I was playing at this arena Tichu table:
https://boardgamearena.com/12/tichu?table=621674031
Where I was partnered with a player who immediately bid Grand Tichu *every* single hand.
At minimum, this seemed like sabotage, because usually the player didn't have good enough cards to make a GT bid. It also seemed antisocial, because on those few occasions where I had strong hands, I wasn't able to bid GT myself. Essentially, the player was throwing the game to the other team. Since the arena Tichu games can take a *long* time, I wondered if the player was drawing out the game on purpose to try and force us to abandon the game, since because they weren't fond of the partner assignments that arena mode chose.
I red-thumbed the player personally to avoid being partnered with them again, but is this something that I should report somewhere? Is this behavior part of some pattern of cheating/kingmaking? (This player seems to be fairly active on BGA and seems to be very aggressive about forfeiting people when their timers run out -- which in theory they're entitled to do, but in practice seems anti-social when the BGA client is occasionally slow to notify participants about new games starting.)
https://boardgamearena.com/12/tichu?table=621674031
Where I was partnered with a player who immediately bid Grand Tichu *every* single hand.
At minimum, this seemed like sabotage, because usually the player didn't have good enough cards to make a GT bid. It also seemed antisocial, because on those few occasions where I had strong hands, I wasn't able to bid GT myself. Essentially, the player was throwing the game to the other team. Since the arena Tichu games can take a *long* time, I wondered if the player was drawing out the game on purpose to try and force us to abandon the game, since because they weren't fond of the partner assignments that arena mode chose.
I red-thumbed the player personally to avoid being partnered with them again, but is this something that I should report somewhere? Is this behavior part of some pattern of cheating/kingmaking? (This player seems to be fairly active on BGA and seems to be very aggressive about forfeiting people when their timers run out -- which in theory they're entitled to do, but in practice seems anti-social when the BGA client is occasionally slow to notify participants about new games starting.)
