I was banned from the KM Empires server earlier today for "trouble maker". I find this ban extremely unfair, which is why I'm appealing it here.

Here was the situation:

The map was escort, I was on BE. At the start of the game we all built arty, I was successful, getting to the top position on the score board for our team, despite this, we failed to capture the first flag, and as a result, we ran out of money and before long we had no tanks and no cash, giving us little hope of getting to the flag.

Our situation was made worse by somebody, I am not sure who, who bought several (perhaps four?) jeeps, and then proceeded to drive each one onto mines. Realizing that we had very little time left to take this flag before we would have no hope, I too built a jeep, and drove it to the flag; skillfully avoiding the mines. Once at the flag myself, and emp_recruit attempted to capture it. However, we had no support and were killed, although we were close to capturing it. Encouraged by my previous success, I built another jeep, however I managed to get it lodged in between some crates, where it remained until somebody stickied it.

By this time others on the team were realizing that we were not winning, and they started looking for a scapegoat. Unfortunately, probably due to my name, I was blamed for ALL the jeeps constructed (as usual), not just the two I was responsible for. Wild stories started circulating: "I saw leet jeep build 10 jeeps!! OMG".

In a desperate effort to capture the flag, I constructed an APC with our remaining res and instructed people to get in. However, some players on the team were less than helpful. MgC|Petemyster in particular. Upon seeing the APC he immediately shouted that I had "yet again" griefed; claiming that we need all our res for arty. OFC many people in the chat disagreed with him, saying that an APC is exactly what we need in our situation, not arty (I have chat logs).

Soon after MgC|Petemyster says in chat "Don't shoot the messenger", and then I was banned. My guess is he asked a KM admin to ban me.

Do you think this ban was justified?

[/Heart warming story of jeeps and APCs]

As a side note: I believe [KM] Flame111 was on the server, although I don't know if he is an admin.