Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-12846745-20140925235943/@comment-5196731-20160114031737

Arend wrote:

DevilX90 wrote: 1. Still, Pac-Man and Shulk got confirmed, therefore that leak about them is real, Gematsu or no Gematsu, while the Chrom is fake, and therefore, Chrom is deconfirmed. Your argument is even more flawed than mine would ever be, Arend.

2. Looks to me like Nintendo just did disqualify Rayman and Shovel Knight for being fake leaks. A fake leak is against the rule of the Fighter Ballot, and since they broke the rules, Rayman and Shovel Knight got the one thing they deserve: disqualification.

And there you have it, Arend, after a fake leak, neither Rayman and Shovel Knight would ever be in Smash, not even in the future Smash game (if Sakurai would ever make another Smash game, which I doubt he would). I've said this about a million times now, and yet you still pretend your argument is correct. Also they don't deserve disqualification just because some jerk decided to make a fake leak that includes them. That's absolutely unfair for both the character and the fans. It's irrational, dumb and nonsensical.
 * 1) Pac-Man and Shulk were both in the exact same leak as Chrom. They weren't from separate leaks by Gematsu, but from one single leak. The guesses with Pac-Man and Shulk are correct while the Chrom guess was incorrect, but that doesn't change the fact that they were all in the same leak. Since said leak has Chrom in it, it's fake, but said fake leak had correct guesses, which means fake leaks do not deconfirm characters.
 * 1) There's absolutely no rules on that. You just made that up. The only rule the Fighter ballot has is that the character must be from a video game.

1. The Chrom leak is the one guess that is incorrect, so therefore a fake leak does mean that a character is deconfirmed. You can stop with your false evidence now, and I don't pretend that my argument is correct, I know that my argument is correct.

2. There is one rule now, and that rule is "Any fake leak of a certain character created by a non-Nintendo employee, i.e. Artsy Omni, should consider that character deconfirmed, or disqualified from the fighter ballot after it had begun". Life is never fair, so get used to the fact that both Rayman and Shovel Knight are officially deconfirmed, because of a fake leak.