Kayne Yong

Since there was a dispute between both players and the floor judge could not confirm the board state, the handling judge asked both of us to initiate a recount from the start of the game. During the investigation, the judge focused only on hand size. The board state showed at that moment, my opponent have 9 cards in hand (alongside the suspicious 6 cards in the graveyard). During the recount: I counted they should only have 8 cards, while my opponent counted 7. The game was not properly repaired. They ignored the most significant sign of an altered game state: my opponent had 6 cards in their graveyard when they should have only had 4, and my opponent could not explain the discrepancy. Given the contested board state, the judge ruled as follows: I was instructed to randomly remove 2 cards from my opponent's hand to force a 7-card count and continue the game.

Sorry, but how can this not be a DQ? The main goal is to repair the game state, but how to fix it at this point?

3/3 According to judge, their ruling is that this only counts as drawing extra card error despite my opponent having 3 extra cards in hand and attempting to put them in trash. This player went on to the finals and end up representing our country despite multiple attempts to cheat

2/3 After that, the floor judge went and call the head judge, my opponent placed his hand cards below the table and added 2 more cards in his trash. When I brought this up to the head judge, my opponent could not justify how said cards ended up there and kept switching his story.

1/3 Today in Malaysia Regionals I caught my opponent drawing multiple extra cards. He had 9 dons with 12 cards in his hand that time and I raised it to the judge. 3 of us backtracked the game and found that he should only have 8 cards in hand and 4 cards in trash.