Today Oct. 30, 2014 Magic: The Gathering player Jared Boettcher was
stripped of his Rookie of the Year award and suspended from competing in DCI sanctioned Magic: The Gathering tournaments for four years in an
announcement by Wizards of the Coast. This stemmed from public uproar over the way Boettcher shuffled his opponent's deck, allegedly seeing the bottom cards and moving them to the top in a recent StarCityGames.com event (see the attached video and slideshow for example). According to Wizards of the Coast's director of organized play Helene Bergeot, "This was not an isolated incident, but rather took place at multiple tournaments during the 2013–2014 season." In an interview with David Leavitt, Boettcher denies all allegations of intentionally cheating.
