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haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
January 01 2010 15:14 GMT
#61
People like White-RA who play versus anyone and still makes it. Mad props for that.
Rillanon.au
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
January 01 2010 20:17 GMT
#62
Thanks for clearing things up.
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 02:13:12
January 02 2010 01:41 GMT
#63
so true wax

most human beings are inclined to not take the high road and try and gain edges when they can, especially if they feel there is no way people will know (which all comes back to their own self interest obv)....of course there are plenty of people with 'honor' but the dishonorable amongst the human race far outnumbers the honorable...and the reasons for this i think are obvious and pointess to bother discussing

should we hold it against progamers of today for cheating in tournaments during progaming's infancy where everyone else was cheating anyways? i guess yes and no....young broke kids playing video games...desperate people do desperate things...if you actually want to be dissapointed at them or angry then you need to wake the fuck up, the world is full of greedy people...better start hating your neighbors!

i mean...you can always forgive someone who is apologetic and still just never trust them again, pretty easy...don't hate but don't trust lol...but yeah the ones trying to justify their actions: L O L u did it cuz ur a greedy faggot and thats it, close ur pathetic trap

much like back in the day during kbk as to now in tsl2, what a smart person would do about the dodging situation is to not cheat themselves, but to make a big public issue about the people they think are cheating and the inherent flaws in the system. it's all you really can do. try and make a change rather than melding yourself to the will of cheaters.

the real ones to blame during kbk and stuff are the organizers for their stupidity to a much greater extent than blaming the gosu players 'forced' to abuse (not that what they did was right)

i'm not saying TSL2 is a perfect system, as wax said every tournament has it's inherent flaws like the dodging stuff...but what the cheaters were too stupid to realize is, beyond it's inherent flaws are it's MOTHER FKING RULES. why do these sad kids all feel they are entitled to something? tsl is a gift from fking TLNET to the community, if you don't like its rules GTFO

when i play live poker and i'm next to some old rich idiot who when he looks at his cards he totally exposes them to my perhiperial vision, i ALWAYS tell them to be careful looking at their cards and that i saw their hand. even the times where the dealer is dealing and slightly fucks up and one of the players' cards color is barely exposed to my eye i will say 'WTF BLACK FACE CARD FOR SURE FLIP IT UP MISDEAL' this should be standard in a perfect world, but its super rare, and i'm dissapointed to hear when some ppl whom i previously respect tell me 'yeah i could see his hand lol'

but...what if i was completely broke and one of my family members needed a hospital operation but needed payment and my only way of getting cash was to abuse an advantage like this...would i tell the old stupid dude i could see his cards? probably not.

does that make me a bad person?

but comparing nazgul to these progamers is laughable. nazgul is a well-off educated intelligent multilingual guy from the netherlands who had the odds of succeeding in progaming stacked against him anyways. not knocking him at all and props to him as i know he's always been honorable....but it's much easier for him to take the high road than some stupid nerd no life fucker broke with no money slurping down ramyun noodles every day loser korean kid during the infancy of progaming

i'm not saying i condone anything these cheating faggots ever did, nor would i ever do it, but u just gotta realize that people are what they are and react accordingly

as for the cheater purdge, that is totally the correct reaction and i'm glad they are banned

but man....more so than being like 'wow i'm so dissapointed that you'd be bad manner enough to cheat' ....what i'm thinking is:

'LOL YOU ARE SO FUCKING DUMB FOR TRYING TO CHEAT IN TSL (BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS THE MOST SCRUTINIZED AND FOLLOWED ONLINE FOREIGNER SC EVENT EVER) LOL ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING LOL GL LIFE LOLLLL'
why so 진지해?
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
January 02 2010 03:53 GMT
#64
On December 30 2009 06:20 Amarxist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2009 06:10 Hamster1800 wrote:
On December 30 2009 05:57 Amarxist wrote:
On December 30 2009 05:30 Hamster1800 wrote:
When you make the ladder a qualifier for a big tournament such as TSL, I cannot see that abuse and dodging are worlds apart. What was the qualifying rank for TSL? A-? What was qualifying for top 12? A? How many of the players do you think could get to the rank that they got to without dodging?

In my eyes, dodging and abusing both get you a rank that you couldn't get normally. How is that worlds apart?


They're worlds apart because when you abuse a ladder; you're granting yourself wins. You're gaining points without any risk.

When you dodge, you're simply denying yourself a chance to lose/gain points. Whether you're A- or A+. You have to play people who within your rating in order to actually gain rating. If you don't play, people who will--will surpass you because overall point inflation will increase everyone's overall rating.



Okay, let me put it this way. Suppose that we had a D rank tournament, okay? Now there is one D rank player that everyone thinks is better than them by enough that they would win most of the games. So the rest of the players in the tournament all dodge that player and the koreans on the ladder. Because of point inflation, these players will all hit A-. What is the "stronger" D rank player to do? Maybe he plays a lot and gets to C-. But regardless, none of the other weak players will be willing to play him and this guy won't have a chance against the C- koreans. Are you saying that that is fair?

Basically replace D by B+ and you have TSL.


What you described is a boycott to play a single player. You can't do anything about that. That is such an extreme example it's almost not valid. Although, it would be funny to see.

That is very likely not to happen, unless everyone hates that one person. The reality is, people want points. The need to play in order to gain points.

Ego's between humans will make people believe they are better then others, or the best. Because of this, known people will play other known people. The more games are played the more inflation takes place.

Edit: If you're so adamant in believing what you say is correct. Then why have all the people expected to qualify have qualified? Using your theory as an example, a lot of these most known, dangerous top foreign players should have been dodged off the ladder. How was morrow able to increase his ranking to #2 in the last days of the ladder?

TeamLiquid provided a big incentive to take top 12 in ladder by granting those with top 12 higher positions in the tournament rounds. This instills greed into people and they're willing to do anything (abuse, dodge, or not dodge and risk losing their current ranking for fear they may be overtaken).


Well that's exactly what happens when you don't allow smurfs.
:)
Sharp-eYe
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada642 Posts
January 03 2010 02:30 GMT
#65
I honestly cant sympathize with anyone's decision to cheat, whether is be a soccer game or a starcraft ladder. I have gained so much more respect for nazgul now. I dont care if he didnt even qualify. If I was into sc 5 years ago, I would most definetly have cheered Nazgul and his decison, and booed Anytime and Iris and YellOw.

And on the TSL1 AND TSL2 rules post it says that they can request a smurf.
Are you truly so blinded by your vaunted religion, that you can't see the fall ahead of you? - Zeratul III AKA WikidSik ingame (anygame)
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
January 03 2010 03:53 GMT
#66
For all the KesPA bashing that goes on here, isn't this one area where they've actually improved the game? By replacing ladders with courage tournaments where you're on a LAN and are watched by referees they've found a way to give progaming licenses to only those who are good enough to deserve them and not those who abused the most.
thopol
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Japan4560 Posts
January 03 2010 07:01 GMT
#67
Wonderful post. Thanks so much for sharing your insight and experience.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-03 09:10:59
January 03 2010 09:06 GMT
#68
I honestly see no difference in dodgers and abusers. The only difference that exists in the real world is that dodgers are allowed to go on because we can't really monitor dodging. Both just do the same thing in depriving us a fair top-48. Imperfect world blows, whatever. >_>

Is it fair that the abusers are banned? Absolutely. But it would be even fairer if dodgers were also banned. Is that practical? Not at all. But because of the dodging that led to the abusing, I honestly do not find the abusers to be morally reprehensible anymore than a dodger :\

Think of F91 - he was faced with a double burden of 1) needing top 12, 2) only able to, most of the time, play Koreans. He had his hand forced, so he abused. Then he got caught and was banned. Sucks, but I don't find him to be a monstrously immoral person because of it.
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tissue
Profile Joined April 2009
Malaysia441 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 00:38:30
January 04 2010 00:37 GMT
#69
If I was a contender for the top 48 and had my hand (actively or passively) forced I personally would seriously consider ladder abuse. How many chances are you going to get for tournaments like TSL to be organized? A good portion of OSL/MSLs have been won by players who have never repeated that feat. They must have been playing the game of their life back then. How long can a person keep up that form, practice and mindset to run that hot? If another big tournament comes around in some years, it's impossible to say whether you will be up to it again, if ever.

If you were in top 60-ish and getting dodged to hell, and ended up having to play against people way better, which didn't end well, you have the respect of everyone in the community, if anyone ever finds out. And nothing else.
parkin
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
1089 Posts
January 04 2010 03:12 GMT
#70
Everyone using smurf nicks where the opponents cant see their stats only the rank is one option.

Automatic match making would be a better option.

The current TSL2 online qualifier is obviously flawed.
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Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-04 04:57:36
January 04 2010 04:42 GMT
#71
good post wax, I pretty much share all your opinions specially this core statement:
On December 29 2009 08:59 Waxangel wrote: an unregulated ladder is not a credible ladder...
as for the future, if we are lucky, Blizz is reading too.
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deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
January 04 2010 09:01 GMT
#72
Nice read. It certainly shed some light for me on abusing in SC.
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Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
January 04 2010 14:54 GMT
#73
It's so obvious what the differences are between dodging and abusing, so I won't go over what has already been said. There are a few points I'd make that seem to elude Hamster1800. Firstly, there are players who played almost only koreans like White-Ra and IdrA and yet managed to qualify. Of course not every player is that good, sure, but if you're so good to be dodged by everyone then you're good enough to play the A- koreans and win. And if you're not good enough to play the A- koreans and win then people probably aren't going to be dodging you - simple.
If you believed Reason you'd think he miraculously occupied this tiny niche of skill where EVERYONE decent whom he could win against dodged him and yet he was just not good enough to play any korean of equivalent rank.

On December 30 2009 05:57 Amarxist wrote:
Ego's between humans will make people believe they are better then others, or the best. Because of this, known people will play other known people


Exactly, most gamers of roughly equal skill think they can beat each other - and hence will play. You also start to lose more points than you gain as you hit A-/A. So if a bunch of ppl are dodging not just koreans but also good foreigners then immediately a bunch will start to lose more points than they gain. And the one's that somehow make it through are going to be vsing either:
a) the few other dodgers that scavenged and clawed their way over their fellow dodgers to the top48 or
b) they will be facing ppl who got into the top 48 by not dodging. So they will realistically lose.


On December 30 2009 05:30 Hamster1800 wrote:
Besides the comments I inserted into your post in bold, consider that almost none of the people in top 48 are capable of having a winning record against A- koreans.


This is irrelevant because this is a foreigner tournament. The real question is 'Can they beat IdrA, ret, White-Ra in a Bo5?'.

The only possible victims that Hamster1800 identifies is someone who is supposedly so gosu that no foreigner will play them, except somehow aren't good enough to play IdrA/White-Ra or any korean. I frankly don't think these ppl exist. We've got a great top 48 and the ppl who blatantly cheated have been removed. Dodging is barely a problem, get over it. They'll be owned by the better players soon, remember only 12 are advancing out of this 48, so chill :p
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StarsPride
Profile Joined January 2010
United States364 Posts
January 04 2010 22:10 GMT
#74
actually there was absolutely no abuse or hack in the pro ladder at wc3. aside from sniping which is basically someone giveing up there pro account to friends and it getting shit stats and haveing pros who are in the top try to match certain players in an attempt to make them lose points. which they will lose tons considering the person who is on the sniper account has very bad stats
( lose more points to noobs as opposed to top )
InfC.Pride
dangots0ul
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States919 Posts
January 05 2010 00:50 GMT
#75
+1
i type teamliquid into the url subconsciously... all...the...time...
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
January 07 2010 01:15 GMT
#76
On January 04 2010 23:54 InClass wrote:
I sure, but if you're so good to be dodged by everyone then you're good enough to play the A- koreans and win. And if you're not good enough to play the A- koreans and win then people probably aren't going to be dodging you - simple.


It is not simple because you're plain wrong. The skill gap between B+/A- is so HUGE because of the fact that you lose more than you win when you attain the A- rank. You have to freaking realize that an A- Korean is a GREAT deal better than a typical foreigner as it's just their culture. There is a big gap in there for someone to be good enough for people to dodge his ass and not quite able to beat A- Koreans.


The only possible victims that Hamster1800 identifies is someone who is supposedly so gosu that no foreigner will play them, except somehow aren't good enough to play IdrA/White-Ra or any korean.


Again there are more than you think. The way A level play works means the skill gap can be VERY VERY significant. Idra/Ret/White-Ra are some of the very few foreigners that can play against A- Koreans and retain a winning record.


I frankly don't think these ppl exist.


You're a hopeless cause then


We've got a great top 48 and the ppl who blatantly cheated have been removed. Dodging is barely a problem, get over it. They'll be owned by the better players soon, remember only 12 are advancing out of this 48, so chill :p


"so chill" I fucking hate this comment in this case with so much passion. Why the hell should we just CHILL with an inherently flawed system. Even TL admins generally agree that an open "you can select your opponents" ladder is just not that good.

Dodging is a problem, it always HAS been one. Even if the dodgers in the Top48 get eliminated soon it can very well deprive you of a good game because someone else of higher skill got bumped out because his poor ass god dodged five ways to sunday.

It's a problem, start realizing that thanks.
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