Scenario:
Playing the 100K step 3 SnG yesterday and we're down to three players. I'm sitting on a healty 5.5 chips, player two has just over 5k and player three is short stacked bellow 1k with blinds at 300/600 and is all-in preflop....

....my conection craps out for about 4 minutes, I come back to see that I apparently came 3rd.

This is literally impossible unless both players quickly decided to blind me out which would require player two to raise my blinds since he was the SB to me and folding away to the short stack.

Not that it matters much but I think players should keep an eye on collusion in the step sng's for the sunday majors.

Not to be a dick by any means, but if your connection is out, I'm not sure if top two win or whatever, but that would guarantee them a spot and not put either of them at risk, that would be the intelligent way to go about it.

more then enough time to blind you out at those blinds if they hurry and with only 3 left. Not really collusion unless you expected them to pass chips back and forth till you got back which is unlikely anywhere.

Yeah I know it was enough time to blind me out but only if the big stack decided to slowroll the shorty. Anyway, no big deal.