Now Announcing, Breaking Out NA Season 2! - Page 3

On February 09 2014 11:17 Smurfett3 wrote:
isn't the next ladder lock a week before the season ends, so in march?

On February 09 2014 10:48 desRow wrote:
Tried to apply, looking forward to see who's gonna be competing this season!

On February 09 2014 11:10 feardragon wrote:
Ok so I've taken a very very thrurough look at PiLiPiLi's profile on battle.net. Based on what I have seen, PiLiPiLi will not be able to qualify for Breaking Out through the ladder qualification proccess. He will still be able to qualify through the tournament qualifiers being held, and considered for the invites.

So here's the logic behind this decision. PiLiPiLi's SC2 account is sitting in GM at an incredibly high spot right now. Due to these forfeits that have happened 3-25 seconds into a match, PiLiPiLi's account has gained a distinct and undeniable advantage over everyone else trying to qualify right now. Here are some of the findings.
1) The total extra points earned in the past 3-4 days from these forfeits are at least 327. For reference, the difference between the number one placing registered player and the 7th is about 250.
2) These match forfeits happened over the course of multiple days. This makes it seem unlikely that it was mere coincidence that PiLiPiLi kept hitting these players after requeue'ing up.
3) The two players forfeitting to PiLiPiLi were not seen forfeiting to anyone else. After combing through every game in their past week, I couldn't find any forfeits to a player besides PiLiPiLi. This makes it seem less likely that the forfeits were due to frustration with a particular race, etc. as both accounts(a barcode and another account named miku) played against various other Protoss players and won/lost.

These facts make the whole situation incredibly suspect. However, as I mentioned in a previous post, intention is very difficult to prove in these situations. Unfortunately, videos are not available on PiLiPiLi's channel from the times where those games were played(expired) so his defense is difficult to check. It's very difficult to dispute that PiLiPiLi was being targeted, but it's very difficult to make the judgement call that he was involved in it. It could have been a helpful friend acting on smurf accounts. It could have been a malicious person trying to make PiLiPiLi look bad. Maybe it was just pure coincidence. For that reason, I am making the decision not to ban PiLiPiLi completely from Breaking Out, but just from the ladder qualification.

It's regretable that this situation arose but it is something that will continue to be one of the concerns with using the ladder as a means to qualify. However, I'm still very happy with how the ladder qualifications have gone so far and think that the pro's have outweighed the cons in using it. My biggest regret is that I didn't do a better job keeping an updated ranking as Shoutcraft does with the ladder qualifications to build some hype. This is something I've never done before so I'll be sure to learn from my mistakes and make things better in the future.

With that being said, only 3 hours left until ladder lock! I know a lot of the players are still hard at laddering! I wish them the best of luck as we find out soon who are going to be the 4 players joining Phog on the show. =]

On February 09 2014 15:10 feardragon wrote:
Ok guys! The final update for the first 5 qualification spots is here! Here are the qualified players:
[IvD] Phog(Z)
[CORE] Believe
[Clarity] rebOrn(P)
[Dust] sWs(P)
[Deimos] Siphonn(Z)

Congrats to all of these players! They all deserve it! I'll be making a more formal post soon about this!

On February 09 2014 15:35 Smurfett3 wrote:

your OP says 4

On February 09 2014 15:35 Smurfett3 wrote:

your OP says 4

On February 09 2014 15:38 TechNoTrance wrote:


Phog won the first qualifier tournament.

On February 09 2014 16:16 SaroVati wrote:
This was an amazing tournament last season, good luck to all the participants qualifying / qualified! Let's hope some cool NA players are featured and we get a sick season-end tournament

On February 19 2014 09:09 TheRealNanMan wrote:
Don't forget guys the second and final qualifier goes live at 7pm EST this Friday(Sign up if you haven't already)!

Also the VOD's from the 1st qualifier are now live on YT!
+ Show Spoiler +

On February 22 2014 12:42 iAmJeffReY wrote:
Kinda silly you don't invite hendralisk to this and make him qual. Watching that last series, it wasn't at all close and seemed like a complete joke of a series.

On February 22 2014 13:10 EJK wrote:

i agree they weren't cut throat games like the ones i played before, to be honest i didn't actually plan on making it to the finals and got kinda nervous I was there. Then I wasn't used to some of his strategies and just got rolled over, shit happens