starting at
#324. SG forum admin HeNiNnG (and, if I am not mistaken, involved in the Pentathlon organization), wrote in
#330: "We are very glad that there was fair play in the end, since the team affiliation was switched back again." (This misses the point of the forth-and-back of membership; the person did not produce points while posing as TC member.)
pschoefer wrote in
#356: "During the last seven years (
that's how long this is ago)*, nothing has really change regarding this issue. Who thinks they must push down the overall score of other teams because they can't win on their own, doesn't need to be surprised if there is no competition next year, or even no contest. At this point in time I also don't believe that a discussion of this particular case is productive; as you note, we don't know yet what really happened." (This was on May 10, while the organizers waited for a response to an inquiry with WCG.)
*) pschoefer refers to three members of ESL switching to SETI.USA during Pentathlon 2010, in an attempt to prevent SETI.Germany from winning a MilkyWay race, and posted an apology afterwards.
shka (not an organizer) wrote in
#361, giving his opinion ab: "Switching teams is possible in any other project [besides WCG] too. And also circumvention of any kind of new super duper rules. Therefore, such actions are the death of Penta, either because the teams lose interest or because the organizers don't want to be the ones responsible for something they have no means to control, sanction, prevent, or whatever. Therefore don't do this. But a discussion about it is futile. Take tax law for example - 100 people invent rules, 80 million ponder how far they can go to circumvent them." pschoefer quotes shka in
#363 and responds: "In any other project, a simple team change would not have influenced the stats. But otherwise I have nothing to add to this."
Translation mistakes are mine.