On November 29 2014 13:01 DucK- wrote: Can anyone explain this current drama to someone who has zero clue on how CS is played? I like drama, but I dunno what it is about :D
Can anyone what both teams did in game that was illegal? In layman terms :D
fnatic discovered 2 months ago that you can convert rosh with chen, hid the fact for 2 months, then revealed it to win this match.
dreamhack checked its rules and decided that nowhere does it say that you can't convert rosh. However, because rosh bashed LDLC's towers, they decided that was a bug so they had to replay the half where fnatic were using this exploit. (since in CSGO you play 15 rounds as CT then 15 rounds as T in order to have balanced matches with asymmetrical maps).
Fnatic complained and said that LDLC did the "refill bottle on an ally who tp'd in from fountain" bug (aka something minor that nobody was complaining about) so dreamhack said "okay just replay the whole game"
thats about as close as i can get to a dota analogy.
it's more like they could see into rosh pit or reveal a smoke gank with vision by standing in a glitched spot in the fountain.
On November 29 2014 11:57 HolyArrow wrote: What a complete fucking joke. Fuck the corrupt Dreamhack admins and fuck Fnatic. It's obvious that LDLC are going to be playing pissed off and demoralized tomorrow, so it's not even a fair match from a mental perspective. I am incredibly disappointed by the way they've handled this.
That's the worst part.
LDLC are much much more likely to be out of the required mindset than Fnatic are. Fnatic were dead in the water in that game, this is just a free kick for them... They'd be happy as fuck.
On November 29 2014 13:01 DucK- wrote: Can anyone explain this current drama to someone who has zero clue on how CS is played? I like drama, but I dunno what it is about :D
Can anyone what both teams did in game that was illegal? In layman terms :D
fnatic discovered 2 months ago that you can convert rosh with chen, hid the fact for 2 months, then revealed it to win this match.
dreamhack checked its rules and decided that nowhere does it say that you can't convert rosh. However, because rosh bashed LDLC's towers, they decided that was a bug so they had to replay the half where fnatic were using this exploit. (since in CSGO you play 15 rounds as CT then 15 rounds as T in order to have balanced matches with asymmetrical maps).
Fnatic complained and said that LDLC did the "refill bottle on an ally who tp'd in from fountain" bug (aka something minor that nobody was complaining about) so dreamhack said "okay just replay the whole game"
thats about as close as i can get to a dota analogy.
Yea I kinda got the story. I meant like what the exploit was and why was it advantageous enough to be illegal and imbalanced.
imagine u found a ward spot that could somehow literally see 50% of the map then imagine ur playing a game where u can shoot at any range
On November 29 2014 13:01 DucK- wrote: Can anyone explain this current drama to someone who has zero clue on how CS is played? I like drama, but I dunno what it is about :D
Can anyone what both teams did in game that was illegal? In layman terms :D
The following actions are strictly prohibited during a game and will result in round loss (the amount is determined by the tournament director) which will be deducted at the end of the match, and a warning: • using console is forbidden (except to record game); • any form of script is forbidden; • using bugs which change the game principle (i.e. spawn bugs) is illegal; • moving through walls, floors and roofs is strictly forbidden. This also includes skywalking; • "silent bombs" (i.e. the planting of a bomb which doesn't make a sound) are illegal; • planting bombs so that they cannot be defused is illegal. This does not include plants where multiple players are needed to defuse; • boosting with the help of team mates is allowed in general, but it is forbidden in places where the textures, walls, ceilings, floors become transparent or penetrable; • “fireboost” (i.e firing below a player to push him) is strictly illegal; • “flashbugs” are forbidden; • throwing flash grenades under walls is not allowed, throwing grenades over walls or roofs is allowed; • “mapswimming“ or „Floating“ is illegal; • “pixelwalking“ is illegal (Sitting or standing on invisible map edges); • using 16bit graphics; • Binding “+duck“ to the mouse wheel is forbidden; • Any custom (game) files.
• “pixelwalking“ is illegal (Sitting or standing on invisible map edges);
Fnatic used an illegal pixel walking boost for practically every round on CT side of Overpass
I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm reading that DreamHack doesn't have a rule list for its 2014 events.
so don't know if their 2013 rules really apply or not
DreamHack has made the decision to regame since it considers that LDLC & Fnatic both illegally exploited the map
The following actions are strictly prohibited during a game and will result in round loss (the amount is determined by the tournament director) which will be deducted at the end of the match, and a warning:
if we're going off of DH's 2013 rules though, LDLC did an "illegal" boost for 1 round while Fnatic did it for almost every round on CT side, so the decision for a 0-0 regame is the new controversy
On November 29 2014 13:01 DucK- wrote: Can anyone explain this current drama to someone who has zero clue on how CS is played? I like drama, but I dunno what it is about :D
Can anyone what both teams did in game that was illegal? In layman terms :D
fnatic discovered 2 months ago that you can convert rosh with chen, hid the fact for 2 months, then revealed it to win this match.
dreamhack checked its rules and decided that nowhere does it say that you can't convert rosh. However, because rosh bashed LDLC's towers, they decided that was a bug so they had to replay the half where fnatic were using this exploit. (since in CSGO you play 15 rounds as CT then 15 rounds as T in order to have balanced matches with asymmetrical maps).
Fnatic complained and said that LDLC did the "refill bottle on an ally who tp'd in from fountain" bug (aka something minor that nobody was complaining about) so dreamhack said "okay just replay the whole game"
thats about as close as i can get to a dota analogy.
Yea I kinda got the story. I meant like what the exploit was and why was it advantageous enough to be illegal and imbalanced.
They broke the dreamhack rule that states:
"Boosting with the help of team mates is allowed in general, but it is forbidden in places where the textures, walls, ceilings, floors become transparent or penetrable;"
fnatic got vision of ldlc, which gave them info on the positioning and strategy of ldlc, from an illegal boost spot.
Ah cool thanks all. OK so one broke the rules in every round while another broke in just 1. So the conflict is whether it is justified to remove the other rounds ldlc legitimately won because they cheated in just 1, a punishment on the same scale as fnatic despite the offense being different.
Ok so after watching the interview, he basically said:
- Pixelwalking was allowed cause there was no rule mentioning it for DHW - The texture bug was a nonissue (but wasn't allowed!) cause fnatic didn't zoom in at the spot and ldlc didn't have any zoom - It is a rematch cause both LDLC and Fnatic were not killable at the boosting positions - LDLC didn't have to leave dreamhack, they just understood it that way
On November 29 2014 13:28 The_Red_Viper wrote: - The texture bug was a nonissue (but wasn't allowed!) cause fnatic didn't zoom in at the spot and ldlc didn't have any zoom
Uh, isn't this false? Or do they mean zooming at very specific places FROM the boost spot
I heard what was said was, Pixelwalking isn't suppose to be in the rule book, it was apparently removed (?) but it actually wasn't.
When all of that VAC thing happened and accusations were thrown at Fnatic, I ignored it and found it rather annoying. But now, to see Fnatic act the way they did in one of the worse sportsmanship I have ever seen, I will never, ever root for them again. Not there CS team, not their LoL team, not any team they sponsor.
I don't want them to win DHW, nor do I believe they deserve it. LDLC has been fucked over so hard even SirScoots has no words about this. How often do you see SirScoots being speechless?
What I want to see from all of this is, have Valve personally hire admins and fly them to CSGO events and prevent this from ever happening again. You think after DotA 2's mess for DHW, they would straighten themselves out on the admins part, but I guess they didn't care.
On November 29 2014 13:28 The_Red_Viper wrote: - The texture bug was a nonissue (but wasn't allowed!) cause fnatic didn't zoom in at the spot and ldlc didn't have any zoom
Uh, isn't this false? Or do they mean zooming at very specific places FROM the boost spot
On November 29 2014 13:28 The_Red_Viper wrote: Ok so after watching the interview, he basically said:
- Pixelwalking was allowed cause there was no rule mentioning it for DHW - The texture bug was a nonissue (but wasn't allowed!) cause fnatic didn't zoom in at the spot and ldlc didn't have any zoom - It is a rematch cause both LDLC and Fnatic were not killable at the boosting positions - LDLC didn't have to leave dreamhack, they just understood it that way
Huh, interesting..
The way I understand it and forgive me if I'm rationalizing it wrong but it goes a little bit like this.
The rulebook of DH Winter 2014 doesn't say pixelwalking is illegal, but people are outraged and Fnatic's boost spot was frankly bullshit. However there are other spots in regular matches which are similar to this (but known, and significantly less BS). Dreamhack therefore decided to make a "neutral" decision by fucking around and saying that LDLC used an illegal boost that I haven't seen. This administrative fuckadoodle allowed the map to be replayed rather than DQing Fnatic.
However the weird part as people have said above is that the boost is only illegal in that it allows the player to see a spot that shouldn't be seen. In other words, it's an arbitrary decision being disguised.
"Because both teams used it several times, even if one team used it more, we see that removing rounds according to the rules wouldn't be fair in any way"
On November 29 2014 13:28 The_Red_Viper wrote: Ok so after watching the interview, he basically said:
- Pixelwalking was allowed cause there was no rule mentioning it for DHW - The texture bug was a nonissue (but wasn't allowed!) cause fnatic didn't zoom in at the spot and ldlc didn't have any zoom - It is a rematch cause both LDLC and Fnatic were not killable at the boosting positions - LDLC didn't have to leave dreamhack, they just understood it that way
Huh, interesting..
The way I understand it and forgive me if I'm rationalizing it wrong but it goes a little bit like this.
The rulebook of DH Winter 2014 doesn't say pixelwalking is illegal, but people are outraged and Fnatic's boost spot was frankly bullshit. However there are other spots in regular matches which are similar to this (but known, and significantly less BS). Dreamhack therefore decided to make a "neutral" decision by fucking around and saying that LDLC used an illegal boost that I haven't seen. This administrative fuckadoodle allowed the map to be replayed rather than DQing Fnatic.
However the weird part as people have said above is that the boost is only illegal in that it allows the player to see a spot that shouldn't be seen. In other words, it's an arbitrary decision being disguised.
Well yeah i think LDLC got robbed there as well, even if everything he said in that interview is true (both boostings result into not being killable AND fnatic never "using" the texture thing) it is fucking ridiculous to say a complete new game is the most fair solution.
question: Does it even matter that LDLC's position was "immortal" too? Would that ever come into play in the actual game? They only used it to spot anway or is this wrong? (didn't see it)
On November 29 2014 13:52 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: You know what this whole discussion starts to remind? Na'Vi's Pudge-Chen against TongFu and reactions at that time.
:D
except fountain hooking was a known bug way before ti3 and dh had forbidden illegal boosting in previous tournaments.
On November 29 2014 14:05 The_Red_Viper wrote: The reddit guys say there is no immortality at the spot LDLC used. Well that's odd, isn't it
I never thought there was immortality, as far as I can tell it was shot at twice: once it resulted in a 25-ish hp hit on olof from near CT toward B, and the other time from A short(?) which didn't result in any damage but he could have been hit, probably.
That being said, the spot is BS for two reasons, but before I start I want to make it clear that I for one couldn't give a shit about the outcome of this game. I like both LDLC and Fnatic, and I'd be happy to see either of those teams vs NiP (go NiP!). I don't have lost bets to make me all bitchy, I don't think Fnatic hacks so to me that's not a factor yet.
1st reason: The CTs get massive map awareness, the T's just have to deal with the fact that CT's know everything. 2nd reason: It's BS because there's absolutely nothing the T's can do about it if they don't have rifles.
Now regarding this issue I'm torn, on one hand this spot is complete bullshit and it's unfair, on the other hand it's part of the map. I'm essentially in favor of people using whatever tools they have at their disposition, within the game, to win. I don't give a fuck about "pixelwalking". If something's in the map then it's part of the game. If a team chooses to use something underhanded, then it's part of the game but perhaps dishonorable.
I think it's Valve's job to fix these things. To me, if something can be done in matchmaking without cheating, it's fair game in tournaments and Valve should fix the shit. Perhaps an unpopular opinion but yeah, whatever.
Why don't the teams post the rules of the tournament if they aren't available from DH? The interviewee was saying how teams were sent the updated rules for this tournament. Why aren't those available for us anywhere?
I hope LDLC stomps Fnatic. Oh, god. Please. . . . but, whatever happens, it's great entertainment. Evil empire of cheaters vs French underdogs (actually idk anything about LDLC but this is the narrative I came up with lol)
The only thing I took away from the Fnatic vs LDLC game was that Pronax is the best and sneakiest In-Game-Leader of all time.
Either way it was one of the most entertaining games I've ever watched including Boxer's micro. To see the 5 players on LDLC completely baffled for 10 whole rounds was hilarious. Didn't hurt that I also had about 20 bucks on Fnatic :D