We know this is a crazy and sensitive issue, especially since Life is the most high profile player to be caught up in an "investigation". But please stay calm and refrain from slandering players until we have more information. Egregious posts will be dealt with accordingly.
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
Probably wanted to get rid of association as soon as possible.
well both teams claim they had no knowledge of this, and frankly if afreeca found out KT knew he was under investigation and didn't divulge, couldn't the trade be nullified by kespa? like in american sports i believe you have to disclose injuries to players you're trying to trade
life will play next friday. thats what they said on todays GSL stream.
Well this thread is more interesting than my thesis, sure. I just hope that some clarification will arrive rather sooner than later so that I can continue to study and ppl can chill.
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
They traded him for Leenock and it's also not really all that strange if you know KT Rolster, they are a team that value Proleague above Individual League's. Life was never the best player in Proleague (52% win rate with 12-11 in games, 0-1 in ace match last proleague) or GSTL generally. Leenock on the other hand had a much better winrate in Proleague last season (61% with 11-7 in games, 1-1 in ace match). Hence why for KT, Leenock is looking better then Life for their win chance in Proleague.
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
Probably wanted to get rid of association as soon as possible.
well both teams claim they had no knowledge of this, and frankly if afreeca found out KT knew he was under investigation and didn't divulge, couldn't the trade be nullified by kespa? like in american sports i believe you have to disclose injuries to players you're trying to trade
life will play next friday. thats what they said on todays GSL stream.
kespa can't know that he will play unless the police inform kespa that he isn't being charged, and if that were the case kespa would have said in their statement "he is not being charged" instead of being defensive about the possibility of fixing
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
The trade involved Life and Leenock though, what Losira has to do with this?
tbh i mix up leenock and losira all the time
... one is called cat zerg and has like 1500 APM, the other has purple hair, easy to tell them apart
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
Probably wanted to get rid of association as soon as possible.
well both teams claim they had no knowledge of this, and frankly if afreeca found out KT knew he was under investigation and didn't divulge, couldn't the trade be nullified by kespa? like in american sports i believe you have to disclose injuries to players you're trying to trade
While that might be true, we don't really know the details of the deal. Could be something weird that would lead to just Life joining Afreeca would be nullified.
Though if KT knew, KeSPA knew, and KeSPA should have interfered back then, theoretically.
I believe, innocent until proven otherwise. Also listening to Don't Stop Believing might be a good thing right now And I'm surprised with how calm I am right now, 5 hours after reading this... ahh... but I'm also very afraid
On January 30 2016 00:59 Tiaraju9 wrote: The foreigner scene all worried about the korean scene while half of these fuckers are probably matchfixing.
I know this is a stupid thing to say but the whole situation is so obnoxious.
i don't think it's stupid, i think about this possibility a lot. it's possible that the entire scene is just dominated by this sort of thing and that "clean" players are less common than we think. no way for us to prove this from our bedrooms, but i think it's naive to not even CONSIDER it. the whole system could be fucked as far as i know
On January 30 2016 00:50 SC2Towelie wrote: Pure speculation on my part here, but isn't it a little weird that KT traded Life, one of the greatest zerg players of all time, for Losira? And the trade occurred just before this news...
Probably wanted to get rid of association as soon as possible.
well both teams claim they had no knowledge of this, and frankly if afreeca found out KT knew he was under investigation and didn't divulge, couldn't the trade be nullified by kespa? like in american sports i believe you have to disclose injuries to players you're trying to trade
life will play next friday. thats what they said on todays GSL stream.
STX also said that they will continue to sponsor SC2 teams after they won PL but we all know what happened afterwards.
On January 30 2016 00:59 Tiaraju9 wrote: The foreigner scene all worried about the korean scene while half of these fuckers are probably matchfixing.
I know this is a stupid thing to say but the whole situation is so obnoxious.
i don't think it's stupid, i think about this possibility a lot. it's possible that the entire scene is just dominated by this sort of thing and that "clean" players are less common than we think. no way for us to prove this from our bedrooms, but i think it's naive to not even CONSIDER it. the whole system could be fucked as far as i know
much of the reasoning about how easy it is to matchfix tennis applies to SC2. and because it pays so much less players are far more vulnerable to corruption.
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