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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)
phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
June 05 2012 02:56 GMT
#1201
Anyone have time to look at the replay packs yet?
Phobbers
Profile Joined May 2011
773 Posts
June 05 2012 02:56 GMT
#1202
On June 05 2012 11:55 LgN.EijZrA wrote:
Spades really? Tal'Darim 32:50

Moves more than half of his army to stop a giant drop he doesn't see...And scans AFTER he moves his units to defend it...

He actually may have seen it slightly with his floating rax, then scanned it after seeing the small blip, so he may have seen it before it came. Catz checked that out because someone in chat brought it up.
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WHyTePoWeR
Profile Joined May 2012
Korea (South)132 Posts
June 05 2012 02:56 GMT
#1203
floating rax sees some of lucifron's medivacs
Moonling
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States987 Posts
June 05 2012 02:56 GMT
#1204
On June 05 2012 11:54 Benjamin99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 11:52 Sideburn wrote:
This is super bizarre to me. The OP fucking PRIMED everyone to be suspicious. Of course people found the play to be suspicious.

If OP had said "Hey, look at how questionable some of the decisions he made were. He's pretty bad, lol!" people wouldn't see hacking, they would just see weird and "bad" play. Why are people so eager to witch hunt? I'm not even going to comment on whether or not I think he is hacking, just that this is by far one of the worst possible ways to go exposing such a thing.


Look at the tal darim game 32.50 and explain that? Thats the most obvious map hack I ever seen jesus crist man. Im actually discusted that someone would defend him



People need to re- look at that replay there is a floating barracks on the left corner that spots the smallest glimpse of red, its still sketchy but its not concrete evidence.
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polyphonyEX
Profile Joined May 2012
United States2539 Posts
June 05 2012 02:56 GMT
#1205
On June 05 2012 11:14 whiterabbit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 11:08 TechNoTrance wrote:
On June 05 2012 10:54 elliminist wrote:
On June 05 2012 10:50 ackbar wrote:
On June 05 2012 10:38 mememolly wrote:
On June 05 2012 10:34 Rowrin wrote:
Cant believe there are people questioning Spades credibility and not realizing the contradiction in taking the words of a guy with 1 post as law.


you have 47 posts, aside from the huge amount of irony this raises, do you think people should ignore you based of your low post count?


The 1 post count the OP has probably means that he is a regular here who created a new account just to post this. I think that damages his credibility moreso than the actual quantity of posts.

He is accusing someone of cheating, he should put his name behind it. He is attacking someone else's reputation, yet he hides his identity so HIS reputation cant be taken into account (or damaged if he's wrong)? This shows a lack of character.



Should the case be found innocent, I think the TL Mods should bring out into the open the TRUE identity of the individual attempting to destroy a Pro's career and oust him from the community.


It is unlikely this is a vendetta, there is reasonable suspicion after all. If Spades is innocent, giving out the personal information of the guy so he can be harassed from the internet is incredibly stupid. How do you know this person wasn't just trying to protect the integrity of the game? Would he then deserve to be harassed? Since when do two wrongs make a right? It is a good thing we don't have you making important decisions here.


TeamLiquid forbids more then one account, and surely should forbid someone hidding behind smurf and throwing career-breaking accusations without real proof. Because this thread is still alive, even if 50+ pages after there is no real proof, I'll guess TL mods know who OP is and decided to forget about rules.

Anyway, I kinda lost a ton of respect for TL today. Letting this go, as it is, is worse then Reddit without moderation...

On reddit, bad posts can be downvoted. No so here on TL.
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
June 05 2012 02:57 GMT
#1206
I'd say I'm pretty damn good at play analysis, and I have to say that a lot of the things CatZ is pointing out is not that great of evidence towards Spades being a hacker. A lot of it, while fishy, could have been chance, or simply smart play. Many things like moving back and forth seemed normal because it was Lucifron's style to be pulling him back and forth.

The only thing that I think they have gotten really accurate so far was Spades reacting to the mass drop at 32:50 on Tal Darim. There's really no explanation there why he would have unsieged the majority of his tanks when Lucifron's main army was outside, then scan an area inside his base he didn't have vision on when the drop was coming. That, I'm very confused about.
sickoota
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada918 Posts
June 05 2012 02:57 GMT
#1207
Lol people here are so dumb including Catz/illusion honestly Lucifron is dropping that spot all game a shitload of drops get through and then the one he manages to catch they call OMG HACKS freakin dumb should go back to school instead of playing sc2.
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darthfoley
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States8004 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 02:58:55
June 05 2012 02:57 GMT
#1208
On June 05 2012 11:56 Spades wrote:
did you stop listening after they said i saw units with my barracks. also why move my whole army and let him kill my 3rd for free, i wouldve left more behind if i was hacking.


you moved your army 30 seconds after you saw 3 units with one scan? Okay, if you say so. i'm not a pro player so w/e
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HansK
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
249 Posts
June 05 2012 02:58 GMT
#1209
I think the biggest thing to note here is the fact that he does not scout the 2nd geyser or look into the fog of war.. EVER, yet in his ladder games he pretty much always checks the 2nd gas and looks into the fog of war regularly.. to never ever look at it or check the 2nd gesyer along with all your other suspicious actions when you have no suspicious actions and do those things in other games is very odd.
MVega
Profile Joined November 2010
763 Posts
June 05 2012 02:58 GMT
#1210
On June 05 2012 11:49 Spades wrote:
I am playing very badly. I'm watching the screen. I really wish some hacker would come and clarify how all this works so I dont get called out for some "screen lock"


Don't worry, you know you didn't cheat.

The way that the screen lock works, and I spent like an hour reading the technical details of that btw since this thread is so popular, it's pretty obvious you weren't using it. For one it's supposedly an option that you have to toggle each time you want to look into the fog of war. In other words you would have to be the most active and yet worst map hacker ever to turn that on every single time you looked into the fog of war.

Secondly it auto toggles itself off if you start to do other stuff. So all this talk about your camera being focused on X for a long time being indicative of cheating is wrong since it's very evident that at all times you're performing other actions in that location where the camera is locked ... Otherwise the screen lock would have toggled itself off. It's designed to work that way so that it doesn't look too suspicious.

Pretty shocking that people are taking a guy's career so lightly. :/
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GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
June 05 2012 02:58 GMT
#1211
Catz seems pretty sure here... he better be careful though, if he is wrong then he is going to have to make some HUGE apologies
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UndoneJin
Profile Joined February 2011
United States438 Posts
June 05 2012 02:59 GMT
#1212
I remember a game in GSL once where MMA didn't scan the path of his units for the first 15 mins of the game against a Z, and then randomly scanned in front of his units at a strange position which also happened to have some bling landmines from minutes earlier. Was MMA hacking in the booth? Shit happens, this stream and this entire thread are ridiculous at this point.
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mrtomjones
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada4020 Posts
June 05 2012 02:59 GMT
#1213
Man... this topic should never have been allowed to exist.. I hope TL mods reconsider and delete threads until definitive proof is shown and the accused is allowed to defend himself. If Spades is innocent then this thing just hurt his career, unless he is able to take bad publicity and make it good which is unlikely. Multiple pro's with different opinions. My only thought is that I very much doubt that someone would cheat in a show match for no money and not cheat in their ladder games so if he is innocent in those 100 replays he posted then he is innocent and people better apologize.
`CygnuS`
Profile Joined May 2012
United States14 Posts
June 05 2012 02:59 GMT
#1214
On June 05 2012 11:49 Crowned wrote:
How can anyone argue the 32:50 peak on Tal Darim?


Seriously. This is probably the most solid proof you will get. You don't just unsiege half of your siege tanks to out of the blue. He saw the drop coming with his map hacks, and he scanned just so it doesn't look suspicious.
legaton
Profile Joined December 2010
France1763 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 03:02:11
June 05 2012 02:59 GMT
#1215
Isn't all of this a good example of a teleological argument? All actions are interpreted at posteriori as goal-oriented because everybody is looking for causality (in this case, hacking). I don't know why he moved the army, whatever the reason, he was lucky to do it as it coincidentally helped him to deal with a drop. Coincidences are suspicious? Maybe, but the setting of the Catz/Illusion tribunal show is über biased as they are selecting the moments where the "abnormal" decisions of Spades help him, but they never show when Spades decisions prove to be awful. I saw three of the replays and he actually deals with drops pretty badly more often than not. But of course, if you handpick some stuff, it is easy to create a "suspicious series of coincidences".
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Xorphene
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom492 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 03:04:45
June 05 2012 03:00 GMT
#1216
On June 05 2012 11:55 ampson wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 11:52 Moonling wrote:
On June 05 2012 11:51 PanN wrote:
Yeah I have no idea how he can possibly defend the 32:50 on tal darim....



Pretty obvious imo, but I mean... idk how you can defend that


Lucifron was doing drop play, he saw the army retreat from the 3rd, the top of the main was wide fucking open. Where else was he going to do a drop. Just proves that spades has halfway decent game sense. More concrete evidence will be needed to convince me.


So he moves his ENTIRE army there? Really?

Where is the differentiation between a 2 medivac drop and a doom drop? He saw a flash on the minimap for a split second. He moves his entire army because he *KNOWS* Lucifron is doom dropping him and there is NO CHANCE of a multipronged push.

*sigh* these games vs Ognis aren't looking great either.
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mrtomjones
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada4020 Posts
June 05 2012 03:00 GMT
#1217
Also... someone said he got dropped in his base and lost games... He is more than likely good enough to see that coming if he was cheating... I could see it coming -_-
ampson
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2355 Posts
June 05 2012 03:00 GMT
#1218
On June 05 2012 11:57 darthfoley wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 11:56 Spades wrote:
did you stop listening after they said i saw units with my barracks. also why move my whole army and let him kill my 3rd for free, i wouldve left more behind if i was hacking.


you moved your army 30 seconds after you saw 3 units with one scan? Okay, if you say so. i'm not a pro player so w/e


3 units can= 3 medivacs can= 12 marauders which would certainly necessitate the response that he gave. The 30 seconds can be chalked up to travel time of the medivacs and him being distracted by action at 3rd. The 32:50 incident is nowhere near concrete evidence.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 05 2012 03:00 GMT
#1219
On June 05 2012 11:57 FabledIntegral wrote:
I'd say I'm pretty damn good at play analysis, and I have to say that a lot of the things CatZ is pointing out is not that great of evidence towards Spades being a hacker. A lot of it, while fishy, could have been chance, or simply smart play. Many things like moving back and forth seemed normal because it was Lucifron's style to be pulling him back and forth.

The only thing that I think they have gotten really accurate so far was Spades reacting to the mass drop at 32:50 on Tal Darim. There's really no explanation there why he would have unsieged the majority of his tanks when Lucifron's main army was outside, then scan an area inside his base he didn't have vision on when the drop was coming. That, I'm very confused about.


Floating rax apparently saw it for a split second.
PrAeToR.FeNiX
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada361 Posts
June 05 2012 03:01 GMT
#1220
Lol this is funny , i work a crazy day of like 15 hour , come back open Team Liquid and wow
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