FiredaybraekIf LR had any doubt that he was able to play they should have double checked it. It seems like Surstromming genuinely thought he could play, so if no team bothers to check or bring it up to the admins. If they were aware beforehand as they seem to be, they should not have readied up and instead should have contacted an admin to confirm that.
Meh i dont think you should really blame the opponents for the other team breaking a rule.
Each team is responsible for knowing the rules and their roster themselves, and LR even told them that what they do is against the rules. At least at this point imo LR did everything they should have, and Surstromming are the ones who should have doublechecked if they made a mistake in understanding the rules.
To me this clearly shows they were not hunting the default win, as they explicitely told the other team that what they were doing is wrong (given that it was before the game started or in a reasonable timeframe during the beginning of it), but it is not their responsibility to make sure that another team wont get punished for breaking the rules and put effort into getting an admin.
If you dont bother getting an admin and in the end it turns out you were on the wrong side then its your own fault.
The situation isn't "which team was more in the wrong" but rather that admins are unreliable and inconsistent.
LR are aware that Swi is going to play scout, never at any point during the game do they talk to admins or want to pause, they manage to even the scores and force a golden cap.
They contact admins and get told that "Restarting the map with Swi on med would be more fair, unless you don't feel the need to."
I contact admin and ask about the rule and ask if we will get a minor warning if we just continue playing with Swi on scout, I get the response "No, it'll be a default, I can allow Swi to play medic for the rest of the game but that's it"
LR switch to golden cap config and I switch to scout and Swi goes medic, we both ready up. This means that they did not feel a need to restart the game.
We switch to snakewater and we manage to win that map as well, giving us 5 points and them 1, we had 21 and they had 24 before this match, making it so we get into playoffs instead of them.
They complain to admins and manage to get granary defaulted, making them get into playoffs.
Had we known that we would get defaulted regardless of me going scout in golden cap we would have obviously picked to restart, but the decision was theirs to make and they did not feel the need to restart.
The excuse that it was a playoffs deciding match should not matter for any game in the top tables as all the games are fixed. They all matter equally towards getting into playoffs.