Any other update on this?

The more I learn about New Zealand the less I understand.

Congrats to the champ! Mandos ftw!

This is now one of my favourite forum posts.

but congrats to the winner, sounds like it was a lot of fun.

maybe but I thought people should be more aware of this so that people get the ruling correct and can plan on how to proceed with their squads either using a piece with camaraderie or playing against someone using camaraderie.

Mistakes happen. Even I can make mistakes.

yeah I guess ruling is not the right word, it should of been just that it was played wrong and I just wanted to bring it to light so that everyone can proceed correctly from here, was not trying to be mean or harsh or anything...

No negativity taken. :)

Yeah, I was Judging for this event (though for this tournament it was more like Facilitating, since no rules questions or stalling situations came up). Minitank HT is right: none of the 3 of us thought that Camaraderie continued after Jan's death. This is just one of those things: nobody had a clue about this wierd (IMHO) rule at the time, but now everybody knows. It's just too bad it had to come via a Finals match.

Here's how it happened during the game:
-Minitank saw an opportunity to move Kelborn into position to snipe Spry's Jan Ors...this move left Kelborn exposed, but if Jan died then Kyle wouldn't be able to put significant damage on Kelborn (or so it was thought), and so it was a worthwhile risk.
-Kelborn killed Jan, after which Spry said, "Well, that's game" but they kept on playing. On Kyle's activation he moved up and killed a DW Saboteur, rather than putting 10dmg on Kelborn (could've been 80 if we were aware of how Camaraderie is supposed to work).
-Later Spry levitated Luke up to do a LS Throw with ASM that hit Kelborn, a Scout, and the Scientist. It was an excellent move, but Luke later died for his heroism.

Now, if Minitank had known that Kyle kept his boosts even after Jan's death, then I can almost guarantee that Minitank wouldn't have exposed Kelborn as he did. I played Mandos myself that day, and I know I would never have done it. And if Spry had known that Kyle was still powerful, I'm pretty sure he would've put the 80dmg (+ maybe a crit?!) on Kelborn, which would've forced Minitank to play far less aggressively with his squad (especially Kelborn, who was happy to eat 40dmg from Luke's LS Throw, since he still had 50hp left). And furthermore, all of this was in the first round (Jan never even got to activate), so it set the tone and pace for the rest of the game. Because Spry knew he had already almost surely lost the game, he was willing to throw Luke out there for an effective and yet risky LS Throw...if he knew that Kyle was still strong, I can almost guarantee he wouldn't have done that either.

And so you can see that the entire match was played from, and shaped by, the understanding that Camaraderie bonuses disappear after the granting character's death.

I'd be curious how the match would've gone if both players had known what we know now. I (playing Mandos) had beaten Spry earlier in the day (on his map), but I had more cloaked pieces and never left my main pieces adjacent to each other for a good LS Throw. Minitank had more non-cloaked pieces than I did (Scientist, Fenn Shysa), but he was very good at preventing LOS to them, so I'm not sure that Kyle would've been able to target them all that easily...not without exposing himself to a heavy counter-strike.

Regardless, it was a great day of SWM and everyone had fun.

I feel badly that our communal misunderstanding of the rules changed the course of events, but I think this is just one of those things where we need to communicate better as a community. If the 3 of us--who are all very active and competitive SWM players--could miss this ruling, then perhaps it wasn't communicated clearly. Camaraderie found its debut in V-Set 4, and yet I never recalled reading any sort of heads-up or FYI or discussion about how Camaraderie functioned; it's a big change to the game, and it would've been good to make a General Forums discussion about it when it was first released. Oh well, live and learn. I'll have to think about playing a Luke/Kyle/Jan squad in the future.