So explain the mental backflipping to me. I realize yo didn't say that specifically but you seem to be on the same train of thought.
No, I didn't say such a thing you are correct. However, do you think someone who spent three years in jail, isn't a repeat offender and had been a free man for a decade should be targeted?
@Blagher is correct, there were (and still are) worse players playing the game. Most of the lifetime bans alone come from people who actually commit a crime while at a tournament. From cheating (against the rules but not an actual crime) to fraud and even assault. Though one person did get a ban several years ago for stating they would rape someone at WotC, but I don't see them on the banned list so that event probably never happened as even older bans are still listed.
Peter “PRT” Szigeti
The “Villain” Magic the Gathering needed, but didn’t want.
One of the more notorious players back in the early 2000’s, Peter was known to be one of the more over the top players in the tournament scene, always trying to one up himself in his antics to get the attention he seemed to crave in the Magic the Gathering scene including dressing up in tournaments (one such tournament he wore a “pimp suit”).
Getting rank 1 in a 2000 Team Limited game at the Grand Prix and 7th and 4th place the next following years and winning $6370 over the course of three years, may have gone to his head.
I am really like this, and it is a show,
Szigeti said in an interview with Wizards of the Coast,
It's easy for me to be outlandish and out of control. But I'm not a bad person or a bad guy, I think. People want to see how far I will go. I think people read the Sideboard coverage not just to see how the cards interact, but how the people interact. They like to see a show, that's more entertaining. And that's the hard part of being me. You have to constantly top yourself. There will be a point where I can't top myself,
One of the things he’s known for is topdecking a card he needed to win a match (Searing Flesh), wiping his ass with it and slamming it down on the table. A judge would then hand a loss over to Peter sending him down to 57th place in the tournament and his first ban from the game (an article on WotC he stated he would never do anything that would get him a DCI ban, I guess that wasn’t the case). Before this he was known as a prankster and someone who take jabs at their opponent during a game (something WotC frown’s on and will get you a loss automatically). Why did he do such things? At the time he wanted the game to be more competitive and more accessible for a wider audience, think what esports are today, he wanted the game to be like that, back then Magic’s shoutcaster alone could bore the paint off a wall with their commentary.
His final ban, that is a ban until 2039 (a lifetime ban) came when he shoved someone when they bumped into him at a tournament. The ban was listed as “unsportsmanlike conduct” in 2010, he would pass away in 2011. At least that’s what many people say, but those didn’t like the guy say they would only believe that if they saw the corpse for themselves.
A brief wiki article on the man.
https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Peter_Szigeti
A article/ interview with the man.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/event-coverage/public-enemy-number-one-2002-05-03
Friends talking about how they met the guy.
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/...lion_Dollar_Magic_The_Gathering_Pro_Tour.html
Stories from players and websites.
https://mixedknuts.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/ptr-stories-vol-1/
http://www.gatheringmagic.com/szigeti-lifetime-ban/
http://www.starcitygames.com/articl...ise-a-Villain--Wizards-and-Peter-Szigeti.html
matches to buy product. HOW DARE PEOPLE PATRONIZE HIS BUSINESS AND GIVE HIM MONEY
