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breadcat
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany45 Posts
January 30 2012 21:05 GMT
#101
Who cares ? He should have been disquailified. No need for the drama.
hmunkey
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom1973 Posts
January 30 2012 21:05 GMT
#102
On January 31 2012 06:04 Quakie wrote:
Can anyone from TL clarify why Tyler forfeited?

I believe he lost two strongly decisive games and didn't want to play the rest. He seems like he's out of practice lately.
Geiko
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France1939 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#103
On January 31 2012 05:57 Floobie wrote:
There was nothing wrong with what Stephano did.

There was nothing wrong with what ONOG did either.

Happy that Stephano played until he did, and happy ONOG saw it fit to give us viewers even more games once he decided he couldnt stay up any longer.


Exactly this. He couldn't physically play anymore. I think if he could, he wouldn't give up on 1500$ like that... I also don't see him complaining about the sanction (which is justified I believe), so there really isn't any problem.

The only thing that he can be blamed for is participating in multiple tournys at once. If you're going to blame him for that, you might as well also blame a countless number of pros or semi-pros that do this every week in daily cups, or weekly cups (look at the number of forfeits of GM players for gamecreds for example).
It's only a problem in his case because he's actually good enough to reach the finals in both tournaments.
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TheNessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4158 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#104
Can't fault stephano at all for this. Didn't want to play so he didn't.

You can't make someone do something they don't want to do. I respect stephano for caring about himself.

maybe the tournament people should pick players that wont be busy playing other tournaments that day. In fact that seems very logical to me. What if when a player signed up, they signed to "not play in any tournaments 1 day before or after this one" ?? that way you make sure all the people playing are well rested and committed to this tournament. You cant be mad that you couldn't get a player to commit, just because you really really wanted him to.

And lets say instead of this he Drone rushed all 4 games, that would have been fine.

lol.
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shadowboxer
Profile Joined November 2010
United States224 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#105
I wonder if he realizes French isn't a race.

Love Stephano as a player, don't like him as a person at all for the way he acts in the community. I don't think him being moved to 4th was fully justified, but I can't say I mind that it happened.
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[17]Purple
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom3489 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#106
On January 31 2012 06:05 breadcat wrote:
Who cares ? He should have been disquailified. No need for the drama.


He was disqualified and was quite content about it.
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Hetairoi
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Sweden508 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#107
Considering how late that the tournament was scheduled to start even beforehand he should have know that he wouldn't get the optimal of amount of sleep that night and prepared for it beforehand. Very unprofessionally done by Stephano and he truly should be thankful for the 4th placement finish and not completely disqualified. He wasn't the only one only player and organizer that were forced to stay up late and should have finished the games, very disrespectful especially towards Kas.
magnaflow
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada1521 Posts
January 30 2012 21:06 GMT
#108
On January 31 2012 06:05 dsousa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2012 06:03 magnaflow wrote:
Wait.. did I read that tyler also forfetied during that tournament?


Yes, he did. No explanation given.



......... wait, what? Where's the Tyler hate thread then?
Gargara
Profile Joined January 2011
Romania150 Posts
January 30 2012 21:07 GMT
#109
On January 31 2012 05:48 Jamial wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2012 05:45 aDd3z wrote:
well he won the semis...i dont understand why he dosnt get second place.


Because he screwed the tournament creators out of the most important match of the entire tournament. Because he had made too many commitments. It's Stephanos fault, it seems the tournament creators did basically everything they could to accomodate him, and even so, he screwed them over.


Stephano's fault for beeing too good and getting to many finals.
fighter2_40
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States420 Posts
January 30 2012 21:07 GMT
#110
Unless stephano physically couldn't play, I'm very disappointed with his attitude and handling of the situation. To be a top player means that you have to serve as a role model. Imagine if boxer forfeited cause he was tired. Impossible.
rabidbot
Profile Joined October 2011
United States48 Posts
January 30 2012 21:07 GMT
#111
People are already accusing this thread of continuing the drama. I'm not sure why many of us like to pretend that drama isn't good for esports. Drama is what makes people talk, what makes people excited to see a match. Look at tim tebow, hell look at the kardashians they draw in huge fan number, and non fans a like just to see the spectacle. Drama is good for a community, polarizing figures are good for a community. It gets more people interested and more people talking.

But could we end the pointless calling out of drama is killing esports, and this thread is just reiterating already available information (which hot_bid already covered why this is a good thread.)

I'm not saying what stephano did was ok, it wasn't. For me if you start a tourney be prepared to finish it, especially if you make it deep in the bracket. He could have easily deduced how late the tourney was going to run, and if he wanted to drop out he should have done it a lot sooner.
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m0ck
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
4194 Posts
January 30 2012 21:08 GMT
#112
I think Stephano made a bad decision, but this news post seems over the top. Will there be a news post about Tyler forfeiting two matches in group play after losing his first match in the same tournament? It happens every week that players forfeits in online tournaments, that players can't play in later rounds of overlapping tournaments and so give up one of them. We all know this. Why is this tournament a special case? Why is stephano's a special case? If anything, this tournament was very laid back and a bit joke'y from the outset, with players chosen not by merit, but by notoriety. Well, at least the tournament got noticed..
skipdog172
Profile Joined June 2010
United States331 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-30 21:11:22
January 30 2012 21:08 GMT
#113
The worst part of this is the simple fact that Stephano sees nothing wrong with what he did and with absolutely no apology to ONOG.

You can forfeit because you are tired and accept the consequences, but to not even understand why people would be displeased with you is quite surprising.

Just gotta remind myself that he's an 18 year old kid... can't expect much. Love watching him play regardless.

For anybody to say that leaving in the finals of a tournament isn't disrespectful to the organizers and the fans is kidding themselves.
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-30 21:19:23
January 30 2012 21:08 GMT
#114
On January 31 2012 05:45 aDd3z wrote:
well he won the semis...i dont understand why he dosnt get second place.


edit: wrong information
Silentenigma
Profile Joined July 2009
Turkey2037 Posts
January 30 2012 21:08 GMT
#115
Players shouldnt be allowed to play many tournaments same time if they cant manage to play them.This is hurting the esports.Unprofessional behivaour by shephano.I hope he never does it again.
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andis35
Profile Joined May 2011
Latvia346 Posts
January 30 2012 21:08 GMT
#116
On January 31 2012 06:04 ohmkerg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2012 06:02 andis35 wrote:
Just like in the situation with Naniwa I am in the player's side ( this time Stephano ). He can choose when he plays and when he does not, and if he feels the conditions for him are not optimal ( being tired in this case ) he should not play. The tournament organisers should act accordingly to their rules and if there is no specific point about forfeiting, then he should just simply be awarded with 2nd place, as he rightfully earned it.


He should not play in tournaments if he can't stick to their schedule. If he can't stick to their rules, why should they stick to their own? Moving him to 4th is a +1 in my book(and my book is hella long).



Stephano did not violate any rules, forfeiting from tournament is not forbidden. However, I do not think there is any rule that allows tournament organisers to simply put a 2nd place player in 4th spot.
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
January 30 2012 21:09 GMT
#117
I don't see anything "terribly wrong" with either of Stephano's or ONOG's decision here. Stephano was tired and didn't want to play - so he forfeited, okay. People are making parallels with the Naniwa case, but there's a definite difference in the course of action here. Naniwa grudged on and delivered something in extremely poor taste, Stephano chose not to deliver anything at all. As an organizer, ONOG did what it could to muster up a proper "finals" for the tournament, good for them.

As for player attitude and self-management, however, I believe we are only beginning to uncover a serious issue. These guys aren't properly managed. They are over-booked when their tournament results are good, and under-booked (and not earning money) when their results are bad. In other words, this resembles a bounty-hunting society where the hunter just tosses out a ton of traps and gathers up what he managed to capture, with next-to-zero thoughts about the traps that did not capture anything.

Someone suggested KeSPA-like governing body - it might work, but it has its share of problems too (just ask any BW enthusiast if they like KeSPA).
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FlamingForce
Profile Joined September 2011
Netherlands701 Posts
January 30 2012 21:09 GMT
#118
He had been playing all day, give the man a break you whiners.
Sapphire.lux
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania2620 Posts
January 30 2012 21:09 GMT
#119
On January 31 2012 06:04 WArped wrote:


Some players lack the social skills and manners to think about other people, tournament organisers and fans, they really need to learn.

Yeah. Good job by the organizers to penalize him. To leave a tournament without the "final" is disrespectful to the fans, tournament and sponsors. Pathetic really.

I hope in the future there will be some sort of ruling body to enforce real penalties for this sort of ... disrespect.
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Mo0Rauder
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada182 Posts
January 30 2012 21:10 GMT
#120
I can understand both sides of the argument, this is unfortunate indeed.
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