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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)
whiterabbit
Profile Joined June 2009
2675 Posts
June 05 2012 03:56 GMT
#1621
At least CatZ had mad count of stream viewers today, something good happened out of this.
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Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
June 05 2012 03:56 GMT
#1622
lol at all the people who just don't play the game and have no basic game sense or eye for how you're supposed to move your cursor, screen and army. any competent terran player would never do any of the shit Spades is doing, especially considering he's supposedly playing at a high level.
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phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
June 05 2012 03:56 GMT
#1623
On June 05 2012 12:51 pigmanbear wrote:
By CatZ and Illusion's reasoning, I'm a hacker ... the only obvious thing is his scan on Shakuras before he's scouted spawns ... that is enough to make me think that streamcheat or hack is going on.

Are you capable of hitting rank 1 on GM and playing in professional tournaments? Because that actually matters. A lot of the things like moving your army in horrible positions without any scouting or anything are possible at lower leagues, but at this level of play, it's just not likely.
NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1624
Pretty evident he's cheating.
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MuseMike
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1339 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1625
On June 05 2012 12:22 Spades wrote:
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On June 05 2012 12:13 Mirhi wrote:
Well, while it's bad form to throw someone under the bus, I'm just going to do it because all this came out and I have a fact that actually matters.

Spades stream cheated during showmatches that he played while he lived with me at what was the Reign house. It's a carry over from the stream cheating that many Koreans do in the Korean prohouses (Both Spades and Artist have confirmed with me that Koreans frequently stream cheat in team leagues and showmatches against foreigners out of pride).

If ever I saw it happen when I was in the house, I would immediately try to stop them, but I know on occasion it still occured, most notably in a match Spades played against Gatored last year.

About maphacking, I have no idea and have no opinion on the matter other than either option wouldn't surprise me.

I would want to say though, that cheating occurs way more than people realize, and I actually would not be so hard on him for this evidence, even if it is true. Players better than Spades actively cheat, particularly stream cheat or simply ghosting, because of how easy it is.

Example - Leenock was over a player's shoulder at MLG Providence helping them during a game, giving them hints in Korean.

It's pretty common.


Lol really, it was Artist, when did this ever happen. If anything people in the house would randomly say something during a game they were watching. I never had 2 monitors open and stream cheat or anything. Why would you say something stupid like that. So stupid.

CatZ said on stream he knew it before Mihri posted it. So it is obviously something that was spoken about before.
Shaddar
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
675 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1626
On June 05 2012 12:51 SgtCoDFish wrote:
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On June 05 2012 12:49 Mirhi wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:39 dyi wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:13 Mirhi wrote:
Well, while it's bad form to throw someone under the bus, I'm just going to do it because all this came out and I have a fact that actually matters.

Spades stream cheated during showmatches that he played while he lived with me at what was the Reign house. It's a carry over from the stream cheating that many Koreans do in the Korean prohouses (Both Spades and Artist have confirmed with me that Koreans frequently stream cheat in team leagues and showmatches against foreigners out of pride).

If ever I saw it happen when I was in the house, I would immediately try to stop them, but I know on occasion it still occured, most notably in a match Spades played against Gatored last year.

About maphacking, I have no idea and have no opinion on the matter other than either option wouldn't surprise me.

I would want to say though, that cheating occurs way more than people realize, and I actually would not be so hard on him for this evidence, even if it is true. Players better than Spades actively cheat, particularly stream cheat or simply ghosting, because of how easy it is.

Example - Leenock was over a player's shoulder at MLG Providence helping them during a game, giving them hints in Korean.

It's pretty common.

Quick question: How does Spades and Artist know MANY Koreans frequently stream cheat? That's a big accusation.


Time spent in multiple Korean prohouses. They both told me it was standard in Korea and even more wide spread there than it is here. The exact scenario was, I asked Artist if Koreans cheated, he shrugged and said "Yes. Korean standard." It was almost a joke, but we discussed it more later. There's a completely different view point of it there. I had to explain to Artist how badly America and Europe thought of it and stress he could never do it, it would be the end of his career if he did. It took me like 30 minutes to really make it clear how unacceptable it was to everyone, and to me personally.


If you're going to be a whistleblower for this (which would likely lead to the end of live-streamed showmatches or tournaments where the players weren't inhouse and bring in pure replay-casted games) could you please make a thread about it and detail it all?


Agree, don't just throw serious accusations like that out there with no evidence, if it's legititimately happening then more detail/evidence would be nice
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Capulet
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Canada686 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1627
On June 05 2012 12:51 pigmanbear wrote:
By CatZ and Illusion's reasoning, I'm a hacker ... the only obvious thing is his scan on Shakuras before he's scouted spawns ... that is enough to make me think that streamcheat or hack is going on.


Assuming you're a high level player, then yes, if you did exactly what Spades did, then by their standards you're a hacker.

Catz and his crew dished out a lot of support for their claims, but a few of them I didn't find too convincing. However, the majority of the arguments were rather convincing.
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DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1628
On June 05 2012 12:56 cArn- wrote:
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On June 05 2012 12:48 Mortal wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:46 Jono7272 wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:44 cArn- wrote:
ok about the siege on the natural, he gets scanned, has mid watch tower, how the fuck can you not understand the very basic thinking that has been made there what the fuck seriously.

There is no reason to have your units at the front when the path to the front is seen by the watch tower, god that's the same thing as being prepared for drops becuase you have map control and can see frontal attacks come... I'm done with this, I feel really sad for anyone who can be convinced by this

Aren't you meant to play Terran at a high level? And you're not even slightly suspicious about any of his play? Of the countless things they have shown? What the fuck.


I would never say a pro player knew less than I did, but I don't really understand how cArn can even begin to think this is legit play. It's right in front of your face to be honest.


I didn't see everything I jumped in the middle of it, but all I saw was nothing you can rely on... The fact that they use that defense on Entombed when he moves his tank to siege after getting scanned gives me a pretty good idea of what kind of things they used to try to prove it... I saw some of Antiga and same, it was just basic guessing and some luck.

People are just taking those claims for truth because some kind of known people are bored and "analyse" and explain why he hacks with confidence, that's all. Not surprised people buy it, it's easy to give too much credibility in this situation

Did you see the scan + the camera locks?
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1629
Wow, this is really serious. Just went through that entire timeline post in the modnote and I can honestly say that I'm pretty ambivalent. I'm definitely no pro so I can only take the words of others. I hope dearly that Spades turns out not to be cheating in the end, because this could be career-ending especially after his BW transgressions :/
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Phobbers
Profile Joined May 2011
773 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1630
On June 05 2012 12:54 veKtory wrote:
Anyone backing Spades want to explain him pulling his Marines back on Emtombed without seeing the tanks siege?

It's pretty typical to pull marines back in a TvT because auto assume their tanks are sieged. But that is me just attempting to voice a devil's advocate stance. I personally feel after the Catz+company CSI action, really really hard to say he was playing legit.
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Crowned
Profile Joined August 2011
United States368 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1631
On June 05 2012 12:56 cArn- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:48 Mortal wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:46 Jono7272 wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:44 cArn- wrote:
ok about the siege on the natural, he gets scanned, has mid watch tower, how the fuck can you not understand the very basic thinking that has been made there what the fuck seriously.

There is no reason to have your units at the front when the path to the front is seen by the watch tower, god that's the same thing as being prepared for drops becuase you have map control and can see frontal attacks come... I'm done with this, I feel really sad for anyone who can be convinced by this

Aren't you meant to play Terran at a high level? And you're not even slightly suspicious about any of his play? Of the countless things they have shown? What the fuck.


I would never say a pro player knew less than I did, but I don't really understand how cArn can even begin to think this is legit play. It's right in front of your face to be honest.


I didn't see everything I jumped in the middle of it, but all I saw was nothing you can rely on... The fact that they use that defense on Entombed when he moves his tank to siege after getting scanned gives me a pretty good idea of what kind of things they used to try to prove it... I saw some of Antiga and same, it was just basic guessing and some luck.

People are just taking those claims for truth because some kind of known people are bored and "analyse" and explain why he hacks with confidence, that's all. Not surprised people buy it, it's easy to give too much credibility in this situation


and never ever looking into the fog of war during the showmatch? But always looking into it in the 50 ladder games?
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-Kaiser-
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada932 Posts
June 05 2012 03:57 GMT
#1632
People who are saying the CatZ stream sounds biased are forgetting that they reviewed all of the replays beforehand and reached a conclusion so that they knew what to analyze when they came on air.
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Scisyhp
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States200 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1633
On June 05 2012 12:34 listal wrote:
it's unfortunate to see piles of circumstantial evidence piled up against a player be taken as concluding a player's guilt. it doesn't help that several respected players that were biased going into their investigation are presenting it to 4000 viewers. while some of what they are talking about is sketchy, an equal bit is actually ridiculous to outline as conclusive evidence.

the damage has been done to Spades' reputation without actually having proven anything. this is sad to see.


If you think there was only circumstantial evidence you need to pay more attention.
Greenei
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany1754 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1634
wow the evidence is pressing.
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memcpy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States459 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1635
Wasn't entirely convinced by anything in the replays, including the "magic scans" because of replay camera inaccuracies but the comparison between the hacking and non-hacking replays with the fog of war made it pretty obvious.

On June 05 2012 12:54 Sideburn wrote:
I'm not defending Spades. To be honest, if I had to put money on it, I would chalk it up to him hacking. This is based on him never checking the fog of war, his past history, and his questionable responses in this thread.

That being said, the absolute bullshit going on on Catz stream and in this thread pisses me off nearly as much as his alleged hacking. Conjecture and suspicion can NEVER be taken as "concrete" evidence. You can certainly say that all of these things suggest his guilt, but Catz has just straight up declared he is hacking and you are a fucking retard if you disagree. People, pros included, are just frothing at the mouth to publicly crucify this guy. What if he was/is innocent? This whole incident would still ruin his career.

This whole incident is intensely saddening for me, not because an insignificant pro is cheating, but because of the manner in which the community responded to it.


I agree that the whole situation was handled pretty poorly but just curious, what do you propose should have been done to determine whether or not he is guilty?
Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1636
Thanks for CatZ and company for doing such a service to the community in exposing a pro gamer who is hacking.

Once a hacker, always a hacker.
Vathus
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada404 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-05 03:58:48
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1637
On June 05 2012 12:55 ch33psh33p wrote:
That siege on the cliff on Emtombed versus Lucifron?

How can you possibly fucking explain that.


That + the pull back from the 3rd to the main on tal'darim, the magic scans + never looking in fow, and the army movements on antiga. It seems blatant.
Neurosis
Profile Joined October 2010
United States893 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1638
On June 05 2012 12:43 WHyTePoWeR wrote:
seems like he hacked based on never looking at fog, just doesnt add up


Yep, that's just not possible for a high level player to pull off. Either he always looks through the fog to scan, rally, send units, whatever, or he always uses the minimap to do such things. In the show matches he was presumably using only the minimap (in other words, cheating) but in other replays he was playing normal. 100 percent he was cheating.
WHyTePoWeR
Profile Joined May 2012
Korea (South)132 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1639
On June 05 2012 12:52 LgN.EijZrA wrote:
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On June 05 2012 12:41 WHyTePoWeR wrote:
On June 05 2012 12:40 LgN.EijZrA wrote:
What's your defense for sending an SCV and not look at it when scouting?

How did you know he expanded? You don't lead with your tanks not knowing he doesn't have any of his own. You can't defend this. This isn't even Diamond level of play. This is blatant map-hacking.


Isn't lgn notorious for map hacking?


Wait what? LOL

LgN is not LG.

You're thinking of LG, but those two members were removed. XD


LOL my bad TT sorry about that
veKtory
Profile Joined June 2012
233 Posts
June 05 2012 03:58 GMT
#1640
On June 05 2012 12:56 CortoMontez wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2012 12:54 veKtory wrote:
Anyone backing Spades want to explain him pulling his Marines back on Emtombed without seeing the tanks siege?

Watch any GSL level TvT and pulling back units when only vikings are visible is a common occurance.


Why did he stim to run after them in the first place and pull back for no reason then?
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