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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)
Xorphene
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom492 Posts
June 05 2012 03:34 GMT
#1461
On June 05 2012 12:32 lulutheking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 djshinE wrote:
The people who are backing Spades are obviously not watching the stream analysis by Catz/Illusion.

stream is biased and till now showed no evidence...


You are watching the wrong stream, clearly.
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Ranir
Profile Joined June 2011
413 Posts
June 05 2012 03:34 GMT
#1462
GG mate it's over.
Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
June 05 2012 03:34 GMT
#1463
On June 05 2012 12:32 efren wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 whiterabbit wrote:
Why are we still focused on Spades? We have post saying Koreans we all love do cheat even at big LANs like MLG... I am... well... fuck everything if Koreans have to stream cheat and have other player giving them tips in middle of game at LANs... how does that even get allowed?! FUCK ME!


exactly this really puts all lan competitions results into question. why aren't ppl more focused on this


In the fashion of the Mod Note on top, you need overwhelming evidence to damn someone. No player or organization is going to question the legitimacy of the players who bring in viewers and numbers for the industry if they aren't absolutely certain, other wise those ever so important korean players will be offended and not participate outside Korea, and those players and organizations will be ridiculed.
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djshinE
Profile Joined June 2012
12 Posts
June 05 2012 03:34 GMT
#1464
On June 05 2012 12:30 whiterabbit wrote:
Why are we still focused on Spades? We have post saying Koreans we all love do cheat even at big LANs like MLG... I am... well... fuck everything if Koreans have to stream cheat and have other player giving them tips in middle of game at LANs... how does that even get allowed?! FUCK ME!


You can't fucking say things to players over someone's shoulder with sound isolated headphones on.
Jinsho
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom3101 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1465
His replies to the latest accusations are still incredibly fishy. I think he does not know how an innocent person would react to the allegations because he isn't innocent.
WHyTePoWeR
Profile Joined May 2012
Korea (South)132 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1466
On June 05 2012 12:34 djshinE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 whiterabbit wrote:
Why are we still focused on Spades? We have post saying Koreans we all love do cheat even at big LANs like MLG... I am... well... fuck everything if Koreans have to stream cheat and have other player giving them tips in middle of game at LANs... how does that even get allowed?! FUCK ME!


You can't fucking say things to players over someone's shoulder with sound isolated headphones on.



they only wear those in the booths bro
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1467
On June 05 2012 12:29 Parcelleus wrote:
No catz and co , your 'hack scan' is what Mvp does all the time, blindly scanning where he think the army will be (to locate army).

Keep going. Spades 1 - Catz and co - 0.

PS: Your whole argument is saying he cannot scan using the mini-map - which he obviously did. That is not hacking.



No, I don't think I've ever seen a progamer do what Spades did. He scanned his own main base as soon as a doom drop landed, and he scanned AFTER he repositioned his army from his third back to his main to intercept the doom drop. There was utterly no reason to move his tanks when the majority of Lucifron's army was at his third, if anything he should have moved his nat tanks back a bit, and sent an SCV to build a depot there or something to scout. But no, he moved his entire force to the location to intercept, THEN scanned on top of the doom drop that landed in his base. I must admit, as a skeptic for everything else they had said, THAT, coupled with the fact apparently Spades NEVER once looked into the Fog of War, which is virtually impossible to play, is ridiculous. Are you saying when you move your army out you never A-move the other location? You instead use hte minimap the entire time, to 100% of the time reposition your army as you move out, in every single game you play? But don't do it in ladder games? Bleh. I would find it impossible to try to always move out via the minimap, you'd never be precise, ever.
Abenson
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada4122 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1468
RootCatz is providing pretty solid evidence :O
Legend7777
Profile Joined April 2011
United States28 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1469
Guilt or not aside, sucks for Spades. I can't see him coming back from this unless a lot of high level community figures step up... Handled very badly in terms of throwing the 'evidence' just at everyone. There is a very different mentality for people when they watch a replay LOOKING for hacks. You see anything and everything that you can't do or can't easily explain and instantly are convinced. Looking at what CatZ is saying though, it looks quite odd to me, but I'm not expert. Only like 1% of the people in this thread are and really only their analysis seems...qualified to condemn someones career...
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kasperklysner
Profile Joined October 2011
Denmark44 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1470
On June 05 2012 12:32 lulutheking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 djshinE wrote:
The people who are backing Spades are obviously not watching the stream analysis by Catz/Illusion.

stream is biased and till now showed no evidence...

I'm sorry but you either don't understand what they are pointing out, or you're.. Well, I don't want to get banned.
-Kaiser-
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada932 Posts
June 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#1471
Sounds like we get the final technical-proof nail this next game. I'm already pretty convinced that Spades is cheating, but here we go.
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VPCursed
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
1044 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 03:36:19
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1472
On June 05 2012 12:32 lulutheking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 djshinE wrote:
The people who are backing Spades are obviously not watching the stream analysis by Catz/Illusion.

stream is biased and till now showed no evidence...

uhm? are we from the same universe?
Risen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States7927 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1473
On June 05 2012 12:27 Grampz wrote:
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On June 05 2012 12:27 CaptainCharisma wrote:
So 7 games out of how many Spades has played? Thousands.

I've played far fewer games than that and I'm pretty sure I could dig up more than 7 replays where I make the perfect blind counters to stuff and make weird army positioning.

This thread is a disgrace.

You're missing the fucking point. He allegedly cheated in a SHOWMATCH. FOR MONEY. THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. Ladder games fine, go cheat your ass off. ladder pts don't mean shit (maybe they do blizz is weird) but when you are playing for money using a hack... ............


There was no money on the line.

On June 05 2012 12:25 n.DieJokes wrote:
Yeah, this sounds like a crock of bullshit. If you go looking for maphacking obviously you'll find it, especially with the way the fp camera is setup. All the "evidence" of him hacking is inconclusive and fails to explain:
1) Why would he hack here, for nothing? When he is a pro player with everything on the line, why would he risk that with for no reward?
2) If he was map hacking, how the fuck does he lose? It doesn't make any sense, he should have easily been able to win but he doesn't. He'd have to be the worse map hacker in the history of the game; he has experience at it he should at least be decent. You people are spending too much time focusing on things he accidently gets right and not enough time on all the shit he misses that actually costs him the match.
3) Who is the op? Why should I lend any credence whatsoever to the accusations of a 1 post random? He hasn't posted since this thread went up, whats he doing?


Nailed it.
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Sideburn
Profile Joined August 2010
United States442 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 03:37:10
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1474
Not a biased stream.

"If you miss this, you are fucking retarded." -Catz

Arbiters of justice right here.
BlueyD
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada437 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1475
The evidence against Spades looks pretty conclusive to me: The 'hack' games have Spades never looking at fog of war, so something shady is going on here.

On the Mirhi accusations against Koreans: Hearsay for now. If Koreans use maphacks like this on occasion, then there should be suspicious replays of them as well.
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GreyKnight
Profile Joined August 2010
United States4720 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1476
On June 05 2012 12:34 djshinE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:30 whiterabbit wrote:
Why are we still focused on Spades? We have post saying Koreans we all love do cheat even at big LANs like MLG... I am... well... fuck everything if Koreans have to stream cheat and have other player giving them tips in middle of game at LANs... how does that even get allowed?! FUCK ME!


You can't fucking say things to players over someone's shoulder with sound isolated headphones on.


from what i remember they don't require that for say the open bracket
Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1477
lol any competent terran player worth his salt knows this is just complete bullshit play.

no one does this shit unless they're retarded.
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
Belial88
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States5217 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1478
It's extremely easy to tell if someone is maphacking if you know the sites or done a simple google search of maphack starcraft 2. I'm glad the OP is somewhat knowledgeable, because I've seen many replays posted of suspected hackers (who were hackers) but everyone said it was legit because they did not know about camera lock.

Current maphacks are undetectable by warden, have production and unit tabs (much like replay/observer mode does), and a full minimap. They also have something, as the OP mentioned, called a camera lock, where they can hit a key to 'lock' the camera. This is so in replays, when observed, it looks like they are just looking at a certain point and doing nothing, but in reality, they are moving their camera to spots like through the fog of war, clicking on enemy units and even production buildings to see what they are building (redundant now with the production tabs of new mh's though).

The easiest way to detect maphacking, is to play the replay in the first person view of the suspected player, and keep the APM tab up.

When you freeze your camera, it will freeze your screen when viewed in the replay at a certain point, but your APM is still registered (producing workers/units, army movements, moving the screen). So the first suspect thing, is when the maphacker's camera goes idle, but his APM is still going about (it will often fall a lot since they are focused on maphacking though, but it won't be zero as it should be if you are doing absolutely nothing or moving your camera or clicking anything).

The most damning way to tell if someone is maphacking, is to take a replay of where both players have similar average APM. When compared, the maphacker will look really lazy, making their 100 APM look more like the first person view of a 20 APM player. Then, compare that to the first person view of the opponent, who at just a measly 80 APM, will be moving alll over the place, constantly selecting different units, and LOTS of camera movement. In GM level, where both players should have at least 100+ average APM, it will be obvious when the maphacker seems to just never be doing anything and appears to be playing much, much slower.

As a side note, it doesn't matter if blizz's APM is 'bad', since both players are using the same APM measurement system... just in case anyone stupidly says the APM isn't accurate. It's not about accuracy, it's about relativity.
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Mortal
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
2943 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1479
On June 05 2012 12:35 Jinsho wrote:
His replies to the latest accusations are still incredibly fishy. I think he does not know how an innocent person would react to the allegations because he isn't innocent.


He may actually know, he's just flustered and can't keep calm enough to lie through his teeth. The miracle scan is almost conclusive.
The universe created an audience for itself.
Beaster-
Profile Joined May 2011
United States46 Posts
June 05 2012 03:36 GMT
#1480
On June 05 2012 12:29 Parcelleus wrote:
No catz and co , your 'hack scan' is what Mvp does all the time, blindly scanning where he think the army will be (to locate army).

Keep going. Spades 1 - Catz and co - 0.

PS: Your whole argument is saying he cannot scan using the mini-map - which he obviously did. That is not hacking.


he was scanning while he was scrolling up at the same time
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