[QUOTE=nephandys;369175]The human brain tries to make connections out of everything and anything even remotely related in order to process information easier and to make sense out of the environment. Not saying no one is ever cheating, but I think the simplest answer is usually the right one. Like how in your example you suggest those two dudes were the only 2 with good connections and they were probably sitting in the same room or something like that not rigging up a system that would allow them to cheat which would be a much more complex undertaking.
In the end there’s no way for me to convince someone that something is or is not happening. There’s also no way for me to know for sure one way or the other. There’s no proof on either side unless someone has some video.
Edit: I wasn’t there for that game like I had thought.[/QUOTE]
This is very true. Human brains are wired to match patterns in everything. But we’re not very good at sorting out false positive matches from true positive matches. It’s adventageous to be extra careful but not at all adventageous to miss a pattern.
For example: caveman matches the pattern between sabre-tooth tigre and a certain type of bush. He made that match because he’d seen a tiger in that type of bush 3 times. It was purely coincedence: the tiger was going to the toilet and chose the closest bush the first 2 times and the 3rd time wasn’t actually a tiger (it was a sabre-tooth tapir hiding from a tiger) but the caveman didn’t get a good look at it and built on the previous pattern (2 matches tiger and bush) to assume that it was a tiger. The caveman doesn’t lose anything by avoiding that type of bush in the future. He may be lucky and dodge a coincedental tiger attack. It’s a false positive match but it doesn’t hurt him to make that match. However, if it were a true match then it’d definitely be adventageous to make this match and it’d be disasterous to not make this match (a flase negative).
So people became really good at superstision and rituals (look at gamblers and sportsmen with their lucky socks and special dances before they go out to play etc).
All that is basically a really long winded way of saying: a lot of the time it may look like someone is cheating but often it’s just coincedence and bad luck. Someone kills you with “lucky” lag which makes you suspicious so you start hunting them to test it, but that means you’re fighting them more often than anyone else so when lag does hit it’s probably that it’s the same person etc… A classic false positive.
Okham’s razor: the simplest solution is often correct.
Someone else: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Me: It’s easier to change servers than prove someone’s cheating 
