Actually the official ruling was "ask your judge."

Unless we got another one later (this is when we lost the modded sculpt rule).

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showpo...9&postcount=36

Me in a swimming match against Michael Phelps could be said to be fair or unfair depending how you look at it. One thing is for sure. Unless he's deathly ill, I'm losing.

I don't know some famous chess player for that example to work.

A more experienced player will almost always win a fair contest as it should be. At least heroclix has a random dice element to give someone of close ability a chance.

It was considerably later than that, yes. By the time it was answered, it was no longer relevant for sealed events, and it was in regards to doing it at an official constructed event.

Our venue had a surprise scenario. (This is known there as a "twist" to the game there and is always on the table as an unexpected surprise. I love it.)
This one was after round one concluded, it was announced that instead of swapping opponents, we would swap teams and play again.
Let me tell you from experience; there is nothing more jawdropping than to get beaten by your opponents alleged cheese and then immediately have your really cool comic accurate theme team administer you another beating!
It's hard to deny that either my opponent was incredibly lucky or he was the superior player that day. Fair enough, yes? From my personal perspective, certainly.
Another perspective:
From my opponents point of view it wasn't fair. Some people will not do well with surprise twists to their game. They have methodically thought out their game plan and can't adapt on a dime (like my opponent that day, evidence not withstanding). Others, like me (evidence not withstanding) are not fazed by anything.
Again, there is always an advantage to one of the players based on skill set. But as a whole the game is fair, for we all know what it is and can choose to compete in this arena or not.

That's another fair way to play I forgot about. My brother doesn't know the game like me but if I wanted to know what team was better, we could play twice where each of us plays each team. At the end tally the points & see which team (rather than player) did better. That's more my interest level than deciding what player is better anyway. Do the X-Men beat the Brotherhood or vice versa is what it's about for me.