This explanation/excuse seems abit hollow when Cardinal launches a personal attack on Swindlemelonzz on the hon forums:

"I fell bad for swindle TBH. He lives on HON 24/7 and can't keep a stable spot on a roster, resorts to snitching on other teams hes mad he can't join, and is now losing viewers on his stream because the community knows he's a huge faggot. We are fine with being DQ from tourny because we broke the "rules", but every competative team has used a ringer and will continue to use ringers because these tournaments can't be scheduled at reasonable times (mothers day, or ONLY sundays)."

At the same time they used Foggeds account, and Angrytestie said ingame "hes east" when they confronted them with him playing with so low ping on a Swedish server. All in all I don't buy this explanation from Tralf - they clearly knew they where breaking the rules and now simply try to cover their ass.

I have lost a lot of respect for the SK hon team, and that is sad as they where I think one of the more promising teams out there. This kind of behavior is not what we are used to from SK-gaming teams.

Ringing has become so commonplace among the competitive scene that I don't think it has been seen as a bad thing anymore by most competitive players. As the ringer in question is seen as lending a helping hand to a team that needs to make a scheduled match or has an issue, thus saving them and doing a favor. Since most teams have been in this situation, it is not frowned upon as much as it should be. This does not excuse the fact, but it is just information for the public on how it is viewed among teams. This does not speak for all teams, but most to my knowledge.

However, in reality it is a cancer to the legitimacy of tournaments and it should be punished and is best to get rid of it entirely. It is something future tournaments may want to continue looking out for. Tourney admins should be able to have the vent info and check up on players from time to time and be more aware of telltale signs, such as ping to certain servers or odd hero choices. Though the latter is definitely nothing to go by and shouldn't be acted on unless other evidence is there.

Long story short, regardless of who's idea on the team it was to use a ringer, we are all to blame for being too stupid or short sighted to not try for another approach such as asking the admins if we can reschedule. To everyone, it will not happen again.

It is my hope that this situation makes tourney admins wiser and helps to keep future tournaments legitimate as I personally dislike the use of ringers. Overall, I'm glad this happened as it would be a great improvement in the competitive scene if this is something tournaments would seek out and punish more actively.

I just apologyze you guys because i know that SK don't need a ringer to win an game, they have so many good players, that i can accept that this story is true.
But we can say that the mistake was not tell the admins about the another ringer... and why use Fogged acc?
Really, u guys made a mistake, but i don't think that was bad actually, i think that the grand looser in this story is fucking Swindlemelawnz... bucause with this attitude he proves:
1 - he can't get the trust of any hon player 2 - he is the biggest retarded hon player 3 - he can't get a real clan

And guys i never lost the trust in SK and i still think that you are the best clan alive.
Keep going and going

romans ;o

m9

m9 be beast

Bad things happens. Don't get this too serious SK boys. You always have my approval and respect!