The bottom line is that they are both being unreasonable. WanderingWinder most likely could have beaten personman with or without tracker, but chose to make a stink about it instead.
I find it unreasonable that you think it unreasonable to hold ethical principles over some kind of desire to win. I see very little reason for me to have competed, and very significant reasons not to.
And in fact, I did not choose to make a stink here until a stink had already been raised.
And that is, I suppose, more than partially my fault; I've always been a bit of a shit-stirrer when it comes to ethical problems, sometimes to my own detriment, and I felt this problem directly violated the community's ethics and camaraderie. I was greatly saddened to see that WW decided not to participate in the finals, especially when it was obvious what the problem was to anyone who had been watching the various threads involved, and knowing that he probably had the best shot at winning, and then doing well at Nationals and Worlds.
I fail to see how WW's reaction to Personman's unwillingness to not use a card counting mechanism is unreasonable. It's not yet verifiable as WW hasn't posted the email logs, but it seems Personman went too far by indicating he would violate the spirit (and possibly the letter, though that's not definitive) of the rules no matter how theory ruled on the matter. That he did violate said rules publicly, and that other players in the finals used his public document, is in my opinion a
de facto invalidation of the final. And were I Jay, I would rule it a
de jure invalidation of the tournament as a whole and, yes, disqualify the winner from the national championship.
On some level I'm glad to see that this kerfuffle has prompted Donald to recommend online tournaments not be allowed as feeders for future RGG-sanctioned tournaments. I'm saddened it had to be done, but if the only way to keep people from cheating is to make it impossible for them to cheat, then so be it.
What do I find unreasonable? People deciding to derail the conversation just because they're uncomfortable with it. Hell, I think theory shutting down my thread was unreasonable, for the same basic reason. But this thread is--I'm sorry--not about Masq vs. Ambassador vs. Bishop. This subforum isn't for strategy discussion, it is for tournament discussion, and discussion of the card counter is, well, quite important to that.