Explain 3 things that you have declared and I'll leave this thread.

1. On what basis do you put such acts past them? Share this special knowledge you have with us.
2. I obviously do not have basic failings in reading comprehension and logic. My attacks on your statements have all been substantiated. You are just now making baseless insults as you have no other option. Show me my mistaken calculations.
3. Define "possible". And then define "extremely unlikely." Those terms are not mutually exclusive.

1. That is a question for the thread linked. You either failed to read that thread or lack reading comprehension. Otherwise you wouldn't need to ask. One compelling reason is that it would be much more difficult to card rig and not get caught than other forms of cheating/scamming players. (Please don't start up a debate about this now.)

2. You choose to use specious arguments and distractions (such as your reference to post counts) rather than rational discussion.

3. It is disingenuous but correct to point out that they are not mutually exclusive. Duh. It's just as clear that "impossible" is a proper subset of "extremely unlikely".

[edit: fixed my wording error in #3]

You failed to explain to my liking. You have ZERO idea as to what it takes to card rig, you're the one who shouldn't bring it up. My mention of post counts was to play with the relevancy of Occam's razor in this argument, which of course went right over your head.

Also, it is not the least bit disingenuous as I said its simply possible and then you contradict yourself. You are also showing that you have no true character in regards to the health of the player pool, because if you did, you would have stopped responding since you stated it is better that this argument not continue. Yet you feel the greater need to post (alluding to 1200+ posts ) than stick to your original assertion. I was trying to prove this point as well, which again went right over your head. You post blindly with little substance.

Your claim that I lack reading comprehension is truly disingenuous when you contradict yourself at every point. I now realize I am speaking to a stubborn child who will not even allow for others to speculate on possibilities. Hence, I will no longer reply to you unless there is something I can actually gain from this.

You win, math degree. gg

On another note, has any Merge representative shed any light on their recent actions?

It's good that you edited your post, because an 85 BI downswing in MTTs is so unremarkable that it would be ridiculous to use that as the basis for suspecting anything. The fact that it took you 5 years to encounter such a downswing means you were fortunate or your volume wasn't very high.