Note: He did not get a Game Loss for Drawing Extra Cards. He received a Game Rules Violation with an upgrade to a Game Loss since it was an error that the opponent had no opportunity to verify the legality of. From the section of the IPG on GRVs:
An error that an opponent has no opportunity to verify the legality of should have its penalty upgraded. These errors involve misplaying hidden information, such as the morph ability or failing to reveal a card to prove that a choice made was a legal one.
This is part of the definition of Drawing Extra Cards:
A player illegally puts one or more cards into his or her hand and, at the moment before he or she began the instruction or action that put a card into his or her hand, no other Game Rule Violation or Communication Policy Violation had been committed
He was resolving the ability incorrectly by not revealing it, so it's a GRV with an upgrade, not DEC.
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Note: He did not get a Game Loss for Drawing Extra Cards. He received a Game Rules Violation with an upgrade to a Game Loss since it was an error that the opponent had no opportunity to verify the legality of. From the section of the IPG on GRVs:
An error that an opponent has no opportunity to verify the legality of should have its penalty upgraded. These errors involve misplaying hidden information, such as the morph ability or failing to reveal a card to prove that a choice made was a legal one.
This is part of the definition of Drawing Extra Cards:
A player illegally puts one or more cards into his or her hand and, at the moment before he or she began the instruction or action that put a card into his or her hand, no other Game Rule Violation or Communication Policy Violation had been committed
He was resolving the ability incorrectly by not revealing it, so it's a GRV with an upgrade, not DEC.
Yah, that makes sense. I had thought he got the game loss for Drawing Extra cards because every single person that has reported on it.....save the real sources of the judges had indicated he got a game loss for Drawing Extra Cards. This makes complete sense.
Lol, that one looks clearly deliberate. He scrys, bottoms, so clearly knows he scrys, resolves read the bones kind of weirdly (puts the two cards in his hand as he is scrying, decides to draw both so it doesn't matter, but still odd), immediately plays the land and plays elspeth. They scry happens at 50:00 even practically, and he drops the land for elspeth at about 50:40. You don't forget that quickly that you had just played a scry land in most situations, IMO, especially when the second land drop is so important to him.
There is nothing wrong about drawing two from Read the Bones without scrying. You're short cutting "put both back on top". You see this all of the time when people are playing with a Courser. You don't have to go through the motions of looking at it and mulling it over if you already know what it is. I mean, it isn't the smartest thing strategically obviously to waste your scry 2.
I don't see why people look at these two possibilities and decide that the right one is Chapin's mastermind cheating:
1. Beginning of Chapin's turn. He realizes that the only way for him to stay in the game here is for him to scry away the worthless card on top of his deck that he doesn't know about, in order to get one more land and Elspeth which he also doesn't know about in order to stabilize. In order to pull off his dirty little double land trick though, he'll have to miss the scry on his own Read the Bones in order to muddy the waters. Then he zeros Ugin and windmill slams his land in order to make it not look suspicious. He's relying on the fact that if he's obvious about it people won't question whether he already played a land.
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2. Chapin is in a bad spot, scrys, and bottoms. He bottoms. Thing are looking dire. He reads the bones and is so happy to see Elspeth that he draws the two cards instead of scrying first. After realizing what he did, he's flustered. He calms down and counts his mana to see if he should play an Elspeth. He realizes he has to play a land, lucky enough he drew one off of his Read the Bones. He lays it and then plays Elspeth.
Obviously I've exaggerated both situations, but still. Also, playing extra lands (unless it was seen as cheating) is not a game loss, so to say that Chapin deserved it from Karma or something like that is silly.
2. Chapin is in a bad spot, scrys, and bottoms. He bottoms. Thing are looking dire. He reads the bones and is so happy to see Elspeth that he draws the two cards instead of scrying first.
He didn't see Elspeth until it was in his hand. This was not a case of looking at the two cards, deciding he wanted them, and then putting them into his hand before putting them back onto the top of the deck. He never looked. He just put them right into his hand.
I got the sense from watching the video that he was nervous. The sequence of actions would tend to confirm my observation. Whether he was nervous because he was up to something bad or made mistakes because he was nervous, we will never know. I tend to think people are good and believe that it was an innocent mistake. I would want to see repeated similar violations before make a judgment that it was intentional.
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I don't believe that Chapin was attempting to cheat in any way with the Read the Bones turn. He simply saw Elspeth and forgot he had already played a land for the turn. He plays another land, plays Elspeth. That is a Game Rules violation under the rules, depending on how the judge interprets his intent. So, assuming he was not attempting to cheat, it would be a warning for Game Rules Violation.
I agree with many people here. The game loss for Chapin was harsh but fair. The letter of the law was followed despite what we as the viewer knows. I felt bad for him, I think argueing his case was fair enough, like Ceddy P said we probably should of cut away while it happend though. As for the extra land well similar to Lee shi Tan's similar mistake at the World magic cup I basically give him a warning, we are watching you carefully. He really should know better, perhaps the pressure of being in the king of the hill table so long got to him.
Evan erwin was calling for a rules change basically to allow video replay, it is worth talking about I am not sure yet which side I fall.
The others were straight up cheating though.. when I watched the replay of Filipe's, oh boy thats a cheat... someone prayed to Phenax before the tournament. Dezani used up his community warning at the World championships so blergh he has been cutting those corner's of moral bounds and got caught over the line.
I didn't see speck but he got very caught apperently.
I think the important thing is that people are watching now and we will catch you.
It was a procedural error which is enforced because of all the ways you can cheat by overlapping revealed cards with your hand.
We only know he is innocent because of the camera and the rules say you can't give an advantage to those playing under the cameras.
Lucky to not get a DQ for misrepresenting the game state "he knows whats in my hand" was a lie (intentional or not), Course was exiled just before.
Nobody feels that bad for him anyway as he played 2 lands to play Elsepth which I'm sure will be under investigation. I don't think it was intentional but that's not for me to decide. He is far from out of the woods here.
Allowing video replay in the feature match area cannot be allowed. It gives those whom the coverage team an advantage. If Chapin does this at any other table other than the feature match one, the ruling is still the same. Allowing replay here gives him an advantage because of whom he is and why he is on camera. We all know he did nothing wrong, but he cannot be treated special because he is a MTG celebrity, which is exactly what allowing camera replays would do.
Also, I agree with the commentators at the event. You can't make the feature match a special area...
The feature match is a special area. They get seated separately and have time extensions. They have judges watching them. But most importantly, they have hundreds or thousands of people watching them. Which not only puts stress on the players, but it also means for the event that optics matter.
Regardless of the actual judge decision, the way the commentators handled this was just bad. If the Pro Tour is supposed to be an advertisement for Magic, staying on a live judge ruling for 15 minutes over a card that the viewers could see was a legal card on the camera footage doesnt make tournament play look appealing to people. Cut away. It seems like every other Pro Tour there is some issue with their commentators/crew being unprofessional or incompetent.
Allowing video replay in the feature match area cannot be allowed. It gives those whom the coverage team an advantage. If Chapin does this at any other table other than the feature match one, the ruling is still the same. Allowing replay here gives him an advantage because of whom he is and why he is on camera. We all know he did nothing wrong, but he cannot be treated special because he is a MTG celebrity, which is exactly what allowing camera replays would do.
I have to agree with Taldier here; being in a featured match area is a special area. Players get time extensions, they're on camera for being good players, and there are camera there. This is a resource which is already being used for viewing pleasure and as evidence for cheating for the DCI. It should be used for judge calls.
Does this ProTour have an unusual high amount of cheats (at least controversey) going on ? or is it just that the community, live-stream and the latest cheating impacts make it even more visible ?
Allowing video replay in the feature match area cannot be allowed. It gives those whom the coverage team an advantage. If Chapin does this at any other table other than the feature match one, the ruling is still the same. Allowing replay here gives him an advantage because of whom he is and why he is on camera. We all know he did nothing wrong, but he cannot be treated special because he is a MTG celebrity, which is exactly what allowing camera replays would do.
But again, they are already being treated differently in that the coverage will be seen by thousands and reviewed for the cheats. They are getting "special treatment" as it is now, adding replay to the judge's toolbox just alters that special treatment, it doesn't create it.
Allowing video replay in the feature match area cannot be allowed. It gives those whom the coverage team an advantage. If Chapin does this at any other table other than the feature match one, the ruling is still the same. Allowing replay here gives him an advantage because of whom he is and why he is on camera. We all know he did nothing wrong, but he cannot be treated special because he is a MTG celebrity, which is exactly what allowing camera replays would do.
In this case, allowing video replay would have uncovered a couple of "fibs" by Chapin: he said his opponent knew his hand which apparently was not true; and he said he never put the card in his hand, yet he picked up the three cards with one hand and raised them high enough for the camera to see them, he clearly put the card in his hand.
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Does this ProTour have an unusual high amount of cheats (at least controversey) going on ? or is it just that the community, live-stream and the latest cheating impacts make it even more visible ?
You mean Society. Did Society have an usually high amount of cheats and controversy? Yes. And cameras everywhere are making those more visible. Including exposing people who like to make little white lies about stuff that just happened because nobody remembered that stuff. Well, cameras do remember.
Chapin was not in good form in this match. A few turns earlier, with his hands appearing to be shaking, he played a temple and scryed, putting a card on the bottom (could anyone tell what that card was?). He then cast Read The Bones and skipped the scry to put the top 2 cards directly in his hand. The two cards were Elspeth and a land. He then played the land (his second of the turn) and cast Elspeth. Did anyone else notice his hands shaking? He looked nervous to me.
Patrick Chapin's hands shake 100% of the time. I forget exactly why, but it's some sort of physical condition. It's certainly not a tell.
I have to agree with Taldier here; being in a featured match area is a special area. Players get time extensions, they're on camera for being good players, and there are camera there. This is a resource which is already being used for viewing pleasure and as evidence for cheating for the DCI. It should be used for judge calls.
I've noticed a lot of people making the cheating comparison, and some (not you, you're just the post on this page that talks about cheating) have gone so far as to say that because you can get caught cheating, which is a downside, you should be able to have the footage impact judge calls, which is an upside. This is a flawed comparison on two levels, and the differences should be obvious.
First, while the camera can be used to catch cheaters, it could also be used to exonerate a non-cheater. In a non-feature area, say a player sees an opponent shuffling in a way he thinks looks odd, and he calls a judge because the opponent had two god hands in a row or something. At that point, its word against word and it's extremely hard to make the call for a judge, and there's a decent chance of getting it wrong and saying a person who has an odd, but perfectly legal, way of shuffling gets a penalty for cheating. However, if there's footage, a judge may have actual hard evidence on determining whether or not a cheat actually occurred. So the whole "you can get caught cheating on camera, so it's pure downside" argument isn't actually correct, and further, why do we care if cheaters are facing a downside? lol.
Secondly, using video footage to reverse judge calls would also open them up to using the footage to make retroactive judge calls. If a player can have the judge review footage to get a call reversed in his favor, why could I not, after I lost, go back and watch the match and see that my opponent made some unintentional error that should have resulted in a game loss and demand that I be credited with the win, or that he get a game loss for whatever round he's in now? Nothing. That's why judge calls are markedly different than cheating, beyond the obvious different organizations/different "penalties."
Yeah I agree that we shouldn't treat people in front of cameras differently. Yes their matches go longer, but the time is the same because it takes longer to get them seated. I also agree that cameras should be used for investigations and not game rulings. It's not fair if someone not in front of the camera gets shafted because they didn't have a vid on their match to change a game ruling. Wizards obviously can't afford to put a vid on every match, so the current ruling should stay.
The Chapin thing was just handled poorly on every angle. Not using video replay is 100% dishonest when they can use it to prove you were cheating, but refuse to use it to prove you weren't. The upgrade doesn't even apply when you take into account that he can verify it because it was all on camera steaming to thousands of people, never mind the 4 judges in the room watching the match. The feature match is a feature area with not special rules, but special allowances like time and logistics. Also Michele Ancola should have been quite when the judge told him to shut up. It was obvious to everyone that he was just campaigning to give Chapin a loss, even thought it wouldn't have mattered if he knew the cards or not.
Secondly the whole "it touched the other cards and that means it is in your hand" rule is dependent on physical dexterity, someone that has no place in magic. He clearly choose the card and put it down so that everyone in the room and on stream could tell it apart from the other cards in his hand and proceed to put the cards on bottom, and when he picked up the cards to get a grip on it(new dragon sleeves can be very slick) to show his opponent, they said he hadn't revealed it, when it was literally in the process of doing that. It wasn't out of order sequencing. How many people write down the life loss of thoughtseize before your opponent chooses which card, even though that is the order it happens in? I can't wait for someone to try and rules lawyer me into a loss because I set my cards from Dig Through Time too close to my hand. Chapins hand shake all the time, go watch the video of him winning the JOU Pro Tour, his hands shake constantly.
Does anyone know how Jeremy Dezani changed his story?
If MTG wants to be taken seriously as a "competitive" game moving forward, they need to video tape every single match on the pro tour (and obviously allow reviewing of tape similar to what happens in professional sports). No excuses.
If you have a quarter of a million dollars in prize money to give out to the top 75 players, you can afford some more cameras
If MTG wants to be taken seriously as a "competitive" game moving forward, they need to video tape every single match on the pro tour (and obviously allow reviewing of tape similar to what happens in professional sports). No excuses.
If you have a quarter of a million dollars in prize money to give out to the top 75 players, you can afford some more cameras
sure, in a perfect world.
but lets talk reality. thats a lot of cameras. thats a lot of extra space. a lot of extra time to set up. thats a lot of people calling for judges to review the tapes whenever they feel something is in error. thats more playback devices, thats more space, thats more people on staff to review and maintain everything. its absurd. it can't work in practice.
mtgo (or any digital magic) isn't the answer either for largely the same problems.
the best bet is to really just keep shoring up the rules every time things like this happen, and maybe try to get a few more judges to these events. maybe treat feature matches differently, since they already are... you know being feature matches and all.
If MTG wants to be taken seriously as a "competitive" game moving forward, they need to video tape every single match on the pro tour (and obviously allow reviewing of tape similar to what happens in professional sports). No excuses.
If you have a quarter of a million dollars in prize money to give out to the top 75 players, you can afford some more cameras
sure, in a perfect world.
but lets talk reality. thats a lot of cameras. thats a lot of extra space. a lot of extra time to set up. thats a lot of people calling for judges to review the tapes whenever they feel something is in error. thats more playback devices, thats more space, thats more people on staff to review and maintain everything. its absurd. it can't work in practice.
mtgo (or any digital magic) isn't the answer either for largely the same problems.
the best bet is to really just keep shoring up the rules every time things like this happen, and maybe try to get a few more judges to these events. maybe treat feature matches differently, since they already are... you know being feature matches and all.
Its not as bad as you think.
You can use very basic cameras, pretty much a webcam and a flexible stick and put that on the desk pointing on the play-area.
Camera can easily fit the players and the field on camera. What you can do is allways have all hands in the camera, if you want "that" , it will be more costly (you clearly dont want to put a helm-camera on everyones head or something stupid).
A player should never be allowed to call a judge to view a tape. However, a judge could allways be able to view a tape if they feel its necessary to do so, as its helpfull to collect informations if players cant or wont provide it.
That said a web-cam like camera for each table should be TOTALLY viable, even 200 of them will not be too costly.
And the software to manage those 200 cameras? And the personal resources to both manage the film from 200 cameras plus the judges needed to manage the volume of calls that will come from using it as a resource? And the logistics of setting those up at PTs and GPs? Sorry that is all non trivial and I'm not prepared to accept the cost that comes in increased pack costs in order to solve a problem that doesn't need solving. The ruling is final. The card does not touch your hand final full stop. Chapin did it and got a game loss. Maybe in the future he'll think about playing properly and not make multiple mistakes. Just because you're playing fast doesn't mean you need to play sloppy. Look at Shoota or LSV or many other pro players for that.
Chapin's "truthfullness" in his explaination is really irrelevant here. This is a pro tour event and he is a hall of famer. A hall of famer who has multiple times in his past written articles pointing out instances where people should have and should not have been punished for cheating. He knows the rules. He did not reveal his card to ajani. Regardless of how technical a violation you think this is one thing is clear. Drawing extra cards results in a game loss. He drew extra cards according to the letter of the law. He was given a game loss. End of story. He didn't get upset at the decision like some of his fan boys clearly are. I want to believe thats because he being the professional that he is knows it was his fault.
Also I know a judge wasn't called for this, but playing a second land in the same turn? a land the happend to cast elspeth? I mean jesus he SCRYED with a scry land before casting the read the bones that drew elspeth and a land. I am going to stop short of calling Chapin a cheater. Some players have earned the benefit of the doubt, and he has certainly earned his. But benefit of the doubt and special treatment are not the same thing. Patrick 100% should have gotten his game loss.
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I just saw Felipe Valdivia video. This guy needs to be banned for some ammount of time. That was not a mistake.
I hate what happened to Chapin. Don't get me wrong, he's not even in my top 10 list of favorite pros. I just don't see why the game state shouldn't allowed to be corrected there. We should be using all the tools available to us if such an occasion arises, even if that means that the .1% of matches get special treatment with video evidence.
Also, you can't hate on someone trying to argue his position. What I do hate, is rules lawyering though. Its the main reason why a lot of people don't play at high level events (myself included). When having to memorize a rulebook so you can recognize and protect yourself from angleshooting becomes a large part of the game, it loses its appeal, especially when you see Chapin's opponent rallying against him on stream. I get the whole 'the rules are the rules' set-in-stone attitude, and I have no doubt Chapin will continue to be a spokesman for the game, but I do feel like the rules in this situation seem quite outdated, and given the circumstances, feel backwards almost. And in this situation, it seems more harmful to the game than anything. I'm not saying that having 16k people watching Chapin get a game loss for what looked like to them was no reason should factor into the rules, but they're the ones who put him under camera to begin with. Some flexibility wouldn't go amiss, even if it ultimately resulted in the same ruling.
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This is part of the definition of Drawing Extra Cards:
He was resolving the ability incorrectly by not revealing it, so it's a GRV with an upgrade, not DEC.
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Yah, that makes sense. I had thought he got the game loss for Drawing Extra cards because every single person that has reported on it.....save the real sources of the judges had indicated he got a game loss for Drawing Extra Cards. This makes complete sense.
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There is nothing wrong about drawing two from Read the Bones without scrying. You're short cutting "put both back on top". You see this all of the time when people are playing with a Courser. You don't have to go through the motions of looking at it and mulling it over if you already know what it is. I mean, it isn't the smartest thing strategically obviously to waste your scry 2.
I don't see why people look at these two possibilities and decide that the right one is Chapin's mastermind cheating:
1. Beginning of Chapin's turn. He realizes that the only way for him to stay in the game here is for him to scry away the worthless card on top of his deck that he doesn't know about, in order to get one more land and Elspeth which he also doesn't know about in order to stabilize. In order to pull off his dirty little double land trick though, he'll have to miss the scry on his own Read the Bones in order to muddy the waters. Then he zeros Ugin and windmill slams his land in order to make it not look suspicious. He's relying on the fact that if he's obvious about it people won't question whether he already played a land.
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2. Chapin is in a bad spot, scrys, and bottoms. He bottoms. Thing are looking dire. He reads the bones and is so happy to see Elspeth that he draws the two cards instead of scrying first. After realizing what he did, he's flustered. He calms down and counts his mana to see if he should play an Elspeth. He realizes he has to play a land, lucky enough he drew one off of his Read the Bones. He lays it and then plays Elspeth.
Obviously I've exaggerated both situations, but still. Also, playing extra lands (unless it was seen as cheating) is not a game loss, so to say that Chapin deserved it from Karma or something like that is silly.
The Read the Bones turn was either an honest mistake or an undetected intentional cheat. I'd say the former is more likely by far.
I got the sense from watching the video that he was nervous. The sequence of actions would tend to confirm my observation. Whether he was nervous because he was up to something bad or made mistakes because he was nervous, we will never know. I tend to think people are good and believe that it was an innocent mistake. I would want to see repeated similar violations before make a judgment that it was intentional.
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Evan erwin was calling for a rules change basically to allow video replay, it is worth talking about I am not sure yet which side I fall.
The others were straight up cheating though.. when I watched the replay of Filipe's, oh boy thats a cheat... someone prayed to Phenax before the tournament. Dezani used up his community warning at the World championships so blergh he has been cutting those corner's of moral bounds and got caught over the line.
I didn't see speck but he got very caught apperently.
I think the important thing is that people are watching now and we will catch you.
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It was a procedural error which is enforced because of all the ways you can cheat by overlapping revealed cards with your hand.
We only know he is innocent because of the camera and the rules say you can't give an advantage to those playing under the cameras.
Lucky to not get a DQ for misrepresenting the game state "he knows whats in my hand" was a lie (intentional or not), Course was exiled just before.
Nobody feels that bad for him anyway as he played 2 lands to play Elsepth which I'm sure will be under investigation. I don't think it was intentional but that's not for me to decide. He is far from out of the woods here.
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I have to agree with Taldier here; being in a featured match area is a special area. Players get time extensions, they're on camera for being good players, and there are camera there. This is a resource which is already being used for viewing pleasure and as evidence for cheating for the DCI. It should be used for judge calls.
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But again, they are already being treated differently in that the coverage will be seen by thousands and reviewed for the cheats. They are getting "special treatment" as it is now, adding replay to the judge's toolbox just alters that special treatment, it doesn't create it.
In this case, allowing video replay would have uncovered a couple of "fibs" by Chapin: he said his opponent knew his hand which apparently was not true; and he said he never put the card in his hand, yet he picked up the three cards with one hand and raised them high enough for the camera to see them, he clearly put the card in his hand.
You mean Society. Did Society have an usually high amount of cheats and controversy? Yes. And cameras everywhere are making those more visible. Including exposing people who like to make little white lies about stuff that just happened because nobody remembered that stuff. Well, cameras do remember.
Patrick Chapin's hands shake 100% of the time. I forget exactly why, but it's some sort of physical condition. It's certainly not a tell.
I've noticed a lot of people making the cheating comparison, and some (not you, you're just the post on this page that talks about cheating) have gone so far as to say that because you can get caught cheating, which is a downside, you should be able to have the footage impact judge calls, which is an upside. This is a flawed comparison on two levels, and the differences should be obvious.
First, while the camera can be used to catch cheaters, it could also be used to exonerate a non-cheater. In a non-feature area, say a player sees an opponent shuffling in a way he thinks looks odd, and he calls a judge because the opponent had two god hands in a row or something. At that point, its word against word and it's extremely hard to make the call for a judge, and there's a decent chance of getting it wrong and saying a person who has an odd, but perfectly legal, way of shuffling gets a penalty for cheating. However, if there's footage, a judge may have actual hard evidence on determining whether or not a cheat actually occurred. So the whole "you can get caught cheating on camera, so it's pure downside" argument isn't actually correct, and further, why do we care if cheaters are facing a downside? lol.
Secondly, using video footage to reverse judge calls would also open them up to using the footage to make retroactive judge calls. If a player can have the judge review footage to get a call reversed in his favor, why could I not, after I lost, go back and watch the match and see that my opponent made some unintentional error that should have resulted in a game loss and demand that I be credited with the win, or that he get a game loss for whatever round he's in now? Nothing. That's why judge calls are markedly different than cheating, beyond the obvious different organizations/different "penalties."
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Secondly the whole "it touched the other cards and that means it is in your hand" rule is dependent on physical dexterity, someone that has no place in magic. He clearly choose the card and put it down so that everyone in the room and on stream could tell it apart from the other cards in his hand and proceed to put the cards on bottom, and when he picked up the cards to get a grip on it(new dragon sleeves can be very slick) to show his opponent, they said he hadn't revealed it, when it was literally in the process of doing that. It wasn't out of order sequencing. How many people write down the life loss of thoughtseize before your opponent chooses which card, even though that is the order it happens in? I can't wait for someone to try and rules lawyer me into a loss because I set my cards from Dig Through Time too close to my hand. Chapins hand shake all the time, go watch the video of him winning the JOU Pro Tour, his hands shake constantly.
Does anyone know how Jeremy Dezani changed his story?
If you have a quarter of a million dollars in prize money to give out to the top 75 players, you can afford some more cameras
sure, in a perfect world.
but lets talk reality. thats a lot of cameras. thats a lot of extra space. a lot of extra time to set up. thats a lot of people calling for judges to review the tapes whenever they feel something is in error. thats more playback devices, thats more space, thats more people on staff to review and maintain everything. its absurd. it can't work in practice.
mtgo (or any digital magic) isn't the answer either for largely the same problems.
the best bet is to really just keep shoring up the rules every time things like this happen, and maybe try to get a few more judges to these events. maybe treat feature matches differently, since they already are... you know being feature matches and all.
Its not as bad as you think.
You can use very basic cameras, pretty much a webcam and a flexible stick and put that on the desk pointing on the play-area.
Camera can easily fit the players and the field on camera. What you can do is allways have all hands in the camera, if you want "that" , it will be more costly (you clearly dont want to put a helm-camera on everyones head or something stupid).
A player should never be allowed to call a judge to view a tape. However, a judge could allways be able to view a tape if they feel its necessary to do so, as its helpfull to collect informations if players cant or wont provide it.
That said a web-cam like camera for each table should be TOTALLY viable, even 200 of them will not be too costly.
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Also I know a judge wasn't called for this, but playing a second land in the same turn? a land the happend to cast elspeth? I mean jesus he SCRYED with a scry land before casting the read the bones that drew elspeth and a land. I am going to stop short of calling Chapin a cheater. Some players have earned the benefit of the doubt, and he has certainly earned his. But benefit of the doubt and special treatment are not the same thing. Patrick 100% should have gotten his game loss.
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I just saw Felipe Valdivia video. This guy needs to be banned for some ammount of time. That was not a mistake.
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Also, you can't hate on someone trying to argue his position. What I do hate, is rules lawyering though. Its the main reason why a lot of people don't play at high level events (myself included). When having to memorize a rulebook so you can recognize and protect yourself from angleshooting becomes a large part of the game, it loses its appeal, especially when you see Chapin's opponent rallying against him on stream. I get the whole 'the rules are the rules' set-in-stone attitude, and I have no doubt Chapin will continue to be a spokesman for the game, but I do feel like the rules in this situation seem quite outdated, and given the circumstances, feel backwards almost. And in this situation, it seems more harmful to the game than anything. I'm not saying that having 16k people watching Chapin get a game loss for what looked like to them was no reason should factor into the rules, but they're the ones who put him under camera to begin with. Some flexibility wouldn't go amiss, even if it ultimately resulted in the same ruling.