[...] From Moose's post, it sounds like he wasn't ALLOWED to Pause. Not that they didn't want to but they couldn't. Seems retarded to 'call them out' for unsportsmanlike behaviour for something they had no choice in.

Since the rules apparently say that you can't pause mid-round, no one is saying you did anything wrong, it's just bad sportsmanship that you wouldn't pause during a non action time and took advantage of something that was beyond the enemy team's control. If this was an online competition, you might be able to blame the individual for building their computer like a noob, but this was a tournement PC, they were not responsible for the crash and you took full advantage of it. Ultimately the crashes could have been the key in you taking cp_well. The second crash was unlucky as it was their medic during setup time meaning they had no opportunity even with a pause to try to take the last round as they would have had no uber even if the game was paused immediately, and that was their round to try and make a comeback to tie up the game. In short, you could have paused twice without effecting your game after taking a CP, other teams did it in the competition but you followed the rules to the letter. You did no wrong except for show bad sportsmanship (The correct term would be 'not show good sportsmanship').

Watched the stv demo from the bronze game with Arx / Pure / Exfane cast and I have to say that it was a really nice cast but you are wrong when you say several times that other teams instantly paused in the tournament when someone crashed and it was bad sportmanship from us when we didn't. I only missed watching the first 2 matches of group B but I followed all the other games and afaik the only crashes happened in the playoffs. In those cases, I'm certain that the rules were enforced and no team paused before the round end like you claimed. For example TCM got a round against Dignitas on Well while Diggy was playing with 5. Like I said before I actually asked the TF2 admin standing behind my back before we pushed in to CP 2 if we are allowed to pause now and he said "no, rules clearly say that pauses are only allowed during the round change".

[...] Isnt it kinda daft that they had to go online to check the rules?... Just me that would expect someone with a clue being there admining it?

First off, we (Power Gaming) asked the admins if we're allowed to pause the game before pushing in to second after Coinz' crash but we were told no as it says in the tournament rules that pauses are only allowed between rounds which is the common rule everywhere in Euro TF2. Second, the no golden cap rule was apparently purposedly done like this because all the other pro tournaments at Assembly are part of WCG qualifications, and their rules state that maps can end as a tie in playoffs as well unless it's the decider map. Why this would then affect TF2 when it's not a WCG game is beyond me as golden caps are used everywhere in TF2 tournaments. Of course, we told the admins we'd like to do the golden cap since that's the common practise but this kind of tournaments with several game titles and lots of money on the line tend to follow their rules very strictly so I wasn't expecting them to let us do it and I was right.