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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)
Antylamon
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1981 Posts
June 06 2012 21:57 GMT
#5181
On June 07 2012 06:53 daemir wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:49 snam wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:44 SolHeiM wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:41 Spades wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:38 Shiori wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:36 Spades wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:35 Reptilia wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:34 Spades wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:31 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:19 Spades wrote:
[quote]


how so? we are laughing at how stupid this whole situation is, and all the "evidence" gets debunked shortly after. I'm in a chat with 20 people, including pro gamers. IF YOU CANT TELL, WE ARE ROLLING OUR EYES AND JOKING ABOUT THIS. I AM NOT A HACKER CAPABLE OF HACKING THE PENTAGON OR CREATING UNSTOPPABLE HACKS, I AM NOT A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Oh, wow, I just found out you are Brian Francis.
I thought you got someone else to write the program for a sec there

Also, your reaction to the entire thing is soooo suspicious. I would've raged at everyone in sight if this happened to me, but you've only done that to a couple people. Can you address that? I don't want to call you out with certainty until I can be 110% sure.


We are clearly joking around here

We are clearly trying to find objectively whether you are guilty or innocent.*

Theres maybe 10 people objectively finding if I am guilty or innocent, I am not naive enough to think most of this is objective. I appreciate the objective people, and I hope they find results, one way or the other.

It would help immensely if you were active in the investigation and actually tried to be honest with us rather than just sitting around until it's painstakingly figured out. And this is coming from someone who has defended you at more than one point in this thread.


I spent 2 days going b ack and forth with people. I have Anaheim in 2 days. I dont have time to sit around this thread and defend myself all day. I've said what I can, I gave replays, I encourage people doing all this technical research. I left my team so they would avoid backlash from this situation such as emailing sponsors etc. What else do you want from me. No matter what I say, people deny and question it. I'm tired, I just want to practice for Anaheim and perform well, that's all I want to focus on for the next week.


How about you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you did not hack? You can't do that, can you? Start your stream and show us how you can play say, 20 games in a row without ever looking in fog of war, and using your minimap to perform almost every single action. Please do that. Until you do that, I will take CatZ's word as conclusive evidence that you are a hacker.

Because habits are almost impossible to just turn off day to day. Prove to us you can do that, and then I will start to believe you.


Yeah, no. Thats the wrong way to go about this. There must be some other way to prove him guilty/not guilty. The burden of proof is on the accuser and in this case YOU would have to prove that he CANT do that.



Strange, here I thought it was his career on the line. You'd think if he could sort if out by just opening up his stream while he is practicing for Anaheim (just don't show fancy tacs in those games?) to clear his name, it's not much to ask, is it?

Unless ofc...

Spades said he was being kept up to date by some people via PM.

Someone please PM him and tell him to do this.
Gaazu
Profile Joined February 2012
United States4 Posts
June 06 2012 21:58 GMT
#5182
We've been over that. Leave the guy alone. He has made some valid arguments. He tried to say a legit picture wasn't legit because he read too much into it.

This sums up this entire thread. People reading too much into something and finding what they want, just to be proven wrong.
gosublade
Profile Joined May 2011
632 Posts
June 06 2012 21:58 GMT
#5183
On June 07 2012 06:36 Spades wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:35 Reptilia wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:34 Spades wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:31 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:19 Spades wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:18 Antylamon wrote:
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On June 07 2012 06:15 Spades wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:11 EtherealDeath wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:05 SonataSC wrote:
I have 100% proof.

http://imgur.com/urSlB

This is from his facebook. I made this account just to post this.

[image loading]

EDIT: It's from Skype not facebook.


This sounds like something taken out of context that is a joking stab at (hack not named), rather than something said seriously....

Entire log plz or no go.


Here is more of the log, I dont know who this is, but apparently hes in a skype chat with me and like 20 other people. He's taking something out of context and being stupid.

[4:27:01 PM] Brian Francis: you saw they posted some new way
[4:27:04 PM] Brian Francis: of saying its 100% proof
[4:27:09 PM] Brian Francis: then it got proved wrong l ike a page later
[4:27:17 PM] Brian Francis: how catz said my clicks were too precise
[4:27:18 PM] Brian Francis: or some shit
[4:27:27 PM] Michael Francis: catz is an idiot
[4:27:33 PM] Brian Francis: everything he used as solid evidence
[4:27:34 PM] Michael Francis: precisely
[4:27:35 PM] Daltan Beach: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/uoc3a/conclusive_proof_that_spades_was_hacking/
[4:27:36 PM] Brian Francis: has been proven wrong
[4:27:38 PM] Daltan Beach: funniest shit ever
[4:27:56 PM] Daltan Beach: Post a picture of yourself reading a map
[4:27:59 PM] Brian Francis: yeah he posted that on TL.net
[4:28:00 PM] Daltan Beach: or atleast find one that i can post
[4:28:02 PM] Brian Francis: and it was proven wrong
[4:28:15 PM] Daltan Beach: If you give me a picture of you reading a map
[4:28:16 PM] Daltan Beach: or using a globe
[4:28:23 PM] Daltan Beach: Ill cry
[4:28:40 PM] Daltan Beach: [–]NeoDestiny 148 points 51 minutes ago
This is 100% conclusive. Really smart of the OP.
Here's the laymen's version if you're having trouble understanding -
Say you have a "real map" that is 1000x1000, and a "minimap" that is 100x100. This means that all of your clicks on the minimap are essentially multiplied by 10 to determine where they would fall on the real map. ie: clicking on 25x50 on the minimap would correspond to 250x500 on the real map, 46x89 would correspond to 460x890 on the real map, etc...etc...
According to Spades, he was clicking on the minimap to perform a lot of actions instead of scrolling into the fog of war to perform those same actions. The problem is that, during the replay, Spades screen is locked so that he must be clicking the minimap, but the clicks he's making are too precise to come from the minimap. Using our previous example, Spades is essentially claiming to be clicking a point like 252x582 on the minimap, which is impossible, as the closest we could get to that point is 25x58 or 26x59 on our minimap. Given the dimensions of the minimap, he is clicking with a precision that is impossible on the real map.
Clicks with that precision on the real map while the screen is locked means that one can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that Spades is maphacking.
[4:29:21 PM] Michael Francis: just take a picture of a globe next to your computer screen
[4:29:31 PM] Daltan Beach: thats perfect
[4:29:39 PM] Daltan Beach: thx spades' brother
[4:29:40 PM] Brian Francis: yeah then people on tl proved u can easily click those spots
[4:29:43 PM] Brian Francis: using minimap
[4:29:46 PM] Michael Francis: lol
[4:29:50 PM] Tito Santiago: rofl
[4:30:04 PM] Brian Francis: i dont own a globe
[4:30:11 PM] Michael Francis: how do i post on reddit
[4:30:14 PM] Michael Francis: "myth busted"
[4:30:25 PM] Tito Santiago: go find one
[4:30:34 PM] Tito Santiago: or like
[4:30:36 PM] Tito Santiago: stream
[4:30:44 PM] Tito Santiago: and while streaming open a map of the world on google maps
[4:30:50 PM] Daltan Beach: Let's accuse some pro of hacking
[4:30:53 PM] Daltan Beach: with no evidence
[4:30:54 PM] Tito Santiago: Lol
[4:30:57 PM] Daltan Beach: it'll be great
[4:31:02 PM] Daltan Beach: who has a lot of replays out
[4:31:05 PM] Daltan Beach: and we dont like
[4:31:27 PM] Michael Francis: lets accuse idra
[4:31:29 PM] Tito Santiago: hey daltan
[4:31:30 PM] Michael Francis: or catz
[4:31:33 PM] Tito Santiago: take that picture of catz
[4:31:39 PM] Tito Santiago: the judge one
[4:31:40 PM] Tito Santiago: and put
[4:31:53 PM] Michael Francis: i like how catz somehow knew all this information about the 'hack' mechanics
[4:31:54 PM] Tito Santiago: "Can't find a single note while singing, thinks he can find a hacker"
[4:31:59 PM] Tito Santiago: and post it on something
[4:31:59 PM] Michael Francis: like, oh if you right click into fog
[4:32:03 PM] Michael Francis: it doesn't lock
[4:32:15 PM] Michael Francis: but when your scrolling into the fog, shouldn't it lock before u ahve a chance to right click
[4:32:20 PM] Michael Francis: gg
[4:32:26 PM] Brian Francis: people have small brains
[4:32:32 PM] Tito Santiago: ^
[4:32:45 PM] Brian Francis: basically everything the hack does
[4:32:50 PM] Brian Francis: they cant prove i did any of it
[4:32:54 PM] Brian Francis: nor can they prove its possible
[4:33:01 PM] Brian Francis: because i do actions in these "camera lock" times
[4:33:05 PM] Michael Francis: basically your the best hacker in the world
[4:33:08 PM] Michael Francis: kids need to respect
[4:33:08 PM] Brian Francis: so people say I must have made my own private supe rhack
[4:33:12 PM] Tito Santiago: LOL
[4:33:12 PM] Brian Francis: or something
[4:33:19 PM] Michael Francis: undetectable
[4:33:21 PM] Brian Francis: they think this is swordfish
[4:33:23 PM] Brian Francis: or some shit
[4:33:31 PM] Michael Francis: since your a computer programmer
[4:33:42 PM] Tito Santiago: hahahah
[4:34:09 PM] Daltan Beach: terran 3/15 or some shit in GSL
[4:34:16 PM] Daltan Beach: fucking IMBA
[4:35:44 PM] Tito Santiago: lol

Now THAT sounds even more suspicious than before.



how so? we are laughing at how stupid this whole situation is, and all the "evidence" gets debunked shortly after. I'm in a chat with 20 people, including pro gamers. IF YOU CANT TELL, WE ARE ROLLING OUR EYES AND JOKING ABOUT THIS. I AM NOT A HACKER CAPABLE OF HACKING THE PENTAGON OR CREATING UNSTOPPABLE HACKS, I AM NOT A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Oh, wow, I just found out you are Brian Francis.
I thought you got someone else to write the program for a sec there

Also, your reaction to the entire thing is soooo suspicious. I would've raged at everyone in sight if this happened to me, but you've only done that to a couple people. Can you address that? I don't want to call you out with certainty until I can be 110% sure.


We are clearly joking around here

We are clearly trying to find objectively whether you are guilty or innocent.*

Theres maybe 10 people objectively finding if I am guilty or innocent, I am not naive enough to think most of this is objective. I appreciate the objective people, and I hope they find results, one way or the other.


The results have been found and they indeed are solid.
Not even death can save you from me.
StarStrider
Profile Joined August 2011
United States689 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-06 22:00:29
June 06 2012 21:58 GMT
#5184
Start your stream and show us how you can play say, 20 games in a row without ever looking in fog of war, and using your minimap to perform almost every single action. Please do that.


Spades....
This.

This would help us compare and contrast your game play and determine if your games in question were really legit.

This would help you practice for Anaheim.

This would possibly help exhonerate your name.

This would get you stream revenue since the Spades name is huge right now.


WHY would you not do this? Its a win on all fronts.

Please say you'll do it, or say you won't do it and why. Then you can go back to ignoring this thread.

This could be your one last chance to redeem your name Spades.
Spontaneous Pneumothorax sucks, please keep MVP sC in your thoughts. sC fighting! 힘내세요
McFeser
Profile Joined July 2011
United States2458 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-06 22:01:22
June 06 2012 21:58 GMT
#5185
On June 07 2012 06:48 revel8 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:43 toiletCAT wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:41 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:38 Dodgin wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:35 toiletCAT wrote:
Well, I couldn't care less if Spades is hacking or not, I'm in this to help stop the community from jumping to conclusions on very serious topics.


Seems like you're just one of his friends that registered yesterday to help defend him. man this shit is good.

Yep, seems that way.

Signed up today
"Lives in Qatar" to avoid anyone knowing his identity
Tons of his posts are in this thread, including his first


I actually live in Denmark, I signed up today because I thought I wanted to interact with the TL community. Since I know you didn't think this claim through, I'll say this anyway; good luck in your attempt to prove that I'm just some goon of his, attempting to help him out. Is there anything else you would like to know that I can't possibly prove to you, one way or another?


Explain that picture nonsense then.

Lay off his back. This won't go anywhere
Promethelax still hasn't changed his quote
Mellowman
Profile Joined May 2012
30 Posts
June 06 2012 21:59 GMT
#5186
Why is this still going on. There's so many pro opinions given that he's obviously cheating. Like stated, how does some nobody come out of nowhere and get to rank 1 GM with a better wlr than Thorzain or Select? And he CONTINUES TO LIE ABOUT IT.

This guy's reputation deserves to be DESTROYED after the shitstorm he caused here.
Sein
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1811 Posts
June 06 2012 21:59 GMT
#5187
On June 07 2012 06:19 Antylamon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:18 toiletCAT wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
This picture has been digitally edited to show "Brian Francis"

[image loading]


As you can see, the name "Brian Francis" has been DIGITALLY IMPLIMENTED onto the original screenshot.

[image loading]


Metadata;

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Can you put the metadeta in the layman's terms?


Why in the world would you lie about this? Spades just posted the entire log himself.
hinnolinn
Profile Joined August 2010
212 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-06 22:00:54
June 06 2012 22:00 GMT
#5188
edit: This didn't help the conversation, sorry, please delete
toiletCAT
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Qatar284 Posts
June 06 2012 22:00 GMT
#5189
On June 07 2012 06:58 McFeser wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:48 revel8 wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:43 toiletCAT wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:41 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:38 Dodgin wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:35 toiletCAT wrote:
Well, I couldn't care less if Spades is hacking or not, I'm in this to help stop the community from jumping to conclusions on very serious topics.


Seems like you're just one of his friends that registered yesterday to help defend him. man this shit is good.

Yep, seems that way.

Signed up today
"Lives in Qatar" to avoid anyone knowing his identity
Tons of his posts are in this thread, including his first


I actually live in Denmark, I signed up today because I thought I wanted to interact with the TL community. Since I know you didn't think this claim through, I'll say this anyway; good luck in your attempt to prove that I'm just some goon of his, attempting to help him out. Is there anything else you would like to know that I can't possibly prove to you, one way or another?


Explain that picture nonsense then.

Lay off his back. You're being an ass


It's alright, they're not actually reading everything we write, so he must've missed the part where I stood up and apologized for inverting the results I got from the image.
Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
June 06 2012 22:01 GMT
#5190
On June 07 2012 06:48 freakeh wrote:
Possibly 100% proof that he was hacking due to the minimap etc

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/uoc3a/conclusive_proof_that_spades_was_hacking/

+ Show Spoiler +
Hi guys, tonycheese here. I'm currently a ~950 Masters (on my smurf I suppose), fairly inactive player on the NA server. There has recently been a touch of controversy about the Spades situation. Although it does seem painfully obvious to me that Spades is maphacking in the replays provided when compared to his normal replays, many still call for "conclusive" proof. And there has been fear that conclusive proof cannot and will not exist.

Well, I *believe* I have found a way to conclusively detect if camera locks (and therefore maphacks) have been used.

The way my detection method works is as follows:

When a maphacker's camera is locked, he is looking around in the fog of war, but the replay shows him looking somewhere else. So, the maphacker claims that his actions are done on the minimap, when in reality they are done directly on the normal map in the fog of war.

*But*, the minimap is limited to a grid, with the smallest unit of measurement being the pixel. When you click on the normal map you can achieve a much greater level of precision than on the minimap. And as far as I can tell, the minimap's grid is consistent and reproducable.

What does this mean? If we can find a point in the replay where the camera is not focused on the spot the maphacking player is clicking, and the player clicks on a spot that does not exist on the minimap grid, that player had the camera locked.

In my first attempt, I found a spot that I could not click on the minimap, when Spades' camera was focused on his back third in daybreak, and he sent an scv to build the forward third "on the minimap".

Here are the sc2gears logs of my attempts at minimap clicking the spot next to the gas geyser. I will upload replays of these two attempts momentarily.

[image loading]

If people cannot find holes in my detection method, I believe we do have a painful, but systematic way of detecting any maphacks where camera locks are used.

\*\*\*\*\*

Edit: Here are my replay files, not sure how long rapidshare will keep these up, though: https://www.rapidshare.com/#!download|433|104782746|Minimap_clicking.zip|156

EDIT: As batterseapower pointed out below, I have not tested minimap clicking in, uh, every available resolution. And I don't really have the means to do it right now, so if someone else is super bored that would be appreciated.

However, you can see that the jumps on the map happen in units of 1.4 and .8 when running at 1600x900 resolution, meaning the jumps will still be very large at a larger resolution, meaning this is hopefully still a viable method of detection.

EDIT AGAIN: Actually, we don't need to test this in other resolutions. If you look at the two clicks at 12:14, the x coordinates are 117.9 and 117.6. This is only .3 units apart and I believe this is impossible in any known resolution that normal people have on their computers. At 1600x900 my computer jumps 1.4 units for 1 pixel on the minimap.

**EDIT 4:30 PM: A/some TL player(s) have claimed that they can get better than 1 pixel granularity on the minimap and I believe one player claims to have hit the point that I tried to check. I do want to remind you that I have not yet tried to look at other Spades replays or other instances of clicking (this was simply my first try), so my method is still open to discussion I suppose.**

**Right now, the two ways I have proposed to check are*

**1) Seeing if clicks in the fog of war snap onto the minimap grid and are reproduceable at some resolution or**

**2) Seeing if close together clicks in the fog of war are impossibly close for a normal resolution on the minimap.**


Ok stop talking people its over
Stephano & Jaedong <-- The Pain Train. Polt and Innovation to EG plz
roym899
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany426 Posts
June 06 2012 22:01 GMT
#5191
Lol this gets weirder and weirder.
hinnolinn
Profile Joined August 2010
212 Posts
June 06 2012 22:01 GMT
#5192
On June 07 2012 07:01 Benjamin99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:48 freakeh wrote:
Possibly 100% proof that he was hacking due to the minimap etc

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/uoc3a/conclusive_proof_that_spades_was_hacking/

+ Show Spoiler +
Hi guys, tonycheese here. I'm currently a ~950 Masters (on my smurf I suppose), fairly inactive player on the NA server. There has recently been a touch of controversy about the Spades situation. Although it does seem painfully obvious to me that Spades is maphacking in the replays provided when compared to his normal replays, many still call for "conclusive" proof. And there has been fear that conclusive proof cannot and will not exist.

Well, I *believe* I have found a way to conclusively detect if camera locks (and therefore maphacks) have been used.

The way my detection method works is as follows:

When a maphacker's camera is locked, he is looking around in the fog of war, but the replay shows him looking somewhere else. So, the maphacker claims that his actions are done on the minimap, when in reality they are done directly on the normal map in the fog of war.

*But*, the minimap is limited to a grid, with the smallest unit of measurement being the pixel. When you click on the normal map you can achieve a much greater level of precision than on the minimap. And as far as I can tell, the minimap's grid is consistent and reproducable.

What does this mean? If we can find a point in the replay where the camera is not focused on the spot the maphacking player is clicking, and the player clicks on a spot that does not exist on the minimap grid, that player had the camera locked.

In my first attempt, I found a spot that I could not click on the minimap, when Spades' camera was focused on his back third in daybreak, and he sent an scv to build the forward third "on the minimap".

Here are the sc2gears logs of my attempts at minimap clicking the spot next to the gas geyser. I will upload replays of these two attempts momentarily.

[image loading]

If people cannot find holes in my detection method, I believe we do have a painful, but systematic way of detecting any maphacks where camera locks are used.

\*\*\*\*\*

Edit: Here are my replay files, not sure how long rapidshare will keep these up, though: https://www.rapidshare.com/#!download|433|104782746|Minimap_clicking.zip|156

EDIT: As batterseapower pointed out below, I have not tested minimap clicking in, uh, every available resolution. And I don't really have the means to do it right now, so if someone else is super bored that would be appreciated.

However, you can see that the jumps on the map happen in units of 1.4 and .8 when running at 1600x900 resolution, meaning the jumps will still be very large at a larger resolution, meaning this is hopefully still a viable method of detection.

EDIT AGAIN: Actually, we don't need to test this in other resolutions. If you look at the two clicks at 12:14, the x coordinates are 117.9 and 117.6. This is only .3 units apart and I believe this is impossible in any known resolution that normal people have on their computers. At 1600x900 my computer jumps 1.4 units for 1 pixel on the minimap.

**EDIT 4:30 PM: A/some TL player(s) have claimed that they can get better than 1 pixel granularity on the minimap and I believe one player claims to have hit the point that I tried to check. I do want to remind you that I have not yet tried to look at other Spades replays or other instances of clicking (this was simply my first try), so my method is still open to discussion I suppose.**

**Right now, the two ways I have proposed to check are*

**1) Seeing if clicks in the fog of war snap onto the minimap grid and are reproduceable at some resolution or**

**2) Seeing if close together clicks in the fog of war are impossibly close for a normal resolution on the minimap.**


Ok stop talking people its over


This has already been debunked.
StarStrider
Profile Joined August 2011
United States689 Posts
June 06 2012 22:01 GMT
#5193
On June 07 2012 06:59 Sein wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:19 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:18 toiletCAT wrote:
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This picture has been digitally edited to show "Brian Francis"

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Can you put the metadeta in the layman's terms?


Why in the world would you lie about this? Spades just posted the entire log himself.


Sigh. He said the picture was shopped. It wasn't. That was 4 pages ago. He apologized. Try to keep up. Let's move on.
Spontaneous Pneumothorax sucks, please keep MVP sC in your thoughts. sC fighting! 힘내세요
revel8
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom3022 Posts
June 06 2012 22:01 GMT
#5194
On June 07 2012 06:58 McFeser wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:48 revel8 wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:43 toiletCAT wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:41 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:38 Dodgin wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:35 toiletCAT wrote:
Well, I couldn't care less if Spades is hacking or not, I'm in this to help stop the community from jumping to conclusions on very serious topics.


Seems like you're just one of his friends that registered yesterday to help defend him. man this shit is good.

Yep, seems that way.

Signed up today
"Lives in Qatar" to avoid anyone knowing his identity
Tons of his posts are in this thread, including his first


I actually live in Denmark, I signed up today because I thought I wanted to interact with the TL community. Since I know you didn't think this claim through, I'll say this anyway; good luck in your attempt to prove that I'm just some goon of his, attempting to help him out. Is there anything else you would like to know that I can't possibly prove to you, one way or another?


Explain that picture nonsense then.

Lay off his back. You're being an ass


It's a fair question. Why would he invent some dodgy evidence and post it here? When it was debunked, he claimed he was 'tired'! WTF is that about?
toiletCAT
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Qatar284 Posts
June 06 2012 22:02 GMT
#5195
On June 07 2012 06:59 Sein wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:19 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:18 toiletCAT wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
This picture has been digitally edited to show "Brian Francis"

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Can you put the metadeta in the layman's terms?


Why in the world would you lie about this? Spades just posted the entire log himself.


There's only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. If you didn't ignore half of the posts in this thread, you could learn something.
Zera474
Profile Joined December 2010
Austria2 Posts
June 06 2012 22:02 GMT
#5196
On June 07 2012 06:41 Nizzy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:19 Spades wrote:

how so? we are laughing at how stupid this whole situation is, and all the "evidence" gets debunked shortly after. I'm in a chat with 20 people, including pro gamers. IF YOU CANT TELL, WE ARE ROLLING OUR EYES AND JOKING ABOUT THIS. I AM NOT A HACKER CAPABLE OF HACKING THE PENTAGON OR CREATING UNSTOPPABLE HACKS, I AM NOT A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER


Spades,

giX comments confirmed it for me. I'm sorry bud but back in 2010 when I was 2nd in lead of elevengaming (xiNizzy) and when we had to play VT, you were our "joke" guy. We were short one clan match and had our team manager match you one day (Zerg) and because we knew you never attacked Zergs (from xiLost playing vs you a lot on ladder) and just turtled we made him do a strat just vs you, and he beat you. Our Manager. This was in late 2010/early 2011 when you could still be considered good.

I feel really bad for the person that spent money on you to go to Korea. Why anyone would market a team around you as the leader is beyond me. I don't play this game anymore so this could be an unfair comment, however from a NA Fan's perspective you've always been terrible compared to other top NA players. You don't go from being bad -> dropping out of pro gaming team -> moving to flordia to live with parents again (alone with no in person practice partners) -> rank 1 GM next season. With better winning percents than Select & Thorzain. Are you kidding me? Please lol.

Just admit you hacked, get permed, and go work at a deli shop/play poker or whatever you want.

Just let it go man. Play for fun, because you can't make it as a pro anymore, its not cause you hacked, its because your simply not good enough. IF you're smart you'll realize that's not an insult but legit advice. If you're a former BW pro and aren't top 5 in NA by now after 2 years of playing the game, then you'll never be able to take games/events off Korean pros like a HuK/Illusion can.

take care Spades.


Best response so far...
StarStrider
Profile Joined August 2011
United States689 Posts
June 06 2012 22:02 GMT
#5197
On June 07 2012 07:01 Benjamin99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:48 freakeh wrote:
Possibly 100% proof that he was hacking due to the minimap etc

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/uoc3a/conclusive_proof_that_spades_was_hacking/

+ Show Spoiler +
Hi guys, tonycheese here. I'm currently a ~950 Masters (on my smurf I suppose), fairly inactive player on the NA server. There has recently been a touch of controversy about the Spades situation. Although it does seem painfully obvious to me that Spades is maphacking in the replays provided when compared to his normal replays, many still call for "conclusive" proof. And there has been fear that conclusive proof cannot and will not exist.

Well, I *believe* I have found a way to conclusively detect if camera locks (and therefore maphacks) have been used.

The way my detection method works is as follows:

When a maphacker's camera is locked, he is looking around in the fog of war, but the replay shows him looking somewhere else. So, the maphacker claims that his actions are done on the minimap, when in reality they are done directly on the normal map in the fog of war.

*But*, the minimap is limited to a grid, with the smallest unit of measurement being the pixel. When you click on the normal map you can achieve a much greater level of precision than on the minimap. And as far as I can tell, the minimap's grid is consistent and reproducable.

What does this mean? If we can find a point in the replay where the camera is not focused on the spot the maphacking player is clicking, and the player clicks on a spot that does not exist on the minimap grid, that player had the camera locked.

In my first attempt, I found a spot that I could not click on the minimap, when Spades' camera was focused on his back third in daybreak, and he sent an scv to build the forward third "on the minimap".

Here are the sc2gears logs of my attempts at minimap clicking the spot next to the gas geyser. I will upload replays of these two attempts momentarily.

[image loading]

If people cannot find holes in my detection method, I believe we do have a painful, but systematic way of detecting any maphacks where camera locks are used.

\*\*\*\*\*

Edit: Here are my replay files, not sure how long rapidshare will keep these up, though: https://www.rapidshare.com/#!download|433|104782746|Minimap_clicking.zip|156

EDIT: As batterseapower pointed out below, I have not tested minimap clicking in, uh, every available resolution. And I don't really have the means to do it right now, so if someone else is super bored that would be appreciated.

However, you can see that the jumps on the map happen in units of 1.4 and .8 when running at 1600x900 resolution, meaning the jumps will still be very large at a larger resolution, meaning this is hopefully still a viable method of detection.

EDIT AGAIN: Actually, we don't need to test this in other resolutions. If you look at the two clicks at 12:14, the x coordinates are 117.9 and 117.6. This is only .3 units apart and I believe this is impossible in any known resolution that normal people have on their computers. At 1600x900 my computer jumps 1.4 units for 1 pixel on the minimap.

**EDIT 4:30 PM: A/some TL player(s) have claimed that they can get better than 1 pixel granularity on the minimap and I believe one player claims to have hit the point that I tried to check. I do want to remind you that I have not yet tried to look at other Spades replays or other instances of clicking (this was simply my first try), so my method is still open to discussion I suppose.**

**Right now, the two ways I have proposed to check are*

**1) Seeing if clicks in the fog of war snap onto the minimap grid and are reproduceable at some resolution or**

**2) Seeing if close together clicks in the fog of war are impossibly close for a normal resolution on the minimap.**


Ok stop talking people its over


READ the EDIT 4:30 PM in his post about TL players figuring out that this doesn't apply. READ thoroughly next time.
Spontaneous Pneumothorax sucks, please keep MVP sC in your thoughts. sC fighting! 힘내세요
toiletCAT
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Qatar284 Posts
June 06 2012 22:03 GMT
#5198
On June 07 2012 07:01 revel8 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:58 McFeser wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:48 revel8 wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:43 toiletCAT wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:41 Antylamon wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:38 Dodgin wrote:
On June 07 2012 06:35 toiletCAT wrote:
Well, I couldn't care less if Spades is hacking or not, I'm in this to help stop the community from jumping to conclusions on very serious topics.


Seems like you're just one of his friends that registered yesterday to help defend him. man this shit is good.

Yep, seems that way.

Signed up today
"Lives in Qatar" to avoid anyone knowing his identity
Tons of his posts are in this thread, including his first


I actually live in Denmark, I signed up today because I thought I wanted to interact with the TL community. Since I know you didn't think this claim through, I'll say this anyway; good luck in your attempt to prove that I'm just some goon of his, attempting to help him out. Is there anything else you would like to know that I can't possibly prove to you, one way or another?


Explain that picture nonsense then.

Lay off his back. You're being an ass


It's a fair question. Why would he invent some dodgy evidence and post it here? When it was debunked, he claimed he was 'tired'! WTF is that about?


And the same answer goes to you; if you didn't ignore every second post, you could learn something.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 06 2012 22:03 GMT
#5199
On June 07 2012 07:01 Benjamin99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 07 2012 06:48 freakeh wrote:
Possibly 100% proof that he was hacking due to the minimap etc

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/uoc3a/conclusive_proof_that_spades_was_hacking/

+ Show Spoiler +
Hi guys, tonycheese here. I'm currently a ~950 Masters (on my smurf I suppose), fairly inactive player on the NA server. There has recently been a touch of controversy about the Spades situation. Although it does seem painfully obvious to me that Spades is maphacking in the replays provided when compared to his normal replays, many still call for "conclusive" proof. And there has been fear that conclusive proof cannot and will not exist.

Well, I *believe* I have found a way to conclusively detect if camera locks (and therefore maphacks) have been used.

The way my detection method works is as follows:

When a maphacker's camera is locked, he is looking around in the fog of war, but the replay shows him looking somewhere else. So, the maphacker claims that his actions are done on the minimap, when in reality they are done directly on the normal map in the fog of war.

*But*, the minimap is limited to a grid, with the smallest unit of measurement being the pixel. When you click on the normal map you can achieve a much greater level of precision than on the minimap. And as far as I can tell, the minimap's grid is consistent and reproducable.

What does this mean? If we can find a point in the replay where the camera is not focused on the spot the maphacking player is clicking, and the player clicks on a spot that does not exist on the minimap grid, that player had the camera locked.

In my first attempt, I found a spot that I could not click on the minimap, when Spades' camera was focused on his back third in daybreak, and he sent an scv to build the forward third "on the minimap".

Here are the sc2gears logs of my attempts at minimap clicking the spot next to the gas geyser. I will upload replays of these two attempts momentarily.

[image loading]

If people cannot find holes in my detection method, I believe we do have a painful, but systematic way of detecting any maphacks where camera locks are used.

\*\*\*\*\*

Edit: Here are my replay files, not sure how long rapidshare will keep these up, though: https://www.rapidshare.com/#!download|433|104782746|Minimap_clicking.zip|156

EDIT: As batterseapower pointed out below, I have not tested minimap clicking in, uh, every available resolution. And I don't really have the means to do it right now, so if someone else is super bored that would be appreciated.

However, you can see that the jumps on the map happen in units of 1.4 and .8 when running at 1600x900 resolution, meaning the jumps will still be very large at a larger resolution, meaning this is hopefully still a viable method of detection.

EDIT AGAIN: Actually, we don't need to test this in other resolutions. If you look at the two clicks at 12:14, the x coordinates are 117.9 and 117.6. This is only .3 units apart and I believe this is impossible in any known resolution that normal people have on their computers. At 1600x900 my computer jumps 1.4 units for 1 pixel on the minimap.

**EDIT 4:30 PM: A/some TL player(s) have claimed that they can get better than 1 pixel granularity on the minimap and I believe one player claims to have hit the point that I tried to check. I do want to remind you that I have not yet tried to look at other Spades replays or other instances of clicking (this was simply my first try), so my method is still open to discussion I suppose.**

**Right now, the two ways I have proposed to check are*

**1) Seeing if clicks in the fog of war snap onto the minimap grid and are reproduceable at some resolution or**

**2) Seeing if close together clicks in the fog of war are impossibly close for a normal resolution on the minimap.**


Ok stop talking people its over


Seriously how many times do I have to debunk it with my gosu minimap clicking.
Rhine
Profile Joined October 2011
187 Posts
June 06 2012 22:04 GMT
#5200
On June 07 2012 06:58 StarStrider wrote:
Start your stream and show us how you can play say, 20 games in a row without ever looking in fog of war, and using your minimap to perform almost every single action. Please do that.


Spades....
This.

This would help us compare and contrast your game play and determine if your games in question were really legit.

This would help you practice for Anaheim.

This would possibly help exhonerate your name.

This would get you stream revenue since the Spades name is huge right now.


WHY would you not do this? Its a win on all fronts.

Please say you'll do it, or say you won't do it and why. Then you can go back to ignoring this thread.

This could be your one last chance to redeem your name Spades.


There are reasons not to do it. It's a huge distraction. Now he would have to worry about what people are thinking about his play whenever he does anything. He would be judged on a completely different level than any other streamer would be. His chat would be filled with accusers. It does not lead to a proper training environment. I'm not saying he didn't hack, but to say there's no reason to turn on a stream for everyone to judge you right before a tournament you're preparing for is not accurate.
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