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TwoMagTrav
Profile Joined January 2011
United States195 Posts
November 15 2011 15:55 GMT
#1341
Can this really be called "Match Fixing"? I think that name implies at least some degree of secrecy. It seems like this was just a goofy thing like they forgot they were playing a tourney or they didn't think this tournament was a big deal.

If they were match fixing they could have easily just played badly on purpose and lost to a 2 rax or let their army get nuked or something.
When I feed the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a socialist
homer001
Profile Joined October 2010
493 Posts
November 15 2011 15:55 GMT
#1342
not shocked by match fixing
shocked by the stupidity of how they got caught

he should hav done it like nestea at blizzcon- just kidding!!!!
Xadar
Profile Joined October 2010
497 Posts
November 15 2011 15:56 GMT
#1343
There goes gsl's best zvp player and one one the best zergs overall.
Fuck you to whoever made such a big problem out of nothing and made him forfeit that spot.
MeriaDoKk
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Chile1726 Posts
November 15 2011 15:56 GMT
#1344
Imagine if all players did this with their friends, thats not a competition, and it's not fair to other players, good decision IMO.
Surriel
Profile Joined July 2011
United Kingdom198 Posts
November 15 2011 15:58 GMT
#1345
On November 16 2011 00:55 eYeball wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 00:08 fleeze wrote:
On November 15 2011 23:52 Xalorian wrote:
On November 15 2011 23:29 Asha` wrote:
On November 15 2011 23:25 Xalorian wrote:
On November 15 2011 23:18 Msr wrote:
why does anybody care if a player does this... If a player wants to throw a match that is their own decision.


So he can bet all is money against himself and throw the game...? Seems right.

This is not a little fun game or event match, it's a qualifier. There was money on the line. What about all those peoples that got eliminated by CoCa that could probably have won this thing otherwise? WHY IN THE HELL would you subscribe to a tournament if you would just throw it up if you were playing against a mate? What if all team start doing that? It's just not fair for the others.



It's not a qualifier.
No one else got eliminated by Coca.
It was the first round of the tournament.
There's no money for anyone outside the top 4.


I didn't know that it was the first round.

My points are still valid. There was money on the line in the end, and it was a qualifier : if i'm not mistaken, there is a code A spot. (Turn out that there was no coda A spot on the line either, my bad. I can't read Korean ><')

And no matter what, it is still not fair. Coca would not have done that for a random guy.

I do think that the punishement is too harsh, but a punishement is needed. They are professional, they just can't do that at all, no matter what. It's just silly.

Edit : It was indeed blatant match fixing. It's worse than I thought. Look like it was planned.


"1:00
C: i'll let you win
B: fuck off.


3:48
B: fuck, you said you'll let me win
C: I have to practice, there's 3 Ts in my group
...
C: I'm here just because I don't have other Ts to practice
B: Next opponent is P, so just forfeit
B: Where's your teams T?
C: G-star event

26:20, Coca at 150pop 4 mining bases to Byun's 45pop 0 mining base
B: fuck, get out, fuck fuck
C: I forfeit
B: let's do game 3 too
C: gg *leaves the game"


WTF are you talking about?
where is this match fixing? and where is it planned?

It seems like Slayers left Coca alone while he had to prepare for his next GSL Code S matches in a group with 3 terrans. Obviously he had no terran training partner in house and maybe he is not allowed to practise with other teams members or byun is not allowed to practise with him (i dunno about this, just speculating). So he wanted a 3rd game to at least get some more practise against high level terrans, this is also why he didn't care to advance and play a protoss. IMHO this totally understandable AND professional (to prepare for GSL).
who the fuck cares about a first round of some random tourney with low prizes. it also puts SlayerS in a bad spot if they don't support Coca with a good training partner before his Code S matches. they should have plenty of good terrans to train with him...


Haha random tourmanent with low prizes? You think it's easy to get to a code a spot?
People like you can really make the blood boil...


There was no code A being awarded for this tournament. The only prize on the line is first place of 100$. GOM is still considering if they should give ESL a code A spot for the next GSL tournament after the format change.
Gusenbauer
Profile Joined May 2011
Austria19 Posts
November 15 2011 15:58 GMT
#1346
Matchmaking is ruining esports!

Good reaction from the teams. I personally wouldn't mind seeing CoCa and Byun disappearing for good. Esports is a growing industry, but a very young and fragile one. You simply cannot let everything a lot of people worked for and even more people care about go to shreds, because of such unprofessional and inacceptable behaviour.

When you want to see Starcraft as a competitive environment, where skill and dedication is worth something, then there is no other way to go about such incidents, but rigorous penalties. If Starcraft is nothing but "yet another game" to you, well, you're missing a lot and I suggest you shouldn't care about the CoCa/Byun or the Saviour-incident in the first place .
KryptoStorm
Profile Joined August 2010
England377 Posts
November 15 2011 15:58 GMT
#1347
This makes me wonder about when other tournaments have 'hid the chat'...shit like this REALLY pisses me off, takes all the fun out of watching Sc2.
사랑해요
TwoMagTrav
Profile Joined January 2011
United States195 Posts
November 15 2011 15:58 GMT
#1348
On November 16 2011 00:30 OneOther wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 00:04 Kresnik02 wrote:
I don't get it, they are teamates, one of then already has the code S spot and the other needed the code A, there is no real problem doing this if there is no rule against matchfixing.

If you wan't esports to be considered an sport you need to understand that this can happen and unless there is some explicit rule against you will see everytime friends or teamates meet on important games.

Just to show that this kind of stuff happen everywhere:

Yea, I guess the issue here really is where and how you draw the line. Obviously, if Coca were careful, he could have made sure nobody ever finds out about letting Byun win the match. Again, just because it happens in other sports does not mean this is okay in e-Sports or that they should not attempt to find the optimal solution. It does ruin the spirit of the competition based on fair wins and losses. You could almost say that Byun is "stealing" the spot of someone else who could have beaten Coca, it's not as simple as a friend helping another one out.



This is ridiculous, this happens all the time in road racing between team mates.

One guy is in the race for the championship and one guy cannot win the championship so he lets his team mate take the race win if possible. This definitely doesn't seem like a ridiculous moral dilemma, the only problem is that in racing its not against the rule because you CANNOT police it. You also can't police it in SC2 but it is against the rules.

If Coca had intentionally played bad in order to lose secretly no one would have ever known, I think the issue here is that they didn't realize this was a big deal and against the rules otherwise they wouldn't have talked about it in the in game chat FFS!
When I feed the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a socialist
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
November 15 2011 15:59 GMT
#1349
The punishment does not fit the crime here. Pretty stupid over reaction.
"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
TwoMagTrav
Profile Joined January 2011
United States195 Posts
November 15 2011 16:00 GMT
#1350
On November 16 2011 00:56 MeriaDoKk wrote:
Imagine if all players did this with their friends, thats not a competition, and it's not fair to other players, good decision IMO.


You think they don't? If you practiced with a guy 12 hours a day 6 days a week and then you get matched up against him where if you win you get nothing really and he gets a GSL code A spot you don't think you'd help your friend out? It would definitely be hard to just beat him and send him on his way when you both know how hard you work to get into GSL and you have nothing to gain from it.

Someone blew this out of proportion and now GSL will be TvT every round forever. LOL
When I feed the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a socialist
kubiks
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
France1328 Posts
November 15 2011 16:06 GMT
#1351
So he is out of the GSL code S ?

+ Show Spoiler [GSL Spolier] +

That means leenock is the zerg last hope ?
Leenocktopus fighting !
Juanald you're my hero I miss you -> best troll ever on TL <3
gwixter
Profile Joined January 2011
Slovakia336 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 16:07:52
November 15 2011 16:07 GMT
#1352
I wonder if the same reaction would have come if this had been ladder game. You know, because KR ladder is sort of qualification for Code B, which is qualification for Code A which is qualification for Code S which makes ladder more important than this weekly where wasn't any code A spot for winner .... just thinking out loud ^_^

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AGsc
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada120 Posts
November 15 2011 16:07 GMT
#1353
On November 15 2011 14:11 Clefairy wrote:
NesTea's official statement:

[image loading]

Wtf... Don't they have brains tsk tsk tsk


^Knows a thing or two about leaving reasonable doubt when throwing a game.

I wouldn't be surprised if Coca didn't come back to pro gaming. To work that hard in a professional capacity only to have the community lash out at you over something like this would leave anyone bitter. Also having to re-qualify from code B, even for a top player and especially for one who has been exiled from his training house, is no easy task and the whole incident is probably making Coca and others reconsider whether they want to invest their time and effort in such a fickle industry.
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Zeetee
Profile Joined December 2010
United States153 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 16:14:21
November 15 2011 16:09 GMT
#1354
wait.. what the hell? didn't some guy do the same thing for white-ra at an MLG one time? (white-ra showed up late so he lost the first 2 sets or something, so the guy just worker rushed/gg'd until the score was even).

i understand that there's some differences (coca was in a winning position before giving away the free win, while white-ras opponent just gave it away at the beginning), but its still amazing to me that people will flip out over this while white-ras opponent was praised for throwing games....


liquipedia source
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On July 22 2011, Slasher of MLG announced that White-Ra would appear at MLG Anaheim in the open bracket along with players Jinro and LastShadow.[4] White-Ra was disqualified in his match against Gimix because he did not make it to the game in time, but he managed to fight his way through the loser's bracket to secure him a slot in the Championship Bracket where he was stopped by SeleCT. During his path to the Championship Bracket, he once again faced Gimix, and due to his previous disqualification and MLG's extended series rule, Gimix had a 2 - 0 lead on White-Ra. Knowing that the disqualification was not "right", Gimix worker rushed the first two games so that the series would be 2 - 2, and thus be a normal best of three.
bayaka
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada102 Posts
November 15 2011 16:11 GMT
#1355
Wow, CoCa is only 17. He should be reprimanded but definitely cut some slack. I really really hope he is allowed back, he was starting to shape into a great player and he was fun to watch. War CoCa!
DreamOen
Profile Joined March 2010
Spain1400 Posts
November 15 2011 16:13 GMT
#1356
I think they shoulda implement something like MLG with code S spots, and move it down to someone that really needs it... I think its organization fault to be honest.
Tester | MC | Crank | Flash | Jaedong | MVP
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
November 15 2011 16:14 GMT
#1357
On November 16 2011 00:56 MeriaDoKk wrote:
Imagine if all players did this with their friends, thats not a competition, and it's not fair to other players, good decision IMO.
Everybody does this, in situations in which they want to lose (which doesn't really occur that often, but it might sometimes). They don't show up (forfeit), and it's fine. I still don't know why these two even sent the replays, just say Coca forfeits the match due to scheduling, and that's all. Which is what happened, but he also wanted these 3 games for training vs Terran, not for advancing vs next round Protoss. You can't force someone to play, when he doesn't want to, because he's busy etc.

Is it really objectively better - by either moral, or entertaining viewpoint - to just state "forfeit", like everybody else would do?
(I watched the games, and enjoyed the play; my viewing experience was going to be far more ruined by no games)
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
November 15 2011 16:18 GMT
#1358
this is normal.
they just got caught because they're dumb, its perfectly normal to move a teammate through if you can.
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
Fishriot
Profile Joined May 2010
United States621 Posts
November 15 2011 16:20 GMT
#1359
On November 16 2011 01:09 Zeetee wrote:
wait.. what the hell? didn't some guy do the same thing for white-ra at an MLG one time? (white-ra showed up late so he lost the first 2 sets or something, so the guy just worker rushed/gg'd until the score was even).

i understand that there's some differences (coca was in a winning position before giving away the free win, while white-ras opponent just gave it away at the beginning), but its still amazing to me that people will flip out over this while white-ras opponent was praised for throwing games....


liquipedia source
+ Show Spoiler +
On July 22 2011, Slasher of MLG announced that White-Ra would appear at MLG Anaheim in the open bracket along with players Jinro and LastShadow.[4] White-Ra was disqualified in his match against Gimix because he did not make it to the game in time, but he managed to fight his way through the loser's bracket to secure him a slot in the Championship Bracket where he was stopped by SeleCT. During his path to the Championship Bracket, he once again faced Gimix, and due to his previous disqualification and MLG's extended series rule, Gimix had a 2 - 0 lead on White-Ra. Knowing that the disqualification was not "right", Gimix worker rushed the first two games so that the series would be 2 - 2, and thus be a normal best of three.


In my opinion, there is a big difference between throwing two games in order to have a fair fight with your opponent, and asking your opponent to leave.

Nonetheless, I feel bad for Coco and Byun. It doesn't seem like they had malicious intentions at all.
DiMano
Profile Joined July 2011
Korea (South)2066 Posts
November 15 2011 16:20 GMT
#1360
Imagine if all players did this with their friends, thats not a competition, and it's not fair to other players, good decision IMO.

Look at number of forfeits in Korean Weeklies teammates just don't appear. GuMiho vs Sirius in Finals №3 as an example
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