What you need to understand is that the rating affects the seeding, hence it had an impact on which opponents Fast was gonna meet in CoT.
Its sad to see Bac out of the tourney, and he really deserve cred for admitting it and being an overall gentleman about it. However, the rules were broken and thats it. Nothing more to discuss really.
They were both equally guilty to all of this, so punishing only one would be totally wrong in my opinion.
no need this poll,pls close it and respect staff decisions: (