How did someone reset elo?

[tonymok977]

just saw that our last champion elo reset from 7xx to 1x elo, without any games in the middle

714 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576217703

16 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576597308

[Meeplelowda]

just saw that our last champion elo reset from 7xx to 1x elo, without any games in the middle

714 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576217703

16 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576597308

This happens when shenanigans are detected.

[zaperok0]

just saw that our last champion elo reset from 7xx to 1x elo, without any games in the middle

714 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576217703

16 elo:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=576597308

This happens when shenanigans are detected.

What are shenanigans? Zibest was my friend and I thought it was a bug that his elo dropped so low

[Lumin_S]

Shenanigans means they were probably caught breaking the site rules in a way that affected their Wingspan rating unfairly.

[GTSchemer]

This can happen if someone is caught using multiple accounts, or if someone is boosting the account to help them win, etc., or otherwise breaking rules. Only the mods know what exactly the punishment was for.

[Lisette Baum]

I'm a little scared. How could someone be caught using multiple accounts. Same IP? What's about family? Wingspan (Arena) is a two player game. How could you push yourself? Someone posted proud his alternative account, how fast he got expert... I haven't seen a penalty there.

[Meeplelowda]

I'm a little scared. How could someone be caught using multiple accounts. Same IP? What's about family?

1) They aren't going to tell us what criteria they use to determine this, because that teaches people how to avoid detection.
2) No, simply using the same IP isn't it. Having players (such as family members) playing from the same IP is not prohibited. In fact, it's a benefit of getting Premium.

Wingspan (Arena) is a two player game. How could you push yourself?

Two-player games would be the easiest. The basic idea is that you control two accounts and play them against each other and have one lose to the other constantly.

Someone posted proud his alternative account, how fast he got expert... I haven't seen a penalty there.

Putting aside the propriety of having an alt account at all, I've never seen merely having an alt account punished. It's having multiple accounts and using one of them to lose to the other that gets punished. Was this person accused of doing that?

That said, I'm not saying this is what the person the OP was referring to did. I'm just addressing the most common scenario of ELO being reset.

[Lisette Baum]

OK thanks!
This still a little bit scary. Why should you cheat? For what? The trophies? You can paint a picture for your self and note I'm the greates... it has the same quality. What ever - to all of you guys enjoy playing and have fun!

[Meeplelowda]

OK thanks!
Why should you cheat? For what?

Fragile ego? Deriving pleasure from upsetting other people? Deriving pleasure from getting away with it? Some delusional notion that you're helping by exposing a flaw in the system?

I imagine they're all psychologically broken in some way. But not necessarily all the same way.

[SYushen]

You already found the links of games so it’s super obvious that the Elo was reset to 0, not 1x.