Rules

So I asked Wally what the penalty for a misclick was and he said this:

“if it's not rectified then it gets voided, in the event that causes a draw, then that goal is singled out and both teams nominate a player to play for that goal in a 1 goal shootout, there isn't really any better way to do this, if it's rectified quickly and doesn't do too much damage then it's fine, if it's on purpose and proven to be then harsher things will happen”

There is essentially three types of marking goals before they are finished: by accident and reversed, by accident and not reversed or done intentionally.

Typically, the former is done by a misclick and is resolved fairly quickly. Sometimes they try to click one goal and accidently mark another. If the misclick is removed instantly there shouldn’t be any lasting consequences. However, if they wait a few seconds that is enough time for somebody on the opposing team to leave a level and lose all their progress there. At that point, the team that did nothing wrong is punished for the mistake of the other team. Wally said that if they remove it within 15-25s they’d be let off. But at that point making a mistake has not benefitted nor punished you but it has punished the other team. That isn’t okay. Now obviously a goal could be marked, and nobody was close to getting it but the team who made the mistake doesn’t know that. If they were to then get the goal and mark it off correctly, you’d assume no harm was done and in theory it hasn’t. But at the same time the other team may have chosen to pursue something else because they saw the “cheating” player allegedly did a goal. i.e. If I needed to do Turtle Soup and Lightning orbs for two different goals, and I see the “cheating” player just “allegedly” did random thing elsewhere I may enter the levels in the opposite order because I’m nearer and know he isn’t doing one of them. But he could be and accidently clicked something else. In basically every scenario, the team who didn’t misclick is the one who gets punished.

Assuming the misclicked goal isn’t removed, a team may stop doing what they’re doing because they feel the “cheating” player is ahead of them and is going to beat them to another goal as well but in fact they never actually did the former and you were ahead. According to Wally’s rule, if it was an accident it becomes invalid and you 1v1 for it. If I was always going to get that goal, it’s just unfair. A really clear example would be someone incorrectly marking “all orbs in x level” when I was trying to get the 100% goal there. If I stop getting the stuff because I assume he will beat me to 100% also, I get punished. If I continue and lose that all orbs goal, allegedly I would still have to 1v1 for the all orbs goal later. I should definitely have had that if I got 100%. In some examples it isn’t as black and white as that, but the ruling shouldn’t be objective. I might be doing 100% glimmer as well as glimmer lizards, if I see someone gets 100% glimmer and I haven’t got glimmer lizards, I’d assume he already has and therefore might stop doing it. If he hasn’t then that’s not fair. Let’s use the example from the previous bingo tournament. Caite marked 225 gems in cloud and zephyr and therefore Shaw stopped playing because he had nothing else, he could do. Caite would not have unmarked that if everyone was telling her she cheated. Shaw who should have had the goal would have had to 1v1 for it under Wally’s ruleset, when he was sat doing nothing and would have had it.

In scenarios where it effects your decisions, it sucks but there isn’t a whole lot you can do about it. But the goal that was incorrectly marked should not be decided subjectively as to who gets it. Just because the other team wasn’t doing that exact goal doesn’t mean they weren’t negatively affected. They should get the misclicked goal as compensation.
Regarding intentional misclicking. That wouldn’t happen under the goal forfeit rule. I can pretend to accidently misclick and not realise but have done it purposely. It’s not fair on the opposing team. As it stands, you are rewarded for misclicks. If your bingo site is better at preventing this then that’s great but these are just a handful of issues that may occur currently on bingosync. Especially considering there will ne newer players, it’s pretty likely we will see rules accidently broken.