RE: Playoffs, Smogon Tour 30
Juuls has been discovered to have, at a minimum, account shared with/received ghosting from a permabanned user(s) during at least some points of their Smogon Tour and OLT runs; they are permanently banned from the forums, disqualified, and their results voided.
If this had been caught before any games were played, we'd have simply reseeded the bracket to account for the missing spot. This unfortunately only came to our attention after the Giannis vs Juuls match, as such we have 3 options:
1. Give a bye in the quarterfinals Giannis lost and his opponent was then disqualified, leaving an empty space in the bracket that would then be filled with a bye. This can't be done for the rather obvious reason that someone advancing straight to the semifinals without having to play while the other players have to win their matches is bad.
2. Put Giannis in the quarterfinals Giannis lost, but his opponent was found to be cheating, so he should be given a free win. This effectively gives Giannis a bye in the round of 16, which is almost as bad as the above example. This leads us to:
3. Pair Giannis with the 17th seed. This isn't perfect, as Giannis is effectively getting 2 lives here, but it's the fairest solution, and the one most similar to the scenario that would have happened had we caught this before the playoffs began in earnest.