My main gripe about the def win alt laming wasn't even the act itself, but the fact the top10 players have decks strong enough to not even bother with that... Heck, if they were to spend all the puddings their alt account must have had thrown at on getting atk wins, they'd only get around 10% less wins (from the natural focus regen the alt gets), and still reach the 2k wins by event's end.

I can admit I've alt-attacked myself a few times, in order to get those 2 or 3 atks missing to jump another place up. However, those never accounted for more than 10~15% of my def wins, which is only a bit more than 1/3rd of the amount in my atk wins count... Making it less than 5% of my win count.
In the end, that means that, instead of 80th, I would have placed 90th. At worst, I'd have needed a bit more of a push to stay in top100.
Seeing as I'm farming puddings for next guards, I actually have enough of those to double or triple that amount if needed.

I'm actually glad Nutaku has purged that huge disparity.
As I posted a few pages ago, the huge amount of cheating was prevalent on top5. More than half of top10 was actually playing relatively fairly.

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Last minute important retraction:
Checking the final results of the first part, I can positively tell you there was absolutely no purge in this.

The top5 are still the same players (Just 1st pulled the wool over everybody's eyes and did a 2k def wins upswing in the last 2hs), with the same amount of ridiculously cheated numbers.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

there is no way to cheat in offensive victories for strong players it's natural to win almost everything, i dont lose at rank 1 fighting other rank 1 very often and using puddings it's no surprise people get ahead fast

I fully agree with you on this.
I lost 5 of my first 20 battles, and then got a 353 win streak. The only reason I lost that, instead of being in a 500 win streak right now, is that I got a bit impatient and attacked some people I knew were going to be trouble.

But I have a 75%/25% win/loss ratio on rank1 vs rank1 random battles.
Searching for known weaker opponents? I could as well do a 1k win streak for the whole event.

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I can see, however, a nice turn-around on this exploit amongst the top10 players.

Most seem to not even be bothering with def win laming.
Sanae seems to be keeping it on the down-low, with a 5 to 1 ratio of atk/def wins.

However, some of the usual suspects are still keeping it up:
ARM (2nd) has a staggering 1 to 10 atk/def ratio, while Harl and roysyj (9th and 13th respectively) are keeping close with a 1 to 5 ratio.

There's a few adventurous players with a 2 to 1 ratio, but nothing as shamelessly obvious as those 3.
Tytek, ru4real777, Zeithurlais, and Narisa (the other 4 biggest offenders in the first half) seem to be at 1 to 2 ratio (the first two) or completely absent (the last two). They might not have started playing seriously yet.
We'll have to see standings by tomorrow.

BTW, Sanae just went up to 3 to 1 ratio. I guess I spoke too soon.