Reviewing redtea's meta for the 3rd/4th time I am once again unconvinced this is scum. I noted a difference in how fleshed out their reads were early in
1278 but this is pretty eh.
I took issue with Hectic's summation of redtea's slot here, particularly in the characterization of the replaceout (redtea was noticeably extremely behind on the game, and was still trying to get through the catboi/Pooky engagement that they had helped spark). I decided not to really post about it since the soft-defense/Suji stuff was valid, and the replaceout timing itself was literally true.
Looking at SIN, and then at other games though, it looks like this kind of defense is typical of redtea-town. Here are
two (def Jackel) posts (def osuka, but thinks SvS theater) of redtea going very out of their way to work through and justify another player's thought process, in very similar ways.
The only game they flipped scum was in 2019, and as they note in SIN they
really didn't do too hot. They basically fencesat that whole game minus a readlist with...one real read The amount of confidence they would have had this game as scum would be very impressive, given their experience with catboi playing extremely well in SIN. Buddying is plausible, but subsequently really going after catboi for leaving me out of his TRs would be very bold.
I really wish I could have asked them more on that catboi thing, though, since I remember them being fine with cat not TRing me at first.