Something happened today... More unfair bans

Ectar:   To summarize.   You're playing on Ruinberg in an SP1C.  You go to the corner where heavies always brawl, and for whatever reason, you stay there in your light tank in the middle of the heavies.  The heavies are trying to position for shots and you're moving in between them.  Your spotting is redundant as the heavies will re-spot anything themselves.  In short, it's a terrible position for a light tank to stay (rush for initial spots I can understand, but you don't just stay there afterwards getting in everyone's way as you're contributing nothing).   You then decide to try and peak to get a shot in front of the heavies. An IS who's most likely in sniper view hits you when you roll out in front of him.  Rather than wait for an apology or accept that you getting shot was your own fault, you instead shoot the IS.  So the heavy tank in your team who's brawling, now has less health.  GG you're contributing to your team losing now.  The IS is obviously unhappy at you shooting him so he pins you against the wall. You eventually flip and the IS gets destroyed by you. The IS basically kills himself and you which was dumb from him (but the provocation/frustration was understandable).   If you want to look back on this in hindsight, please take the following from it.  - The ban was just, you team damaged someone in frustration due to your own mistake, not his. It would be impossible to avoid that from the IS and most accidental team damage comes from that exact scenario (someone moves in front of someone about to take a shot when they're in sniper mode).  - You can avoid those situations by waiting for teammates to shoot, or simply not being in the wrong place with the wrong vehicle. Yes, accidents will happen and there is no way to 100% avoid them. In this situation however, you have to accept your positioning was totally wrong and was the main contributing factor to what happened.   The fact you instantly shot him back without waiting for a sorry or waiting to see if he was blue, shows you have no qualms in shooting a team mate (accident or not). With you killing his tank due to the grinding, that and the single shot are not enough to get you banned.  You've done team damage before and likely recently.   In the past 2 weeks, I've shot 3 players by accident.  2 were team kills. Each time I was in the wrong and apologized. I haven't turned blue yet.  1 was a bad/risky shot with a dead gunner and 2 were shots where team mates moved when I was in sniper mode into the recticle (one long range, one close range as I was aiming for a weakspot).    Accidents happen. If a teammate isn't blue, you don't shoot them. I don't know how many times this needs to be said but I'm sure we'll be having this same conversation again next week with someone else. At nearly 6k battles there is no excuse for not knowing how team damage works or when it's ok to shoot back.