This is the 4th time that I have noticed a game on Go-Geared being counted twice when one of the players surrenders.

From public ticker:

		Chele Nica gained 1 championship point from game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:51:21
		Pratik lost 1 championship point from game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:51:21
		Chele Nica won game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:51:21
		Pratik surrendered from game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:51:20
		Chele Nica gained 1 championship point from game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:50:49
		Chele Nica won game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:50:48
		Pratik surrendered from game Pass Go To Collect 200 on board Go-Geared	16 Nov 12:50:47

This has happened to me more times than I can count.  In almost every case, it's because I either refreshed the game page after I surrendered, or I backspaced back into the game page after checking another page.  If you do either of those things after a surrender, the site registers the surrender a second time.  If you do it 5 times in a row, you get 5 losses in a row, and the opponent gets 5 wins.

camel wrote:

This has happened to me more times than I can count.  In almost every case, it's because I either refreshed the game page after I surrendered, or I backspaced back into the game page after checking another page.  If you do either of those things after a surrender, the site registers the surrender a second time.  If you do it 5 times in a row, you get 5 losses in a row, and the opponent gets 5 wins.

So that's the problem. It should be easy to fix by adding a check in the code to see if the surrendering already happened.

redshift wrote:

camel wrote:

This has happened to me more times than I can count.  In almost every case, it's because I either refreshed the game page after I surrendered, or I backspaced back into the game page after checking another page.  If you do either of those things after a surrender, the site registers the surrender a second time.  If you do it 5 times in a row, you get 5 losses in a row, and the opponent gets 5 wins.

So that's the problem. It should be easy to fix by adding a check in the code to see if the surrendering already happened.

That would only be one of the reasons for games to be counted twice. Certainly not the only reason.

I never backspaced back into a game after surrendering or checked another page afterinitially discoverering the counting double problem, still happened a couple more times. Not sure why. Maybe it's my PC doing an automatic update or something. Certainly nothing I did myself as I was very careful about it. 

Litotes wrote:

I never backspaced back into a game after surrendering or checked another page afterinitially discoverering the counting double problem, still happened a couple more times. Not sure why. Maybe it's my PC doing an automatic update or something. Certainly nothing I did myself as I was very careful about it. 

What we're talking about happens when the surrendering player either refreshes the page after surrendering or visists other pages but then goes back to that page (the game lobby) using the browser's back button (or its hotkey, usually backspace). This is because the surrendering request is appended to the url. This is assuming the surrendering is automatic, i.e., no need to wait for a vote.

If it also happens outside of that, then there must be an internal bug in addition to this.

I've added an internal check to prevent this happening in future, thanks for the diagnosis and suggestions everyone!

tom wrote:

I've added an internal check to prevent this happening in future, thanks for the diagnosis and suggestions everyone!

Super! Thanks a lot Tom

tom wrote:

I've added an internal check to prevent this happening in future, thanks for the diagnosis and suggestions everyone!

Thanks!

I think this bug may not yet be fixed.

I just won a 1v1 RT game when my opponent surrendered.  I was given credit for the win three times.

I don't know if my opponent rapidly clicked the surrender button or if he refreshed the page after surrendering.  Look at the win times from 15:12:37 to 15:12:46:

http://www.wargear.net/player/ticker/Public#

I know, I'm shooting my ranking in the foot for reporting this.  Is there a "Good Samaritan" badge? :)

camel, I looked at your ranking history and the game is only counted once there.

I see that now as well.  Perhaps it was resolved with the nightly index.  I should have taken a screenshot of the ticker like the OP.