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Waxangel
United States33711 Posts
SpoTV put up a caption before the matches saying the measure was in order to promote "clean esports culture," which is the broadcast appropriate way of saying "to counteract illegal betting and/or match-fixing." While illegal Korean betting sites offer standard winner/loser bets, more complicated bets involving the length of a match have been said to have gained popularity as well. In a match-fixing context, such bets would have a smaller chance of detection than straight up win/loss fixing. ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Waxangel/noclockpl.jpg) | ||
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
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olimoley
United States742 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33711 Posts
On July 27 2015 20:04 ROOTiaguz wrote: Can't they just time the games from home anyway? right but you can't exactly go to your bookie and say "I won the bet according to MY MEASUREMENTS AT HOME WHICH ARE WAY MORE ACCURATE THAN YOURS" | ||
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Quateras
Germany867 Posts
To be honest though i absolutely do not care one bit if i can see the ingame clock or not. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES51706 Posts
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SuperHofmann
Italy1741 Posts
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19398 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
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NasusAndDraven
359 Posts
Btw korean sports channels not show game time or something. With my zerod expertese on the subject ill give the verdict that the decision was shit. | ||
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graNite
Germany4434 Posts
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GTR
51706 Posts
On July 27 2015 20:41 graNite wrote: Why is it even possible to bet on a game that is already playing? they can't. they are prop bets that people bet on before games start. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On July 27 2015 20:05 Waxangel wrote: right but you can't exactly go to your bookie and say "I won the bet according to MY MEASUREMENTS AT HOME WHICH ARE WAY MORE ACCURATE THAN YOURS" And the bookie can also say : "nope it was 05:01 not before 05:00 so fuck you i keep the money (even if it was really 04:59 but you can't tell fucker)" especially because Blizzard's seconds | ||
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graNite
Germany4434 Posts
On July 27 2015 20:44 GTR wrote: they can't. they are prop bets that people bet on before games start. what does the removal of the ingame clock change then? | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On July 27 2015 20:50 graNite wrote: what does the removal of the ingame clock change then? I think the idea is that the bookmakers can't know for sure if a unit died before the 5 minutes mark, for example. Thus they can't accept bets of this type. | ||
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Jathin
United States3505 Posts
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
But hey it's something i guess Viewers don't need the clock, so it doesn't matter anways | ||
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Grollicus
Germany287 Posts
On July 27 2015 21:20 Jathin wrote: The change does nothing to affect the core problem: illegal gambling. Gamblers will simply adapt their bets to another aspect of the game. Kind of silly change imo. Actually thats good promo i guess.. | ||
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TRaFFiC
Canada1448 Posts
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