Of course, this isn't about you taking a loss personally. I did not imply anything about that. Nobody said that. I wondered why you are being so defensive, since I'm just suggesting solutions for you.

You assume that I am on my "imaginary high horse" about winning, which you also assume that it makes me look arrogant, but you also missed that I used it to proved my point that these "*bag" spies tactics and counter-spies strategies works. I try to tell you that to improve your chance of winning, you should use spies, but if you don't, then it's up to you. However, you will be the one continue losing, because this tactic is used in every servers, every games, and every regions ever. Also, I know that my accounts and forums are tied, thanks for caring. I'm not scared to admit the usage of tactic that I deemed to be acceptable.

If you want the spy tactic to be unacceptable, then why are you making this "anyone have any ideas to solve this problem" topic? Go on and make a thread about spying is unacceptable in suggestion forums. Anyway, if you really feel that offended to my words and my suggestions, I'll just go away, since you are so defensive and so prideful about not using these "*my" tactics against people who used it against you. At the very end, your so-called "pride" of not counter-acting and doing nothing will be your own fall.

Thanks for clarifying, your current situation is now understandable. I agree and sympathize with most of what you said, however I have some of my own opinions.

Why do overpowered groups need to use spy

Then it should be even more effective for you to use counter-spy tactic. You can see what they are placing, and you just avoid their strong players or matched them with your strongest.

Although did you stack your players on 10/8/7 fields? If you won those 3 fields, you'd win regardless since all them combined give high points. Another solution is to weed out spies. If you know your members well, it would not be hard to rid the spies out.

Other than that, I still support my own point that counter-spy tactics will be the best for you now, considering you can beat top players with your combos. Just match your combos on their fields. You c*so tricked them by placing your teams carelessly while changing at last 10 seconds or so to match them.

If you said that there is nothing you can do, then the only thing you can do to react is to kick the spies. Put minimum requirements or some sort to the group to effectively label alts and spies, then kick them. My group uses minimum donation and overall online time to divide spies from normal members. If you talked a lot with your members, this shouldn't be much of a problem, I think.