Ban appeal Options

[Logic]

Hi there. During a game yesterday, I was running out of spawn along with a few team mates and I stopped for a split second to adjust my volume. Consequently, a team mate behind decided to kick me. Now, I admit I intentionally team attacked the person who kicked me out of the way, ONCE (which he blocked thus losing minimal health) and did not persist in attacking him any further, proceeding to the objective. About 5 seconds later I receive a message informing me that I have a week ban for team killing handed out to me from Zeripper.

Now as I say, I did intentionally hit this team mate and I admit my fault, however a week ban seems a little heavy handed for hitting someone once? So I took to your rules and read over them. It says that bans are handed out for intentionally team killing (depending on severity) and I feel the length of my ban doesn't reflect the severity of the broken rule, and so here are my reasons for asking for the ban to be lifted/reduced in length:

I didn't kill them, I team attacked in retaliation (they were in fact in breach of the rules themselves, unfortunately I didn't catch their name because I didn't think it would escalate so quickly to a ban)

It was one swing, not a prolonged attack, I wasn't out to intentionally team kill them and disrupt the game

This is not an ongoing thing, I always attempt to play the game properly and never intentionally TK, I'm also the first to apologise if I accidentally TK. I'm sure my track record is clean, I have been away from the game for a long time.

I received no warning from admin and have never been warned by an admin on any separate occasions before. No prior kick, simply slapped with a full week ban for something not so severe.

Thanks and I hope this can be resolved! (And sorry for the bland formatting, using phone)

[Bucket]

Fair enough, but I was only commenting regarding of the 'no warning' being issued simply because we have many people coming here for appeals saying the same exact thing over and over again. It isn't our fault nor our problem that your internet speed is too slow to load up an image.

'' I click x on that box before anything loads so I actually didn't see that. Saying that is like saying "well, it's in the small print" it's really hard to miss.'' Except it isn't hard to miss, you simply close it rather than giving it a second or two to load up. Blame yourself not us for not getting a warning.

''especially for a first time offender (I sound like an attorney here lool).'' Doesn't mean you suddenly won't be treated as anyone else.

Also it is possible that when you were alt tabbed your character ingame was blocking the way, so someone kept kicking you to the side where you wouldn't block anyone?

Zeripper will handle this appeal since he is the one who issued the ban.