Diego 'Raspot' Echeagaray played six games and won four earning himself a 4-2 ratio. These included wins against Yaraslau 'NightWOlf' Kavetski and Hamish Luke 'Kowi' Parker. Nikita 'Nicker' Pomadov's 5-1 ratio guaranteed him first place and a spot in the playoffs but the second place remained undecided. Two other players had a 4-2 ratio, Kowi and NightWolf.

The situation looked like a classic three-way tie and a tie-breaker was played between the three players; Kowi, NightWolf and Raspot. The first tie-breaker did not bring a winner as the scores were tied 1-1 for all three players. In the second tie-breaker NightWolf was the winner with a 2-0 ratio. This meant that Kowi and Raspot were out of the tournament.

But upon inspection of the rules it seems that the tie-breaker should not actually have been played at all and Raspot should have qualified directly for the play-offs.

The Rules:


"Should three or more players be tied in their group after applying the league system ranking rules, another league system group ("rematch group") shall be played among the players concerned."

In this particular situation three players were tied with a 4-2 ratio so league system ranking rules apply. According to rule a) in bold, the players were tied so rule b) should have been applied to determine if a tie-breaker should be played.

Rule b) stipulates that results against the players not concerned in the tie-breaker be disregarded. In this situation the Mexican player was 2-0 as he defeated both Kowi and NightWolf in the group stage. NightWolf was then behind the Mexican as he had a 1-1 win ratio, and Kowi was third with 0-2.

Should this interpretation of the rules be right, the admins' decision was wrong and the Mexican should have gone through to the play-offs and not NightWolf.

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We will try to get a response to the issue first thing tomorrow morning but for now, it is most likely that the World Cyber Games is over for Raspot.