The representation made to me by CJ was that the impending RL changes made running in crown contention too stressful. So the solution was to ghetto it. I told him it was a crock and he was too obsessive to not lead and do diplo and all that stuff anyway, but people need to learn the hard way. Shortly after the age started, we all discovered that CJ had randomed into the KD next to us. Lots of LOL conversations ensued and of course CJ gave some help and sold out at least some of his new KD mates to us. Then when people did crappy stuff to us, like emeriti not honoring the spirit of the CF negotiations that we had thought were completed, CJ allowed some gold stealing and so on to even out the prep time. All in all it was a relatively cooperative and nice thing except around mid age cj had to start gloating about how important he was to pyro etc etc.

No one debated that cj was integral to the success of pyro in the past (at least no one with a brain), but he started off with his forum signature about how much we suck without him etc. His gloating comments kept increasing through the age and were most unwelcome. I gather that eventually nesta got sick of hearing it from CJ and some of the other people who had "retired" and so decided that pyro would wave CJ's kd the last week of the age. No one was in a position for crowning or anything so it really did not matter. CJ took this as some grand betrayal and had to start emo threads in the forums over it and started flaming and bashing pyro. His stated intent to me was to disband/destroy pyro. I don't know why, but it is what it is.

This whole immature sandbox fight has spilled over into this age where from the start CJ attempted to recruit people away from pyro and continued his attacks and even abused an IRC loophole that nesta was unaware of/ignorant of to gain access to the pyro private channel and steal intel and location data by querying our bot. CJ justified this because of the prior "betrayal of trust" and so on and so forth because pyro waved him at the end of the age when nothing mattered.

That is what I saw at least. I am sure others have a version where we are the devil and eat small children, but that is what I saw.