What would be an appropriate penalty?

[John Danker]

If a player accused a judge of being bias, what would you say would be an appropriate penalty?

I heard this recently (I wasn't the judge but know the gentleman who was and his reputation is spotless) I was pretty hot myself over the matter. I've checked into the policy documents and it doesn't state anything about that paticular instance. The closest thing I can find is...

Unsporting Conduct-Major (Penalty: Match Loss)

*A player uses profanity to argue with the official head judge about a ruling.

 

[Supreme Switch Blade]

Using profanity, and calling someone biase are two unrelated things. Sure, both are not appropriate, but it's not in the policies so i would cosider it as a warning first, then if it continues it would be upgraded to a game loss and so on.

 

[masterwoo0]

This was just a very interesting scenario to me because I'd never heard a judge be accused of cheating (while judging) before and hadn't considered what would be an appropriate course of action.

While I have seen situations where a ruling was "strangely" given to benefit a player when it was obviously incorrect, i.e., P1 sends Wave-Motion Cannon and P2 chains Barrel Behind the Door to the damage. Judge ruled it as legal even after being told that you can't chain to continuous effect, and specifically Wave-Motion Cannon.

It's certainly more hard to prove cheating, than it is to prove "incompetence", and to a lesser degree, lack of proper Rulings Knowledge.