about bans though, it seemed like more openly-banned players than ever were able to participate in this GST
examples are Lethal and Noss, both who were banned on their main accounts before the GST but were able to participate on secondary accounts (and actually managed to win) - there are others, just an example

before our iDevice finals, that came up as a discussion in guild chat and I told them that I'd be annoyed if any of our members were to report them and get a "free win" through a DQ, so that didn't happen

I don't know exactly what resources admins have to determine who is evading ban - obviously someone can change their IP, but I'd assume there is some device ID or something else that should be able to determine that stuff (assuming they're using the same device)
it'd also make sense for accounts under a certain threshold of hours to not be able to enter the GST (for obvious reasons)

bugs me just a little bit because if a guild like Alumni were to report this then we'd be shamed for abiding by the rules, yet if we broke this rule then you know we'd immediately be punished for it
imagine if someone like Sarah were to evade a ban on an alternate account - 500 people would have admins on her before the first round even starts

there's a huge fuss about the lag rule every GST, but this one is just as important and it kind of sucks that it relies on player intervention
maybe it can be improved upon in future GSTs