• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 16:11
CET 22:11
KST 06:11
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2
Community News
BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion6Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)16Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7[BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 105
StarCraft 2
General
Stellar Fest "01" Jersey Charity Auction SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets When will we find out if there are more tournament SC2 Spotted on the EWC 2026 list?
Tourneys
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SC2 AI Tournament 2026 $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) OSC Season 13 World Championship
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone
Brood War
General
[ASL21] Potential Map Candidates BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Video Footage from 2005: The Birth of G2 in Spain BW General Discussion BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 Small VOD Thread 2.0 Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Simple Questions, Simple Answers Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Awesome Games Done Quick 2026! Nintendo Switch Thread Mechabellum
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Physical Exercise (HIIT) Bef…
TrAiDoS
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1272 users

[?] Spades hacking? - Page 50

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 48 49 50 51 52 298 Next
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)
Rowrin
Profile Joined September 2011
United States280 Posts
June 05 2012 01:25 GMT
#981
On June 05 2012 10:23 mememolly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


posting your last X competitive/online tourney games would have made more sense


He posted those, cause that is what everyone was screaming for, now that those are out people are going to want something more, its a never ending cycle.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10012 Posts
June 05 2012 01:25 GMT
#982
On June 05 2012 10:24 legaton wrote:
I'm surprised everybody is OK with the fact the OP is a smurf account. In the internet, everyone if anonymous and the consequences of our virtual actions on our daily life are almost nonexistent. Yet, people are truly attached to their avatars and forum personas, and they are also attached to the prestige their name may carry (or not) on some communities. Using a smurf (100% sure he's a member of the community or he wouldn't caree about Spades and the drama) he doesn't for posting such a serious accusation as hacking means he doesn't want to bare with the consequences of his decision of accusing Spades. This situation is pretty unequal as Spades reputation is tainted (the discussion is as spurious as trying to prove the existence of god), yet the OP hides his identity behind a smurf account. Frankly, if you are going to stir up so much shit, you should at least have the balls to do it with your main account.


yea the admins should check to see if the OP has any under accounts on TL
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
June 05 2012 01:25 GMT
#983
On June 05 2012 10:21 whiterabbit wrote:
It is like community where majority of people are mediocre at game (me included) is feeding their self-esteem by showing how much power they have.

Doesn't matter if Spades somehow proves he never used hacks in SC2, as someone with background of BW player who used hacks, his career or at least image is ruined.

I can't believe this topic didn't get closed/deleted giving there is no real proof. And I love how few other pros jumped to throw cheap accusations basically saying "Hey, I think you are hacker but if you are not...well... sowwy!"

Hacker should be called out and surgically removed from the scene, but ruining someone's career without real proof is beyond bad and as I said, I can't believe TeamLiquid is assisting at doing so.


It's still an open question. To close it now leaves it unanswered which is probably worse for spades. The evidence is very limited. If no proof can be found it'll probably be discarded as circumstantial and inconclusive. The evidence still has some merit though. It's unfortunate this thread was started with evidence as limited as it was, though.
Artok
Profile Joined May 2011
Netherlands2219 Posts
June 05 2012 01:26 GMT
#984
On June 05 2012 10:21 whiterabbit wrote:
It is like community where majority of people are mediocre at game (me included) is feeding their self-esteem by showing how much power they have.

Doesn't matter if Spades somehow proves he never used hacks in SC2, as someone with background of BW player who used hacks, his career or at least image is ruined.

I can't believe this topic didn't get closed/deleted giving there is no real proof. And I love how few other pros jumped to throw cheap accusations basically saying "Hey, I think you are hacker but if you are not...well... sowwy!"

Hacker should be called out and surgically removed from the scene, but ruining someone's career without real proof is beyond bad and as I said, I can't believe TeamLiquid is assisting at doing so.

probably the best post in the thread, im kind of sad that this whole thing is still going without even an opinion of lucifron that he played against.
Chun-li since ST
superstartran
Profile Joined March 2010
United States4013 Posts
June 05 2012 01:26 GMT
#985
On June 05 2012 10:23 mememolly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


posting your last X competitive/online tourney games would have made more sense



No it wouldn't at all, because it is more than likely that Spades would have hacked on ladder because it isn't such a big stage.
Internet_justice
Profile Joined June 2012
20 Posts
June 05 2012 01:27 GMT
#986
On June 05 2012 10:19 Doodsmack wrote:
I'll preface this post by saying that I haven't reached a conclusion whether Spades is hacking, and my points here remain true regardless of whether Spades is in fact hacking.

A mod should do an IP check of the OP and expose his main account. This should be done because of the manner in which the OP went about accusing Spades. He exaggerated and misinterpreted NUMEROUS times, in ways that can only lead us to conclude he did so deliberately. For example, claiming that moving an SCV to a watchtower w/o looking at the watchtower is evidence of a hack is simply dishonest, and intended to capitalize on the hasty-conclusion hive mind that was sure to follow his post. Just look at the first page of this thread, numerous people start assuming the OP is correct WHILE ADMITTING that they haven't watched the replay yet, simply because of how much text and timestamps the OP offered as supposed evidence. In other words the OP created the illusion of painstaking examination when in fact his evidence was HEAVILY circumstantial.

It's only fair that his identity should be outed if he's going to pretend to be the judge and jury.

I agree. I am for exposing the real identity of anyone who is hacking or spreading hack accusations. Hackers should be added to a list of shame for anyone googling their names to find. I have no problem with that and I support anyone who makes a blog.


Witchhunts are a bad thing as is delivering pizzas to houses and prank calls etc. I don't support that.


I support internet justice where people who decide to screw with people by hacking or by accusing people of hacks without SOLID proof lose their right to be anonymous. Impa and others should be added to a Teamliquid wiki with real names posted and refuse to take it down. What does it matter to these people that they ruin a game or ruin someone's career? Nothing because they can remake under a new identity. Fuck that.

I already found a few of them.
Spades
Profile Joined September 2010
United States249 Posts
June 05 2012 01:27 GMT
#987
On June 05 2012 10:19 quarkle wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


Well done. !!!
You've taken a huge step into clearing your name.
Hopefully that should take some pressure off you.





https://rapidshare.com/files/511877116/5.rar

the next 50 or so

I havent played any relevant tournaments, I've been just streaming all my games and not doing much besides that.
Flonomenalz
Profile Joined May 2011
Nigeria3519 Posts
June 05 2012 01:28 GMT
#988
On June 05 2012 10:23 mememolly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


posting your last X competitive/online tourney games would have made more sense

Those are really hard to locate though, out of ALL his replays...
I love crazymoving
IamPryda
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1186 Posts
June 05 2012 01:28 GMT
#989
All the people saying they feel bad for him because his career is ruined should just stop. It would be one thing if it was a player with a clean record with no prior accusations, but it was proven that he has hacked in sc1 and it's not like he was a player on the rise that would be getting a free invite to any big tourneys. And you can argue all you want about that there's not 100 percent proof but the truth is with the advancements in hacking its almost impossible to get this without the player admitting it. There's a decent amount of evidence to question him and questioned he was, now each person can make up there own mind but let's be clear here this wasn't some destiny type reddit witch hunt
Moar banelings less qq
aznball123
Profile Joined February 2012
2759 Posts
June 05 2012 01:28 GMT
#990
So... who's Spades again? lol.
Mmm, what to watch.
Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9765 Posts
June 05 2012 01:28 GMT
#991
On June 05 2012 10:25 Rowrin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:23 mememolly wrote:
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


posting your last X competitive/online tourney games would have made more sense


He posted those, cause that is what everyone was screaming for, now that those are out people are going to want something more, its a never ending cycle.


This is why this thread should have been immediately shut down (just my opinion, not telling TL how to run their forum).
The longer its left running the more people are going to immediately make up their minds, and then they will NEVER change their opinion despite whatever evidence comes out. It should have been taken care of privately and then outed into the public. The whole thing seems like a nasty personal attack.

Even that is wrong, though, because i'm inclined to a position but i am in no position to know any facts. I wish i could unsee this tread, but i can't
RIP Meatloaf <3
Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
June 05 2012 01:29 GMT
#992
On June 05 2012 09:57 Kitchen.Sink wrote:
Much like several others have mentioned, 7:30 on Metalopolis was what convinced me, too.

Spades selects his army and begins juking and jiving at the exact moment Lucifron loads his hellions into the medivac. Spades then immediately adopts a path to intercept the hellions despite how, according to his vision, he cannot see them. Watch the moment several times, several times from Spade's perspective and several times from the everyone camera.

It is extremely, extremely suspicious.


6:01: Spades sees enemy units approach the watchtower he controls with a marine.
6:09: He watches his marine die to an army consisting of 7 marines, 3 hellions, and 1 medevac.
6:20: He's basically macroing until his tank comes out, where he groups up his units to deal with the drop he rightly assumes is coming, having already seen the medevac, hellions, and marines.
6:30: Shots are fired between his marines and tank and the enemy marines with medevac support
6:40: Viking potshots at medevac
6:50: Macros, drops a mule, moves army briefly
7:00: Army idle again
7:10: Army still idle, tapping production, queues 2 marines
7:14: "Additional supply depots required."
7:19: Builds a supply depot
7:22: Starts patrolling army manually (a very small patrol about the length of a factory)
7:29: Right clicks on the ground far to the right of his mini-patrol of the last 7 seconds, which is on an intercept course with hellions he sees in his base right after, except that the hellions get away.

He clicks to intercept the hellions a fraction of a second before he sees them. His units are too slow and the hellions get past to the back of the mineral line with enough time to kill a few SCVs.

A couple things here: It's close air Metalopolis, my opponent has hellions and medevacs and already attempted some elevator which I shut down before it really happened. I go back to macroing but forget supply depots and get supply blocked. At this point, I am extremely alarmed while under the duress of close air harass, but in his case, probably more so because it's a show match. I can see how building a supply depot when you missed it is like a big giant reminder, which is why he resumes patrolling his army immediately after.

The "suspicious" part where he right clicks just before seeing the hellions could possibly be luck and intuition, as opposed to maphacking. You just entered that slightly heightened state after being mad at yourself for forgetting a depot, and you realize, "hey, I don't have vision of that part of my base." That slightly delayed realization while trying to pull everything together (i.e., your wits and practice) is a far more natural and common explanation than map hack.

If he's hacking, he's doing an incredible job pretending to be playing normal at this supposedly convincing 7:30 mark on Metalopolis.
Neeblet
Profile Joined June 2012
United States10 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 01:46:29
June 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#993
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


Ladder games are worthless because there is nothing on the line so he obviously wouldn't maphack there. We need to find some recent online tournaments with spades in it and check out those reps.

EDIT: Sorry for my ignorance, I didn't have time at the moment to research the showmatch and realize games weren't for any money/prize.
ByuNPrime
elliminist
Profile Joined November 2010
Japan121 Posts
June 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#994
On June 05 2012 10:23 mememolly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 10:14 Spades wrote:
My last 50 something ladder games, none left out. includes 2 warmup games i played vs SanghooLeeMD right before the showmatch.

https://rapidshare.com/files/624275372/New_folder__4_.rar


posting your last X competitive/online tourney games would have made more sense


PRO players suggested that he post his ladder replay packs. He's now provided the proof. How much more bullshit does one need to take to give evidence of proof?

Considering the original accusations were based off a no-prize show match, I don't see why u have anything of value to add by making your comment.
Do you think you're really entitled to anything in this world?
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 01:31:24
June 05 2012 01:30 GMT
#995
This thread should be closed until some actual pros volunteer to sit down and analyze the 100 games Spades has posted (or however many they want to look at). At this point, everything is just circumstantial, and there's a lot of misinformation floating around regarding how this supposed camera lock hack functions.
ampson
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2355 Posts
June 05 2012 01:31 GMT
#996
The star2 community is so goddamn toxic that it absolutely disgusts me. At the rate that we're going, every pro-gamer, caster, and community figure is going to have their image absolutely trashed by the time that we achieve "legitimacy." Can we PLEASE stop living for meaningless drama?
skatbone
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1005 Posts
June 05 2012 01:31 GMT
#997
On June 05 2012 07:27 Gogleion wrote:
My understanding of the way that the hack works, is that if you move your camera to a place that you don't have vision, then it will hold the camera at the last place you did have vision.

So if someone were to do this, it would show their camera scroll to the edge of their vision, then stop because it detects that there is no vision at the area.

Unfortunately for you citizens of Salem, this does not happen in the games. All of the 'camera blocks' are in the middle of his base. So that means he would have to location hotkey the area, and then hotkey back to his base. All of the places that he would have to look, and the locations in his base would make it very difficult to manage all of this.



Alternatively, one could click on the minimap to a place they have no vision of. Your post assumes that scrolling and hotkeying locations are the only way to navigate across the map
Mercurial#1193
oxxo
Profile Joined February 2010
988 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 01:33:01
June 05 2012 01:31 GMT
#998
Antiga 9:11. Sits at base for 9 seconds macroing yet somehow gets 4 SCVs in gas (the geyser on screen) and gets supply blocked. Still hasn't explained how that is remotely possible for a pro player. That wouldn't even happen for an NA Masters player.

Or look at avilo's replay. That one is super shady as well.

I mean some of the OP's stuff is kind of exaggerated, but there's plenty of extremely suspicious stuff in the replays he posted. There are so many unsafe or random moves that make no sense without info he shouldn't have.
Jinsho
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom3101 Posts
June 05 2012 01:32 GMT
#999
His reply convinced me he is hacking. It is not convincing at all. He jumps right into the accusations and begins talking about them. For me, the case is closed.
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
June 05 2012 01:33 GMT
#1000
On June 05 2012 10:31 ampson wrote:
The star2 community is so goddamn toxic that it absolutely disgusts me. At the rate that we're going, every pro-gamer, caster, and community figure is going to have their image absolutely trashed by the time that we achieve "legitimacy." Can we PLEASE stop living for meaningless drama?


Pro players potentially map hacking to win money from online tournaments is not " meaningless drama " ...
Prev 1 48 49 50 51 52 298 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
IPSL
20:00
Grand Finals
Dewalt vs Sziky
Airneanach107
Liquipedia
BSL 21
20:00
Non-Korean Championship - D4
Bonyth vs Sziky
Mihu vs QiaoGege
Sziky vs XuanXuan
eOnzErG vs QiaoGege
Mihu vs DuGu
Dewalt vs Bonyth
ZZZero.O261
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 575
IndyStarCraft 222
JuggernautJason106
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 1963
Shuttle 539
ZZZero.O 261
Mini 177
Dota 2
Gorgc6964
Pyrionflax214
Counter-Strike
fl0m2977
Other Games
summit1g6100
FrodaN5375
Grubby3215
Liquid`RaSZi2880
B2W.Neo1098
crisheroes400
Liquid`Hasu318
ToD248
XaKoH 188
ArmadaUGS170
KnowMe72
Fnx 51
Railgan1
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2157
EGCTV1232
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• HeavenSC 38
• Reevou 14
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Migwel
• intothetv
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos2438
• TFBlade1120
Other Games
• imaqtpie2461
• Scarra727
• Shiphtur238
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
11h 49m
Wardi Open
14h 49m
Monday Night Weeklies
19h 49m
OSC
1d 13h
The PondCast
2 days
OSC
2 days
Big Brain Bouts
4 days
Serral vs TBD
BSL 21
5 days
BSL 21
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Escore Tournament S1: W4
Big Gabe Cup #3
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Proleague 2026-01-18
OSC Championship Season 13
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W5
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Rongyi Cup S3
Nations Cup 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.