Why does this matter? Sure it might be "cheating the system" but it doesn't affect his GSL standing and ladder doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things anyway...

I'm sorry. This is at the very least hilariously eclectic, but I fail to see how it can affect his GSL performance.

Fiercegore

United States294 Posts

January 13 2011 08:33 GMT

#25

How do you play rock, paper, scissors over the internet?

Arcanne

United States1519 Posts

January 13 2011 08:33 GMT

#26

rofl oh choya

EGLzGaMeR

United States1867 Posts

January 13 2011 08:33 GMT

#27

On January 13 2011 17:29 IdrA wrote:
if he wants games decided by random chance he could just play the way he always does

haha greg back with the 1 liners.. Love it

Gingerninja

United Kingdom1339 Posts

January 13 2011 08:33 GMT

#28

How did they know what they person had?

Choya:... I got paper
Opp: ooh i got scissors.
Choya: bullshit you did you liar!

Isn't mmr supposed to stop this? I don't get how he's causing the point's differences. His mmr surely is at a point where he should gain and lose points equally.

Magikarp

United States32 Posts

January 13 2011 08:34 GMT

#29

I also have to ask why this would ever matter. These days ladder rating is basically a representation of how big your sc2-epeen is and has no effect on anything serious. Despite this, the fact that the coach commented suggests that maybe sponsors look at rating or something, because if it was one player doing something silly to inflate his rating I don't think anyone would care.

Eluadyl

Turkey364 Posts

January 13 2011 08:35 GMT

#30

I think he was trying to be sarcastic and criticize SCII, claiming it's nothing more than rock-paper-scissors in his own way.

dtz

5834 Posts

January 13 2011 08:35 GMT

#31

is this thing a bug btw. I saw this happened to Tyler also when he will get +20 but only lose 2.

I thought thats because he has been inactive on ladder but afaik choya has been very active.

exarchrum

United States491 Posts

January 13 2011 08:36 GMT

#32

A win rate of 50% won't get him very high on the ladder. Anyway it seems like he was just having some fun so let him.

vyyye

Sweden3917 Posts

January 13 2011 08:36 GMT

#33

On January 13 2011 17:35 Eluadyl wrote:
I think he was trying to be sarcastic and criticize SCII, claiming it's nothing more than rock-paper-scissors in his own way.

You're reading way too much into it.

Kultfrisur

Germany41 Posts

January 13 2011 08:37 GMT

#34

very many players are involved in this "scandal". For example every zerg who faces ZvZ on the korean ladder... Ban them all :D...

Btw the matchmaking should give you a 50% win rate, so does rock paper scissors. The games are independent and have expectation 1 ( if you change the points a bit ...). This means it"s a martingale. Therefore a fair game :D.

Darksoldierr

Hungary2013 Posts

January 13 2011 08:37 GMT

#35

Why this is problem? Since when ladder means anything? wtf? Why would they say "sorry" for no reason, i dont get it.

dacthehork

United States2000 Posts

January 13 2011 08:38 GMT

#36

Ladder Ranking based tournaments

blizzcon invitationals are run off ladder (huge prize pool + free tip)
upcoming GSL's have top of ladder tournaments
etc

hiyo_bye

United States737 Posts

January 13 2011 08:38 GMT

#37

I remember seeing cella do this on stream once, was hilarious.

I approve.

Cambam

United States360 Posts

January 13 2011 08:40 GMT

#38

Just a quick and efficient way to get his displayed rating up to his hidden rating (MMR), because of the master leauge reset. And it looks like it worked, he is #1 on KR ladder at the moment.

It will stop working once his displayed rating reaches his hidden rating. Read Excalibur_Z's thread on how the ladder system works.

Here's a quick rundown:

Let's say he gets promoted to masters and reset to 2400 displayed rating. Meanwhile, we'll say his MMR is 3000. He plays a game against IMNestea who is also 2400 displayed, 3000 MMR (hypothetically).

IMNestea will appear favored to choya and choya will appear favored to IMNestea. This is because the favored system works by comparing your opponents HIDDEN rating to your DISPLAYED rating. Thus:

IMNestea's HIDDEN rating of 3000 > choya's DISPLAYED rating of 2400

and vice versa.

Everyone will be favored to choya (and thus give +20~ and -5~) until his displayed rating catches up to his hidden rating.

Hope that made sense. It's just choya's clever way of skyrocketing to the top of the ladder faster than everyone else. But like I said, it will stop working eventually.

Whiladan

United States463 Posts

January 13 2011 08:40 GMT

#39

It would matter if he were not ranked in the GSL, because qualifiers for Code A are based off of ladder ranking AFAIK.

But they're not, so it doesn't I guess. This probably would cause a bigger stir if it was someone who had dropped off already coughbitbybitprimecough.

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

January 13 2011 08:42 GMT

#40

Hmmm. Well, it does make you wonder how many other players might be doing this on ladder.