was last Saturday. GOA told Swifty that he could play Wednesday or Thursday, but not Friday. So, they arranged to play Wednesday. Wednesday came, but Swifty never showed. GOA immediately started asking for a walkover. Late Wednesday night, Swifty sent GOA a PM explaining that his internet was down. He apologized, and asked if they could play Saturday.

GOA said no, he could not play then either because he would be gone on Friday and Saturday, and that Sunday was the soonest he could play. Then he asked Swifty to inform the host that it was Swifty's fault the match was not played. They were told that they could play Sunday. GOA then started accusing Cro and myself of giving Swifty special treatment, and demanded that he get the walkover, saying it was not fair to give him an extra day when Swifty had missed.

One week earlier, GOA was involved in an identical situation - his opponent missed an appointment to play a match. There was a difference though. For that match, GOA asked for an extension, was given it, and replied, "i think that was the best decision from you - i hate it to go next round with walkover." But now, not only was he unable to play on Saturday, which he never mentioned originally, but he suddenly found it unfair to be given an extension to play. It seemed a little fishy.

GOA came to me about this on Thursday. After reading in his message to Swifty that he could play Sunday, I told him to just play then. Sunday he replied to me, saying he was too tired and could not play. It wasn't too hard at this point to see what was going on - he was making a lot more of an effort to get a walkover than he was to play the match. So, I asked if he could play Monday.

GOA then went to the forums and posted 3 messages: In the Aussie Open Predictions thread he wrote that Swifty was his favorite to win because of his "off court tactics". He posted a similar message in another thread, and in the German Davis Cup thread he posted in German that there was an "inner circle" in ITST, and made other accusations. I deleted those three posts, and sent him a PM telling him not to post them again. He posted them again anyway, so I suspended him for 2 weeks and gave Swifty the walkover. (BTW: This wasn't the first time I've had to delete posts from him. I know he likes to go off sometimes, so I have always just deleted them and asked him to stop. But this time he was told specifically not to post what I deleted, and did it anyway.)

He then decided to send messages to members on Xbox Live, saying again that Swifty was given the walkover because of the "inner circle" even though he missed an appointment to play twice (which was not true, he only missed the one).

Then, he sent me this email:

**** you rob.

YOU A LIAR AND A CHEATER
you the head of this gay inner circle. i know all the other ""PREMIUM MEMBERS "**** you in your ass for beeing ACCEPTED in this inner circle and to got a cheating walkover and at all itst is full of cheating assholes .
1000 other cases proof that .
iŽm banned - no problem than i use and play in future with one of my other accounts i created till you and your gaylord friend cro "ass****er"morgan started to stalking me in forum .
iŽm not a idiot - i created since month 8-10 different inactive accounts. all what you do with banning me is to bring me in underground playing ,without much posting in forum -i will use one of my accounts to play . you never will find all my accounts - forward i will create new accounts-hey with that i can win challenger tournaments . that is cool

He went on like that for another paragraph, and I changed his suspension to a ban.

It is true that Swifty missed an appointment. But, they still had 3 days left to play, and GOA made no more attempts to play the match. It was obvious that he was more interested in getting a walkover than in playing the match. You get a walkover when you show that you are making a real effort to play a match - not when you try to take advantage of your opponent's Internet being down. If he had simply made an effort to play, they would have either played the match, or he would have gotten the walkover - and all of this would have been avoided.

Since that time, he has apologized for the email, and I told him that I will take that into consideration and possibly allow him to return in 2 weeks, as I originally said.

[picachu211]

ITST--the place for never ending drama!

[Q. Reese]

Yea Rob. The decision is quite clear. You sent him a pm asking him not to post the particular matter. He went on and did it any way. That is going against management, especially once you were notified privately!

The email from GOA was quite vivid. It takes a kind heart to reconsider letting him back after 2 weeks. I respect that . . . unwarranted forgiveness is they key to all happiness.

[ensaimada]

I think people take everything too seriously sometimes. Goa is a good person, but maybe he have made a mistake. I would like him to continue here with us, I think all of us want to Goa continues to provide ITST. I think things should be settled privately between him and the hosts, giving each other their explanations, and. Goa has to recognize that is wrong with this kind of messages, because this is not the way to resolve a discussion.

It is absurd to ask for explanations in public, because only they know if they have surpassed the barrier of respect or not.

I hope itst have fewer conflicts, which are becoming more frequent the last months.

[Otlichno]

But wasn't there another case of someone who made a whole thread that his opponent was given the walkover because he was late, why doesn't that apply here, on that thread everybody was going on about how if you'r late it's you'r fault and you'r opponent should get the walkover.