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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)
Shimmer
Profile Joined March 2011
8 Posts
June 05 2012 17:14 GMT
#3381
On June 06 2012 02:09 DamageControL wrote:
did anyone ever do the sc2gears analysis?


Yes, afaik no conclusive evidence of maphacking was found.
Roxor9999
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands771 Posts
June 05 2012 17:14 GMT
#3382
On June 06 2012 02:10 ZweiGaming wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:09 DamageControL wrote:
did anyone ever do the sc2gears analysis?


Someone came up with a timeframe where spades wouldn't move camera and no selection was made. Though on SC2gears, it was saying something like select workers, mineral patch, etc. It was a while ago, probably yesterday. I'm not sure what happened with this since I just woke up.

It was proven inconclusive it happens all the time.
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 05 2012 17:15 GMT
#3383
On June 06 2012 02:10 Felnarion wrote:
Something interesting for me is that, if it were me being accused, I would be in this thread, quoting every post, and explaining my reasoning. I would be screaming if I were being thrown to the wolves like this. Instead we have what, one post from him explaining a handful of moves poorly and dismissively,

Nope, he posted 109 replays of himself which proved he didn't hack at all. get owned.
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
June 05 2012 17:15 GMT
#3384
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


QFT its mindblowing people are still arguing about this. Its so obvious he cheated but I geuss people like to argue!
Stephano & Jaedong <-- The Pain Train. Polt and Innovation to EG plz
dark_dragoon10
Profile Joined May 2010
United States299 Posts
June 05 2012 17:15 GMT
#3385
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


Only a ruling by Boxer would suffice.
The TYRANT IS BACK! JAEDONG HWAITING! Nal_rA, Yellow, Boxer 4 life. Stephano, MC, and Zergbong!!!!
FuGGu
Profile Joined March 2012
United States176 Posts
June 05 2012 17:16 GMT
#3386
....who really cares? Let this fiasco work itself out and stop freaking out, my god. Go ladder.
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:20:02
June 05 2012 17:16 GMT
#3387
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


We are looking for solid numbers, not estimations and opinions. Or rather, they are.
Deleted User 137586
Profile Joined January 2011
7859 Posts
June 05 2012 17:16 GMT
#3388
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


Yeah, we should be glad pro's post here still.

P.S. And thanks for teaching me about D-K
Cry 'havoc' and let slip the dogs of war
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15743 Posts
June 05 2012 17:17 GMT
#3389
On June 06 2012 02:16 FuGGu wrote:
....who really cares? Let this fiasco work itself out and stop freaking out, my god. Go ladder.

Good point. The Starcraft high council, a formal, governing body that has been around for years, will figure this out for us. That authority totally exists.
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 05 2012 17:17 GMT
#3390
On June 06 2012 02:14 -UMADIMSTYLIN- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:12 rei wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:02 PainUser wrote:
I'm not invested enough to give a point by point breakdown to convince people my opinion is correct. Thats my opinion and it isn't changing.


Why did you voice your opinion if you are not going to invest in enough time to bring down spades' reputation? You already invested enough time to watch all 109 of his replays, even at 8x per replay it would take you at least 5 hour straight. Why not spend a 10th of that time write up a point by point argument supported with examples of suspicious actions.



He just said why, he doesn't feel the need to covince people his opinion is correct!

he said why he doesn't want to do the point by point, i ask why he even bother voice his opinion as in a baseless opinion is worthless, and he should not have voiced it, read better.
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 17:18:33
June 05 2012 17:17 GMT
#3391
On June 06 2012 02:16 Psychobabas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


We are looking for solid numbers, not estimations and opinions.


So you not even taking the top pro´s opinions in the NA scene into consideration, really? well then Its like trying to solve a murder case without the police then!
Stephano & Jaedong <-- The Pain Train. Polt and Innovation to EG plz
schaf
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1326 Posts
June 05 2012 17:18 GMT
#3392
On June 06 2012 02:10 ZweiGaming wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:09 DamageControL wrote:
did anyone ever do the sc2gears analysis?


Someone came up with a timeframe where spades wouldn't move camera and no selection was made. Though on SC2gears, it was saying something like select workers, mineral patch, etc. It was a while ago, probably yesterday. I'm not sure what happened with this since I just woke up.


inconclusive, it seems sc2gears isn't as reliable as assumed
Axiom wins more than it loses. Most viewers don't. - <3 TB
SolidMustard
Profile Joined May 2011
France1515 Posts
June 05 2012 17:18 GMT
#3393
gotta love those stupid wikipedia quotes
solidONE
Profile Joined August 2010
United States160 Posts
June 05 2012 17:18 GMT
#3394
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......


I appreciate you being open about your opinion, and I know how you said you're not invested enough into this to really take the time to break it down..but truly I urge you to do it. It's important to the community and we deserve people like you to help in these kinds of situations. I'm not saying it's like an obligation but we could really use your insight dude :|
Scootaloo
Profile Joined January 2012
655 Posts
June 05 2012 17:18 GMT
#3395
On June 06 2012 02:09 deathr0w wrote:
Is anything actually going to be done about this>? Just curious


His clan stated they might have to let him go regardless of the eventual "verdict".
If he does get confirmed though, I wouldn't be surprised if every tourney blacklists him.
-UMADIMSTYLIN-
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Cuba292 Posts
June 05 2012 17:19 GMT
#3396
On June 06 2012 02:17 rei wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:14 -UMADIMSTYLIN- wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:12 rei wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:02 PainUser wrote:
I'm not invested enough to give a point by point breakdown to convince people my opinion is correct. Thats my opinion and it isn't changing.


Why did you voice your opinion if you are not going to invest in enough time to bring down spades' reputation? You already invested enough time to watch all 109 of his replays, even at 8x per replay it would take you at least 5 hour straight. Why not spend a 10th of that time write up a point by point argument supported with examples of suspicious actions.



He just said why, he doesn't feel the need to covince people his opinion is correct!

he said why he doesn't want to do the point by point, i ask why he even bother voice his opinion as in a baseless opinion is worthless, and he should not have voiced it, read better.



ok sorry, relax guy!
Starshaped
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Sweden575 Posts
June 05 2012 17:20 GMT
#3397
I'm just gonna keep quoting this until someone addresses it, because you really don't need more than one fucking instance of obvious maphack. Forget the magic scans, forget everything, just watch this one fucking moment:


On June 06 2012 00:06 Starshaped wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 00:00 the p00n wrote:
On June 05 2012 23:59 Starshaped wrote:
Nobody defending Spades seems to want to touch the Cloud Kingdom moment.


What moment in the replay exactly are you referring to and I shall address it.


09:50 on Cloud Kingdom.

Or ~35 minutes in here http://www.twitch.tv/rootcatz/b/320407912

My Starcraft 2, gaming and e-sports-related blog: http://starshapedthoughts.blogspot.com/
Zanno
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1484 Posts
June 05 2012 17:20 GMT
#3398
On June 06 2012 02:06 sereniity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 01:50 Mohdoo wrote:
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.


If CatZ, a pro player, knows 100% better than anyone else, then why is he wrong about so many things in his video where he analyzes the replays?

The thing that most people accusing spades of cheating does, including Catz, is listing a few suspicious things and then not mentioning ANYTHING that a maphacker wouldn't do, all the times Spades got dropped on etc, why don't they bring up that? It's disgusting biased shit that brings up nothing but a one-sided argument.

because if you want to hack and not get caught you don't psychically shut down every single drop
aaaaa
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
June 05 2012 17:21 GMT
#3399
On June 06 2012 02:17 Benjamin99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:16 Psychobabas wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:13 Mobsy wrote:
Haha so funny, 6 or 7 pros now have said he hacked yet all you little kids still think you know the game better than the pros. Jesus, talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!


We are looking for solid numbers, not estimations and opinions.


So you not even taking the top pro´s opinions in the NA scene into consideration, really? well then Its like trying to solve a murder case without the police then!


Wrong analogy in my opinion. Not like that at all.
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 05 2012 17:21 GMT
#3400
On June 06 2012 02:19 -UMADIMSTYLIN- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2012 02:17 rei wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:14 -UMADIMSTYLIN- wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:12 rei wrote:
On June 06 2012 02:02 PainUser wrote:
I'm not invested enough to give a point by point breakdown to convince people my opinion is correct. Thats my opinion and it isn't changing.


Why did you voice your opinion if you are not going to invest in enough time to bring down spades' reputation? You already invested enough time to watch all 109 of his replays, even at 8x per replay it would take you at least 5 hour straight. Why not spend a 10th of that time write up a point by point argument supported with examples of suspicious actions.



He just said why, he doesn't feel the need to covince people his opinion is correct!

he said why he doesn't want to do the point by point, i ask why he even bother voice his opinion as in a baseless opinion is worthless, and he should not have voiced it, read better.



ok sorry, relax guy!

how do you know i'm a guy? why so presumptuous?
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
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