• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 14:17
CET 20:17
KST 04:17
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Rongyi Cup S3 - RO16 Preview3herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational10SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 12-18): herO, MaxPax, Solar win0BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion8Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)19Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7
StarCraft 2
General
PhD study /w SC2 - help with a survey! StarCraft 2 not at the Esports World Cup 2026 Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued Rongyi Cup S3 - RO16 Preview herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational
Tourneys
OSC Season 13 World Championship $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) $70 Prize Pool Ladder Legends Academy Weekly Open! SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
[A] Starcraft Sound Mod
External Content
Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone
Brood War
General
Gypsy to Korea [ASL21] Potential Map Candidates Which foreign pros are considered the best? BW General Discussion BW AKA finder tool
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2
Strategy
Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread NASA and the Private Sector Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club! The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Navigating the Risks and Rew…
TrAiDoS
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2358 users

Relic vs Blizzard, lets show'em [Escapist Vote] - Page 42

Forum Index > Closed
Post a Reply
Prev 1 40 41 42 43 44 Next All
InToTheWannaB
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4770 Posts
March 29 2009 21:31 GMT
#821
every time i hit refesh on that site the vote numbers change. infact they go down sometimes lol
When the spirit is not altogether slain, great loss teaches men and women to desire greatly, both for themselves and for others.
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
March 29 2009 21:37 GMT
#822
On March 30 2009 06:11 Luhh wrote:
Why vote for companies?!


Beacuse games do not make themselves. They are a work of developers and if those developers make a great game, they should be commended for it. Just like how progamers are commended for excellent play and how writers are commended for excellent books. So regardless if you enjoy their other games or not, Blizzard still deserves to be commended for that one game you do enjoy.

And before anyone tries to raise this point, not all of the developers of the original StarCraft are now gone. Infact, at least a quarter of the current SC2 development team consists of developers who also worked on the original and this is not mentioning those who have gone to higher positions (such as Mike Morhaime and Rob Pardo) since then.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Jusciax
Profile Joined August 2007
Lithuania588 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-29 21:42:24
March 29 2009 21:41 GMT
#823
I bet they are enjoying new user influx, fucking cheaters...
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
March 29 2009 21:45 GMT
#824
Why do I get a very bitter taste when I see Relic going down by a mere of 2 votes and then being declared the winner?
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 29 2009 21:49 GMT
#825
I made a post in their forums:



ok, so here's a question.

how could you possibly not foresee cheating in a tournament based on polling. oh wait, im sure you did.

so then here is a followup question: why would you not just make the polling based on IP address so this cheating couldn't happen?

I can only see 2 possible reasons:

1.) the people who make the polls are stupid

or

2.) so that the hosters can have an excuse to manipulate the vote counts.
Shade692003
Profile Joined August 2005
Canada702 Posts
March 29 2009 21:52 GMT
#826
Im disgusted by all this.
I hate the post below mine because it feels War3-ish.
Jusciax
Profile Joined August 2007
Lithuania588 Posts
March 29 2009 21:52 GMT
#827
This is what some clown came up after his "research" of innovations:
On March 30 2009 0:36 Aran from Escapist wrote:
Acti-Blizz
1. Pitall! - non-flickering animated sprites imitating a moving stickman (apparently graphics ahead of its time)
2. Starcraft - first rts with factions that were entirely different to eachother
3. Starcraft - replay system to see old games
4. Guitar Hero - a way to get people to pay for music again
5. Call of Duty - (multiplayer) respawn near teammates for instant reinforcements
*Also credited for instances in MMOs, but I think Asherons Call or Anarchy Online did it first.
*Also credited for the leveling hero system in RTS games, but Red Alert 2 did it first, might've been an even older game too that I don't know of
*Also credited for flying mounts in MMOs... *sigh* Anarchy Online did it first, possible someone else too

Relic
1. Homeworld - first true 3d rts (not to be confused with 3d graphics. HW was set in space and let you fly up and down to flank)
2. Company of Heroes - cover system akin to FPS games, where your units hide behind objects for reduced damage
3. Dawn of War - reinforce squads of units in the middle of combat in RTS
4. Dawn of War - fatality animations (synchronized kills) in RTS
5. Dawn of War - secondary hp bar (courage) for units in RTS, running out lead to insane statloss
*Also credited for squadbased combat, but I think someone else did it first.
*Also credited for taking out basebuilding in RTS, but I find it highly unlikely that none tried that before
*Also credited for moving away from resource gathering by making capture points at focal points on the maps. Again, probably not the first RTS to do this

That's all I could dig up from personal memory mixed with some wikiing


Bold ones are hilarious.
TransfuSe
Profile Joined October 2006
Canada201 Posts
March 29 2009 21:55 GMT
#828
did the relic votes even go down at all? =/
Hello.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-29 21:56:57
March 29 2009 21:56 GMT
#829
uh oh spaghetti-oh i was immediately perma-banned


fuck spaghetti is hard to spell. fucking italians
roadrunner_sc
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1220 Posts
March 29 2009 21:56 GMT
#830
What an excuse of a site/sorry ass poll.

You think this'll bring you good publicity, escapist? You've pissed off a lot of people today. Rigged vote tallying/complete lack of any kind of professionalism, good work.
Average Posts Per Week: 13.37
GinNtoniC
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Sweden2945 Posts
March 29 2009 21:58 GMT
#831
I expressed my opinion in a very civil fashion - no curses, no nothing.
Simply stating why I believe this poll wasn't handled in a legit way and appologzing if that opinion upsets anyone.

It took about 15 seconds, then I was banned.
How utterly pathetic.
Huge fan of JulyZerg, HonestTea and that guy Kim Taek Yong.
iloahz
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States964 Posts
March 29 2009 21:59 GMT
#832
I dont believe it. This is like the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
Meta
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States6225 Posts
March 29 2009 22:00 GMT
#833
also perma-banned for pointing out the inaccuracies in their polling system. what a failure of a community.
good vibes only
DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
March 29 2009 22:02 GMT
#834
I think relic won in the first place, perhaps by more than they let on, and then they tied it to get more publicity.
Liquid | SKT
Jusciax
Profile Joined August 2007
Lithuania588 Posts
March 29 2009 22:02 GMT
#835
They feel fine after rigging the poll, so i don't expect they feel sorry after banning few people.
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9106 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-29 22:04:38
March 29 2009 22:03 GMT
#836
I registered an account but I can't figure out how to vote t.t

Oh crap I'm 2 hours late! And the margin was seriously 11 votes out of 6000? That's not fishy.... I mean if Blizzard would've won it'd be fine... But this is baad.
eatmyshorts5
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States1530 Posts
March 29 2009 22:04 GMT
#837
wait i don't understand. Did we lose?
BF:BC2 ID: BisuStork//CJ Entusman #32
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 29 2009 22:04 GMT
#838
Here is a better poll




[image loading]

Poll: Which is more powerful
(Vote): A relic (the kind nicholas cage would be looking for in a movie)
(Vote): A blizzard

Manbear
Profile Joined August 2008
Canada306 Posts
March 29 2009 22:15 GMT
#839
On March 30 2009 07:04 eatmyshorts5 wrote:
wait i don't understand. Did we lose?


I believe we did...

though i don't think there's any real point or prize in winning this pole unless I'm mistaken it looks like it was just created to fuel the fires of a flame war of epic proportions and get there site recognized
feathers
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States236 Posts
March 29 2009 22:20 GMT
#840
so blizzard get 50 of its votes removed and relic only gets 2?
I call bullshit on this.
Prev 1 40 41 42 43 44 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 15h 43m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 212
ProTech140
UpATreeSC 121
MindelVK 45
gerald23 23
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 2351
Shuttle 491
GuemChi 433
Dewaltoss 202
ggaemo 160
firebathero 111
910 13
HiyA 10
Dota 2
qojqva3585
canceldota15
Counter-Strike
fl0m3478
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox688
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu323
Other Games
gofns6135
Grubby2708
Beastyqt719
ceh9479
allub396
Mlord355
Fuzer 173
ToD168
KnowMe159
DeMusliM129
ArmadaUGS126
mouzStarbuck123
QueenE101
Mew2King53
Livibee50
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 21 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 82
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Migwel
• intothetv
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• FirePhoenix9
• 80smullet 6
• Pr0nogo 1
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV498
League of Legends
• Jankos2191
• Nemesis1382
• TFBlade1091
Other Games
• imaqtpie1606
• Shiphtur306
Upcoming Events
RongYI Cup
15h 43m
Clem vs ShoWTimE
Zoun vs Bunny
Big Brain Bouts
21h 43m
Percival vs Gerald
Serral vs MaxPax
RongYI Cup
1d 15h
SHIN vs Creator
Classic vs Percival
OSC
1d 17h
BSL 21
1d 19h
RongYI Cup
2 days
Maru vs Cyan
Solar vs Krystianer
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
BSL 21
2 days
Wardi Open
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
[ Show More ]
OSC
4 days
WardiTV Invitational
4 days
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-01-20
SC2 All-Star Inv. 2025
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Rongyi Cup S3
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W5
Acropolis #4 - TS4
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.