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VeraLynn; GM fraud - Page 35
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Advantageous
China1350 Posts
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DeathAngel[ro]
Romania79 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:51 Enzymatic wrote: Thought her coaching was "Free"?? I'm calling bs. You could have very well been receiving a hand in of the coaching profit for helping her make a name for herself. I'm seeing a lot of playing stupid coming from your post. you paid coaching from her ? | ||
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Abenson
Canada4122 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:49 DeathAngel[ro] wrote: + Show Spoiler + Hello everyone This is DeathAngel 1st : hats of to KawaiiRice , very smart and observant guy and nice job in studying all the stuff , remember playing you on both accounts on ladder , you being fateofseven on EU server 2nd : yea.. I'm a scumbag and I played on other ppl accounts , I also play on some smurfs too not only on my nick , just to try different strategies etc. 3rd : I am very sorry to everyone affected by this , I basically played on someone's else account , make it into GM .. wich seems ok , like a smurf for me.. but the effects were very bad it seems I am very sorry for this , but I played legit starcraft , not map hackign or something .. I am interested in the competitive aspect of the game.. and I never got the chance to play in any showmatch on my own.. never got invited.. was amazed when I found out that there are so many ppl interested to see a girl play.. so I accepted to play.. wich is bad.. I am such a scumbag.. I should just refuse it.. I also hurt some ppl it seems , I just wanted to play some good matches of sc2 in wich seemed a friendly showmatch .. I just wanted to see if I am skilled enough to beat someone good in a showmatch . What can I say.. I shouldn't done that.. I would also feel bad if someone would come pretending to be someone else and beating me.. feels bad , but I had no interest in scamming someone or put them to get coaching from veralynn. I just played on her account as a smurf of mine , and now I feel kind of dumb hearing ppl paid coaching lessons.. I thought there was only free coaching cause I would see free coaching all the time when I was looking at her stream , I am pretty sure there must be some misunderstanding regarding this. Feel sorry ppl were so naive , but that must be a lesson also , why would you take lessons from a girl just because she is gm , and also , don't you see that the coaching is not GM level ? or maybe the coaching was good and deserved the money.. I have no ideea and I feel very sorry if the things were like this. I should also play only my own account from now on , I am not interested in scamming ppl for money or other stuff like that.. I am a legit player and I can play and win showmatches against those players on my own , also I can coach on my own and give good coaching and good advices , what I did was stupid and didn't benefit me in any way . I really feel sorry , I just wanted to play some good games , my intentions were good.. but.. stuff happens.. such a sick life.. I trully feel very sorry for the guys that were upset to have lost to a ,,girl'' , you guys actually lost to me . Also very sorry for my english. It's 5am and I am tired. I am kind of a guy that sold a gun to a random guy on the street then realising the crime PS . Never thrust women , they are evil. What he did was definitely not right, but I can't help but feel a bit sorry for him. He's a guy that wants to make it big, and was offered this chance through a proxy, and naturally he took it. | ||
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:55 Angry.Zerg wrote: Oh well, it seems this should be removed too: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Veralynn Nah, I think instead of removing it, just have it show one word, "Fraud". | ||
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alundra_aiei
United States34 Posts
I first became aware of VeraLynn back in June, when I saw her female-sounding name listed under the Live Streams on TL. At the time, I was an admin for Girls of StarCraft (not the same group wants_to_die mentioned), so I joined her stream chat to invite her to join the group. When she saw my invitation, she ended up ranting at me for quite awhile, making several false assumptions about GoSC*. In her rant, one thing she mentioned was that she wanted to succeed in the SC2 community on her own merits, and did not want to use the fact that she was female to further herself. That same evening, I saw that she was advertising herself on both Reddit and TL as a "female GM." I don't actually find anything wrong with saying you're a girl, but ugh, hypocrisy. Then she ends up hiring someone to ladder for her and to play in her tournaments and showmatches? Way to earn your success based upon your own merits. Just plain pathetic. During her rant, she also claimed she was against all-female tournaments. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that "VeraLynn" ended up playing in an all-female tournament awhile back, and that "she" won without dropping a match. She later said in an interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpC4olob6DU&feature=youtu.be) that she did it for the 100 Euro prize pool, and also to gain experience and comfort with playing in tournaments**. Awesome, more hypocrisy. In the interview she ended up essentially mocking the girls she played against (I don't think many or any of the top female players were actually playing in it, btw) which is really rude and disrespectful in itself, but was she even the one who beat these girls? What a scumbag. From what some other people are saying, it sounds like VeraLynn has some level of talent, at least in business. Perhaps she also had some actual SC2 knowledge and playing ability that she could have continued to develop on her own if she had given it some more time. Perhaps she could have legitimately succeeded by her own merits. But instead, she threw it all away, choosing to be a cheater and a scammer. She has certainly ruined her own image, but I hope that what she has done doesn't reflect poorly upon other females of the community. It is such a huge shame what she has done. * A few of the false assumptions she made: 1) Apparently all 450+ people in the group joined because they want attention and fame for being female. No >_< 2) All the girls are segregating themselves and being in the group means they aren't active elsewhere in the SC2, gaming, and eSports communities. Not true, just the opposite in many cases. 3) GoSC = Girls tournaments. See below. ** I think GoSC has hosted a few all-female tournaments over the past year or so, but not everyone in the group participates in them or even supports the concept. Also, one of the main purposes of female-only tournaments is to encourage females to start competing and to give them some tournament experience / confidence, so i guess the purpose was served here.... Or I guess not, if it was DA playing.... >> | ||
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Enzymatic
Canada1301 Posts
No, but it was universally known that she was advertising paid coaching.. I don't see how you can play on someones account and conspire to play showmatches for them.. And not know they have a paid coaching service. I'm not trying to throw false accusations at you dude.. It just seems highly unlikely of you actually not being aware she was receiving money for coaching.. Thats all I'm saying. Why would you be completely cool with Veralynn receiving the credit for beating all of those players when it was really you who played? Wouldn't that upset you? And wouldn't you also be upset with giving some girl so much publicity for being so "good", and allowing her to make a good amount of money from coaching when those wins that generated her publicity were really YOUR wins? That's why it makes me think you were receiving some kind of "royalties" in return.. For example, receiving a % from her coaching, etc. But props to you for at least coming out. | ||
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tianGO
Argentina591 Posts
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Moosegills
United States558 Posts
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
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Clarity_nl
Netherlands6826 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:58 tianGO wrote: Haha, so the moral of the story is "Never thrust women , they are evil" ? Do not trust. Thrust is okay. Sad story though  Wish it wasn't true. Oh well. | ||
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onPHYRE
Bulgaria888 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:49 DeathAngel[ro] wrote: Hello everyone This is DeathAngel 1st : hats of to KawaiiRice , very smart and observant guy and nice job in studying all the stuff , remember playing you on both accounts on ladder , you being fateofseven on EU server 2nd : yea.. I'm a scumbag and I played on other ppl accounts , I also play on some smurfs too not only on my nick , just to try different strategies etc. 3rd : I am very sorry to everyone affected by this , I basically played on someone's else account , make it into GM .. wich seems ok , like a smurf for me.. but the effects were very bad it seems I am very sorry for this , but I played legit starcraft , not map hackign or something .. I am interested in the competitive aspect of the game.. and I never got the chance to play in any showmatch on my own.. never got invited.. was amazed when I found out that there are so many ppl interested to see a girl play.. so I accepted to play.. wich is bad.. I am such a scumbag.. I should just refuse it.. I also hurt some ppl it seems , I just wanted to play some good matches of sc2 in wich seemed a friendly showmatch .. I just wanted to see if I am skilled enough to beat someone good in a showmatch . What can I say.. I shouldn't done that.. I would also feel bad if someone would come pretending to be someone else and beating me.. feels bad , but I had no interest in scamming someone or put them to get coaching from veralynn. I just played on her account as a smurf of mine , and now I feel kind of dumb hearing ppl paid coaching lessons.. I thought there was only free coaching cause I would see free coaching all the time when I was looking at her stream , I am pretty sure there must be some misunderstanding regarding this. Feel sorry ppl were so naive , but that must be a lesson also , why would you take lessons from a girl just because she is gm , and also , don't you see that the coaching is not GM level ? or maybe the coaching was good and deserved the money.. I have no ideea and I feel very sorry if the things were like this. I should also play only my own account from now on , I am not interested in scamming ppl for money or other stuff like that.. I am a legit player and I can play and win showmatches against those players on my own , also I can coach on my own and give good coaching and good advices , what I did was stupid and didn't benefit me in any way . I really feel sorry , I just wanted to play some good games , my intentions were good.. but.. stuff happens.. such a sick life.. I trully feel very sorry for the guys that were upset to have lost to a ,,girl'' , you guys actually lost to me . Also very sorry for my english. It's 5am and I am tired. I am kind of a guy that sold a gun to a random guy on the street then realising the crime PS . Never thrust women , they are evil. I wouldn't imagine ending your entire statement with a comment which paints all women in a negative light will get you much sympathy here... | ||
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MooMooMugi
United States10531 Posts
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UTL_Unlimited
Korea (South)353 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:49 DeathAngel[ro] wrote: Hello everyone This is DeathAngel 1st : hats of to KawaiiRice , very smart and observant guy and nice job in studying all the stuff , remember playing you on both accounts on ladder , you being fateofseven on EU server 2nd : yea.. I'm a scumbag and I played on other ppl accounts , I also play on some smurfs too not only on my nick , just to try different strategies etc. 3rd : I am very sorry to everyone affected by this , I basically played on someone's else account , make it into GM .. wich seems ok , like a smurf for me.. but the effects were very bad it seems I am very sorry for this , but I played legit starcraft , not map hackign or something .. I am interested in the competitive aspect of the game.. and I never got the chance to play in any showmatch on my own.. never got invited.. was amazed when I found out that there are so many ppl interested to see a girl play.. so I accepted to play.. wich is bad.. I am such a scumbag.. I should just refuse it.. I also hurt some ppl it seems , I just wanted to play some good matches of sc2 in wich seemed a friendly showmatch .. I just wanted to see if I am skilled enough to beat someone good in a showmatch . What can I say.. I shouldn't done that.. I would also feel bad if someone would come pretending to be someone else and beating me.. feels bad , but I had no interest in scamming someone or put them to get coaching from veralynn. I just played on her account as a smurf of mine , and now I feel kind of dumb hearing ppl paid coaching lessons.. I thought there was only free coaching cause I would see free coaching all the time when I was looking at her stream , I am pretty sure there must be some misunderstanding regarding this. Feel sorry ppl were so naive , but that must be a lesson also , why would you take lessons from a girl just because she is gm , and also , don't you see that the coaching is not GM level ? or maybe the coaching was good and deserved the money.. I have no ideea and I feel very sorry if the things were like this. I should also play only my own account from now on , I am not interested in scamming ppl for money or other stuff like that.. I am a legit player and I can play and win showmatches against those players on my own , also I can coach on my own and give good coaching and good advices , what I did was stupid and didn't benefit me in any way . I really feel sorry , I just wanted to play some good games , my intentions were good.. but.. stuff happens.. such a sick life.. I trully feel very sorry for the guys that were upset to have lost to a ,,girl'' , you guys actually lost to me . Also very sorry for my english. It's 5am and I am tired. I am kind of a guy that sold a gun to a random guy on the street then realising the crime PS . Never thrust women , they are evil. Thank you for the response DeathAngel! But I guess I just have a few questions regarding the issue because of your smurf point. Why would you play showmatches under a smurf? You legitimately beat Desrow, Sjow, Tarson, and others but because you played under another name, you couldn't get credit for it. Veralynn was openly stating that it was her account and when you won the showmatches under that name, she got the credit, not you. So I am just confused about that line of logic. Oh, and I'm sorry but when you said "Never thrust women, they are evil" I laughed haha. Trust is the word you're looking for. Thrust is when you physically insert yourself into another woman and have baby making acts. :D (This is not to bash on your English, I just want to make sure you don't make the mistake again for future purposes.) It's 5AM for you so I hope that you can at least sleep well! | ||
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Badfatpanda
United States9719 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:49 DeathAngel[ro] wrote: Hello everyone This is DeathAngel 1st : hats of to KawaiiRice , very smart and observant guy and nice job in studying all the stuff , remember playing you on both accounts on ladder , you being fateofseven on EU server 2nd : yea.. I'm a scumbag and I played on other ppl accounts , I also play on some smurfs too not only on my nick , just to try different strategies etc. 3rd : I am very sorry to everyone affected by this , I basically played on someone's else account , make it into GM .. wich seems ok , like a smurf for me.. but the effects were very bad it seems I am very sorry for this , but I played legit starcraft , not map hackign or something .. I am interested in the competitive aspect of the game.. and I never got the chance to play in any showmatch on my own.. never got invited.. was amazed when I found out that there are so many ppl interested to see a girl play.. so I accepted to play.. wich is bad.. I am such a scumbag.. I should just refuse it.. I also hurt some ppl it seems , I just wanted to play some good matches of sc2 in wich seemed a friendly showmatch .. I just wanted to see if I am skilled enough to beat someone good in a showmatch . What can I say.. I shouldn't done that.. I would also feel bad if someone would come pretending to be someone else and beating me.. feels bad , but I had no interest in scamming someone or put them to get coaching from veralynn. I just played on her account as a smurf of mine , and now I feel kind of dumb hearing ppl paid coaching lessons.. I thought there was only free coaching cause I would see free coaching all the time when I was looking at her stream , I am pretty sure there must be some misunderstanding regarding this. Feel sorry ppl were so naive , but that must be a lesson also , why would you take lessons from a girl just because she is gm , and also , don't you see that the coaching is not GM level ? or maybe the coaching was good and deserved the money.. I have no ideea and I feel very sorry if the things were like this. I should also play only my own account from now on , I am not interested in scamming ppl for money or other stuff like that.. I am a legit player and I can play and win showmatches against those players on my own , also I can coach on my own and give good coaching and good advices , what I did was stupid and didn't benefit me in any way . I really feel sorry , I just wanted to play some good games , my intentions were good.. but.. stuff happens.. such a sick life.. I trully feel very sorry for the guys that were upset to have lost to a ,,girl'' , you guys actually lost to me . Also very sorry for my english. It's 5am and I am tired. I am kind of a guy that sold a gun to a random guy on the street then realising the crime PS . Never thrust women , they are evil. Thank you. Very much, I really appreciate you coming forward with this. There will never be any statement other than Vera's herself to confirm or deny this with certainty, but this is at least tangible. | ||
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ROOTFayth
Canada3351 Posts
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Fionn
United States23455 Posts
PS . Never thrust women , they are evil. Oh, okay. | ||
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thebigdonkey
United States354 Posts
On September 25 2012 10:57 alundra_aiei wrote: Shame, shame, shame. I first became aware of VeraLynn back in June, when I saw her female-sounding name listed under the Live Streams on TL. At the time, I was an admin for Girls of StarCraft (not the same group wants_to_die mentioned), so I joined her stream chat to invite her to join the group. When she saw my invitation, she ended up ranting at me for quite awhile, making several false assumptions about GoSC*. In her rant, one thing she mentioned was that she wanted to succeed in the SC2 community on her own merits, and did not want to use the fact that she was female to further herself. That same evening, I saw that she was advertising herself on both Reddit and TL as a "female GM." I don't actually find anything wrong with saying you're a girl, but ugh, hypocrisy. Then she ends up hiring someone to ladder for her and to play in her tournaments and showmatches? Way to earn your success based upon your own merits. Just plain pathetic. During her rant, she also claimed she was against all-female tournaments. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that "VeraLynn" ended up playing in an all-female tournament awhile back, and that "she" won without dropping a match. She later said in an interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpC4olob6DU&feature=youtu.be) that she did it for the 100 Euro prize pool, and also to gain experience and comfort with playing in tournaments**. Awesome, more hypocrisy. In the interview she ended up essentially mocking the girls she played against (I don't think many or any of the top female players were actually playing in it, btw) which is really rude and disrespectful in itself, but was she even the one who beat these girls? What a scumbag. From what some other people are saying, it sounds like VeraLynn has some level of talent, at least in business. Perhaps she also had some actual SC2 knowledge and playing ability that she could have continued to develop on her own if she had given it some more time. Perhaps she could have legitimately succeeded by her own merits. But instead, she threw it all away, choosing to be a cheater and a scammer. She has certainly ruined her own image, but I hope that what she has done doesn't reflect poorly upon other females of the community. It is such a huge shame what she has done. * A few of the false assumptions she made: 1) Apparently all 450+ people in the group joined because they want attention and fame for being female. No >_< 2) All the girls are segregating themselves and being in the group means they aren't active elsewhere in the SC2, gaming, and eSports communities. Not true, just the opposite in many cases. 3) GoSC = Girls tournaments. See below. ** I think GoSC has hosted a few all-female tournaments over the past year or so, but not everyone in the group participates in them or even supports the concept. Also, one of the main purposes of female-only tournaments is to encourage females to start competing and to give them some tournament experience / confidence, so i guess the purpose was served here.... Or I guess not, if it was DA playing.... >> Does she have a smurf named "MittRomney" by chance? | ||
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GT350
United States270 Posts
What tipped you off? When did you start suspecting something was up? | ||
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Wafflelisk
Canada1061 Posts
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sewergoat
United States97 Posts
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