Without proof of intent, it cannot be said that HE USED the bug. We can say that some of the mmr points he received/retained because of the game bug.
Well. I already explained that but I guess it's better to ignore my answer since it not supports your opinion.
Don't know about you but I'm pro ladder player and I was aware that a bug existed and how to proc it. Also all of my friends from pro ladder, all streamers (i watch few of them) and most of their chat knew that. What's the point? If we knew also neo knew that. I don't know what evidence CDP RED has but clips posted on reddit shows him in situations where he can't win anymore and thats obvious. What he does? He emotes + waits with his move till last seconds of his turn so his action could possibly proc the bug.
Talking things like "proof that he intented that" is really silly. If I stole bag of chips from shop I'm innocent because maybe I intented just to carry it with me because bag had nice colour and I like fluffy stuff? In adults world we are evaluated on our actions. Our intentions can only support lower/higher penalty but actions is what matters. And the clue is that we have player who was aware of bug, knew how to use it and somehow (I guess it was just bad luck, not bad intentions?) he tried to use it multiple times. It's really lost case.
OFC you can try to defend him by saying that "he didn't know", "was checking previously played cards", "was drinking tea because he was dehydrated" and stuff like that but with proper game knowledge his "inentions" are clear and if you deny it (didnt see single pro player who deny that tho) you are cleary delusional.
The problem with that let's say "logic" is that it happened multiple times. We have at least 4 clips so we can assume that CDP RED could dig more "attempts".
If that rope bug happened only few times there wasn't be a problem. Why? Because shit happens and everyone is aware of that. I also was rope bugged by Crozyr (sorry for using your example, don't hate me) and it wasn't a big deal (I mean I flamed him on his stream because I'm not nice person) but in the end it was single action that was not repeatedly happening and that's why Crozyr is somehow not banned. Or maybe because he is part of those evil western conspiracy who for some unknown reason wants to shame CIS region?
PPL also was banned before (3 days ban?) for using multiple times bug with neutral traveling merchant card. So they could gather evidence before but now in neo's case everything is "suspicious"? Also neo is not the only player who was banned but only who is ekhm... "defended". If you just try to be consistent in your "claims" you need to say that all bans ever was "unfair" since "what about intentions?" "where are proofs?" etc.
In his last stream, Proneo said that he contacted CDPR on this issue. CDPR replied: "you can do nothing about it." Can CDPR confirm or deny this?
He didn't show anything. CDPR can't show their corespondency but Neo can. Why he didnt do that? It's not hard to show emails.
That is what I am talking about. Proneo constantly being called cheater, bugabuser and wintrader. However, without proving his intentions this is not fair.
IDK what you have with that "proof his intentions" thing. Guess you call for that because it's something really hard to "proof" and there will be always "field" to say "that didnt convience me, he didnt mean that".
Anyways like I said above, actions is what matter. Also after watching clips his intentions are so far clear for every community member who don't identify with neo. But let's ignore that because it's evil western players conspiracy. Somehow only ppl close to him so far had any doubts. Not weird at all xD
Calling cheaters, bugabusers or wintraders by those terms is perfectly correct. Maybe not most polite but people can be angry.
The clips do not contain evidence of intentional use of the bug.
Yeah, because taking multiple times actions that can proc bug without any other reason for that is not proof at all xD
I really don't want to be mean but you pretend that only situation when neo salutes and says "I, Proneo intended to rope bug my opponent" would be good enough evidence. Or maybe still not good enough because he only said that but maybe intended something else? Sorry but if you want to convience to your opinion anyone who already not support you this is not the correct way.
And here is nothing funny. Proneo speaks Russian. He responded to the accusations in russian. Those who understand russian believed him. He have tried to reply on reddit but his thread was downvoted and banned.
You again doing this disgusting "My opinion = Opinion of all CIS people" thing. Please stop that.
Plot twist, I also speak russian and I don't believe in his single word (i mean I don't say he always lies but that sentence sounds so good xD) from that clip.
Also it really not help if you start your "line of defense" with accusing Alessio for hating CIS+China regions ; ) BTW I see situations like that are becoming much more popular "They accused us for something only because they hate us". It's really dangerous path.
He also "tries" to "explain" why people surrender to him. If he didn't win trade (we, as community have no good proof for that) and never intend to do that he should do 2 things that every person with common sense would do on his place. 1 - Contact with CDPR (He didnt show any proof that he did that). 2 - Ask his viewers/friends to not surrender for him which I assume he didnt do? Also it's pretty weird that people was randomly losing games vs neo but not vs only players.
Saying things like "I don't who this Nik_r guy is" when we have screenshots with neo having him on his friend lists is... let's say pretty weird. Also people was saying that they played at least one friendly game together but I didnt see any proof for that (I'm not a detective like Freddy xD).
Later he says that he was banned not for wintrading but only for rope abusing which is a lie. Rope bug was main reason but not only as Pavko Gale said (I'm such a joker).
Showing alessios clip where he losing 32-56 anh is last play is leader that makes 16 points (so he loses) with argumentation like "People in pro rank think a lot and rope a lot" is just a really poorly made lie. OFC ppl sometimes rope to think but if you need 20-30s to notice that 32+16 is always less than 56 your place is in primary school not in pro rank. Unless you are a lier and just try to rope bug to avoid obvious lose. Pretty funny that poor guy must think that much when simple math says that he already lost. Same thing with other clips.
I see that he tried to undermine trust in the "process" and give those who believe ProNeo's version a reason to feel good about that but acting as helpless victim of Freedys crusade (like CDPR don't have any better proof that his "pro" "evidences" made in paint) won't fool anyone. This video is really on low level and whole point is Neo talking stuff like "I didnt know, I didnt want, .. etc" but those evil guys who speak english for some reason made witch hunt on me. Kinda childish.
Also I really hate like some of you tries to turn it into west vs CIS. As community we should stand together versus all rule breakers no matter of nationality.