This will be my last go at this, a lot of valid points have been
brought up, and some very good discussion both for and against...
The key point IMO is being overlooked at this point...
Jim can tell you that before this even started Tom posted some RG scorecards on the CC forum, in fact a lot of them....
What
caught my eye was the ADTP, it was so close on 2 of them my very 1st
thought was "NO f'n way", this guy is either 1 in a million or using CE,
end of thought, I don't play RG's so I will let them worry about it, if
he is cheating they will get him eventually....that and I like Tom. He
gets the benefit of the doubt from me because he was a unbelievably good
player when he was a legend so why not now!
So when I heard his
account was closed I felt bad for him, but I wasn't surprised, that is
not until other CC members started getting involved and believed he was
wrongly accused, so I somewhat grudgingly looked at the correspondence
fully expecting to see something like:
Tom: For some reason my account is closed is something wrong?
WGT:
Don't even go there dude, you were cheating, you know you were, we have
the data to prove you were that we got from our "super duper sweeps
software", so don't even pretend to be innocent!
And frankly, had I seen that it would have been good enough for me, end of story!!!!
Instead
what I see is communication after communication that in short say, "We
don't know what you were doing because you won't admit it, but we are
sure you were doing something"...WTF
Eventually they accuse him of using an "auto dinger", again WTF!
WGTadmin himself admitted on these very forums when the grid dots and
meters went crazy after an update that they had to shut down the program
that ran with the power meter to counter auto ding programs, despite
what you've read in this thread you can't show me 1 ADer that dings at
80%, they get close enough to it to help a player who just plain can't
play, but they DO NOT ding at 80%, so why in the world would that even
be considered is beyond me!
There is more, but lets get to the
"trial", again just the fact that they did it at all says they are still
assuming he cheated but really don't know how!
After the "so called trial" and only then do they bring up this "ding %" BS....
IMO,
ding% was plan B, had he shot -4 -5 they would have just said
"SEEEEEEE, we knew it", but Tom shot -8 which made them go to plan B and
start all this ding% talk, and this has become the focus of the
discussion when this isn't the problem here!!!
Is 79% dings high for 30 days, your d@mn right it is...impossible for 99.99% of us but still possible!
The REAL PROBLEM here is, he was banned because they thought he was doing something, "Guilty by ASSUMPTION"...
I'm not sure if there are countries on WGT where this acceptable, but I do know this isn't 1 of them!
In
a freaken Capitol Murder trial if there were 5, or 1000 jurors and only
1 thought you were innocent, end of story, your free to go...
Here,
it is whether or not they think your guilty, don't need proof, we said
so....that's the real problem with this, no ding tests needed although
that is interesting info to know to me, here someone drops a line to CS
and says I think this person is a cheat, and if they agree it is bye
bye, most likely with no proof at all!!!
The "internet cafe guy"
has been the topic in many a discussion for 1yr just because he had CE
on his desktop, should he have been banned, NO, not for having it on
"his desktop", running in his task bar then yes, but not for having
it...was he cheating, most likely with the other evidence given, it took
a f'n year and it wasn't until they introduced this sweepware, as if it
could really find anything...well it obviously didn't find anything on
Toms PC and it only took 1 day!!!!
In Toms case, I think it is
time for WGT to admit that Customer Service "Marcia Clarked" this one,
they admitted over and over they didn't know what he did, but his stats
were highly suspect, so it is time to do the right thing, reinstate him
with a notice that he will be watched very closely!
You can bet everyone here will be watching, and very closely!!!!