Can't stand 'Tankers' - its cheating and should be discouraged

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First off, tanking is not cheating as much as buying tokens is cheating. You cant be hypocritical and call one of them cheating and not both.

what grinds my gears are the ignorants screaming that tanking is cheating.

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Tanking is a form of game manipulation, it distorts leagues and makes the game unfair for other players. Other players who play fairly, play to win. Tankers get to pick and choose the games they try and win and the games they try and lose. It is simple game manipulation which is cheating.
But that's not what bothers me.

Tankers play the game to lose. That makes them losers. Being a loser is sad. Losing makes tankers teams useless. The phrase I use is sad, useless tankers.

Tankers are cheating themselves and their team, depriving themselves of a great victory or an underdog triumph.
Playing to lose is wrong, sad and wrong, sad, wrong and no fun.
Where is the fun in losing?
(Unless tankers get their fun from manipulating match results, picking games to win and lose.... which of course is cheating).

Tankers are cheating themselves with a loser mentality .... It is not healthy.

Play every game to win. If you lose, you lose. If you finish 2nd (or lower), you are not a **** (as suggested in another thread by a tanker). you are second best, and beaten by a better team. Take it, don't be a tanker, but try to do something about it.
Try to come back next season stronger and be the winner.
But that's not what bothers me.

What bothers me is that I've come here to win, I've come here to beat other teams, and I will do all I can to get a victory.
But I don't want to be playing some weak, scared little tanker opponent. Where's the fun in beating some chicken **** loser?
There is no fun in that at all, it's too one-sided when your opponent is too scared to try and win.
This is what bothers me.
I want my opponent to be trying to beat me, as hard as I'm trying to beat them. That's what's it's about.

Grinding gears? Only gears tankers have are reverse, used to see how quick they can lose their way down the league tables.
When you find forward moving gears, gears that take you higher, that's when I might start to worry about grinding them.

I have no opinion of token buyers.