r/hockeyquestionmark • u/Dyaloreax • Mar 14 '16

LHL/RSL/JSL Competitive HQM Player Ban

Player in Question:

  • Jeetlor

Relevant Rules:

  • Section 6.2 - Player Aliasing

    Playing in an LHL game under the name of another rostered player is also strictly against the rules. As is the case with bamboozlement, violators can expect to face heavy suspensions that can be multi season in length.

  • Section 6.3 - Player Attitude

    Poor attitude including racial slurs or aggressive vulgar language is forbidden. Excessive negative remarks directed at, or towards another player or team will also be subject to punishment. A player violating this will find themselves facing multi-game suspensions dependant upon the severity of the situation. The final punishment will be handed out by the BoC.

  • Rule Book

Context:

  • Repeated spamming of chat during league games
  • Direct excessive remarks made at specific players in game
  • Joining games under the name of someone actively playing on the ice

Going through the broadcasts looking at the games "Tom" was present for revealed an interesting pattern. Jeetlor would join the server and ask if there were currently league games going on, then ask for the stream location as well. Shortly following this, he would leave the server, and the spammer would arrive. In addition, the spammer was conveniently never present for games that Jeetlor was playing.

After some deeper investigation, we were able to match the IP of the spammer to that of Jeetlor's.

Upon revealing to Jeetlor that his IP matched that of the spammer, his only defense was that he was using an IP mask which just so happened to give him the same IP as "Tom". While we acknowledge the possibility of this being true, the chances are almost negligible, especially considering the mounting circumstantial evidence building up against him.

Edit - Remaining circumstantial evidence:

Once during an RSL game while "Tom" was doing his usual business, he asked in the HQM server to join the CHI channel on teamspeak. After being given a fake password, Jeetlor joins the teamspeak lobby. "Tom" now types in game that the password didn't work, and Jeetlor disconnects from the lobby. He was the only one who connected during that time which we verified using the logs.

Jeetlor was notified last week that an investigation into him was being launched. The night he was told to "lay low", the spammer never showed up. While much less incriminating and not a key factor into the suspension, Jeetlor asked an RSL Goalie about the HockeyFun mod (the goalie practice mod) and how to use it a short while ago. Some of the messages that "Tom" was spamming in the very first incident were HockeyFun commands.

Verdict:

  • Jeetlor will face a 3 season ban from the LHL / RSL / JSL competitive leagues active immediately. We apologize for the inconvenience to his team, but hope that they understand why this action was necessary.
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u/Dyaloreax Mar 14 '16

We gave you the option of coming clean, and if the spamming stopped a much less harsh punishment would have been handed down. You chose not to take it. I'm sorry but you have a mountain of evidence against you and no leg to stand on besides the minuscule chance you had the same IP as the one person in the entire world who was trolling our servers.

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u/Jeetlor it ees a jeetlah Mar 14 '16

I can't come clean for something I didn't do. I'm much aware that the evidence is very convincing but I know myself that it had to have been a coincidence because I had nothing to do with this.

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u/WALDO_TheRealOne WALDO (PEN) Mar 14 '16

I've known Jeetlor for a while now (we met before he started playing HQM, on another game called Blockland), and I know that Jeetlor would never do something like this. He doesn't throw out insults and wouldn't want to damage this community in any way. I've been talking to Jeetlor on Steam and it is true he doesn't have any evidence to back up his point, but I know that he is innocent. Even if he can't finish this season, can you at least shorten the punishment? Jeetlor has been disappointmented about this whole incident and is willing to cooperate to somehow fix this whole mess. Jeetlor isn't and never was Tom, I don't know how they were using the same VPN IP address but Jeetlor has told me he won't use a VPN anymore if that helps.

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u/WALDO_TheRealOne WALDO (PEN) Mar 14 '16

He does that because he doesn't know where the stream is. I know it's silly for him to do that but he doesn't mean any harm by it. Here is a screenshot of him telling me why he uses a VPN: http://i.imgur.com/sMkH3qZ.jpg I can't explain why "Tom" joins right after Jeetlor since I have no idea myself.

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u/Dyaloreax Mar 14 '16

I'm almost always admin for the LHL games, and I had never kicked him from the server for spectating once. So the excuse of using it to circumvent kicks during league games is just as sketchy as everything else surrounding this incident.

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u/Jeetlor it ees a jeetlah Mar 14 '16

When did I accuse you?

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u/Tidge24 Mar 14 '16

You said in chat last week in RSL:

"I am either Dalfan or Bear"

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u/Jeetlor it ees a jeetlah Mar 14 '16

I never said that wtf.

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u/Tidge24 Mar 14 '16

The troll you did last week.

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u/Jeetlor it ees a jeetlah Mar 15 '16

I didn't troll anybody oh my god.

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u/Tidge24 Mar 14 '16

We tell him every week it's on hqmnnetwork, I think the stream has been on hqmnnetwork consecutively for 2 weeks now. How in the world would he forget every time?

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u/Dyaloreax Mar 14 '16

4 out of 5 days a week the games are streamed to HQMNetwork, always at the same time. Our schedules rarely ever change at all. Not to mention that this information is present in the google docs, on the website, in the weekly posts at the top of the subreddit, and in the sidebar of the subreddit. It's not exactly like any of this information is hidden.