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DSC
United States20 Posts
Another article that came out yesterday. | ||
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Lebesgue
4542 Posts
On April 14 2010 06:06 DSC wrote: http://www.gamepron.com/news/2010/04/12/starcraft-cheating-scandal-rocks-korea/ Another article that came out yesterday. Nothing new in this article. It just sums up everything that you can find in this thread... | ||
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PanzerDragoon
United States822 Posts
Rekrul's blog that talked about this scandal before it officially broke. | ||
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summerloud
Austria1201 Posts
 semi-related: i hate it how fifa recently decided agianst tv referees and electronic aids yet again. its like they WANT referees being able to make tons of money by fixing games | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10346 Posts
... But maybe swirling rumors online, like a close friend that know Savior is in the slammer, will provide a wee bit of confirmation. But who knows if others will be ratted out. | ||
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FalconO.O_O.O
United States8 Posts
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lone_hydra
Canada1460 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:06 FalconO.O_O.O wrote: This will do what steroids did to baseball, maybe even worse? Baseball is still alive, surviving, and still boring millions of Americans today. | ||
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PanzerDragoon
United States822 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:08 lone_hydra wrote: Baseball is still alive, surviving, and still boring millions of Americans today. Baseball is actually thriving. But baseball is over 150 years old and has been part of American culture for a century. Starcraft is not nearly as entrenched. And at least with steroids, players were cheating to win. Here, players are cheating to lose =[ | ||
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number1gog
United States1081 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:14 PanzerDragoon wrote: Baseball is actually thriving. But baseball is over 150 years old and has been part of American culture for a century. Starcraft is not nearly as entrenched. And at least with steroids, players were cheating to win. Here, players are cheating to lose =[ A (terrible) argument in favor of steroids is that they increased the spectacle of the sport, what with the home run record setting years. Not saying steroids are a good thing, but they're certainly not as terrible as match-fixing, and as such I don't think the comparison is accurate. What these guys (allegedly) did is in a whole different league. | ||
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BalloonFight
United States2007 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:19 number1gog wrote: A (terrible) argument in favor of steroids is that they increased the spectacle of the sport, what with the home run record setting years. Not saying steroids are a good thing, but they're certainly not as terrible as match-fixing, and as such I don't think the comparison is accurate. What these guys (allegedly) did is in a whole different league. Better not bring that up on TL. Maphacking for 4 years puts you in the same boat as abusing 3 games on ICCUP as far as 90% of TL is concerned. | ||
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TwoToneTerran
United States8841 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:06 FalconO.O_O.O wrote: This will do what steroids did to baseball, maybe even worse? No, it'll probably affect it the way illegal betting and game throwing affected baseball. | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:19 number1gog wrote: A (terrible) argument in favor of steroids is that they increased the spectacle of the sport, what with the home run record setting years. Not saying steroids are a good thing, but they're certainly not as terrible as match-fixing, and as such I don't think the comparison is accurate. What these guys (allegedly) did is in a whole different league. Upsets in fixed matches also helps the spectacle. If 1 player wins all the time it's not as fun as when there's upsets. (when oov was unstoppable, most people hated watching him, including me, i now loveoov) | ||
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cz
United States3249 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:40 IntoTheWow wrote: Upsets in fixed matches also helps the spectacle. If 1 player wins all the time it's not as fun as when there's upsets. (when oov was unstoppable, most people hated watching him, including me, i now loveoov) Unless there is any suspicion of it being fixed, which contaminates and ruins any match that is even a slight upset. An upset is an exciting thing but if there is some suspicion that it was planned it completely douses it. It was exciting to watch oov lose because he was so unbeatable: if you had heard that he might lose because he was paid, would you really have any excitement at all? | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
perhaps for the better of esports... from here on out i'm done with this issue on tl.net i've gone rogue until next time ^^ | ||
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lone_hydra
Canada1460 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:44 cz wrote: Unless there is any suspicion of it being fixed, which contaminates and ruins any match that is even a slight upset. Yeah, clean upsets are good, but once people suspect of fixing, it deforms spectacle into suspicion, paranoia, and many resentful people. | ||
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discordfighting
United States39 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:46 Rekrul wrote: massive coverup underway now, the power of top companies as sponsors is very strong perhaps for the better of esports... from here on out i'm done with this issue on tl.net i've gone rogue until next time ^^ Disgusting. I sincerely hope that any cover-up attempts fail. If nothing else I hope that cover-up doesn't turn in to "Y'know guys, we can make a shit ton of money working with these illegal gambling sites. Oh and look at that, SC2 is just around the corner. $.$" | ||
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Green_Ranger
17 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:54 discordfighting wrote: Disgusting. I sincerely hope that any cover-up attempts fail. If nothing else I hope that cover-up doesn't turn in to "Y'know guys, we can make a shit ton of money working with these illegal gambling sites. Oh and look at that, SC2 is just around the corner. $.$" If I learn that everyone was just rigging bets, and that suspicions continue because the cover ups prevented anything from happening, then I'll be off foreign progaming. It just totally ruins the game for me. I want to see the best of the best trying their best, not them trying to lose. Ah well, at least I can be sure that IcCup is pretty legit as long as everyone is using launcher. | ||
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
On April 14 2010 07:46 Rekrul wrote: massive coverup underway now, the power of top companies as sponsors is very strong perhaps for the better of esports... from here on out i'm done with this issue on tl.net i've gone rogue until next time ^^ so that's why you requested to lock the blog and deleted YT vids | ||
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