UNBANNED Eternity Ban Appeal

[Eternity]

Hi TD,

I was banned around 11:16pm on Aug 8, 2012 for "Team stacking".
I'm sure I was AUTO team switched into the winning team even though i was at the top of mine (and far ahead of the rest of my team).

It was on sewers. Lacrimosa, someone else and I had about 20 kills each and were leading our teams. I originally joined as T but got auto balanced to CT sometime in the middle. Then I was auto switched back to T, which made no sense. I was banned shortly.

I've played on the server for several months, since this january. I never stack teams in the middle of a game. I only choose my team in the beginning of the round so any team switching that happens is due to auto balance/admin.

As proof, here is my Player History from Darkly Statistics.
*edit* http://darkly.gameme.com/player_histories/events/26822
You can view them from my player page:

Aug 8, 2012 11:16:59 pm Disconnect left the game de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:58 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'Plant the Bomb' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:27 pm Death NATRLBRNKILR killed me with Sig Sauer SG-552 Commando de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:27 pm Action received a points bonus of 3 for triggering 'Domination (4 kills)' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:27 pm Team joined team TERRORIST (Terrorist) de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:26 pm Kill killed Gravityman with a headshot from Colt M4A1 Carbine de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:26 pm Action received a points bonus of 1 for triggering 'Headshot' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:16:17 pm Kill killed .:BuBBLe GooSe:. with Colt M4A1 Carbine de_sewer_b3


Notice that NATRLBRNKILR (a terrorist) killed me. I also switched teams during the same second.
This isn't even humanly possible.

Thanks for reading through this. Hope to see you guys in the servers soon.

- Eternity

 

[Steve]

Auto team balance does not swap at death, it swaps at the start of a new round. No admins swapped you either, if they had there would be an SM message announcing your future swap in chat.


In your original chat with BJ you said you were swapped to T and still had your M4. How exactly is that possible if you were killed by NBK before the swap as the stats say?

 

[Eternity]

I think there is something wrong with team balance/auto switch. It is swapping people during the *edit*few*edit* seconds between an end of a round and the beginning of a round, while they are alive.
It happened during this map when I shot Lacri in the back after going from T to CT.

 

[Eternity]

In your original chat with BJ you said you were swapped to T and still had your M4. How exactly is that possible if you were killed by NBK before the swap as the stats say?

No that isn't possible, it was a mistake in my memory since i was excited.
I corrected myself after I read through my player history since I was killed by NBK before swap.

The swap happened at the exact moment of death apparently.

 

[Eternity]

As requested from SJ:

But this only shows the last bit of my console.
http://i.imgur.com/WZewI.jpg

 

[Eternity]

So I'm trying to say that the server switched me somehow. Here are some other instances of getting switched at the same second during a round winning condition. The new round did not begin yet.

- On the same map. Killed Lacri after i got switched to CT alive. All CTs were dead.
Aug 8, 2012 11:08:51 pm Kill killed TD│ Lacrimosa with a headshot from Kalashnikov AK-47 de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:08:51 pm Action received a points bonus of 1 for triggering 'Headshot' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:08:47 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Counter-Terrorists eliminated' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:08:47 pm Action received a points bonus of 1 for triggering 'Double Kill (2 kills)' de_sewer_b3
Aug 8, 2012 11:08:47 pm Team joined team CT (Counter-Terrorist)

- Got round winning kill, switched alive.
Aug 8, 2012 811 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Counter-Terrorists eliminated' de_3rdstreet_td
Aug 8, 2012 811 pm Kill killed TD│ Glock with Kalashnikov AK-47 de_3rdstreet_td
Aug 8, 2012 811 pm Action received a points bonus of 4 for triggering 'Rampage (5 kills)' de_3rdstreet_td
Aug 8, 2012 811 pm Team joined team CT (Counter-Terrorist)

- Round ended.
Aug 8, 2012 7:16:41 pm Action received a points bonus of 3 for triggering 'Domination (4 kills)' de_train
Aug 8, 2012 7:16:41 pm Team joined team TERRORIST (Terrorist) de_train

- Round ended, shot in back by former teammate. Died again the next round.
Aug 8, 2012 7:02:44 pm Death futuretech killed me with Steyr Aug de_cbble
Aug 8, 2012 7:02:18 pm Death [rst] bright killed me with Kalashnikov AK-47 de_cbble
Aug 8, 2012 7:02:14 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Terrorists eliminated' de_cbble
Aug 8, 2012 7:02:14 pm Action received a points bonus of 1 for triggering 'Double Kill (2 kills)' de_cbble
Aug 8, 2012 7:02:14 pm Team joined team TERRORIST (Terrorist) de_cbble

- Round ended, shot in back again. Respawned with the bomb.
Aug 8, 2012 5:42:23 pm Action received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'Pick up the Bomb' de_aztec
Aug 8, 2012 5:42:18 pm Death d3vaLL killed me with Colt M4A1 Carbine de_aztec
Aug 8, 2012 5:42:15 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Terrorists eliminated' de_aztec
Aug 8, 2012 5:42:15 pm Action received a points bonus of 3 for triggering 'Domination (4 kills)' de_aztec
Aug 8, 2012 5:42:15 pm Team joined team TERRORIST (Terrorist)

- Round ended, got the game winning kill. Killed by my former teammate again.
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:39 pm Death faxe machine aka Ronnie Dutch killed me with Kalashnikov AK-47 de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:38 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Counter-Terrorists eliminated' de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:38 pm Kill killed eModiS with a headshot from Kalashnikov AK-47 de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:38 pm Action received a points bonus of 4 for triggering 'Rampage (5 kills)' de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:38 pm Action received a points bonus of 1 for triggering 'Headshot' de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:38 pm Team joined team CT (Counter-Terrorist) de_desolate_rc1
Aug 8, 2012 5:16:23 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'Plant the Bomb'

- Round ended, team switched alive. Respawned as T with the bomb next round.
Aug 8, 2012 4:55:51 pm Action received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'Pick up the Bomb' de_chateau
Aug 8, 2012 4:55:45 pm Team Bonus my team received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'All Terrorists eliminated' de_chateau
Aug 8, 2012 4:55:45 pm Action received a points bonus of 2 for triggering 'Triple Kill (3 kills)' de_chateau
Aug 8, 2012 4:55:45 pm Team joined team TERRORIST (Terrorist) de_chateau
Aug 8, 2012 4:55:39 pm Kill killed Gump with a headshot from FN P90

 

[Steve]

It seems source's native auto team balance has been turned on and is the source(no pun intended) of this issue.

Your unbanned, sorry about the inconvenience.

 

[Eternity]

Sweet,
Thanks for taking the time to look into this!