at this point, who hasn't been invaded by the "members of Mr. Cheeto and Co."?

Man, were you ever correct: you predicted it.

My point is that if a business owner or head admin is the one that isn't stepping in to make sure his league is being ran like he wants to, maybe there's something to be said about that.

Basically, as an owner or manager, you should take responsibility in the actions of not only you but also the people representing you or your image.

Everyone makes mistakes, everyone makes decisions, and maybe those decisions are bad. It should be on not only the people who made those bad decisions but also the manager behind that person to step in to make sure it:
1) doesn't happen again
2) steps to resolve this situation
3) offer the opportunity to learn

It's really not hard to see this fault on both the individual admin or moderator and the head admin or manager. It's really just responsibility at that point.

Blaming the admins 100% will not help your situation at all. We should start blaming the people responsible for the decision and the people who oversee those who make desicions. I'm not jumping on sigafoo for this just because I hate him or I hate RGL, I genuinely think that if stuff like this needs to be prevented, there needs to be someone who can take action and responsibility fast. I don't think that's happening at RGL, and I think it's that which is the reason to which we get threads like this monthly. Sigafoo and Exa respectively have done their fair share of work, yes, but I think there should be some type of responsibility taken on their side, and if they cannot keep up, then I believe it'd be best to give it up to someone who can take full responsibility and be able to manage the whole team.

Blame your league owner and head admins instead of the volunteer division admins that put out countless hours to even try to remindy the terrible management at RGL.

Stuff like this happens, but the speed at which the reversal or apologies or even an explanation happens should not be as slow as weeks or even days.

It's really up to the league owners to step it up moreso than the individual division admins.

I guess here's another mistake they must own up to!

Why don't we all just stop playing and paying for leagues we don't want to play in? That seems like a good start.

Please don't scrape RGL, I think I already set the record for what not to do, and I was trying to be conservative.

If you need RGL data, bug sigafoo until he can create one or have someone else create one for him. They clearly don't want us to scrape, and I think going around that would not end well.

This is why I was waking up to like 3 people asking about my rgl api...

Great work!

Java/Type script users can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/steamid which is old but still works great.

I had built an unofficial API (view here) but unfortunately sigafoo either doesn't care or doesn't want one and so there is no way for anyone to get data from RGL unless you go against their wishes and scrape around the cloudflare protection. In doing so you risk getting IP banned or worse.

I wouldn't advise doing this since you could probably hit a rate limit. 6,000 ids is a lot, and there's certainly easier ways to do this much faster.

Here's the solution if you had to convert in code yourself without using packages:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamID

'Idiots'

wow it's like these updates broke more than they fixed

Yup, there's no place like breaking updates before matches!

Actually this update is pretty good, I like the small but good QoL changes to improve our chances against cheaters.

This.