The protoss (sky) made about 4.5m won (4,500$) from participating in match fixing orchestrated by another guy who owns an illegal betting ring making millions of dollars. they've both been arrested now and police are hunting for the rest of the ring, no mention of other progamers so far.
StarCraft match-fixing arrests in Korea - Page 2
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ShloobeR
Korea (South)3804 Posts
The protoss (sky) made about 4.5m won (4,500$) from participating in match fixing orchestrated by another guy who owns an illegal betting ring making millions of dollars. they've both been arrested now and police are hunting for the rest of the ring, no mention of other progamers so far. | ||
Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
edit: apart from "where" all the other names are pretty much from prime time broodwar. So fingers crossed | ||
TT1
Canada9987 Posts
g1 vs shuttle - was a really good game, sky won g2 vs shine - shine went for a really sick allin and sky almost held it, i was actually surprised at how well he microed, thought it would have been a much easier win for shine g3 vs shuttle - this is the only sketchy match because it was a b.o loss, that said sky would have had to plan the throw w/ shuttle and i don't see an incentive for shuttle to match fix, he's already one of the most popular streamers on afreeca and makes a ton of money edit: i dunno about his g-star matches tho, havnt seen them | ||
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GTR
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33079 Posts
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jinjin5000
United States1383 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:07 GTR wrote: i believe the news articles implied he was planning on fixing those games, but backed out last minute. probably had rumblings something like this was going to happen. says he received $4.5k for losing 0-2 and was planning on matchfixing on ASL 5 tho. | ||
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FlaShFTW
United States10025 Posts
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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TelecoM
United States10646 Posts
He will have to switch races now, what a disgrace. | ||
necrosexy
451 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:05 TT1 wrote: hm.. sky played really well in his asl matches tho g1 vs shuttle - was a really good game, sky won g2 vs shine - shine went for a really sick allin and sky almost held it, i was actually surprised at how well he microed, thought it would have been a much easier win for shine g3 vs shuttle - this is the only sketchy match because it was a b.o loss, that said sky would have had to plan the throw w/ shuttle and i don't see an incentive for shuttle to match fix, he's already one of the most popular streamers on afreeca and makes a ton of money edit: i dunno about his g-star matches tho, havnt seen them lol do you think these ring leaders approach bad players? | ||
jimminy_kriket
Canada5485 Posts
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TT1
Canada9987 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:24 necrosexy wrote: lol do you think these ring leaders approach bad players? its very obvious to tell when some1 is match fixing tho, didnt look like he was trying to lose any of those games | ||
CicadaSC
United States1291 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:27 jimminy_kriket wrote: Larva is reading the news right now on his stream, if anyone knows korean and wants to translate that would be amazing Larva keeps looking at Stork's afreeca profile. Why? Does Stork have something to do with this? Anyone who speaks Korean please translate anything you find out and post it here. | ||
jinjin5000
United States1383 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:34 CicadaSC wrote: Larva keeps looking at Stork's afreeca profile. Why? Does Stork have something to do with this? Anyone who speaks Korean please translate anything you find out and post it here. just support other streamers and that stork is good guy Stork is one of people who absolutely LOATHES matchfixers too Anyway, this whole incident opens up can of worms: There must be people who had gotten away with it. Disgusting. | ||
Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33079 Posts
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
On March 15 2018 13:36 jinjin5000 wrote: just support other streamers and that stork is good guy Stork is one of people who absolutely LOATHES matchfixers too Anyway, this whole incident opens up can of worms: There must be people who had gotten away with it. Disgusting. The only way he could possibly think he could get away with this after 3 other scandals in BW and SC2 is if: A: Other people got away with matchfixing. B: Sky knew about these players getting away with it and thought he could some quick cash by doing the same. If not then he's incredibly stupid to think he can beat the system after over a dozen people got caught in the past. | ||
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thedeadhaji
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39489 Posts
On March 15 2018 12:47 GTR wrote: sky was never the brightest character so this doesn't shock me. also it should be noted that the majority of arrests relate to people using these gambling sites. right now it seems the only 'big wigs' involved were sky and the guy who ran the gambling site/owned some luxury pc bangs across the country. who knows though, maybe a domino effect happens over the next few days and more prominent figures are implicated. "luxury pc bang" sounds like such an oxymoron ![]() | ||
Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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