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On October 07 2015 23:26 419 wrote:
what did people honestly expect would happen lol

On October 07 2015 23:45 KwarK wrote:
I'm somewhat dubious about the claim that it was even cheating. I thought they were found guilty of the poor sportsmanship rule which hit Hydra/Outbreak when they didn't try their hardest vs each other. They didn't DDoS anyone or use any banned modules or disconnect opponents or have spies on rival's teams undermine them. They just fucked around in a match against each other.

The AT is like a race with two sprinters who can do 4 minute miles, a bunch of people who could maybe do a 15 minute mile if it was downhill and you rolled them and one guy who could do a 12 minute mile and thinks he's good because that's slightly faster than the others. The two sprinters win all the races against the others with ease but do cartwheels and run backwards in their race against each other, finishing in 8 minutes, because they just don't give a fuck. The 12 minute mile guy is therefore proclaimed to be the fastest.

On October 08 2015 00:27 KwarK wrote:
I'm confused, how exactly was it made more difficult for PL to beat either of the two superior teams?

On October 08 2015 00:42 Jaaaaasper wrote:

They colluded to not take the match seriously in order to hide strats that they might need to beat pl later. It turns out that they almost certainly would have won either way, hence it being stupid.

If you succeed with both teams while advancing through brackets, sooner or later teams will fight each other. Because of said secrecy and huge value of surprise factor of new setups, you don't want to show any metabreakers or waste your ingame/human resources on match vs each other - just to have better chance to win the whole thing, with one or both teams. Typical collision of interests:

- use your best setups vs your hardest opponent (your second team knows all details about you, thus if you fight it for real it is the hardest enemy indeed). This way you have better chance to advance for your team and worse chance to win later for both teams
- do semi-controlled environment where both teams can win but without showing anything new, hence not hurting your overall chances to win tournament

If you're good friends, I am pretty sure that you will decide to do latter. It just appears that our team + our friends are the only teams who are capable of meeting each other in later stages of tournament. Any other couple of good scrim partners, if they want to win tournament, are likely to settle the deal the same way we did.