Week: 5
Situation: Disconnect in GSC OU match between Raiders' spies and Bigs' DracoMalfoy
Description: DracoMalfoy disconnected on turn 65 of the match. The score of the match was 6-6, and while spies had an advantage, both sides still had a reasonable chance of winning. The Raiders were concerned DracoMalfoy may have intentionally disconnected because he had a low idle time on IRC, where he told a teammate what happened, but fairly clearly actually had internet issues due to being dropped from other programs such as MSN. While SPL does not seem to have it's own disconnect rule written out anywhere for some inane reason, but LonelyNess' precedent tended to be to have the battlers remake the battle if the result was in question and a DC occurred. Similarly the OST rule, "Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win.", which is the closest thing to an official Smogon tournament precedent we could find, implies that replaying the battle is probably the solution with the most precedent, and I think, the fairest option. The managers, the TDs, and I should probably try to sort out an SPL DC policy that we agree on to have a better point of reference for future DCs, but the Raiders' manager has agreed to have the battle replayed move for move to the point they were at and then continued for this case.
Result: Battle between spies and DracoMalfoy will be replayed from the point the DC occurred.