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Kim Phan released a statement regarding WCS players Krr, iAsonu and XY and their violations of the World Championship Series Player Handbook Code of Conduct and Battle.net Account conduct policies.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/13423452444#1
Kim Phan
Blizzard Employee
Two instances of player misconduct have come to our attention during the past month of StarCraft II competition that involve players participating in the World Championship Series. Both infractions represent a clear violation of the World Championship Series Player Handbook Code of Conduct and Battle.net Account conduct policies.
We take any misconduct that compromises the integrity of play in StarCraft II very seriously and hold the players of the World Championship Series to the highest standard.
‘Krr’ - WCS Europe
The WCS Europe Challenger player Krr was reported for playing under a second account in the StarCraft II league SC2 Improve Team League. Upon further investigation Blizzard has found Krr to be in violation of the collusion and match fixing section of the WCS Player Code of Conduct per his actions in the SC2 Improve Team League. In addition, we fully investigated Krr’s use of other players' StarCraft II accounts and found grounds for suspension.
Krr will be suspended from WCS Europe for Season 3 and will be suspended from the WCS Global Finals should he earn enough points to otherwise qualify. If there are no further instances of misconduct, Krr will be eligible to compete in the 2015 seasons of WCS.
To replace Krr’s Season 3 WCS Europe Challenger spot, the WCS Europe Ladder Wildcard Qualifier will contain one additional qualification spot this season.
‘iAsonu’ and ‘XY’
iAsonu recently qualified for WCS America Season 3, and XY participated in the past WCS America events and the Americas server ladder. Players on the Americas server reported win trading between the two players, which constitutes a clear violation of the WCS Player Code of Conduct and degrade the quality of competition on the Americas server. Win trading is an exploit, which falls under the Cheating subsection of the Player Code of Conduct. After investigating both iAsonu and XY’s accounts, we found significant win trading with the goal of reaching an eligible number of wins for the WCS Ladder Wildcard Qualifier. While iAsonu already held WCS Challenger status, he is not indemnified and was complicit in cheating.
iAsonu and XY will be suspended from WCS America for Season 3 and will be suspended from the Global Finals should either player earn enough points to otherwise qualify. iAsonu and XY will be eligible to compete in the 2015 seasons of WCS.
To replace iAsonu's Season 3 WCS America Challenger spot, a playoff match between the 3rd and 4th place players of the WCS America, China Qualifier will take place at a later date.
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Good, appropriate punishment.
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Can't have a week without drama...
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The worst part about this, is none of them needed to do it, All three of these players are easily challenger level players and possibly premier in their regions. Don't break the rules kids.
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Well, atleast they are showing there will be punishments for cheating. And this is some serious punishment.
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On July 12 2014 04:31 LongShot27 wrote:
The worst part about this, is none of them needed to do it, All three of these players are easily challenger level players and possibly premier in their regions. Don't break the rules kids.
Yeah, and IAsonu and Krr's cheating had NOTHING to do with WCS. Krr was cheating in a teamleague and IAsonu did not need the wins anyway, since he won the chinese qualifier.
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Edison's gonna be breaking some skulls tonight.
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On July 12 2014 04:25 Cokefreak wrote:
Can't have a week without drama...
Can it really be considered "Drama" when it's a professional response from a ruling authority about a violation of rules? Seems pretty standard, to me, nothing to be dramatic about.
Kinda curious about the spot being freed up in WCS EU. Why add it to the wildcard qualifier and not one of the EU Qualifiers?
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wow Blizzard woke up ?? Good news they will ban all maphackers tomorrow !!
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Honestly it hardly matters at this point.
The whole 'make ladder better' rule-set was ignored so often that you might as well forget about it.
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On July 12 2014 04:34 lantz wrote:
wow Blizzard woke up ?? Good news they will ban all maphackers tomorrow !!
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User was warned for this post
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Don't really understand, what SC2I has to do with WCS. Not that I like matchfixing, but can the rules be applied to unrelated competitions? Could they be applied to ... don't know ... Hearthstone cheating as well?
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feel like catching maphackers are more urgent of an issue if Blizzard cared so much about justice
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too hard to 11/11 350games zzz
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On July 12 2014 04:41 xYc wrote:
Don't really understand, what SC2I has to do with WCS. Not that I like matchfixing, but can the rules be applied to unrelated competitions? Could they be applied to ... don't know ... Hearthstone cheating as well?
You don't understand what sc2 has to do with WCS?
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On July 12 2014 04:44 Zenbrez wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2014 04:41 xYc wrote:
Don't really understand, what SC2I has to do with WCS. Not that I like matchfixing, but can the rules be applied to unrelated competitions? Could they be applied to ... don't know ... Hearthstone cheating as well? You don't understand what sc2 has to do with WCS?
try to read more carefully
he said sc2l
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On July 12 2014 04:41 xYc wrote:
Don't really understand, what SC2I has to do with WCS. Not that I like matchfixing, but can the rules be applied to unrelated competitions? Could they be applied to ... don't know ... Hearthstone cheating as well?
They violated battle.net terms, blizzard hands out the punishment for that. They should not have tried to cheat in any tournament.
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On July 12 2014 04:48 Paljas wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2014 04:44 Zenbrez wrote:On July 12 2014 04:41 xYc wrote:
Don't really understand, what SC2I has to do with WCS. Not that I like matchfixing, but can the rules be applied to unrelated competitions? Could they be applied to ... don't know ... Hearthstone cheating as well? You don't understand what sc2 has to do with WCS? try to read more carefully he said sc2l
and derived onto hearthsone while blizz statement clearly mentionned which rules have been infringed.
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