Hackers Caught !!

Sensei has 13 clickless replays (and none with clicks) from Jan 26 to April 11. Most are multi set matches from clan wars. There are eight other replays of SenSei, provided by the NaW leaders, most from Q-Cup, all of which have many clicks. Download pack here: http://teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Flag/sensei.zip

Push had 10 clickless replays from multi set matches, and many click-filled games on LAN. Download the clickless pack here: http://teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Flag/push.zip

These have been dear members of our team so I don't really want to say anything bad about them. They screwed up and for this pointless act they cannot remain in team NaW, meaning they are released with immediate effect. NaW has been around for 4 years and this is our first incident where a team member is involved in serious cheating accusations.

They have been good friends with the team and Push even let me stay at his home and treated me dinner and everything. So I really don’t want to be too harsh against them, even though I think what they did was wrong and I can never support their acts of stupidity.

The team will take a big blow because of this, but I wish both players good luck in their future. We will now look for replacement players.

//NaW-Emerald

Sensei – “I have been using this "hack" called [omitted] or something not totally sure about it but it is a map hack. I was sent it through one of my friends NaW-Logic around 3 months ago (after I joined NaW) just before I reached A rank on ICCup in which you could use the hack with the AH loader ON. [Side note: this hack no longer works on ICCup’s AH launcher]. I have been using this hack ever since in all of the events i have played in for the past time. It became addicting to use the hack it made things so much easier even though my level was high without it. With it I could be on par and beat basically all players. I really don’t know what I was thinking it was just an easy way out and before this time I hated hackers just as much myself. For me I will be quitting BW. I guess this is finally my chance to get away from the game and never come back which I have been wanting to do for awhile this is a great excuse to do it and get back to real life and continue with real life studies and plans which were majorly distrupted by BW. I am sorry to team NaW- and any of my other friends that I have played with over the years that I turned to such a low scum way of playing a game and my lesson is learned.

Push – “All I can say is that it was more like a try than competing with it. But it will be done, remove me from the NaW team. Sorry for the bad publicity I made the team and every bullshit that will happen now.”

All 10 games in Ascension, played in February 2008, have 0 clicks, totaling over 80 minutes of game play. All 15 games played in a LAN on Feb 10 have multiple clicks, even averaging over 10 per game. All 9 games played in the Excello Cup, an online tour (Feb 17) using the alias “cruelpoliceman” have 0 clicks, totaling over 2 hours of game play. With a generous estimate of a game having a 10% chance of no clicks (the real value is probably about 1%, but dependent on game length) in any given game played without hack, the chance of these sets having no clicks is 1/10^14, or 1 in one-hundred trillion.

When confronted with the accusation, Localhost provided an FPVOD of one game in one of the Ascension Bo5 series in question. You can download the VOD [url blocked]. What he didn't realize at the time was how he was caught, or that Oblivion or hacks like it do not record unit selections other than your own, even if it is in the “off” or “lite” state. He probably anticipated being accused of hacking at one point so occasionally makes an FPVOD of one game in a set as proof with hack in off mode, but not closed. In the VOD, he clearly selects a creep colony as well as many other things (zerglings, etc.) yet none of these actions are recorded in the replay.

Download replay pack with the games in question here.

Additional games with extraneous proof can be found at replayhome.com, a useful site for investigating all players due to its 75,000+ replays in database.

Since a new method of Oblivion maphack detection was found many players were claimed to be "dirty".

As for our new 2x2 pair (Executor and Killah), the probative force of this method is strong. I have seen it my own, and I can’t challenge the efficiency of the method in their case. All WGT CL replays were marked as "dirty." (it's quite clear when you compare them with ICCUP "clean" ones).

But it is polar opposite in Victor's case (localhost). First, he had "dirty" replays only in Ascension tournament and Excello Cup #1. Assuming localhost is a hacker it's very strange for me, that a hacker is loosing hacked games, winning lots of tournaments (e.g. WGT CL, ICCUP CL, LANs and many online ones) without the hack. Thus I don’t think it is fair to claim him. Moreover, pirate version of software is still a problem for Russia, and gamers often download it and just buy CD-Keys. I mean he could have such a StarCraft copy at home, or at the cafe, where he used to play. Yet we do respect Counter Abuse Team work and understand their efforts to make a clean e-Sport.

We have the following decision. We apologize to Executor and Killah for this may be unfair decision, but we have to release them for RoX. As for Victor, to avoid ambiguity he should be in some sort of quarantine zone. From this time forward he is bounded to record FPVod of all official tournaments or leagues, to upload them as a proof at any moment. I would also like to draw admin's attention on a fact that ALL the replays except Ascension and Excello Cup #1 were "clean". None of us want a questionable decision like MistrZZZ’ one to happen again. And TSL once showed how professional they are, apologized to him after wrong decision. Let this professionalism be now. Not only at TSL, but other portals also.

Thanks for understanding.
Very truly yours,
Kirill Rus_Brain Patyrykin,
Here on behalf of RoX team leader.

In a replay pack from WGT tour around May 2007, there are 54 games played under the alias “aqua66,” none of which have any clicks. In 5 recent games played outside of the TSL there are no clicks (games are from idg clan war versus Mistrzzz and miscellaneous games versus Moonek and Haypro). In his games in the TSL, all games we have seen have many clicks, but a few with none can most likely be found if you check all 250. Generous mathematical chance of TT1 having no clicks (occurring naturally) is 1 in 10^59.

When confronted with the evidence against him, TT1 claimed that he had lent his WGT account to a friend and that it was not him playing those games. However, one of the games played under “aqua66” versus Skew, TT1 put into a replay pack of himself released here.

Hotkey analysis by Romad and Midian also verify that it was actually TT1 playing under aqua66 (while there may be a very few games played by his friend).

Download TT1’s TSL, WGT, and other replays here.

Of Executor’s last approximately 18 games from ReplayHome here, only one has clicks in it. It was an hour long game and there were no clicks for the first 50 minutes and then there are many clicks for the rest of the game, this is most likely because for whatever reason he closed the hack completely at this point in the game. If you look beyond the first 20 replays, in older games, most of the games have a normal amount of clicks.

You can download a pack containing 33 games gathered from ReplayHome and other clan wars all containing 0 clicks here: http://teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Flag/executor.zip

In the past Executor has been found to have recieved a loss after playing an UMS game here. This was caused by Blizzard's Warden program, which determined him to be hacking. Later he was found (link here) to have a replay with an action at the beginning which can only be caused by a program called Warden Watch which prevents you from getting a loss after such games where you hack. It was deemed not enough evidence because it only proved he used a hack, not a map hack.

There are no replays available of Killah playing recently without Executor as his partner. They are friends as evident by the fact that they changed clans together, and he helped defended Executor, and they are always a 2v2 team. Of the 33 clickless games played by Executor, 17 are 2v2's with Killah as his partner. Looking at older games, they both have had many clicks in their 2v2's and they both stopped having them at the exact same time.

There are 10 recent clickless replays of Tronic from clan wars and miscellaneous matches. Most of these are multi set matches and many of the games are very long (30-40 minutes). Also included is a replay pack provided by Tronic himself (in his defense) which is mostly older games all which have clicks. http://teamliquid.net/staff/Hot_Bid/Flag/Tronic.rar

When confronted with the evidence, Excello.Tronic claimed that he simply never clicks enemy units, or that the proof was mathematically flawed. However this is not likely because older matches (before a hack, or this particular hack was used) had many clicks, and recent games there are none. The chance of Tronic having zero clicks occurring naturally only in non-ICCup matches (WGTCL clan wars) after a certain date is virtually 0%.

All 14 games played in the Yankee League (Jan to April) are clickless (replays not publicly released). 72 games played in WGT ladder http://rapidshare.com/files/98162605/WGT_LADDER.rar where most of the games there have clicks. However a fair number of these games, roughly 15% are clickless, however many are short games. Spades either hacked some there too, or doesn't click enemy units as much as other players. Even if you give him the benefit of the doubt and say in any game he plays without hack there is a 20% chance no clicks, the chance of playing all 14 games of the Yankee League is 0.2**14 = 1 in 6103515625. There is further supporting evidence (check Spades’ WGTCL matches), but the Yankee League provides the clearest proof (pending Xeris releasing the Spades’ replays to the public).

You can download other games here or a compilation of clan wars/etc sets without clicks here.

I planned on providing an estimation of the chance of each player being innocent, but it was getting repetitive. A generous estimation of clickless to click-filled games is 1 in 10, but that is assuming a 10% ratio of clickless games, when the actual number is closer to 1%, but varies by player. This does not mean if you find twp replays of Mondragon or White-Ra (I have yet to see even one after seeing hundreds of his replays due to the wide variety of opponents they face) not clicking that there is a 99% chance hacks, the games must be a decent length, preferably consecutive, and multiple in number to show they are not flukes.