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ilikeredheads
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada1995 Posts
January 06 2012 00:22 GMT
#301
I can't wait to hear the guys talk about it on SotG
leo23
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3075 Posts
January 06 2012 01:02 GMT
#302
On January 06 2012 04:27 pPingu wrote:
From the article here

http://www.esahara.net/en/news/1586

Show nested quote +
Pepe's recruitment has been done a few weeks ago. While we were dealing with the player, he showed a very good knowledge of the Starcraft : Broodwar scene, including confidential information about some of the players and the KeSPA itself, intel that was confirmed by several different Korean sources.


That's weird


yeah this is kinda shady...

not trusting esahara for now
banelings
AmstAff
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Germany949 Posts
January 06 2012 01:10 GMT
#303
well, they will learn of this. it makes them look unprofessional and dumb, but there aren't many esport teams out in the world which are really professional (I dont count korea in this statement).
after 2 years i reached it = marine icon
Deleted User 26513
Profile Joined February 2007
2376 Posts
January 06 2012 01:26 GMT
#304
On January 06 2012 04:27 pPingu wrote:
From the article here

http://www.esahara.net/en/news/1586

Show nested quote +
Pepe's recruitment has been done a few weeks ago. While we were dealing with the player, he showed a very good knowledge of the Starcraft : Broodwar scene, including confidential information about some of the players and the KeSPA itself, intel that was confirmed by several different Korean sources.


That's weird

OK it's clear now. Flash tried to switch undetected by KeSPA with a fake name.

The entire story is kinda funny but it's bad for eSahara's reputation... Now people will remember them as the team of "The blonde chick" and "fake pepe" (at least until Maka win GSL) I wish them the best
thesums
Profile Joined December 2010
Taiwan257 Posts
January 06 2012 01:27 GMT
#305
Lol this is funny. They should have video chatted or asked him to show ID via scanned document. Does this mean anyone can fake to be a player with relatively low profile and get into eSahara? The recruitment system is fatally flawed wow!

They need to learn from the mistake, and other teams should take note if this. They should have contacted WeMadeFox to confirm this signing long ago as well.
nucLeaRTV
Profile Joined May 2011
Romania822 Posts
January 06 2012 01:40 GMT
#306
Funny how 'pepe' is still on main post.
"Having your own haters means you are famous"
tsuxiit
Profile Joined July 2010
1305 Posts
January 06 2012 02:15 GMT
#307
LOL. Why would someone try to impersonate a player who was still around?

Phantom players. Watch your back, ESPORTS.
Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
January 06 2012 02:19 GMT
#308
By far one of the weirdest situation Ive read about the SC2 scene. I mean.. what was that fake Pepe guy thinking? How was he planning on showing up to events, meeting the team etc?
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ChuSeo
Profile Joined February 2011
United States8 Posts
January 06 2012 02:30 GMT
#309
I'm not sure if this is a good choice. eSahara has some members that are very BM. For example, when MarineKing went up against Verdi on ladder, Verdi rage quit saying "fu noob." I have no respect for the team.
Big shoes, Big socks..
Devise
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1131 Posts
January 06 2012 03:19 GMT
#310
So was this fake pepe good and worthy of being on the team, but just faked his id?
Greendotz
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2053 Posts
January 06 2012 03:26 GMT
#311
On January 05 2012 19:47 AIOL! wrote:
Even if this pepe is a false one if he's good enough to be GM on Kr ladder with 70% winrate that wouldnt be a bad choice to continue with him imo.


Are you kidding!? Even if he was a grandmaster with 100% winrate there’s no way they would let him in after obtaining his spot by lying and in doing so seriously embarrassing the team. If you wanted to take it one step further he has technically committed fraud and I'm pretty sure he's liable to have legal action taken against him (though I’m sure eSahara just want to forget about this and move on as quickly as possible).

I find it hilarious how this only came out due to the that chance that a WemadeFox employee happened to stumble on the thread and essentially say, “lol, wut?”

Could you imagine the shit storm that would’ve happened if this hadn't been uncovered earlier and they’d asked him to play at an event and he just gave them a “lol, j/k, I’m not who I said I was” or even worse if he actually turned up to the event and still claimed to be Pepe XD
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
January 06 2012 03:33 GMT
#312
fake pepe? i assume artosis will be calling him fepe then;/
Ownos
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2147 Posts
January 06 2012 03:44 GMT
#313
Motherfucking identity thieves!
...deeper and deeper into the bowels of El Diablo
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
January 06 2012 03:46 GMT
#314
On January 06 2012 12:19 Devise wrote:
So was this fake pepe good and worthy of being on the team, but just faked his id?

Idk why if he was good enough, he could'e just joined a team outright but maybe the bw experience factors in a large proportion of whether a team takes him or not.
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Mortal
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
2943 Posts
January 06 2012 04:10 GMT
#315
Of course the player that's actually warrents interest is a hoax. Rablerablerable.
The universe created an audience for itself.
viCeM
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany10 Posts
January 06 2012 04:26 GMT
#316
impressing roster so far.
gosuRob
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States319 Posts
January 06 2012 04:42 GMT
#317
Haha that fake pepe guy sure has balls!, what a shame though.
Rules? There aren't many rules. You fight mean, you win mean. It takes a certain someone
Canucklehead
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada5074 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-06 07:04:10
January 06 2012 07:04 GMT
#318
One skype video call and this could have been avoided.
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zturchan
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada156 Posts
January 06 2012 07:08 GMT
#319
Interesting to have this come out. As we see smaller/lesser-known teams try and build up a korean roster (think esahara, legion,etc.) there are obviously a bunch of problems like this that appear. Now I (and several others I'm sure) are wondering about how teams actually go about verifying the identity of a player. Especially with koreans, very few (if any) stream with a webcam or make vlogs or anything like that so its hard to verify this sort of thing. Anyway, good thing this came out and I wish all the best to eSahara.
jjhchsc2
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)2393 Posts
January 06 2012 07:41 GMT
#320
On January 06 2012 12:33 turdburgler wrote:
fake pepe? i assume artosis will be calling him fepe then;/


hahaha nice one.
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