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Life's match-fixing appeal dismissed

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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33339 Posts
July 14 2016 04:33 GMT
#1
Source: Yonhap News

Life's appeal for more lenient sentencing was dismissed by the Changwon District Court. The former WCS champion had been found guilty of receiving bribes to fix StarCraft matches at an earlier trial in April (related news post). The Changwon court upheld the original sentence of 18 months imprisonment suspended by three years, with a 70,000,000 won fine.

Life argued that he had already been jailed for two months following the charges, and had been permanently banned from progaming by KeSPA.

The court found that Life's contriteness, and his status as a minor during the time of the match-fixing, were mitigating factors. However, given the large amount of money Life received to match-fix, as well as the considerable damage he inflicted upon esports' credibility, the court determined that the original sentence was appropriate.

The court also dismissed similar appeals from BBoongBBoong and Enough related to their sentencing in match-fixing related crimes.


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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
July 14 2016 04:40 GMT
#2
Huh, okay. What were the grounds of his appeal? That the sentencing was too harsh considering the circumstances due to his age or something?
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
July 14 2016 04:42 GMT
#3
Man at first I missed the appeal part and was thinking he was somehow cleared. Damn you life for match fixing.
When I think of something else, something will go here
Larkin
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United Kingdom7161 Posts
July 14 2016 04:51 GMT
#4
Good. He deserves nothing less. Hell, he's lucky to be getting off with a suspended sentence. The fine is about $61,500.
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neoghaleon55
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7435 Posts
July 14 2016 04:54 GMT
#5
ouch...
so he really was in jail for 2 months.
No wonder nobody heard from him.
So sad.
moo...for DRG
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
July 14 2016 04:59 GMT
#6
On July 14 2016 13:42 blade55555 wrote:
Man at first I missed the appeal part and was thinking he was somehow cleared. Damn you life for match fixing.


I know, for 1 second I got my hopes up
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JensWalker
Profile Joined January 2016
Canada20 Posts
July 14 2016 05:03 GMT
#7
This is tragic.
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Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1004 Posts
July 14 2016 05:10 GMT
#8
Dont do the crime if you can't do the time, I was and will remain a forever Life fan but the point is that he got too greedy and he will pay the price.

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Cluster__
Profile Joined September 2013
United States328 Posts
July 14 2016 05:15 GMT
#9
Devastating
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showstealer1829
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Australia3123 Posts
July 14 2016 05:24 GMT
#10
Who?
There is no understanding. There is only Choya. Choya is the way. Choya is Love. Choya is Life. Has is the Light in the Protoss Dark and Nightmare is his chosen Acolyte
Isarios
Profile Joined March 2014
United States153 Posts
July 14 2016 05:27 GMT
#11
terrible terrible damage
Blahhh
necrosexy
Profile Joined March 2011
451 Posts
July 14 2016 05:29 GMT
#12
life's death still green in my memory T_T
riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3392 Posts
July 14 2016 05:35 GMT
#13
He's lucky he didn't get the death penalty considering the seriousness of his crimes.
XiZeL
Profile Joined July 2014
Switzerland92 Posts
July 14 2016 05:42 GMT
#14
and what happens to the people or entities that approached a minor to bribe him?

does no one see that the real problem here are the people taking advantage of minors.
hes just a kid, c'mon who as a kid would not accept a large amount of cash to throw a few games!
I watch more starcraft than i play it
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13389 Posts
July 14 2016 05:46 GMT
#15
On July 14 2016 14:42 XiZeL wrote:
and what happens to the people or entities that approached a minor to bribe him?

does no one see that the real problem here are the people taking advantage of minors.
hes just a kid, c'mon who as a kid would not accept a large amount of cash to throw a few games!


Doesnt change he was not 14 but pretty close to being a legal adult so they figured he should have known better and the fact it was for the amount it was meant they couldn't just let it slide.

If this happened to maru in open gsl season 2 i dont think he would have been treated as harshly but its life, now, at this point in his career. Can't let it go.

He deserves every bit of it right now I just hope the rest of his life outside of progaming isn't hurt by this too much. He's still young and deserves a chance at a good life once all this is over.
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BEZZiiE
Profile Joined March 2016
6 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-14 05:58:05
July 14 2016 05:48 GMT
#16
No matter what i still love you Life still the best zerg in my books! screw the haters, the court and KeSPA!

#FreeLIFE!
#FreeLIFE!
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5585 Posts
July 14 2016 05:51 GMT
#17
On July 14 2016 13:40 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Huh, okay. What were the grounds of his appeal?

Boys will be boys?
don't wall off against random
MoosyDoosy
Profile Joined November 2014
United States4519 Posts
July 14 2016 05:53 GMT
#18
On July 14 2016 14:46 ZeromuS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2016 14:42 XiZeL wrote:
and what happens to the people or entities that approached a minor to bribe him?

does no one see that the real problem here are the people taking advantage of minors.
hes just a kid, c'mon who as a kid would not accept a large amount of cash to throw a few games!


Doesnt change he was not 14 but pretty close to being a legal adult so they figured he should have known better and the fact it was for the amount it was meant they couldn't just let it slide.

If this happened to maru in open gsl season 2 i dont think he would have been treated as harshly but its life, now, at this point in his career. Can't let it go.

He deserves every bit of it right now I just hope the rest of his life outside of progaming isn't hurt by this too much. He's still young and deserves a chance at a good life once all this is over.

lol he won't get it, Korea is a witch hunt scene. I'm actually surprised most Korean SC fans are pretty chill about the matter.

Fact is Life is still 18 and under. People that age make stupid decisions whether we want to admit it or not and whether we say we "expect more". To be honest, what I hate most about the whole situation is that he listened to the briber. KesPa teams should have some sessions to discuss bribing and matchfixing to make sure it doesn't happen but I feel they don't do this or drill it into the players enough.

Life was in KT when he was approached about matchfixing. One of the biggest SC2 teams out there and he went with it. I would have expected a big name like KT to drill no-matchfixing into their players but I guess not.
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RaymondFish
Profile Joined July 2012
United States42 Posts
July 14 2016 06:15 GMT
#19
I've loved Life for many years but that doesn't cloud my opinion that this is the right decision.
sc2randomize
Profile Joined November 2015
13 Posts
July 14 2016 06:21 GMT
#20
Dang. Does anyone know how Korea treats people with criminal records? I know in the US he'd basically be f***ed for life (no pun intended) after getting a criminal record: automatic rejection by most universities, no decent career prospects, etc.
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