Kolemoen's Reddit comment on the topic (link here) said it best... the punishment is too light if it's cheating, should've been a ban from tournaments and Gwent altogether for a certain amount of time like the ProNeo case from 2019.
However, if it's a matter of WangID receiving an unfair advantage without colluding, it's difficult and unreasonable to pin it on the pro player's responsibility to notice and report soft-play/unusual forfeit when it only happens 1 in 27 matches, even if it's a few consecutive games at a time.
Lastly, the most questionable part of the whole situation is still CDPR's MMR deduction method as a punishment. Clearly they deducted the 3.7% on the total 10805 MMR WangID achieved instead of the 1205 portion gained on the base MMR to knock him just outside of the S3 Masters qualification, but what if his MMR was slightly higher at 10885 or 10900? Then this deduction method still won't be enough to knock him out and "keep the integrity of the Gwent Masters"...
However, if it's a matter of WangID receiving an unfair advantage without colluding, it's difficult and unreasonable to pin it on the pro player's responsibility to notice and report soft-play/unusual forfeit when it only happens 1 in 27 matches, even if it's a few consecutive games at a time.
Lastly, the most questionable part of the whole situation is still CDPR's MMR deduction method as a punishment. Clearly they deducted the 3.7% on the total 10805 MMR WangID achieved instead of the 1205 portion gained on the base MMR to knock him just outside of the S3 Masters qualification, but what if his MMR was slightly higher at 10885 or 10900? Then this deduction method still won't be enough to knock him out and "keep the integrity of the Gwent Masters"...
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