Yet a true Dutchie doesn't abandon his roots X(

If the best player in general is not the best player this tournament, he does not deserve the win

spook =o
you've stopped coming to winni

To answer many of your "letter of the law" arguments: I don't believe in rules, I believe in the idea behind the rules. So you can go into the tiny details of each rule but I looked beyond that and that is also the reason why moderators are human and not some kind of bot or script. I decided that the circumstances around this thread surpassed the rules that could be applied to this specific scenario. My decision was based on a few things.

First of all, as I said: I didn't feel that the thread was not going anywhere. Now we could debate about the reason of this happening but in the end everyone who saw the topic knew the purpose of this thread but still had nothing interesting to mention. Thus making it for me not really a hijacking.

Secondly I do not encourage people to start changing subjects in other people's threads, but this case, the thread had already evolved.

Given those circumstances I could have closed it, or enforced the old topic but I felt that leaving it with the new subject it would bother less people and therefore the wiser choice. Beyond that, if Melvin truly wanted to pursue the meaning of this thread, then I felt that making a new thread in community was easier. It is the choice I made and if you don't agree you can go to chat and see if another mod supports your protest.

Of course not. Just saying that there are certain shoulds and logical endings, but beauty of most sports and football too is that it doesn't always turn out as expected.

Since changing the subject is not really against the rules I do not really see the problem here Zarf. Of course you could say this is hijacking or that this is in the wrong part of the forum. But look at it this way, the original question was not politics either so on that behalf nothing really changed here.

As far as the hijacking goes, as no one really attempted to answer you can hardly say anything was interrupted in this thread. So instead of this thread dying lonely at least this thread got a subject where apparently a lot like to talk about. But it seems you prefer to complain then to give others that pleasure...

(moved to general - suits the subject better)

Just because he is german dimp ?

he is now equals with pete on 14. If he wins he has 1 more win than pete

doomer I wanted you active in ICPG!!

boohoo

noo pete is cool!