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Bud Crue, on 14 December 2017 - 10:55 AM, said:
See OP. Second cited post. Its not a big deal, as everyone knows who it was. My beef is that under ANY other circumstances this sort of thing would be a closed thread or moved to k-town, but for whatever reason this particular brand of name and shame is being pinned rather than being admonished for being a clear violation of the COC. Again its not like this is a secret or anything, it just bugs me that this particular form of pointing and laughing at someone’s misfortune is all of a sudden acceptable and being sanctioned by PGI, apparently because it happened at mechcon; but if anyone called out someone for 12 damage in a regular match it would be grounds for moderation.
The difference is in this case that it's not just some random person calling out some random player from a public queue match -- this is one of the best players in the world making an embarrassing showing in front of over a thousand people. Of course people are going to make fun of how ridiculous it is to see a top-tier player do 12 damage. Plenty of people poked fun at SJR and TheMagician for their failed Tourmaline push vs EON in the semifinals. I think panic and everyone else who knows him by tag knows that he is an extremely capable player and isn't going to spend several sleepless nights over one grave mistake. I believe I speak for all of the players on our team when I say that we're thick-skinned enough to "roll with the punches" and accept this as the absurd meme moment that it is. We appreciate that people are sensible enough to understand that it's one of those things that "could happen to anyone," but we're all confident enough here to take the joke and embrace the meme without complaining to any mods about it.
TL;DR: Appreciate the sentiment, but panic is a big boy and he'll be ok. This also solidifies his position alongside me in our Department of New Throws (D.O.N.T.) battalion.
