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07:06 KST - method linked here has been disproved here

10:54 KST - Find a full timeline of pro comments (including Spades) in the topic here.

08:47 KST - Summary:
Accusations of maphacking have the potential to destroy a player's career if left unaddressed. Because of the potential consequences, we should be careful about accepting unproven accusations. The principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' should be applied here. That does not mean that there has been a conclusion about this case, however, which is why this thread remains tentatively open.

Please discuss with caution and use evidence to back up your claims.

(also a summary post by an unnamed pro on reddit here)
Gardel
Profile Joined April 2011
Mexico220 Posts
June 04 2012 21:29 GMT
#241
Can some mod change the title to something not so obvious please?
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mewbert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States291 Posts
June 04 2012 21:29 GMT
#242
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.

yeah, the fact that spades says he shouldnt have to defend himself and he will just retire just further backs that he is probably guilty, anyone who is innocent would be defending themselfs.
KonohaFlash
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1590 Posts
June 04 2012 21:30 GMT
#243
Honestly, the problem I have with this thread is the fact a smurf made it. Obviously if these accusations are found to be untrue, the smurf gets away without losing and credibility as they aren't posting on their real account.

In my opinion, threads like these shouldn't be allowed without a legit poster being the creator.
EienShinwa
Profile Joined May 2010
United States655 Posts
June 04 2012 21:30 GMT
#244
On June 05 2012 06:17 huehuehuehue wrote:
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On June 05 2012 06:06 Spades wrote:
I'm not going to read into this because it makes no sense, I think alot of this says i look at there base before scanning or something? Watch vods of my stream, i always look at fog, then scan immediately afterwards. I think this is s tupid people are calling me a hacker to discredit my "close defeat" in a showmatch. Just because my history people find things to discredit me. Pretty pathetic.

I could go case by case defending myself, but this is just sad.

You should play a showmatch against Lucifron or someone else good, and stream it.


This doesn't even make sense. Why would he hack in a showmatch that he will stream?
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JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 07:37:29
June 04 2012 21:30 GMT
#245
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Razakel
Profile Joined April 2011
Ireland466 Posts
June 04 2012 21:30 GMT
#246
On June 05 2012 06:24 Caelyn0101 wrote:
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On June 05 2012 06:12 cArn- wrote:
if he was hacking why did he lose to drops meching vs bio ? don't be ridiculous.


I've heard that people that hack that have a few braincells at least do moves like this to throw you off their scent. So when accused of hacking they can always say, " well if I was hacking how do you explain " x " or " y ". Of course hacking all the time, never making a single mistake and winning 99% of your games is going to get you figured out, it stands to reason that you would purposely lose games or make mistakes so people didn't get suspicious.

I don't know for sure if Spades hacks or not as the only way of being certain would be sitting behind him watching him load up the hack, but as we can't do that we have to speculate based on fishy play that a lot of pro gamers and others have seen him doing.


This seems entirely circular to me, you seem to be construing anything Spades does as evidence of his hacking. Well he was looking through fog of war / camera freezing frequently? Hacking.

But wait, he lost units and made some mistakes? Also hacking.

I see where you're going, but it's entirely unprovable and completely speculative. Focus on the litany of suspicious things in the OP if you want to try and demonstrate hacking.

Also I agree with the other sentiments that the thread should be renamed until Spades has been shown guilty / innocent.
Neelia
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany599 Posts
June 04 2012 21:30 GMT
#247
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.


What's the point? He can't prove it if he's innocent and given his past people won't believe it anyways..
JitnikoVi
Profile Joined May 2010
Russian Federation396 Posts
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#248
lol im just sitting back reading this, some pretty darn good drama...

/popcorn

in seriousness though, just from sitting back and reading almost all the comments, it seems so wishywashy, i still cant decide which side to take, and ive been watching spades since bw
In theory yes, but theoretically, no.
Cejotas
Profile Joined March 2011
Spain88 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-04 21:31:29
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#249
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.


Yeah crying is not the solution, try to explain all the strange things that happened
Snuggles
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1865 Posts
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#250
On June 05 2012 06:23 Dalton-sc wrote:
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On June 05 2012 06:14 Spades wrote:
90% of the day i believe people are hacking against me on ladder. Big name players as well.


From moderator experience in other communities (open source as well) it is often the hackers that call hacker on everybody else and you are saying 90% of people on ladder you think are hackers. This is either an over exaggeration to which it is pointless to even mention or just more questionable behaviour from you.


Says the guy with 2 posts...

This is getting really fucking nasty and fast. I mean if Spades is proven innocent, we're still going to have a bad outcome of events. The community is going to have an even more toxic image and Spades image is still tarnished one way or another.

If he is proven innocent, then man, I just can't help but feel bad for the guy, even if he did hack in the past. Plus the fact that he's trying to rebuild his reputation is another slap in the face. But of course if he's guilty then... yeah the witch hunt is a justifiable success for once lol.

I think that just having me post my nonconstructive opinion here is hurting the thread and beyond...
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-04 21:32:33
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#251
On June 05 2012 06:28 Martijn wrote:
Have to say I'm disgusted by all this. How many of you actually watched the show match? Spades complained about having problems with his mouse after game 1, but no, lets just assume his camera slipping or staying in one spot is a hack and not the obvious.

If this guy didn't have enough faith in his claims to post it on his real account, how credible is this thread to begin with? Not to mention some suggestions are plain stupid. "Despite having a marine and a Barrack to spot any kind of drop, he doesn't see LucifroN's drop comming, however, he leaves all his hellions on his natural instead of having them around the map which would be the most normal given that you haven't spotted any drop comming." Yes, because you don't wait until your maxed when you play mech vs bio, you send your helions out alone to watch them get eaten by marauders.

I'll look into it, but especially considering how late Spades often reacted to drops in game.. 5? Where luci went bio vs his mech, I certainly didn't see it while casting. I think it's highly inappropriate that so many people are jumping to conclusions.

Yeah, the issue with "maphacking" accusations is that you can take five replays from any top player and find "suspicious" moments where it's possible that they were maphacking when it's just that their game-sense is on fire or that they have so much experience with certain situations that they just know how to react. Everyone can remember moments in actual LAN even where it seems as if one players hacking, because some of the things are just so perfect (for instance, at Red Bull, Bomber sniping MC's nexus exactly when MC moved his stalkers out of position without having prior vision of anything but the front of MC's ramp). Obviously he wasn't hacking, but boy, sometimes they are so good it seems like it. :/
All.In
Profile Joined August 2010
United States214 Posts
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#252
It is a shame how many people just jumped off the deep end right off the get go. I will say with Illusions input and spades incoming response we may be able to decide soon for our selves what we think. Anyone that has done so already needs to get a grip on reality. If you really want to know what kills this community it is this stuff. I sorta feel bad for spades after reading through this.
It is what it is
marconi
Profile Joined March 2010
Croatia220 Posts
June 04 2012 21:31 GMT
#253
It seems to me that people just wait and actually look for things like these so they can ruin someone and enjoy it. I don't know if this guy hacked or not, but it seems to me that the people here just listen to one guy and automatically conclude that it's the absolute truth. Plus the fact that he hacked in BW. And the OP of this thread to me seems hell bent on destroying spades, hence the so detailed "explanation".

And one more thing, I saw Incontrol posting something about the "hacking". Now, I watched his stream a few times, and I think there isn't a player on the whole goddamn ladder he lost to who he didn't accuse of hacking. And what's even funnier he actually looks at the replay later and there is ABSOLUTELY NO evidence of the other player hacking, and then you get some grumpy look from his face and some moaning sounds. So I would advise you people to not really take his words into consideration, seeing as how him and some other players which I don't wanna name, but are in a certain relation with him, have a tendency to accuse people of hacking instead of admitting the other guy simply played better. So sad, and unprofessional. I don't know why people, and by people I mean sponsors, actually put up with such crap from their players. Imagine a football team where the players constantly accuse the other team of using performance drugs when they lose.

What I'm saying is, don't bring out the pitchforks and torches just yet, at least until there is solid proof of anything.
Giantorange
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada24 Posts
June 04 2012 21:32 GMT
#254
As wierd as this sounds, I'd like to just ask the next person that discovers a professional player or someone notable in the community hacking to instead contact a couple of professional players to review the evidence or someone trustworthy before posting this type of thing. If you back it up with professional opinions first and keep everything reasonably quiet previous to posting whether he's a hacker or not. It can potentially avoid destroying an innocent person's reputation. Whether Spades is innocent or not is still up for debate, but whether his reputation is essentially destroyed with a lot of people is pretty clear.
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PanN
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2828 Posts
June 04 2012 21:33 GMT
#255
On June 05 2012 06:30 Neelia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.


What's the point? He can't prove it if he's innocent and given his past people won't believe it anyways..


Whats the point? Uhm, I could name one that spades thinks is important! You should realize this, i have no idea how you dont =)

He wants to make this a CAREER. He said that himself, and if he doesn't defend himself now well he can just shit that dream away.

Saying "lol gues no1 will beliv me guess i retire next time xd!!" is probably the dumbest thing you could ever say if you're actually innocent and trying to make this game your career.

We have multiple brackets generated in advance. Relax . (Kennigit) I just simply do not understand how it can be the time to play can be 22nd at 9:30 pm PST / midnight the 23rd at the same time. (GGzerg)
Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-04 21:36:06
June 04 2012 21:33 GMT
#256
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.


This!

Seriously as a community we must take this really serious. If any progamer who got a history of cheating and surdenly do very well vs a top player he should be looked at very closely and this look indeed fishy.

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Promethelax
Profile Joined February 2012
Canada7089 Posts
June 04 2012 21:33 GMT
#257
On June 05 2012 06:26 Spades wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 06:18 QuanticIllusion wrote:
On June 05 2012 06:14 Spades wrote:
On June 05 2012 06:09 iNcontroL wrote:
tbh spades you do play super fishy >_< I played that game recently against you and said basically "wtf this is very hackish" and you said "I play you on my smurf a lot and knew you'd do that" which is USUALLY the #1 "I hack and this is how I will defend myself ambiguously" statement.

I'm no hack expert so I will leave this to those that are but you need to know.. it isn't just a few people that have felt odd about your online game play. ddddddd

If you aren't hacking this is unfortunate but the sins of hacking (even in the past) will always impact you. If you are hacking it's pretty over...


90% of the day i believe people are hacking against me on ladder. Big name players as well. Everyone is just hack crazy now. I stream 90% of my games. I didn't hack in this series, I haven't hacked in SC2. If you want to find things that look suspicious, It's easy. Not one person here can "prove" i hacked, because i didn't. And now my sc2 image is destroyed. So I'm thankful for that. Guess it's time to retire after Anaheim.

Defend the points made and I'll apologize and so should everyone. If you're not cheating, you shouldn't be afraid of defending yourself because there is nothing to lose. Either you play really fishy/"dumb" or you had some amazing game sense in the series, if what you are saying is true.


Alright, since i respect you, I'll answer all your questions, just give me a few minutes to look over and see.


This is all I've wanted to see from this thread. Thanks to both Illusion and Spades for actually looking into this and settling the issue instead of letting the mob get a hold of it and begin another witch hunt.
I hope this gets resolved and, if Spades proves himself innocent (which should never have to happen) he will have gained at least one fan from this.
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SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13090 Posts
June 04 2012 21:33 GMT
#258
I thought ppl learn from their mistakes but some ppl can never change.
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intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
June 04 2012 21:34 GMT
#259
On June 05 2012 06:29 mewbert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.

yeah, the fact that spades says he shouldnt have to defend himself and he will just retire just further backs that he is probably guilty, anyone who is innocent would be defending themselfs.


Not sure if I agree with PanN here. If people accused me of hacking or whatever and there wasn't a definitive way of proving it (I think BW had some mechanic for this) there wouldn't be a use for defending myself because zealots would just keep breaking down every little thing I'd say anyway.
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PanN
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2828 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-04 21:35:19
June 04 2012 21:35 GMT
#260
On June 05 2012 06:34 IntoTheheart wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 06:29 mewbert wrote:
On June 05 2012 06:27 PanN wrote:
Simply because you're not defending yourself with all your might, and you're giving up and retiring, I bet you're hacking.

Any normal, innocent person, would defend themselves vehemently with this type of accusation. You're just like "man! everyone is always down on me! guess ill retire after the next tournament!"

Fucking defend your self if you're innocent, you look so bad just copping out like you are.

yeah, the fact that spades says he shouldnt have to defend himself and he will just retire just further backs that he is probably guilty, anyone who is innocent would be defending themselfs.


Not sure if I agree with PanN here. If people accused me of hacking or whatever and there wasn't a definitive way of proving it (I think BW had some mechanic for this) there wouldn't be a use for defending myself because zealots would just keep breaking down every little thing I'd say anyway.


Theres a difference between not defending yourself, and saying "its impossible, guess ill retire after the next event!".

Theres a HUGE difference.
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