*Steps to podium*
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Junkie Fighting Championships, recently the subject of promma's suspension was brought up by several people. Instead of releasing this news through the news, the Junkie Athletic Commission felt that it must make an official statement. Upon stating that IP checks would be put into place, promma immediately contacted myself to let me know that he used to be Ku. This was no big deal, but I did inform him that his record would carry over. I pm'ed Doug to make the changes to the rankings and would do so myself after the next JEC event.
Promma requested that his switch from Ku be kept quiet, because in his words, Ku is an a--hole. I was happy to oblige and move on. Also he wanted to better represent his site, promma.info.
The next JEC event was K1 Dynamite. After JEC 13 I went to put the rankings in and adjust promma/ku's rankings. Upon doing this I noticed that Ku and promma had both competed at JEC 11. I racked my brain to figure out how this had happend and also sent promma a message asking for an explanation. He sent me back a note basically saying he had not idea he had done that and would accept any punishment we layed down for him. Ku always got his picks up as soon as the event was posted, and I wondered in the back of my head if he did not realize that he had done picks as Ku. I honestly have no idea, but I felt no malicious intent was used.
Originally I wanted to go public with the suspension as I felt it was imperitive that everyone be outed publically. After speaking with the rest of the commission and the JFC staff it was decided the punishment would stay silent for a couple reasons. One, the entire staff felt that nothing malicious was done, and that promma made a mistake in one JEC and never tried to compete at the same event again. Second, the effort and work promma puts in on a daily basis for this forum is great, and while this was a very small part it did have a small affect on any decision.
Castellammarese moved to replace promma for the team tournament. Promma took it upon himself to announce the silent suspension in the daily news. Once this happend, it was quickly decided that we must tell the whole story.
One thing I can safely say I have learned it, that there will be no more private suspensions. If you do something, you will own up to it.
I dont think we should go hating on promma, as he made a simple mistake that pales in comparison to the ones others have made. He used his 2 names once, and did not since then. It was a JEC event, and I believe him when he said he didnt mean to.
Promma is officially suspended till January 30, 2009.