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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)
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15677 Posts
June 05 2012 16:50 GMT
#3321
Majority of pros certain enough to say he hacks. How does the conversation not end there? They know 100x better than anyone else and they overwhelmingly agree confidently enough to come out and say it. Being in the spotlight, they gotta be insanely careful about what they say, yet they were sure enough to say what they said.
Crowned
Profile Joined August 2011
United States368 Posts
June 05 2012 16:50 GMT
#3322
Care to explain the drastic difference in his ladder play and the showmatch as far as looking into fog of war is concerned cydial?
It's cool to love to win, but it's better to hate to lose.
Scootaloo
Profile Joined January 2012
655 Posts
June 05 2012 16:53 GMT
#3323
On June 06 2012 01:50 Crowned wrote:
Care to explain the drastic difference in his ladder play and the showmatch as far as looking into fog of war is concerned cydial?


This has been answered several times, doesn't look at FoW in the showmatch, does so consistently in his normal play.
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:58:52
June 05 2012 16:53 GMT
#3324
On June 06 2012 01:43 cydial wrote:
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Since I'm a complete nerd I'm gonna give this a shot. Every community should be judged on how it treats its worst off. In this case a low level foreigner pro. He is not a korean pro that has won GSL, probably never will after watching these replays...

However, that is irrelevant, what's important is the evidence against him.

On June 05 2012 04:22 drolets wrote:

Game 1: Antiga Shipyard.

6:15 When he scouted he didn't see any evidence of fast gas, however, before scanning he already starts to build a bay for defending against cloack-banshee.

What's more is how he doesn't send his marines into his base before the banshee is in his base...


If you ever play TvT above platinum you would build a bay at around this time if your scout was denied. For fucks sake he probably knew what Luci was doing since cloak banshee is one of the most popular openers.

HE DOESNT EVEN BUILD AN EXTRA TURRET IN HIS MINERAL LINE'S BLIND SPOT FFS, IF HE WAS MAP HACKING HE WOULD'VE KNOWN ANOTHER BANSHEE WAS INC AND BUILT ONE. Caps because I got angry at the stupid accusation.



9:11 9 sec camera block.



In which he just tabs between production cycles? 9 Seconds is a bit excessive, however there was nothing to do... he was supply blocked.

9:30 New banshee from LucifroN is leaving his base, he moves his vikings, that had been waiting at the entry of his natural for over 30 sec to cover his main.


Doesn't mean anything, I do this to sometimes in games where I think, "Hey I was harassed and this part of the base is not covered by any units."

10:45 He gets 2 marines to send them to the xel'naga, however, his camera doesn't move to the center of the map, it gets blocked on his army.


You know you can move your units by clicking on the mini map right? Does the OP even play sc2?

11:02 8 sec camera block


His camera was over his CC and he built shit, he built supply depots, and he lowered supply depots all in 8 game seconds... could be faster, but Spades isn't MVP, MKP, or MMA. Somewhat slow but not evidence of hacking.

The rest of the game is pure action on the middle of the map, always having vision over his opponent, so there's nothing really weird, just a few camera blocks here and there when he loses control over the xel'naga. 




Game 2: Entombed Valley

2:14 He sends the SCV without looking at where he's sending it and the camera gets blocked for 4 secs. However, he doesn't even look at LucifroN's base when the SCV reach it.


He sent the SCV to the 4 o'clock position and then has the scv back off. Ok? If you think this is strange that's fine, it doesn't prove he's hacking. I've met players with much, much more bizzare and just flat out stupid sc2 habbits (scouting with only the overlord on a 4 player map, or a long distance 2 player map.

4 seconds of camera lock... where he built scvs, cycled through production, then sent shit to gas, also was spamming an scv to a mineral.

6:00 Even if he didn't even watch it, on the minimap you can see LucifroN had a gas, he had done the EXACT same openning as on game 1, however Spades doesn't make bay, neither raven, he goes directly for a viking and waste ALL his energy on a mule, as if he knew 100% sure cloack banshees weren't comming (weird as he didn't even scan).


At this point I have no idea what to say, you're either a bronze league vindictive troll or you lack all form of game sense.

Unlike in game 1 he got into Luci's base in game 2. He saw there was 1 gas. His opponent (a pro) went for cloak banshee the first game, what makes you think he'd do the same thing twice? This is not uncommon metagaming.

7:47 Notice how he sieges the tanks on the EXACT position for not being shot by the bunker


I do this too, it's called moving up the tank and if it gets hit, you move a little bit back... if it doesn't? Siege that bitch up because it's probably gonna hit something important.

13:42 LucifroN advances 2 marines to kill Spades marine at the right of the map, would be obvious to think that LucifroN's army is comming behind, however spades doesn't move his army for about 30 sec.


No? 2 marines poking around could just as well be Lucifron checking to see if Spades is moving HIS army towards him. Spades eventually moves his army, so fucking what? You want him to just camp his base all game? He moved out after he killed his rocks and he didn't think Lucifron's army was going to be knocking on his front door at any time soon.

14:10 LucifroN's army is getting out of his base to that spot, Spades doesn't see ANYTHING, but he sieges his tanks right in the elevation and move his marines out of his base and puts them next to the spot LucifroN is going.


Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho, but Spades DOES see something before 14:10 in fact. Something big. Lucifron's scan...

Lucifrons scan + a marine at the watch tower + a few marines already poking = OH SHIT, THE 3 O CLOCK BENEATH MY NATURAL

Lucifron gets a good scan and sees the entire army composition and position of Spade's army. Spades probably knew what was coming next, Lucifron thinks, "Ok, his main ramp is guarded, however the south of his natural might be undefended."

Spades, having this sort of low ground abuse happen to him before (When you play enough TvTs, this becomes second nature), responds in turn because he sees the scan as an impending attack (in TvT this happens quite a bit).

The very worst you could say about this is Spades simply reacted slowly or he was indecisive. If he really was map hacking he should've just put a tank into a medivac and dropped it along with a few tanks in the 3 oclock expo and completely deny the push through pure positioning.

20:30 first scan to LucifroN's base in the whole game!! Spots all his army and the third cc.


Uhhh..... this doesn't mean shit. There are quite a few players that I've personally played and watched replays of that prefer to have the money over the information given by the 50 energy from a CC.

Also, consider Lucifron was giving Spades information the whole game through engagements and seeing nothing but marines, tanks, vikings...

20 min - 22 min is a reasonable time to scan since the only 2 avenues of approach would be going to BCs or continuing to marine tank.

What baffles me is why Spades, if he were map hacking, wouldn't just drop the ever living shit out of Lucifron since he would know that there was nothing inside the main base for defense, even AFTER the doom drop.

This is getting fun, please. Continue. Your lack of game knowledge and basic awareness amuses me.

Game 3: Shakuras Plateau

3:55 He sends out 4 SCVS to his natural, WITHOUT having seen the marine, and WITHOUT having scouted.


He was meandering marines to the natural because his CC was almost done. The marine incoming just so happened to coincide with scvs being transfered because that's around the time you're supposed to, you know, meander the workers there?

4 seems perfectly fine since there would be another from building the CC and another from on top of the ramp building the rax.

Let me remind you he had NO GAS. Also, he does see the marine coming out of the fog of war a split second before he sends his scvs.


5:08 Most accurate scan ever, however, he doesn't even select the barracks to see what building it is, and he doesn't even look at the third cc.


What the fuck are you talking about? Do you play this game? He briefly looked (appx 1 game second to 1.4 game seconds) at the natural and the rax. Even I can tell what buildings are what just by looking at them on the mini map, when a big ass square shape is below where the CC should be, that's guess what? A cc....

If you're building a 3rd cc that early in the game... just seeing a 3rd at around 5min indicates you can't have a factory up.

Anyone in masters or even diamond should know this, unless you do some really stupid gas transfer to make the factory then move them off gas to then only be able to produce helions for a while until ----, no wait that's retarded, you're retarded, these examples are horrible.


15:05 Would be obvious to think LucifroN has the mid control, but he moves his tanks to the xel'naga without any kind of fear.


I've seen streamers like avilio, lastshadow, and even mkp do this every now and then. Hell, even I do it sometimes because of complacency, it's easier to scout with your army than it is to scout with an actual scout then move your army.


More importantly, look at 13:00 when Lucifron's army is moving to Spade's third. So a map hacker is going to risk losing his third by having an army out of position (all he had to do was move it a little bit closer to the watch tower, therefore having the superior concave and giving him time for his tank to be sieged up.

No wait, why wasn't just the tank sieged ontop of the CC at the third? HERP DERP MAP HACKING HERP DERP WE GOT ORB, DESTINY, YOU'RE NEXT SPADES YOU FAT FUCK HERP DERP




16:20 Look how he watches whole LucifroN's army, just in the border of the fog of war.


Look at 15:49, Lucifron is dealing with a drop and medivacs just barely outside the fog of war.

He looks at the 16:20 mark to see if another attack is coming, or he's seeing if the fucking watch tower is in use or not (HE'S CENTERED ON IT AND SEE'S IT'S LIT UP, BUT DOESN'T SEE THE MARINE BECAUSE IT'S OUT OF RANGE OF HIS DROPSHIPS' VISION.

I seriously can't believe I'm responding to a troll or just a really dumb and bitter player.

Also, a map hacker would definitely just waste time to stare at medivacs instead of looking at the marine or tank count, you know, important stuff.


20:05 He moves all his marines to the spot where LucifroN is going to attack, eventhough he isn't controlling the xel'naga and he doesn't know if he's gonna come that way.


Yes, let's point out 20:05 instead of 18:00 where Spades the map hacker ATTACKS INTO A TANK LINE THAT LUCIFRON'S MARINES RETREATED TO.

Again, like in the previous game, Spade's army gets scanned, and Lucifron sees that there are unsieged tanks (1 sieged 2 unsieged). In TvT, that's your que to attack.

And this is just common sense... if you were just attacked at a narrow choke and you leave the largest avenue of approach open, then your opponent SCANS THIS and sees only a few marines... well if you don't respond by moving your army to re-secure this avenue then ya I don't know what to tell you.

His marines were also rallied there, you know, like they were for the whole game after the 3rd was taken because believe it or not, it's the best position to rally your army on shakuras after you take the expansion beneath your main.

Why is this? Because it's close to your natural's ramp and close to the third itself! Now once you actually install SC2, you will understand what I mean.


Game 4: Metalopolis

2:50 He selects his SCV and make it go back to his base, however, his camera is blocked on his barracks for about 5 seconds.


Spamming make a supply depot for 4 seconds, another second to build a marine and rally to the scv in his base.


6:00 Again, despite not having scouted, he isn't making any kind of cloack-banshee prevention as he did on the first game.


First of all it's Cloaked banshee.

This part is where I feel bad for you because now I am genuinely curious about your league. No wait, I don't because people that make stupid shit up deserve no sympathy.

You mention 6:00 as if that's when you're supposed to build a blind ebay, but you fail to mention how 5 seconds afterwards Spades gets vision of marines with HELIONS. This means a cloak banshee is out of the question. Also, you don't build a blind ebay at 6:00, you do it closer to 6:30

Ebay = 35 build time + Turret = 25 build time = 60 seconds. Cloak is done at 7:30. And yes he would've had a viking by this point, and since he's one basing that banshee is doing shit.

7:20 He starts to move his army towards the position LucifroN's drop is comming without having seen anything, he changes the direction up to 3 times in less than 5 secs as LucifroN moves his medevak.


I sometimes move my army around in my base too, gotta keep them in shape. My army can simply overpower the enemy by being more fit and therefore not need stim.

Or... if he was map hacking he simply would've camped the viking at the cliff. If he got dropped before, you don't think he would check the cliff's edge again here and there?

NEXT

Game 5: Tal'darim Altar

8:00 He had been making a lot of hellions for some early aggression, but right after LucifroN closes his natural with depots, without seeing it he stops making more, starts making tanks and starts killing his 3rd base rocks.


................... When you poke in with helions, see a bunker, and a group of marines near that bunker, you don't go back to the bunker..... the helions got him map control, I doubt Spades thought that he'd actually end the game or even kill workers with them without a drop ship.

He knows he's perfectly safe to kill the rocks at his third because he has vision from TWO watch towers.

10:50 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. JUST in the moment where the medevaks appear on the minimap (and without having seen them with the camera) he moves his hellions to stop the drop.
12:30 Camera gets blocked on the border of the fog of war.


What, the fuck. Are you serious? Oh wait you are considering you made this thread, haha I was being rhetorical.

You're right he doesn't see the drop coming, he didn't need to. Spades has his mobile helion army at his natural and not in the field because he has vision of two towers. Lucifron picked a terrible spot to land. Spades had good inbase positioning and army count.

What Lucifron does is equivalent to dropping your army on top of your opponents army and saying, "Bro you're hacking, how did you know where I was gonna drop?"

"Uhhh bro you dropped where I put my army, not the other way around."

For fucks sake he drops his bio army in range of a siege tank, THATS AT THE NATURAL...

14:00 Despite having his army on LucifroN's natural, LucifroN manages to sneak through it with his army. Spades doesn't see it, but yet he sieges 2 tanks on his natural and moves a hellion that had been still for over a minute to the xel'naga tower.


No, if Spades was maphacking he wouldn't've moved the helion that was near but not touching the watchtower. He would've moved a helion in his main army, "To scout" Lucifron's moving army and that would've given him an excuse to move his helions to bbq the marines.

Also, this exact thing happened to me as well, where I would see a unit near a watch tower and think, oh shit, then move it to acquire vision and see the enemy army right on top of me.

However, if spades were trying to cover up his map hacking, why move the helion to begin with? It's not like moving that helion prompted him to reposition his whole fucking army, after seeing the drop incoming he moved 2 helions and his scvs to ATTACK the bio force.

Or he sieged the tanks in fear of a counter attack because this is what players do sometimes? I mean, I guess MKP and MMA are map hacking too since I see them siege tanks in their main or natural.

16:30 He hides a group of Hellions at the 9 expansion, at 16:44 his camera gets frozen on the border of the fog of war, to spot LucifroN's army comming that way, he tries to hide the hellions better, so that if LucifroN moved to the xel'naga he didn't spot the hellions. He then realises LucifroN's army is gonna come that way for a drop instead of going to the xel'naga and he runs away with all his hellions, miracly avoiding LucifroN's army.


Spades saw the dropships moving north. Lucifron sees helions moving west. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Ya, don't reproduce please.

17:00 Despite having seen LucifroN going to a drop through the 9 expansion he leaves ALL his vikings and ALL his tanks on his natural expansion.


Yes, because he should chase the dropships and potentially have marines shoot them down, bio you know? Good thinking.

Ironically, if he was maphacking he would've known that there were no marine with the marauders, but hey he's trying really hard to not let people know he map hacks, even though killing all those drop ships would end the game.

18:20 He unsieges ALL his tanks, and starts to move to his third, without having seen LucifroN move to there.


He unsieges his tanks because it looked like he was planning to move out. If he saw the drop he would've just sent 1 tank down there and sieged it.


19:00 He rapidly moves again to his natural, right as LucifroN's army is comming.


????!?!?!?!?!? So you want his army to stay at the third and leave his natural's ramp wide open?

You're basically saying, "Spades took steps to secure his base after an attack, ZOMG HIS HAXING."

21:10 He starts to move back all his vikings and a pair of tanks to defend agains the unseen drop of LucifroN comming to his main base (of course, leaving a decent ammount of tanks on his third to defend against the little group of units LucifroN has there, however he completely unprotects his natural expansion, as there are no LucifroN units around.


You mean how at 21:10 his natural gets scanned? And how he moves his army as Lucifron's army comes into vision? Ya sure man, he's hacking, I suppose your semantic definition of hacking is playing well.

22:57 Curious 7-sec camera block right before LucifroN's drop came over.


He's cycling through production.... also look carefully at 23:03, you see Spades group and click to the north west of his screen to respond to the drop.

24:30 again, he unsieges all his tanks on the natural and 10 sec after that he selects all his army, to start moving to his third RIGHT in the exact moment where LucifroN come in.


No, shut the fuck up, at this point I can say that with confidence because now you're not even trying to exaggerate. You are straight up

LYING.

He has 6 tanks unsieged that came from the factory and 4 tanks sieged up. He unsieged 2 early then sieged up 2 new ones that came out of the factories.

6 tanks unsieged, 4 tanks sieged...

Oh ya, he also moves these unsieged tanks and a few helions down to the 3rd AFTER his first siege tank at the 3rd gets blown up by marauders. Don't even take into account that his third got scanned before the attack.

25:15 He unsieges all the tanks on his main base leaving it unprotected to any kind of drop and moves all of them to his natural, right where LucifroN is comming with all his army.




25:35 After seeing all the tanks there LucifroN moves back and start to walk to Spades third entry. Spades decides to unsiege 5-6 tanks and send them to his third without having seen anything again.


Lucifron makes the mistake letting Spade catch vision of his incoming bio force at 25:14 and then getting in range of one of Spade's tanks at 25:24 (Spades sees this as his camera is right over the tanks that shoots the marauder).

If anyone actually takes the time to watch the replay, you'll see that if spades was indeed map hacking, he would've at the very least moved his vikings to the forrest like cliff over looking the third to get a better position to attack the medivacs from.

He responds to this attack AFTER it happens, not before. And even if he prepared for it before hand (he thought Lucifrone would hit the third and sieged most of his tanks there), it doesn't take a GSL winner to know what's going to happen with drop ships + bio vs a siege line.

29:35 LucifroN is comming for Spades third, again, he hasn't seen anything. 5 seconds after that LucifroN lift half of his units into 2 medevaks, then Spades select all his vikings and moves forward to try to kill the unseen medevaks.


Lucifron scans, Spades responds by sending a few helions tailed by vikings to check it out. Helions get killed, vikings find medivacs.

Yet, Spades the map hacker neglets to secure his main with vikings and thus allows another drop to occur, instead he sends them to the heavily defended 3rd.

30:40 He unsieges ALL the tanks in the main despite LucifroN having been dropping there for a while and moves them all to his natural,right where LucifroN is comming.


Notice how he leaves vikings in the main, Spades learned his lesson.

Also, he scans and finds Lucifrons army on the move, then he finds the army outside his 3rd. Lucifron is picking him apart at this point. With map hacks Spades would know to just leave a tank sieged in the main, but he doesn't. It isn't because he's map hacking and he knows a massive drop isn't incoming.

It's because he's a common foreigner, he's not mkp or mma.

31:10 he scans the xel'naga right in time to see LucifroN's army moving to 9-expansion (probably in order to drop). However LucifroN is just tricking him, and moves back to the xel'naga once the scan is over. Spades doesn't unsiege ANY tank to try to prevent a drop in the main and just keeps them all on his natural.


Because Spades is counting on his vikings to intercept the dropships, therefore not needing any tanks in the main. He thinks the drop will be into the natural, or he has sloppy positioning.

But all thoughts of map hacking to the one out for Spade's blood at this point should be removed when they see how Spades moves his vikings to the north of his main when Lucifron drops a scan that touches Spade's factory.

32:15 he scans his thirdbase entry to spot ALL LucifroN's army, he hadn't previously scanned there at any other point on the game.


This is just, I dunno how to put it nicely, just something someone with a brain would do? If you are Lucifrom and you know that the main ramp is secured with tanks, you scan the north part of spade's main, but then you know that spades knows that you know this and responds by positioning vikings there.

Now if you're spades, you realize you secured 2/3 parts of your base, what possible other place could Lucifron come from? Oh ya my third.

32:50 he moves with ALL his army to his main base, where a BIG drop is going to come, and without having seen anything.


If I'm spades and I see the size of the army at the third, I know there's a bio force elsewhere. If Spade's was map hacking he would've just moved the vikings to kill the drop ships.

Spades also knew he was being picked apart, if this sort of style was being used on you, you would know (Well not you, but a competent player anways) that a drop coming from the north would happen, he moved his army there to check, he scans to confirm, he loses his 3rd.

Yes, that's a map hacker, trying so hard not to let people know he hacks that he loses on purpose anyways.

Game 6: Daybreak

4:30 He puts his third command center right in position, without even knowing if LucifroN was going for 2 fast cc too (otherways it would've been a suicide).


Metagaming. You cannot tell me with an honest face that you've never seen pros doing shit like this in a series. I've seen nestea lose to 6 pool because he decided to 15 hatch. I've seen MKP nearly lose to a 6 pool because he went 15 cc. I've seen MC lose a TvP because he went 17 nexus and he got marine scv all inned.

15:45 He moves around trying to defend the entry where LucifroN may come in, then LucifroN decides to leave and he goes after him.


15:30 one of Spades units spots the army moving in the south, spade responds, when said attack doesn't come, spade assumes that lucifron retreated. Spade pursues. DUN DUN DUN WHAT DO YOU KNOW A PLAYER USES INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HIM IN THE GAME TO MAKE DECISIONS.

From here on, he has whole map control so nothing really matters, eventhough there are a few more camera blocks here and there.


Oh ya, you mean those camera blocks where he's macroing up? Or supply blocked so he's just cycling buildings like he's doing something?



Game 7: Shattered Temple

6:00 Remember game 2 and 4? Spades went for a viking to prevent uncloacked banshees or drop. This time, however, he makes raven-viking without having scanned and thus, not (supposedly) knowing LucifroN is going cloack banshee.


dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN let me tell you something about terran.

Early gas 99% of the time, means some type of air play. And since this is the last game, I imagine Spades wasn't taking any chances.

7:20 He moves his marines and his raven to the location where LucifroN's banshee is going (He doesn't even know LucifroN is going banshees).


Yes, because Lucifron moving the banshee there is probably something Spades has never seen before in all his time playing SC2.

14:30 He goes to his natural entry with almost all his army to get a good position to fight against LucifroN forces (which he hasn't seen yet).


Well you see, when you get besieged by another terran for so long, and they force you to lose your stim pack upgrade,
you tend to play a bit more reckless since your opponent now knows you're in deep shit. This isn't an uncommon response I see terrans I play do. I guess they're map hacking too by preparing for round 2 of a terran siege.

Oh ya and Spade catches vision of Lucifron's massive viking ball flying near the cliff, but in a different position from where the original tanks were.

I fucking love how you completely ignore what happens to spades before 14:30. It's as if if there's ever a time where spades has the upper hand he got it by hacking.

To you peasants that simply appeal to authority your whole lives because you are lazy as shit, let me tell you what happened to Spade's push, at around 9:15 encounters 2 vikings and 2 banshees.

He gets all his anti air destroyed and the 2 banshees push a group of 10 marines and 3 tanks back all the way into Spade's main. Yes, a map hacker wouldn't have prepared for this because, HES TRYING TO HIDE THE FACT HES HACKING!!!.



16:55 Instead of leaving some tanks on his main, fearing another attack from LucifroN on that spot he sends all of his army next to the golden, right where LucifroN is going, and suddently unsieges to reposition his tanks when LucifroN is moving.


He leaves a tank and 12 marines in his base... 6 of which are directly next to his main cc and 6 more near the tank at the cliff.

On lost temple Spade's position made perfect sense considering if your opponent who plays super aggressive decides to siege your natural from your gold, you're fucked.

He doesn't siege till another tank a few more marines and medivacs come from his base, I guess because he forgot about them in the middle of macroing? Believe it or not, people make mistakes.

That's all, I think it is more than obvious that he is hacking, specially considering he was already caught hacking on broodwar... whatever, you guys judge, it's our duty to make this game as clean as possible.


Ok, well I think it's more than obvious that you don't play this game and if you do, you are god fucking awful.

I'm not saying that Spades isn't a map hacker, but these replays that are provided as, "Evidence" do not show that he is a map hacker.

I hope the op cuts his finger on some paper as he opens his twilight novel.



Most of your points are wrong, I'm guessing you yourself don't play above a platinum level. For example, right off the bat, the vast majority of Terrans do NOT build a bay around that time if their scout was denied. In fact, even if they suspect one base, the vast majority of the time they still do not build a bay. Most Terrans do not attempt to ward off cloakshees with Turrets but rather simply scans, as continual production of banshees from the Starport will put you behind if constantly killed.
LaM
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States1321 Posts
June 05 2012 16:53 GMT
#3325
On June 06 2012 01:42 schaf wrote:
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On June 06 2012 01:05 Shiori wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:02 Scootaloo wrote:
On June 06 2012 00:55 Shiori wrote:
On June 06 2012 00:54 Jinsho wrote:
On June 06 2012 00:48 Shiori wrote:
I want to know if he's unbiased.


Judge the evidence, not the person presenting it.

This is the kind of thinking that makes people susceptible to authority.

Considering a good deal of the OP has been shown to have been exaggerated, the OP's credibility has been called into question.


With exaggerated you mean not everyone agrees with it? Considering that if OP posted his name the Spades defenders would, in true liquidian fashion, open a witch hunt on him for any unscrupulous behavior ever it's very understandable.

If the only way you'll believe it is some undoubtable proof of hacking then you'll never believe it as this proof can not exist under the current circumstances, Spades lies and Blizzard is incompetent.

If you actually read the thread you'll find that many of the initial arguments are no longer being discussed because they're invalid (e.g. complaints about off-center scans, etc). The main things people are discussing now are the following two points:

1) the CK siege/unsiege/siege.
2) the scan on Shakuras


A far cry from the initial post in the thread.


The Scan on Shakuras was totally reasonable, I don't get it.

He had to confirm his enemies expansion to know if he should build a bunker or not (or whatever you do against a rax-all-in); the big blop on his minimap would be a 3rd CC and thus Luci couldn't have gone for the Factory. Also it was cross only so he knew where he had to scan


It wasn't cross only and both players knew it as they SCV scouted the horizontal base first.
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rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 05 2012 16:53 GMT
#3326
On June 06 2012 01:50 Crowned wrote:
Care to explain the drastic difference in his ladder play and the showmatch as far as looking into fog of war is concerned cydial?

There is no differences between his ladder play and showmatch as far as looking into fog of war.

you have provide evidence, post screenshots, post replays in question, post the time stamp on where we should look at. You need to do work if you want to make that argument. You have the burden of proof.
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Oxb
Profile Joined August 2010
199 Posts
June 05 2012 16:54 GMT
#3327
Wow I almost typed a sensible post here but I just leave it with this: You spend a lot of time in doing something completely useless in addition, I don't trust your analysis.
-Kira
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
352 Posts
June 05 2012 16:54 GMT
#3328
On June 06 2012 01:45 sereniity wrote:
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On June 06 2012 01:24 SCII-ALI wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:21 sureup wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:15 Uncultured wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:12 sureup wrote:
On June 06 2012 00:22 Xadar wrote:
Watch Catzs VOD at 59:30 or so. Try to explain how the heck that scan worked. He is hacking. Feel free to prove me wrong.


You mean the antiga scan? Can you please elaborate on what you mean is fishy? The fact that the center of the scan is offscreen is totally possible:



Only if using the mini-map, right? Why use the mini-map to scan an army when you're in middle of moving up your screen to look at it?


No? Look at the video, I did this with the mouse in the top left


and how careful where you when you put mouse on top left without trying to move screen?
if you were a gm rank 1 like spades were for awhile, you should realize that such a scan is useless.. and his mouse movement would be way to fast to scan top like that without moving screen, and ofc. the screenlock.




please fucking inform yourselves before you bring out your pitchforks.


this happens due to camera scrolling only at certain speed instead of jumping like it happens with normal double tapp when viewed in replays.
SiguR
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada2039 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:02:17
June 05 2012 16:54 GMT
#3329
I think the entire discussion can be ignored if you only focus on two things.

Most importantly: He doesn't look at his scouting scv. Does that not compute with some of you? There is absolutely no reason to not glance at your scouting scv when it is in your opponent's base. Every. single. player. above. diamond. does. it. The scv is running around his opponents base and a #1 GM player doesn't look at it? Am i missing something? This is a very, very, very basic action that is among the first things a player learns. We see him do it in his streamed POV games but coincidentally he doesn't do it in his unstreamed games, which brings us to the second thing:

The inconsistency of his play style while streaming and not streaming is extremely telling. At the highest levels, this game requires you to rely on muscle memory. He isn't consciously deciding to use his scans and rally to watch towers differently between streamed ladder games and non streamed games (using the minimap or looking where he is clicking). He's doing them the same way, but because of the anti detection methods of the hack, it looks like he's doing it differently because it won't show him looking at the fog of war.

I can't imagine anyone playing this game at a masters level that watches the differences in his style that doesn't think the play is at the very least, extremely weird and completely conducive to the idea that he is hacking. If someone is hacking, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. In a court of law, that might not be enough to prove something, but I think this is pretty fucking obvious.

I 100% agree with painuser a few posts down!

On June 06 2012 01:57 PainUser wrote:
I have watched all the replays and analyzed them quite closely. I believe Spades was cheating. This is coming from someone who did not know Spades was a previous hacker and a personal friend of his. I am dissapointed and irritated. We have had some great games in the past and it just makes me question the integrity of anything he has ever accomplished. I would imagine Spades is a good player without the hacks but I just don't know anymore.

Nobody plays this way, there are far too many instances of fishy+screen freezes on last location. Not to mention the troop movement and scans are just out of this world fishy. In TvT, positioning is everything and he NEVER airs on the side of caution. There are too many blatantly risky troop movements on his part that you simply would not do without vision of your opponent. That is my two cents I don't care to go into too much detail because it is obvious to me.

We need to clamp down on more of these situations especially with all the online tournaments and money floating around. Crazy to think about......

Defacer
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada5052 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 16:58:12
June 05 2012 16:57 GMT
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On June 06 2012 01:43 cydial wrote:
Since I'm a complete nerd I'm gonna give this a shot. Every community should be judged on how it treats its worst off. In this case a low level foreigner pro. He is not a korean pro that has won GSL, probably never will after watching these replays...

However, that is irrelevant, what's important is the evidence against him.

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Game 1: Antiga Shipyard.

6:15 When he scouted he didn't see any evidence of fast gas, however, before scanning he already starts to build a bay for defending against cloack-banshee.

What's more is how he doesn't send his marines into his base before the banshee is in his base...


If you ever play TvT above platinum you would build a bay at around this time if your scout was denied. For fucks sake he probably knew what Luci was doing since cloak banshee is one of the most popular openers.

HE DOESNT EVEN BUILD AN EXTRA TURRET IN HIS MINERAL LINE'S BLIND SPOT FFS, IF HE WAS MAP HACKING HE WOULD'VE KNOWN ANOTHER BANSHEE WAS INC AND BUILT ONE. Caps because I got angry at the stupid accusation.

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9:11 9 sec camera block.



In which he just tabs between production cycles? 9 Seconds is a bit excessive, however there was nothing to do... he was supply blocked.

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9:30 New banshee from LucifroN is leaving his base, he moves his vikings, that had been waiting at the entry of his natural for over 30 sec to cover his main.


Doesn't mean anything, I do this to sometimes in games where I think, "Hey I was harassed and this part of the base is not covered by any units."

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10:45 He gets 2 marines to send them to the xel'naga, however, his camera doesn't move to the center of the map, it gets blocked on his army.


You know you can move your units by clicking on the mini map right? Does the OP even play sc2?

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11:02 8 sec camera block


His camera was over his CC and he built shit, he built supply depots, and he lowered supply depots all in 8 game seconds... could be faster, but Spades isn't MVP, MKP, or MMA. Somewhat slow but not evidence of hacking.

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The rest of the game is pure action on the middle of the map, always having vision over his opponent, so there's nothing really weird, just a few camera blocks here and there when he loses control over the xel'naga. 




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Game 2: Entombed Valley

2:14 He sends the SCV without looking at where he's sending it and the camera gets blocked for 4 secs. However, he doesn't even look at LucifroN's base when the SCV reach it.


He sent the SCV to the 4 o'clock position and then has the scv back off. Ok? If you think this is strange that's fine, it doesn't prove he's hacking. I've met players with much, much more bizzare and just flat out stupid sc2 habbits (scouting with only the overlord on a 4 player map, or a long distance 2 player map.

4 seconds of camera lock... where he built scvs, cycled through production, then sent shit to gas, also was spamming an scv to a mineral.

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6:00 Even if he didn't even watch it, on the minimap you can see LucifroN had a gas, he had done the EXACT same openning as on game 1, however Spades doesn't make bay, neither raven, he goes directly for a viking and waste ALL his energy on a mule, as if he knew 100% sure cloack banshees weren't comming (weird as he didn't even scan).


At this point I have no idea what to say, you're either a bronze league vindictive troll or you lack all form of game sense.

Unlike in game 1 he got into Luci's base in game 2. He saw there was 1 gas. His opponent (a pro) went for cloak banshee the first game, what makes you think he'd do the same thing twice? This is not uncommon metagaming.

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7:47 Notice how he sieges the tanks on the EXACT position for not being shot by the bunker


I do this too, it's called moving up the tank and if it gets hit, you move a little bit back... if it doesn't? Siege that bitch up because it's probably gonna hit something important.

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13:42 LucifroN advances 2 marines to kill Spades marine at the right of the map, would be obvious to think that LucifroN's army is comming behind, however spades doesn't move his army for about 30 sec.


No? 2 marines poking around could just as well be Lucifron checking to see if Spades is moving HIS army towards him. Spades eventually moves his army, so fucking what? You want him to just camp his base all game? He moved out after he killed his rocks and he didn't think Lucifron's army was going to be knocking on his front door at any time soon.

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14:10 LucifroN's army is getting out of his base to that spot, Spades doesn't see ANYTHING, but he sieges his tanks right in the elevation and move his marines out of his base and puts them next to the spot LucifroN is going.


Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho, but Spades DOES see something before 14:10 in fact. Something big. Lucifron's scan...

Lucifrons scan + a marine at the watch tower + a few marines already poking = OH SHIT, THE 3 O CLOCK BENEATH MY NATURAL

Lucifron gets a good scan and sees the entire army composition and position of Spade's army. Spades probably knew what was coming next, Lucifron thinks, "Ok, his main ramp is guarded, however the south of his natural might be undefended."

Spades, having this sort of low ground abuse happen to him before (When you play enough TvTs, this becomes second nature), responds in turn because he sees the scan as an impending attack (in TvT this happens quite a bit).

The very worst you could say about this is Spades simply reacted slowly or he was indecisive. If he really was map hacking he should've just put a tank into a medivac and dropped it along with a few tanks in the 3 oclock expo and completely deny the push through pure positioning.

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20:30 first scan to LucifroN's base in the whole game!! Spots all his army and the third cc.


Uhhh..... this doesn't mean shit. There are quite a few players that I've personally played and watched replays of that prefer to have the money over the information given by the 50 energy from a CC.

Also, consider Lucifron was giving Spades information the whole game through engagements and seeing nothing but marines, tanks, vikings...

20 min - 22 min is a reasonable time to scan since the only 2 avenues of approach would be going to BCs or continuing to marine tank.

What baffles me is why Spades, if he were map hacking, wouldn't just drop the ever living shit out of Lucifron since he would know that there was nothing inside the main base for defense, even AFTER the doom drop.

This is getting fun, please. Continue. Your lack of game knowledge and basic awareness amuses me.

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Game 3: Shakuras Plateau

3:55 He sends out 4 SCVS to his natural, WITHOUT having seen the marine, and WITHOUT having scouted.


He was meandering marines to the natural because his CC was almost done. The marine incoming just so happened to coincide with scvs being transfered because that's around the time you're supposed to, you know, meander the workers there?

4 seems perfectly fine since there would be another from building the CC and another from on top of the ramp building the rax.

Let me remind you he had NO GAS. Also, he does see the marine coming out of the fog of war a split second before he sends his scvs.


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5:08 Most accurate scan ever, however, he doesn't even select the barracks to see what building it is, and he doesn't even look at the third cc.


What the fuck are you talking about? Do you play this game? He briefly looked (appx 1 game second to 1.4 game seconds) at the natural and the rax. Even I can tell what buildings are what just by looking at them on the mini map, when a big ass square shape is below where the CC should be, that's guess what? A cc....

If you're building a 3rd cc that early in the game... just seeing a 3rd at around 5min indicates you can't have a factory up.

Anyone in masters or even diamond should know this, unless you do some really stupid gas transfer to make the factory then move them off gas to then only be able to produce helions for a while until ----, no wait that's retarded, you're retarded, these examples are horrible.


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15:05 Would be obvious to think LucifroN has the mid control, but he moves his tanks to the xel'naga without any kind of fear.


I've seen streamers like avilio, lastshadow, and even mkp do this every now and then. Hell, even I do it sometimes because of complacency, it's easier to scout with your army than it is to scout with an actual scout then move your army.


More importantly, look at 13:00 when Lucifron's army is moving to Spade's third. So a map hacker is going to risk losing his third by having an army out of position (all he had to do was move it a little bit closer to the watch tower, therefore having the superior concave and giving him time for his tank to be sieged up.

No wait, why wasn't just the tank sieged ontop of the CC at the third? HERP DERP MAP HACKING HERP DERP WE GOT ORB, DESTINY, YOU'RE NEXT SPADES YOU FAT FUCK HERP DERP




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16:20 Look how he watches whole LucifroN's army, just in the border of the fog of war.


Look at 15:49, Lucifron is dealing with a drop and medivacs just barely outside the fog of war.

He looks at the 16:20 mark to see if another attack is coming, or he's seeing if the fucking watch tower is in use or not (HE'S CENTERED ON IT AND SEE'S IT'S LIT UP, BUT DOESN'T SEE THE MARINE BECAUSE IT'S OUT OF RANGE OF HIS DROPSHIPS' VISION.

I seriously can't believe I'm responding to a troll or just a really dumb and bitter player.

Also, a map hacker would definitely just waste time to stare at medivacs instead of looking at the marine or tank count, you know, important stuff.


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20:05 He moves all his marines to the spot where LucifroN is going to attack, eventhough he isn't controlling the xel'naga and he doesn't know if he's gonna come that way.


Yes, let's point out 20:05 instead of 18:00 where Spades the map hacker ATTACKS INTO A TANK LINE THAT LUCIFRON'S MARINES RETREATED TO.

Again, like in the previous game, Spade's army gets scanned, and Lucifron sees that there are unsieged tanks (1 sieged 2 unsieged). In TvT, that's your que to attack.

And this is just common sense... if you were just attacked at a narrow choke and you leave the largest avenue of approach open, then your opponent SCANS THIS and sees only a few marines... well if you don't respond by moving your army to re-secure this avenue then ya I don't know what to tell you.

His marines were also rallied there, you know, like they were for the whole game after the 3rd was taken because believe it or not, it's the best position to rally your army on shakuras after you take the expansion beneath your main.

Why is this? Because it's close to your natural's ramp and close to the third itself! Now once you actually install SC2, you will understand what I mean.


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Game 4: Metalopolis

2:50 He selects his SCV and make it go back to his base, however, his camera is blocked on his barracks for about 5 seconds.


Spamming make a supply depot for 4 seconds, another second to build a marine and rally to the scv in his base.


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6:00 Again, despite not having scouted, he isn't making any kind of cloack-banshee prevention as he did on the first game.


First of all it's Cloaked banshee.

This part is where I feel bad for you because now I am genuinely curious about your league. No wait, I don't because people that make stupid shit up deserve no sympathy.

You mention 6:00 as if that's when you're supposed to build a blind ebay, but you fail to mention how 5 seconds afterwards Spades gets vision of marines with HELIONS. This means a cloak banshee is out of the question. Also, you don't build a blind ebay at 6:00, you do it closer to 6:30

Ebay = 35 build time + Turret = 25 build time = 60 seconds. Cloak is done at 7:30. And yes he would've had a viking by this point, and since he's one basing that banshee is doing shit.

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7:20 He starts to move his army towards the position LucifroN's drop is comming without having seen anything, he changes the direction up to 3 times in less than 5 secs as LucifroN moves his medevak.


I sometimes move my army around in my base too, gotta keep them in shape. My army can simply overpower the enemy by being more fit and therefore not need stim.

Or... if he was map hacking he simply would've camped the viking at the cliff. If he got dropped before, you don't think he would check the cliff's edge again here and there?

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Game 5: Tal'darim Altar

8:00 He had been making a lot of hellions for some early aggression, but right after LucifroN closes his natural with depots, without seeing it he stops making more, starts making tanks and starts killing his 3rd base rocks.


................... When you poke in with helions, see a bunker, and a group of marines near that bunker, you don't go back to the bunker..... the helions got him map control, I doubt Spades thought that he'd actually end the game or even kill workers with them without a drop ship.

He knows he's perfectly safe to kill the rocks at his third because he has vision from TWO watch towers.

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10:50 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. JUST in the moment where the medevaks appear on the minimap (and without having seen them with the camera) he moves his hellions to stop the drop.
12:30 Camera gets blocked on the border of the fog of war.


What, the fuck. Are you serious? Oh wait you are considering you made this thread, haha I was being rhetorical.

You're right he doesn't see the drop coming, he didn't need to. Spades has his mobile helion army at his natural and not in the field because he has vision of two towers. Lucifron picked a terrible spot to land. Spades had good inbase positioning and army count.

What Lucifron does is equivalent to dropping your army on top of your opponents army and saying, "Bro you're hacking, how did you know where I was gonna drop?"

"Uhhh bro you dropped where I put my army, not the other way around."

For fucks sake he drops his bio army in range of a siege tank, THATS AT THE NATURAL...

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14:00 Despite having his army on LucifroN's natural, LucifroN manages to sneak through it with his army. Spades doesn't see it, but yet he sieges 2 tanks on his natural and moves a hellion that had been still for over a minute to the xel'naga tower.


No, if Spades was maphacking he wouldn't've moved the helion that was near but not touching the watchtower. He would've moved a helion in his main army, "To scout" Lucifron's moving army and that would've given him an excuse to move his helions to bbq the marines.

Also, this exact thing happened to me as well, where I would see a unit near a watch tower and think, oh shit, then move it to acquire vision and see the enemy army right on top of me.

However, if spades were trying to cover up his map hacking, why move the helion to begin with? It's not like moving that helion prompted him to reposition his whole fucking army, after seeing the drop incoming he moved 2 helions and his scvs to ATTACK the bio force.

Or he sieged the tanks in fear of a counter attack because this is what players do sometimes? I mean, I guess MKP and MMA are map hacking too since I see them siege tanks in their main or natural.

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16:30 He hides a group of Hellions at the 9 expansion, at 16:44 his camera gets frozen on the border of the fog of war, to spot LucifroN's army comming that way, he tries to hide the hellions better, so that if LucifroN moved to the xel'naga he didn't spot the hellions. He then realises LucifroN's army is gonna come that way for a drop instead of going to the xel'naga and he runs away with all his hellions, miracly avoiding LucifroN's army.


Spades saw the dropships moving north. Lucifron sees helions moving west. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Ya, don't reproduce please.

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17:00 Despite having seen LucifroN going to a drop through the 9 expansion he leaves ALL his vikings and ALL his tanks on his natural expansion.


Yes, because he should chase the dropships and potentially have marines shoot them down, bio you know? Good thinking.

Ironically, if he was maphacking he would've known that there were no marine with the marauders, but hey he's trying really hard to not let people know he map hacks, even though killing all those drop ships would end the game.

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18:20 He unsieges ALL his tanks, and starts to move to his third, without having seen LucifroN move to there.


He unsieges his tanks because it looked like he was planning to move out. If he saw the drop he would've just sent 1 tank down there and sieged it.


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19:00 He rapidly moves again to his natural, right as LucifroN's army is comming.


????!?!?!?!?!? So you want his army to stay at the third and leave his natural's ramp wide open?

You're basically saying, "Spades took steps to secure his base after an attack, ZOMG HIS HAXING."

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21:10 He starts to move back all his vikings and a pair of tanks to defend agains the unseen drop of LucifroN comming to his main base (of course, leaving a decent ammount of tanks on his third to defend against the little group of units LucifroN has there, however he completely unprotects his natural expansion, as there are no LucifroN units around.


You mean how at 21:10 his natural gets scanned? And how he moves his army as Lucifron's army comes into vision? Ya sure man, he's hacking, I suppose your semantic definition of hacking is playing well.

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22:57 Curious 7-sec camera block right before LucifroN's drop came over.


He's cycling through production.... also look carefully at 23:03, you see Spades group and click to the north west of his screen to respond to the drop.

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24:30 again, he unsieges all his tanks on the natural and 10 sec after that he selects all his army, to start moving to his third RIGHT in the exact moment where LucifroN come in.


No, shut the fuck up, at this point I can say that with confidence because now you're not even trying to exaggerate. You are straight up

LYING.

He has 6 tanks unsieged that came from the factory and 4 tanks sieged up. He unsieged 2 early then sieged up 2 new ones that came out of the factories.

6 tanks unsieged, 4 tanks sieged...

Oh ya, he also moves these unsieged tanks and a few helions down to the 3rd AFTER his first siege tank at the 3rd gets blown up by marauders. Don't even take into account that his third got scanned before the attack.

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25:15 He unsieges all the tanks on his main base leaving it unprotected to any kind of drop and moves all of them to his natural, right where LucifroN is comming with all his army.




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25:35 After seeing all the tanks there LucifroN moves back and start to walk to Spades third entry. Spades decides to unsiege 5-6 tanks and send them to his third without having seen anything again.


Lucifron makes the mistake letting Spade catch vision of his incoming bio force at 25:14 and then getting in range of one of Spade's tanks at 25:24 (Spades sees this as his camera is right over the tanks that shoots the marauder).

If anyone actually takes the time to watch the replay, you'll see that if spades was indeed map hacking, he would've at the very least moved his vikings to the forrest like cliff over looking the third to get a better position to attack the medivacs from.

He responds to this attack AFTER it happens, not before. And even if he prepared for it before hand (he thought Lucifrone would hit the third and sieged most of his tanks there), it doesn't take a GSL winner to know what's going to happen with drop ships + bio vs a siege line.

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29:35 LucifroN is comming for Spades third, again, he hasn't seen anything. 5 seconds after that LucifroN lift half of his units into 2 medevaks, then Spades select all his vikings and moves forward to try to kill the unseen medevaks.


Lucifron scans, Spades responds by sending a few helions tailed by vikings to check it out. Helions get killed, vikings find medivacs.

Yet, Spades the map hacker neglets to secure his main with vikings and thus allows another drop to occur, instead he sends them to the heavily defended 3rd.

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30:40 He unsieges ALL the tanks in the main despite LucifroN having been dropping there for a while and moves them all to his natural,right where LucifroN is comming.


Notice how he leaves vikings in the main, Spades learned his lesson.

Also, he scans and finds Lucifrons army on the move, then he finds the army outside his 3rd. Lucifron is picking him apart at this point. With map hacks Spades would know to just leave a tank sieged in the main, but he doesn't. It isn't because he's map hacking and he knows a massive drop isn't incoming.

It's because he's a common foreigner, he's not mkp or mma.

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31:10 he scans the xel'naga right in time to see LucifroN's army moving to 9-expansion (probably in order to drop). However LucifroN is just tricking him, and moves back to the xel'naga once the scan is over. Spades doesn't unsiege ANY tank to try to prevent a drop in the main and just keeps them all on his natural.


Because Spades is counting on his vikings to intercept the dropships, therefore not needing any tanks in the main. He thinks the drop will be into the natural, or he has sloppy positioning.

But all thoughts of map hacking to the one out for Spade's blood at this point should be removed when they see how Spades moves his vikings to the north of his main when Lucifron drops a scan that touches Spade's factory.

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32:15 he scans his thirdbase entry to spot ALL LucifroN's army, he hadn't previously scanned there at any other point on the game.


This is just, I dunno how to put it nicely, just something someone with a brain would do? If you are Lucifrom and you know that the main ramp is secured with tanks, you scan the north part of spade's main, but then you know that spades knows that you know this and responds by positioning vikings there.

Now if you're spades, you realize you secured 2/3 parts of your base, what possible other place could Lucifron come from? Oh ya my third.

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32:50 he moves with ALL his army to his main base, where a BIG drop is going to come, and without having seen anything.


If I'm spades and I see the size of the army at the third, I know there's a bio force elsewhere. If Spade's was map hacking he would've just moved the vikings to kill the drop ships.

Spades also knew he was being picked apart, if this sort of style was being used on you, you would know (Well not you, but a competent player anways) that a drop coming from the north would happen, he moved his army there to check, he scans to confirm, he loses his 3rd.

Yes, that's a map hacker, trying so hard not to let people know he hacks that he loses on purpose anyways.

Game 6: Daybreak

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4:30 He puts his third command center right in position, without even knowing if LucifroN was going for 2 fast cc too (otherways it would've been a suicide).


Metagaming. You cannot tell me with an honest face that you've never seen pros doing shit like this in a series. I've seen nestea lose to 6 pool because he decided to 15 hatch. I've seen MKP nearly lose to a 6 pool because he went 15 cc. I've seen MC lose a TvP because he went 17 nexus and he got marine scv all inned.

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15:45 He moves around trying to defend the entry where LucifroN may come in, then LucifroN decides to leave and he goes after him.


15:30 one of Spades units spots the army moving in the south, spade responds, when said attack doesn't come, spade assumes that lucifron retreated. Spade pursues. DUN DUN DUN WHAT DO YOU KNOW A PLAYER USES INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HIM IN THE GAME TO MAKE DECISIONS.

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From here on, he has whole map control so nothing really matters, eventhough there are a few more camera blocks here and there.


Oh ya, you mean those camera blocks where he's macroing up? Or supply blocked so he's just cycling buildings like he's doing something?



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Game 7: Shattered Temple

6:00 Remember game 2 and 4? Spades went for a viking to prevent uncloacked banshees or drop. This time, however, he makes raven-viking without having scanned and thus, not (supposedly) knowing LucifroN is going cloack banshee.


dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN let me tell you something about terran.

Early gas 99% of the time, means some type of air play. And since this is the last game, I imagine Spades wasn't taking any chances.

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7:20 He moves his marines and his raven to the location where LucifroN's banshee is going (He doesn't even know LucifroN is going banshees).


Yes, because Lucifron moving the banshee there is probably something Spades has never seen before in all his time playing SC2.

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14:30 He goes to his natural entry with almost all his army to get a good position to fight against LucifroN forces (which he hasn't seen yet).


Well you see, when you get besieged by another terran for so long, and they force you to lose your stim pack upgrade,
you tend to play a bit more reckless since your opponent now knows you're in deep shit. This isn't an uncommon response I see terrans I play do. I guess they're map hacking too by preparing for round 2 of a terran siege.

Oh ya and Spade catches vision of Lucifron's massive viking ball flying near the cliff, but in a different position from where the original tanks were.

I fucking love how you completely ignore what happens to spades before 14:30. It's as if if there's ever a time where spades has the upper hand he got it by hacking.

To you peasants that simply appeal to authority your whole lives because you are lazy as shit, let me tell you what happened to Spade's push, at around 9:15 encounters 2 vikings and 2 banshees.

He gets all his anti air destroyed and the 2 banshees push a group of 10 marines and 3 tanks back all the way into Spade's main. Yes, a map hacker wouldn't have prepared for this because, HES TRYING TO HIDE THE FACT HES HACKING!!!.



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16:55 Instead of leaving some tanks on his main, fearing another attack from LucifroN on that spot he sends all of his army next to the golden, right where LucifroN is going, and suddently unsieges to reposition his tanks when LucifroN is moving.


He leaves a tank and 12 marines in his base... 6 of which are directly next to his main cc and 6 more near the tank at the cliff.

On lost temple Spade's position made perfect sense considering if your opponent who plays super aggressive decides to siege your natural from your gold, you're fucked.

He doesn't siege till another tank a few more marines and medivacs come from his base, I guess because he forgot about them in the middle of macroing? Believe it or not, people make mistakes.

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That's all, I think it is more than obvious that he is hacking, specially considering he was already caught hacking on broodwar... whatever, you guys judge, it's our duty to make this game as clean as possible.


Ok, well I think it's more than obvious that you don't play this game and if you do, you are god fucking awful.

I'm not saying that Spades isn't a map hacker, but these replays that are provided as, "Evidence" do not show that he is a map hacker.

I hope the op cuts his finger on some paper as he opens his twilight novel.




Great post.

You haven't proven he's not a hacker, but you've illustrated how easy it is to find 'fishy' play in a replay if you're intent on finding it.

PainUser
Profile Joined May 2009
United States206 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:45:13
June 05 2012 16:57 GMT
#3331
I have watched all the replays and analyzed them quite closely. I believe Spades was cheating. This is coming from someone who did not know Spades was a previous hacker and a personal friend of his. I am dissapointed and irritated. We have had some great games in the past and it just makes me question the integrity of anything he has ever accomplished. I would imagine Spades is a good player without the hacks but I just don't know anymore.

Nobody plays this way, there are far too many instances of fishy+screen freezes on last location. Not to mention the troop movement and scans are just out of this world fishy. In TvT, positioning is everything and he NEVER errs on the side of caution. There are too many blatantly risky troop movements on his part that you simply would not do without vision of your opponent. That is my two cents I don't care to go into too much detail because it is obvious to me.

We need to clamp down on more of these situations especially with all the online tournaments and money floating around. Crazy to think about......
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Uni1987
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands642 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 16:58:28
June 05 2012 16:58 GMT
#3332
On June 06 2012 01:54 -Kira wrote:
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On June 06 2012 01:45 sereniity wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:24 SCII-ALI wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:21 sureup wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:15 Uncultured wrote:
On June 06 2012 01:12 sureup wrote:
On June 06 2012 00:22 Xadar wrote:
Watch Catzs VOD at 59:30 or so. Try to explain how the heck that scan worked. He is hacking. Feel free to prove me wrong.


You mean the antiga scan? Can you please elaborate on what you mean is fishy? The fact that the center of the scan is offscreen is totally possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDvMQUac9lU



Only if using the mini-map, right? Why use the mini-map to scan an army when you're in middle of moving up your screen to look at it?


No? Look at the video, I did this with the mouse in the top left


and how careful where you when you put mouse on top left without trying to move screen?
if you were a gm rank 1 like spades were for awhile, you should realize that such a scan is useless.. and his mouse movement would be way to fast to scan top like that without moving screen, and ofc. the screenlock.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FHlsPM_4I

please fucking inform yourselves before you bring out your pitchforks.


this happens due to camera scrolling only at certain speed instead of jumping like it happens with normal double tapp when viewed in replays.



Useless youtube movie. Not proof at all.
.............
Desirous
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada95 Posts
June 05 2012 16:58 GMT
#3333
I think the more important question isn't whether or not he's currently hacking, cheating, or abusing, but rather why a scumbag who was caught doing this shit in the past was even given a second chance.

This mob happens to be made up of people that are all blatant fanboys of former hackers, cheaters, and abusers. They just don't do their research, or choose to ignore known facts about players. Huk, Haypro, Dimaga... I could go on. They are all former hackers, cheaters, or abusers that you've all grown to cherish. So why are you all pretending to be outraged by some lesser known piece of known hacking trash (harsh words, but deserved considering he's ruining the legitimacy of e-Sports).

Let's talk about another point. You have 2 DIFFERENT former housemates of Spades saying they've witnessed him stream cheat. Right then and there you all should have just stopped putting any effort into analyzing those replays and banned him from all future tournaments. Why waste effort on something that has everyone on the fence at best when you have eye witness testimony from his fucking former manager and a teammate. Which brings further thought as to exactly how are teams being run now a days. Are teams doing what ever is in their power to protect their investments before information goes viral?


On a side note, even if it turns out he isn't hacking, who gives a shit about who the author of this thread is. Maybe he does have a bias towards spades, and that that bias is known. This Leaves the only legitimate way for this evidence to be taken seriously would be to post under an alias. Either way, kudos to him, because if he didn't make this thread we wouldn't know about the stream cheating, the teams not exposing this behavior, and now also the possibility that all Koreans are as shitty as savior. As far as I'm concerned, cheating, hacking, abusing, and anything else that could be thought up should be in player's contracts. If they do any of those things, they will have to repay the team for everything, including but not limited to food, transportation, salaries, etc.. as well as being forced to retire from pro/am gaming (all gaming, not just sc2). I don't care what game I'm watching, lol, sc2, dota, cs, no players of scumbag mindsets should be allowed to participate.

It's one thing for a sport that's established to have a scandal, it's a completely other thing when the (e)sport is trying to establish itself as a legitimate form of competition and entertainment.
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
June 05 2012 16:58 GMT
#3334
On June 06 2012 01:50 Crowned wrote:
Care to explain the drastic difference in his ladder play and the showmatch as far as looking into fog of war is concerned cydial?


Sorry, what drastic difference exactly? I am not sure you have even looked at the replays.
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Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15677 Posts
June 05 2012 16:59 GMT
#3335
Its considered good etiquette to put spoiler tags around exceedingly long posts when quoting them. Just FYI guys...
Scootaloo
Profile Joined January 2012
655 Posts
June 05 2012 16:59 GMT
#3336
Nice, another page destroyed by a idiot who doesn't think quoting a 10 page post is a problem at all.
Crowned
Profile Joined August 2011
United States368 Posts
June 05 2012 17:00 GMT
#3337
On June 06 2012 01:58 JOJOsc2news wrote:
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On June 06 2012 01:50 Crowned wrote:
Care to explain the drastic difference in his ladder play and the showmatch as far as looking into fog of war is concerned cydial?


Sorry, what drastic difference exactly? I am not sure you have even looked at the replays.


Actually I have, and in the showmatch games he rarely ever is seen looking into the fog of war (map blocks), but in his ladder games he is looking into the fog of war on several occasions when moving army and such instead of the minimap (only valid argument for showmatch game movements). Also he's never just looking at a random spot in his base while macroing for several seconds in the ladder game like he is in the showmatch games (again camera blocks won't allow you to see what he was really looking at in the showmatch replays),
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Deleted User 137586
Profile Joined January 2011
7859 Posts
June 05 2012 17:00 GMT
#3338
On June 06 2012 01:57 PainUser wrote:
I have watched all the replays and analyzed them quite closely. I believe Spades was cheating. This is coming from someone who did not know Spades was a previous hacker and a personal friend of his. I am dissapointed and irritated. We have had some great games in the past and it just makes me question the integrity of anything he has ever accomplished. I would imagine Spades is a good player without the hacks but I just don't know anymore.

Nobody plays this way, there are far too many instances of fishy+screen freezes on last location. Not to mention the troop movement and scans are just out of this world fishy. In TvT, positioning is everything and he NEVER airs on the side of caution. There are too many blatantly risky troop movements on his part that you simply would not do without vision of your opponent. That is my two cents I don't care to go into too much detail because it is obvious to me.

We need to clamp down on more of these situations especially with all the online tournaments and money floating around. Crazy to think about......


Thank you Painuser, this should be added to the mod notes!
Cry 'havoc' and let slip the dogs of war
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:02:15
June 05 2012 17:00 GMT
#3339
On June 06 2012 01:57 PainUser wrote:
I have watched all the replays and analyzed them quite closely. I believe Spades was cheating. This is coming from someone who did not know Spades was a previous hacker and a personal friend of his. I am dissapointed and irritated. We have had some great games in the past and it just makes me question the integrity of anything he has ever accomplished. I would imagine Spades is a good player without the hacks but I just don't know anymore.

Nobody plays this way, there are far too many instances of fishy+screen freezes on last location. Not to mention the troop movement and scans are just out of this world fishy. In TvT, positioning is everything and he NEVER airs on the side of caution. There are too many blatantly risky troop movements on his part that you simply would not do without vision of your opponent. That is my two cents I don't care to go into too much detail because it is obvious to me.

We need to clamp down on more of these situations especially with all the online tournaments and money floating around. Crazy to think about......


If it is so obvious, please care to provide us with these obvious situations. That would really help the discussion.
I'm still not at the point where I can say with confidence that he is a hacker.
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Jacob666
Profile Joined January 2011
United States285 Posts
June 05 2012 17:02 GMT
#3340
It seems to me Spades was either really lucky/stupid or cheated. I would guess he was not stupid, and its hard to be that lucky, but there will never be a 100% way to know.
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