@Gigaknight: so is your point that if you entered this tournament, you won't play with an opponent with PCE enabled, but is willing to play with a player who writes everything down on a paper?
No, that's not what I'm saying. I would expect the tournament organizers to rule on PCE / note-taking and then, as a participant in the tournament, I would follow that rule. If players want to cheat once a firm ruling is in place, I can't stop them. I can report them if I have evidence of cheating, though. And, in this case, I think theory erred by not ruling that PCE / note-taking was illegal. If I were the organizer and Personman had told
me that he would do it anyway, I would DQ him on the spot.
It's no different to me than if somebody wrote an undetectable hack. If somebody told me in seriousness that they were going to use it, I would DQ them. The people who don't care about integrity will use whatever tools they have access to, regardless of the policy. If any of them would tell me about it, I would just regard them particularly stupid while DQing them.
At some point, you simply have to acknowledge that you can't control your opponents. Some people care more about winning than integrity; that's reality. All you can do is decide which is more important to you and then give input on things to change in the future.
Now, if future tournaments want to use the PCE to minimize cheating, that's fine too. But this tournament had no expectation of the PCE and theory should have, IMO, brought the formal rules inline with the intentions. It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position for him to be in, though.