The Hypocrite Known as Testie - Page 2

LordWeird

United States3411 Posts

May 09 2011 18:57 GMT

#21

Testie didn't really do anything bad. It wasn't his fault Era ringed for them... it's been done in many many tournaments by pretty much every top team (sometimes it's a necessity just to get the game going). I'm sure if JoshP or somebody else had been available they would have played. This one tournament just happened to forbid ringing, who cares anyway?

And really who does account boosting hurt? Shit if I had the cash I would pay Testie 100 dollars to boost me to 2000PSR. Then I would go play a couple games, get destroyed, and end up back at 1600 where I belong.

This blog is disgusting, it's not like the guy is throwing matches or ghosting in public tournaments. I love watching his stream and I'm sure many many others do. There's no telling how many people bought HoN just because they saw how awesome it is on Testie's stream.

MiniDonbeE

Mexico2 Posts

May 09 2011 18:58 GMT

#22

1. Every single HoN pro, except probably the Eg team, Ok,Msi, Rea and Dskb team boost accounts......... they even do it on the streams, I mean comeon, theres no reason to ban testie just like that i mean comeon....

2. Ringer....... again every team does it except in lans... except ok,rea,dskb,msi and eg... why dont hey do it well because those guys are always together, they are mostly always available, but members of dwi, lion, sk etc have 2 work and others....... It was a bad move but its not like no team does it you know?

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

May 09 2011 18:59 GMT

#23

cella did account boosting for sc2 accounts back in the day...

if the people that bought the account boosting played the accounts, they'll eventually just fall back to their regular psr OR regular league appropriate for their skill level anyways.

On May 10 2011 02:47 Slaughter wrote:
What is Boosting?

for HoN -> you pay someone -> they play your account and bring it to a higher psr (like from 1500's -> 1600's or 1600's -> 1800's/etc) bracket
for SC2 -> you pay someone -> they play on your acc and bring it to a higher league (such as to diamond or masters or so)

LordWeird

United States3411 Posts

May 09 2011 19:03 GMT

#24

On May 10 2011 03:58 MiniDonbeE wrote:
1. Every single HoN pro, except probably the Eg team, Ok,Msi, Rea and Dskb team boost accounts......... they even do it on the streams, I mean comeon, theres no reason to ban testie just like that i mean comeon....

2. Ringer....... again every team does it except in lans... except ok,rea,dskb,msi and eg... why dont hey do it well because those guys are always together, they are mostly always available, but members of dwi, lion, sk etc have 2 work and others....... It was a bad move but its not like no team does it you know?

I'm pretty sure I've seen EG use Phe'V in a couple of matches.

xxpack09

United States2160 Posts

May 09 2011 19:30 GMT

#25

Honestly when I look at that whisper convo, you really egged him on. I was expected two full images of him raging all over you, but alas it was just a normal mundane ragefest on both sides. Not thread-worthy imho

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

May 09 2011 19:42 GMT

#26

not that i really care about either side, but 'everyone does it' is never an excuse.

re: ancients, i kinda completely disagree there. from what it seems like, that wasn't a league match or anything, and if it's not against the rules, do it. if it's bad enough, it'll get patched. jungles aren't equal on both sides (you can pull twice (sometimes 3x, spawns permitting) on scourge safe lane, but only once on sent safe lane. is that fair? no. is it banned? only partially, and nobody seems to care about the part that's not banned. you can (spawns permitting) pull into scourge mid and sent mid, but for some reason only the sent pull is banned (correct me if i'm wrong). ditto for ancients issue. scourge is just a better pulling jungle, but sentinel has a better stacking jungle (you can triple stack with no boots with any ranged hero on sent, but not on scourge), and yet nobody's banning that stacking advantage.

makes no sense, if its that gamebreaking, abuse it and let it get patched (like the 3rd pull on scourge safe although it's not completely fixed). i really don't like tourney rules like that /shrug

Zidane

United States1686 Posts

May 09 2011 19:42 GMT

#27

what exploit is testie talking about with hellbringer? o.o

naventus

United States1337 Posts

May 09 2011 19:55 GMT

#28

On May 10 2011 04:30 xxpack09 wrote:
Honestly when I look at that whisper convo, you really egged him on. I was expected two full images of him raging all over you, but alas it was just a normal mundane ragefest on both sides. Not thread-worthy imho

The screenshots were public a while ago. I'm not a player in the screenshots, nor am I involved in any way, I just follow the scene.

My intention is just to present the case and people can make their own judgements on character.

BroOd

Austin10831 Posts

May 09 2011 20:01 GMT

#29

On May 10 2011 04:55 naventus wrote:

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Well, that's clearly not the case. You've skewed the course of the dialogue before anyone even opens the thread. I don't know enough about this scene to really understand the ramifications of the things you've presented in this thread, but from an outsider's perspective it kinda seems like a hatchet job.

Zeroes

United States1102 Posts

May 09 2011 20:10 GMT

#30

all i know is LoL is better than HoN

join liquidparty.net where you cant get banned for boosting

QuanticHawk

United States32071 Posts

May 09 2011 20:12 GMT

#31

On May 10 2011 04:55 naventus wrote:
My intention is just to present the case and people can make their own judgements on character.

You wouldn't happen to be a Fox News reporter, would you????

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

May 09 2011 20:13 GMT

#32

Why do you care so much? You seem like you have a genuine nerve that was struck by this lol, first of all nobody cares about boosting except for S2 wanting to make a statement by nailing their highest profile name they have in the game. Testie did it, publicly, because it wasn't ever an issue and nobody really stated that it would be an issue. As for the "dirty ringer" thing. I'm not sure what was up with that but he's hardly the same person he was in BW, and to just lay it all down like this, I'm surprised you'd bother coming in here just to call him a "lying scumbag"

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

May 09 2011 20:20 GMT

#33

whats a ringer?

SlipperySnake

248 Posts

May 09 2011 20:48 GMT

#34

I am kind of confused, isn't this a god damn blog post. People seem to be raging because the OP was upset with something. If you don't like his opinion it is fine to post it but to say things like he doesn't have a right to his own opinion seems a little ridiculous.

Testie is the target of this rage because he has a past history and he is a big representative of the scene. I am not saying he has to be a perfect angel but with HON taking a nosedive I could certainly understand people being upset with people trying to make money with abusive behavior.

Zlasher United States. May 10 2011 05:13.
Why do you care so much? You seem like you have a genuine nerve that was struck by this lol, first of all nobody cares about boosting except for S2 wanting to make a statement by nailing their highest profile name they have in the game. Testie did it, publicly, because it wasn't ever an issue and nobody really stated that it would be an issue. As for the "dirty ringer" thing. I'm not sure what was up with that but he's hardly the same person he was in BW, and to just lay it all down like this, I'm surprised you'd bother coming in here just to call him a "lying scumbag"

This is just emblematic of this ridiculous internet troll personality, where nothing matters because it is just the internet. Any outrage should be laughed at because in the end it doesn't matter. No you are fucking wrong. This guy got paid to ruin the games and help other people ruin games and as a pro player he shouldn't be boosting. I am not saying he should be banned or whatever but people have a right to be angry.

Also the argument of "it wasn't ever an issue" because "no one really stated it would be" is just ridiculous. Anyone who has thought for more than 2 seconds about boosting can understand why it might ruin a few games.

Serialloser

France1 Post

May 09 2011 20:48 GMT

#35

A ringer is someone not in your team roster but used as a substitue if you cant align a complete ligneup (more often than not by asking the other team beforehand if they are ok with it).

In this tournament, ringers were not allowed so they make the one they wanted to play with them use one of their team player account.

BouBou.865

Netherlands814 Posts

May 09 2011 21:04 GMT

#36

On May 10 2011 03:03 snorlax wrote:
I don't get why acct boosting is so bad, if someone wants to pay you to play there acct it doesn't really matter to you or anyone else, I guess it can be smurfing a little but but still money is money, as to the ringer that seems like a pretty stupid move =/

If I go on LoL, and smurf on my friends 1200 ELO account and go 25/0 for 4 games straight, I take away all competitive spirit for all of the players involved. Smurfing ruins games.

N3rV[Green]

United States1935 Posts

May 09 2011 21:59 GMT

#37

On May 10 2011 06:04 BouBou.865 wrote:

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If I go on LoL, and smurf on my friends 1200 ELO account and go 25/0 for 4 games straight, I take away all competitive spirit for all of the players involved. Smurfing ruins games.

Ya know what I say to that? I say "holy shit, I wanna do that!!! I guess I'll just get really good and stomp all over kids too"

And the cycle runs it's circle.

Testie is cool, ringers are needed, and this thread is silly.

Slakkoo

Sweden1119 Posts

May 10 2011 14:01 GMT

#38

What did they do to cheat? Pulled ancients?

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

May 10 2011 14:13 GMT

#39

Wow those forums smell and read like a cesspool. Thank god for admins on TL.

Chef

10810 Posts

May 10 2011 14:40 GMT

#40

I don't think it's fair to bring up things Testie did over a decade ago (things you probably weren't even around to witness), after he has been such an important member of the community, a nice guy 95% of the time, in ToT, good friends with mondragon etc etc. Yes, he did redeem himself. He was humble and eventually became a interesting playing in the foreign community for BW. Although that's also kind of old news, it really doesn't have anything to do with this game.

I don't play HoN so I don't know the severity of the things he's done. The comments in the thread don't seem to suggest it's anything like what he did when he was 13 years old

Is it playing twice for your team because someone is missing? Maybe it's like Proleague's Ace format

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