So over 2 months down the track..... I said I'd proceed to waste my time and it would appear I was correct.
As covered above, my assumption was if I followed the standard support I would have the flawed wrist pad replaced with a flawed wrist pad and guess what? That's exactly what happened. After a few weeks of waiting the replacement arrived and straight away I still had the same sticking issue in game. I was asked to provide a video of the issue and although I can't exactly stop mid-game to record it I could emulate the issue and sent that across. The response?..... Sorry there isn't anything we can do to help further. Seriously? When I responded with this I was offered a coupon to reduce the price of buying another keyboard from Corsair that is compatible with gaming....even though it's a gaming keyboard. My further responses have now just been ignored or I've been told no one else has reported it, but how about we send you another wrist pad\. Really? You expect me to buy more Corsair hardware (K70 was recommended over K100?) and that Corsair cannot help any further with their flawed product? Another faulty wrist pad replacement will only yield the same result.
So, @Technobeard, any other recommendations? Corsair say they are unable to help their customer. I see Corsair Employees very eager to respond to some threads in these forums but nothing here. The simple answer is to go to my local consumer affairs body and log it with them, but that doesn't help fellow customers in the same situation. A situation you will see is common if you google the issue.
As i said before, I was always told Corsair support was appalling. If this isn't evidence of that I don't know what is.