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jtype
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
England2167 Posts
June 29 2009 16:23 GMT
#101
On June 30 2009 01:15 JWD wrote:
manner thong


Sounds painful.
caelym
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6421 Posts
June 29 2009 16:23 GMT
#102
Strelok made the right choice. The foreigner community lets bad decisions like this slide way too often, and it hurts our professionalism. Esports really shouldn't be like a private lan where friends can just get together and make a compromise after a "final" ruling has been made. Judges make bad calls all the time in other professions, and they have to live with it. Why is the Valor tournament any different?
bnet: caelym#1470 | Twitter: @caelym
Nylan
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States795 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-29 16:30:08
June 29 2009 16:29 GMT
#103
On June 30 2009 01:23 caelym wrote:
Strelok made the right choice. The foreigner community lets bad decisions like this slide way too often, and it hurts our professionalism. Esports really shouldn't be like a private lan where friends can just get together and make a compromise after a "final" ruling has been made. Judges make bad calls all the time in other professions, and they have to live with it. Why is the Valor tournament any different?


Judges don't usually have lots of time to make the right decision, and keeping game flow is highly important.
BeSt/Pure/Canata/Calm - I believe in Doh Jae Wook
LG)Sabbath
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Argentina3024 Posts
June 29 2009 16:59 GMT
#104
On June 30 2009 01:29 Nylan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2009 01:23 caelym wrote:
Strelok made the right choice. The foreigner community lets bad decisions like this slide way too often, and it hurts our professionalism. Esports really shouldn't be like a private lan where friends can just get together and make a compromise after a "final" ruling has been made. Judges make bad calls all the time in other professions, and they have to live with it. Why is the Valor tournament any different?


Judges don't usually have lots of time to make the right decision, and keeping game flow is highly important.

you must not play on clan leagues a lot... what with the 3 hour long clanwars when admins get involved... I sometimes get nightmares from that
https://www.twitch.tv/argsabbath/
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
June 29 2009 17:30 GMT
#105
On June 30 2009 00:46 -StrifeX- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2009 00:32 WeakTuna wrote:
I always wondered why does player with big "name", such has reckrul, artosis etc never get temp ban ( or maybe they are some time, but i never saw it). It's that i dont find their post funny or anything, but some time i think they turn some post in huge drama storry and find it sad (funny but sad) And btw Happy birthday reckrul.


All the big names rarely get banned. It's an admin decision. I also believe rekrul might still be an admin. I know he was at one time.


Rek has been temp banned before for shitting on Plexa ^^
blipster8
Profile Joined January 2009
United States71 Posts
June 29 2009 17:34 GMT
#106
On June 30 2009 01:00 Klive5ive wrote:
The only information I need is that Strelok was offered 1-1 and took it. Any respectable player would have declined immediately and asked for a re-game.


I mean, I'd hope it's pretty obvious that the dispute is over whether Strelok had an advantage in game 2? The initial decision was that he was ahead by enough to justify giving him the game, which was evidently what he believed. It's not like people were considering just handing him the game for no reason.

As for Strelok's reaction: I would be annoyed if someone had at first judged me to be ahead by enough to warrant playing from 1-1, and then later changed his mind and taken the game away. I'm not claiming that I would lnecessarily eave the tournament over it, but... it would suck, right? My impression is that no one's being deliberately bm about this; given the reputations of the people in question, it seems most likely Strelok and the judges honestly thought he had the advantage and Artosis honestly doesn't agree.

In any case: debating the decision itself in this thread is fairly pointless, because the whole issue hinges on whether Strelok was in fact considerably ahead in game 2, or whether the game was even enough to require replaying. Since the replay hasn't been released, none of us can know, and hence none of us could possibly know what the right decision should have been.
Strayline
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States330 Posts
June 29 2009 17:40 GMT
#107
On June 30 2009 02:34 blipster8 wrote:
In any case: debating the decision itself in this thread is fairly pointless, because the whole issue hinges on whether Strelok was in fact considerably ahead in game 2, or whether the game was even enough to require replaying. Since the replay hasn't been released, none of us can know, and hence none of us could possibly know what the right decision should have been.


Yeah this was basically my take.
Toxiferous
Profile Joined June 2009
United States388 Posts
June 29 2009 17:46 GMT
#108
Shitty decisions made; shitty decisions fixed.
It sucks on both ends. Only fair way to do it is replay the game.
No reason to dismiss the chance at 1000$ just because a bit of unprofessionalism on their part.
Just replay the game, imo
LG)Sabbath
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Argentina3024 Posts
June 29 2009 17:46 GMT
#109
On June 30 2009 01:00 Klive5ive wrote:
In any case: debating the decision itself in this thread is fairly pointless, because the whole issue hinges on whether Strelok was in fact considerably ahead in game 2, or whether the game was even enough to require replaying. Since the replay hasn't been released, none of us can know, and hence none of us could possibly know what the right decision should have been.

I don't think this thread was made for discussion, but rather as a last resort that Strelok is using to try to solve the issue. And by "issue" I mean the recurring lack of professionalism in non-korean tournaments, which ironically was pointed out by SDM himself.
https://www.twitch.tv/argsabbath/
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
June 29 2009 17:54 GMT
#110
On June 30 2009 00:40 pokerface wrote:
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On June 30 2009 00:38 StorZerg wrote:
On June 30 2009 00:34 taurum wrote:
Sad, sad, sad ....Hey Strelok, u are our WCG Champion ! Be a man and replay that game. I can understand your anger, but be above of that unprofessional decision making. Its bad for SC, its bad for valor and its bad for u, because u are definitely capable of winning this tournament.

Furthermore publish that replay and make a poll, so the community can decide which one of the decisions were right !



our? uh? what your from germany yes? last i checked strelok wasnt.


OMG ur such a genius!! :D

This post made my day,even better than the whole thread hahahah


glad i could help
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
June 29 2009 17:57 GMT
#111
awh strelok, youre a good guy and yeah sorry for your mishaps.final decisions should be final unless its due to unique circumstances, idk what the issue was but it seems like there were no unique circumstances.
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7465 Posts
June 29 2009 18:07 GMT
#112
I don't understand this at all strelok. I have several friends who know you, one of them being oystein who call you a very good mannered guy and yet you get upset that you have to replay a supposedly even game instead of the entire series what the fuck?

If my government actually made a mistake and sent me 20,000 dollars for taxes instead of 200 and then later fixed the mistake would I have any right to that money or to being upset?

Yes its annoying that Valor is a complete crap tournament and is being run worse then most of the tournaments put out by community sites BUT you are not a crap person and have no right to demand that lipton and DLEE stick to an obviously RETARDED decision.

Can we play a bo5, with disconnects resulting in a replay of the entire series? I'm sure given enough oppurtunities I can beat you.....
Wurzelbrumpft
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Germany471 Posts
June 29 2009 18:08 GMT
#113
On June 30 2009 00:15 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Facts:
1. It was bad for the admins to make a decision and go back on it.
2. Strelok can justifiably by upset about that.
3. Fenix AND strelok should not have lost because of this.
3a. This means that Fenix deserved the regame as a close game -> disconnect should never be awarded a win in tourney play AND strelok should be man enough/have a cool head to accept a shitty decision WHICH MEANS he recovers from admins flipping a decision.
4. Artosis made the right decision to have them replay game 2.


lol you might look up fact somewhere, because none of these things are any.
beam me up scotty, this planet suxX
InFiNitY[pG]
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Germany3474 Posts
June 29 2009 18:20 GMT
#114
On June 30 2009 02:34 blipster8 wrote:

In any case: debating the decision itself in this thread is fairly pointless, because the whole issue hinges on whether Strelok was in fact considerably ahead in game 2, or whether the game was even enough to require replaying. Since the replay hasn't been released, none of us can know, and hence none of us could possibly know what the right decision should have been.


I disagree. To me the issue is whether or not both Lipton and Daniel said it was their "final decision" that Strelok would get the win in game 2. Once a decision is called final, it should under no circumstances be changed (even if it was a questionable one) unless the situation changes, which it did not. In my opinion this is unprofessional behaviour.
"I just pressed stimpack, and somehow I won the battle" -Flash
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-29 18:27:11
June 29 2009 18:26 GMT
#115
On June 30 2009 01:23 jtype wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2009 01:15 JWD wrote:
manner thong


Sounds painful.

haha yeah, my phone's autocomplete is mischievous sometimes
✌
Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-29 18:38:40
June 29 2009 18:32 GMT
#116
wow one of the most mannered and respected players in the scene gets such a treatment like he is some abuser or smth when he actually has a point,it sickens me. Its not about if the decision was right or wrong (in this case wrong) but how unprofessional the admin handled it.
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 29 2009 18:51 GMT
#117
On June 30 2009 00:32 WeakTuna wrote:
I always wondered why does player with big "name", such has reckrul, artosis etc never get temp ban ( or maybe they are some time, but i never saw it). It's that i dont find their post funny or anything, but some time i think they turn some post in huge drama storry and find it sad (funny but sad) And btw Happy birthday reckrul.


certain people can get away with more than other people, based on who they are and the contributons they have made to this site and to the community in general

artosis and rekrul can do absolutely whatever they want on teamliquid, if you don't like it that's real unfortunate
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
June 29 2009 18:51 GMT
#118
Has anyone ever thought about why SDM reinforced Lipton's decision? I am not entirely sure what I that is supposed to mean.
Some ideas I have:
1) He supports his partner.
2) He thinks it was a correct decision based on his own experience in professional SC.
3) He doesn't care that much about that isse and simply agreed on Lipton's decision to be done with it.
4) There were some facts we don't know about.

I don't think 3) is the case, he seems to care at least that much about Valor. Just listing it for completeness' sake.
Any other thoughts? SDM has been around in the professional scene too long to make such bad decisions just like that, at least that's my opinion. So this really bugs me quite a bit...
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 29 2009 18:51 GMT
#119
well sort of 'absolutely everything', i'm not the only moderator here
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 29 2009 18:53 GMT
#120
On June 30 2009 03:51 spinesheath wrote:
Has anyone ever thought about why SDM reinforced Lipton's decision? I am not entirely sure what I that is supposed to mean.
Some ideas I have:
1) He supports his partner.
2) He thinks it was a correct decision based on his own experience in professional SC.
3) He doesn't care that much about that isse and simply agreed on Lipton's decision to be done with it.
4) There were some facts we don't know about.

I don't think 3) is the case, he seems to care at least that much about Valor. Just listing it for completeness' sake.
Any other thoughts? SDM has been around in the professional scene too long to make such bad decisions just like that, at least that's my opinion. So this really bugs me quite a bit...


progaming doesn't have these problems and its not like daniel lee is heavily experienced in running online tournaments, there's no reason to believe he is has the experience necessary to always make the correct judgement call
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
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