It's probably worth pointing out that if the person in question did in fact cheat, it's entirely possible that he could have done it without the collusion of his teammates or the TD. I've been following this case with some interest since I first saw the stats of the most recent tournament alluded to in qbcardinalsin's original post, and my pet theory as to what happened is that the accused hacked in to the TD's e-mail and got access to the questions that way, entirely w/o the knowledge of the TD or anyone else in the club. It seems unlikely to me that any cheating that happened was the result of a club-wide conspiracy--if there had been such a conspiracy, the members presumably would have been smart enough to "spread the wealth" between the various players on the team so as to avoid the implausible jumps in individual stats that have gotten everyone's attention. Anyway, I think it's safe to say that some pretty compelling prima facie evidence has been supplied here. Pretty much all the possible mitigating factors that anyone else has suggested break down when one actually looks at the tournaments involved. In particular, the accused's lowest ppg actually came in the only one of Tournaments A-E that was limited to undergrads, and his 56 and 77 ppg performances were in tournaments that had quite a few grad students and which, though hosted by his club, were neither written nor edited by that club--thus the jumps can't be explained by a weaker field or by familiarity with the writer's/ editor's style. I'd really like to think that the accused didn't do anything wrong, but without him coming forward to defend himself, I have to say that all available evidence points to the contrary. If he does have some explanation, I (and I suspect most everyone else in this thread) would sure like to hear it. -Mike Usher
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