Total misrepresentation of the facts there Rhys.
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:15 pmIn the cheating thread (page 1), Charlie says the cheatomatic “rarely” (not “never”) provides false positives, and that signals for players recording soon should be ignored.
That's in response to a conversation with Clare (who was appearing soon on the show) who explained that she played practice games alongside various training tools she was using to try and improve. She was concerned about being flagged as a cheat. Charlie was reassuring her that practice games wouldn't get flagged anyway, and that he wouldn't have been particularly bothered about catching people who were about to record since they'd be exposed on TV anyway. Not that the whole method somehow didn't work in that scenario.
If that were the explanation for James's greyed out games, I think James would have conveyed that to Charlie, and we wouldn't be here under the same circumstances. As far as I'm aware, that conversation has not taken place. He was warned not to cheat, he replied with the standard indignant "here's a fantastical explanation for what I (wrongly) think has aroused your suspicions" template email, and his superstats chart then dipped massively. Hmm.
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:15 pmIf looking away is a crime in itself (it’s not), then the vast majority of ZoomDowners are guilty. And I do believe “nothing” is a valid thing to look at. I constantly stare into the middle distance on one spot when concentrating without looking at anything in particular.
Again, a ridiculous simplification and distortion of the facts. James is very obviously focused on something. He focuses on the exact same place, what was it, 100 times in 20/30 minutes according to Graeme's analysis? Several times for several seconds (for over the half the round in total) while performing the hardest 6s solve ever EVEN WHILE HE'S WRITING DOWN HIS METHOD FFS. You don't see that from anyone, ever, during numbers games. Yes we all glance at nothing, but that looks very different and is easily recognisable. The producer of the show told you as much on the apto thread. Oh, and then of course he didn't do it at all during the next episode. Why would sitting slightly further back/higher up have this effect? If he were prone to looking at nothing to the side while thinking, he'd still do it in a slightly different position, wouldn't he?
If you think "the vast majority of ZoomDowners are guilty" of the same as James, please present your evidence. And we can see if a) they have an explanation for what they're looking at or b) they're clearly "staring at nothing in middle distance" or c) something else.
James didn't. He said he was looking at nothing, because there's nothing there. Unlike Fiona, I don't think that "the more unbelievable a lie, the more likely it is to be true". I just think he's a shit liar.