EPTBecause there's an awful alot of talk about how the head honchos knew each other from WoW, and Drakedog was a renowned Korean PvP Warlock.
[KR News]Monster Gaming Elo Boosting Scandal - Page 3
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GTR
51449 Posts
Because there's an awful alot of talk about how the head honchos knew each other from WoW, and Drakedog was a renowned Korean PvP Warlock. | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
Actually a lot of koreans are complaining about elo boosting koreas 2nd class status as a server to riot, and all the server failures and a large amount of them are flocking to dota 2 since nexon cleverly promised a fix to literally every issue korean netizens bitch about league. | ||
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Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
On July 29 2013 14:49 GTR wrote: Also, is Monster Gaming the same team as VTG Monsters (the team ran by Drakedog)? Because there's an awful alot of talk about how the head honchos knew each other from WoW, and Drakedog was a renowned Korean PvP Warlock. Drakedog...from the World of Roguecraft videos? THAT Korean Warlock? looooooooooool, it's a small world. | ||
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
On July 29 2013 10:39 Swissm wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but what is accomplished by paying to have your ELO boosted? Virtually nothing beyond hindering your team during your initial games playing out of your Elo. Your hidden rating will rank rapidly and you'll get matched with the same people you were before, just you'll stay at the bottom of your league (e.g. Gold V) since you can't drop back down to Silver). The fact that you will stop at the bottom of a division is really the only incentive to do it (you can say "look how good I am, I'm Diamond"). The issue here is really just the ethics of allegedly forcing players into doing the boosting since there's basically no effect to the competitive scene and largely not even to solo queue in general. | ||
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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DonKey_
Liechtenstein1356 Posts
On July 29 2013 17:14 krndandaman wrote: why is this compared to the matchfixing scandal in BW? I don't think it's anything near that. You'd have to have like Madlife taking money to throw matches or something to be at least similar. Either way, very sad that this happened. Good thing it got exposed before they went any further. Well it hasn't really been "exposed" just now. Koreans have been complaining about it and Riot's inability to do anything about it for a couple months now, but it's not really an easy problem to approach. | ||
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
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The_Unseen
France1923 Posts
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nyxnyxnyx
Indonesia2978 Posts
On July 29 2013 17:14 krndandaman wrote: why is this compared to the matchfixing scandal in BW? I don't think it's anything near that. You'd have to have like Madlife taking money to throw matches or something to be at least similar. Either way, very sad that this happened. Good thing it got exposed before they went any further. madlife matchfixing!! always win!!! | ||
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mongmong
Korea (South)1389 Posts
On July 29 2013 14:49 GTR wrote: Also, is Monster Gaming the same team as VTG Monsters (the team ran by Drakedog)? Because there's an awful alot of talk about how the head honchos knew each other from WoW, and Drakedog was a renowned Korean PvP Warlock. No, these two are different teams | ||
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OrangeApples
137 Posts
On July 29 2013 13:33 GTR wrote: wow, this is gundamwerra/savior level of scumbagginess there. To be fair though, savior of sc:bw didn't really understood the implications of match fixing in televised matches and its potential impact on the scene. He was one of those "oh this is easy money" kind of guys but really didn't mean to damage the scene at heart. Parties involved were from multiple teams and were considered good players in the sc;bw progaming scene and did it in televised matches, hence its impact. In this situation, the coach is coercing people into working for him. Its a newly established team, and even members themselves understand this is bad practice. They need to make excuses to escape or do it in a manner in which they cannot be seen. However, this really won't have much of an impact on the LoL scene other then giving the team itself a bad rep with a potential ban from riot games. Maybe even jail time/fine depending on how serious it is. | ||
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GreenGT
Ukraine134 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
You have coaches making claims about prominent kespa figures (KT head coach). You have young kids being tricked (disillusionment for young kids who want to keep at LoL). Couple this with RIOT Korea being seen as ineffective at dealing with boosting concerns, and if monster can do it, are other teams doing it? Then the shadow of savior returns - how deep does or can this go? These all turn this situation into a huge boondocle | ||
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
Not only was sAviOr a legend in the making and pivotal to a golden age of BW, but his actions directly affected the integrity of the game by duping the audience. This caused fans to question players when they made a poor play as to whether they were matchfixing or not, and what fun is watching a competitive game when it's not even competitive to begin with? That said, this is a pretty serious issue of exploitation. | ||
Chexx
Korea (South)11232 Posts
Alot of lifetime bans and 30 day bans are the consequence of this | ||
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LoLGOd
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