Well that was all just to amusing to read, most of it from the wgt/tg perspective.. nonsense... good lord.
Ding rate? As if that is the number one component to low scores, certainly not.
One would think that someone who's as good a player as Tom is, and I assume somewhat intelligent, would be able to figure out that "hey maybe I should dial the macro to a timing just under the 'ding' so as to not set off any alarms?"
Do you really think, even if he had the patience to do so, he would have it hitting the 'ding' at an idiotic percentage? Really?
This would be of course if he was using something, which he said he wasn't so I'm stating a 'what if' scenario there....
As everyone knows, missing the ding by one bar on /drives approaches and even putting is almost preferred, as I've been shown it's an effective way to counter wind and work with the idiotic break algo's on greens now. Missing the ding by one bar will not have a massively negative outcome on a shot, in fact it often improves the shot.
We've all seen that hitting the ding in heavy winds is often a disaster, missing by a small margin depending on your aiming technique results in a better outcome more times than not.
So question is; Why on earth would anyone want to run 'anything' that would keep stopping on the 'ding' ? Makes no sense. As does the whole 'reason' they banned him. Had nothing to do with ding rate, jesus, that's just idiotic.
Tell us the program you're using? What hell is that?
You have top players here running AutoHotKey... Openly telling people they're using it because they use it for the onscreen wind and putting aids. Showing people how to set it up. What do you think AHK does besides enable onscreen assets? Jesus, if WGT is looking for programs why are they not instantly banning everyone using AHK?
Simple, because setting up a macro to hit the ding with a high percentage is a masssively huge pain, and simply doesn't work. Try it. Auto dinging works off timing from the release point, you have to set the timing for 'click' based on that release point running to the 'ding', you have any idea how many shot profiles you'd need to have? Plus you have to select that profile per shot. LoL... ya, good luck with that.
Auto dinging, go ahead, again why bother?
Oh and there's also no way to tell if someone is using AHK unless you see it running, and I also point out that using is isn't evidence of cheating in any way what so ever. Using an onscreen ruler has been okayed by wgt, so they know that many use it, so they also know a lot of those people are running AHK. They also know exaclty what AHK is for and what it does.
WGT has always banned people for whatever reason they want, always. I'm actually surprised TG would want anyone banned, they're looking for numbers, people.. Pissing people off, giving the impersssion that they ban players for no good reason I think would kind of go counter to that.
If I had any idea how idiotic this game was admin'd I never would have hit ball one way back.
As was stated, it's their game and they'll do what the want with it, well it's TG's game now actually, I do feel they maybe don't know what the people administrating it are doing though as I said, it goes counter to TG's business model.
Sucks to get banned for sure from someone comlaining about you, which is the real reason he was banned. That's one converstation stream you're not going to see, who complained to WGT about him. I wonder who it was, obviously one of their favs, because they don't act on anything a 'regular' player would complain about.
It's too bad that this game isn't an actual installed system resource dependent video game, then wgt could actually have written tools to monitor for cheating software and security circumventing attempts, fact is it isn't and they can't.
Sucks, but no way they're going to let him back.
Good on the RDG people though for having Tom's back... ;-)