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Stork on how SC2 Match-fixing happened

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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-16 06:17:14
March 15 2018 11:15 GMT
#1
Source:


Currently Sea, Stork and Larva are talking about the the cause of matchfixing, how it matchfixing happened, and how to prevent it for future

Stork, as a person who coached SC2 during matchfixing incident as well has having gone through savior matchfixing incident as well as a player, has something to say about it.

Stork is talking about his perspective as SC2 coach during matchfixing scandal

SC2 matchfixing happened in these steps according to stork


1) First, matchfixers entice players with "not really matchfixing" bets such as game over by X minutes- so people do all in to end game at X minute regardless of if they lose or not

remember all those reports of strange bets on betting sites? It was because of these bets allowed easy introductory matchfixing offers.

2) Second, brokers got hold of weakness (particiation in betting), makes progamers lose/throw game of them under threat of exposing them. Now brokers have control of progamers fully.

3) snowballs into full blown matchfixing system

And the beginning offer usually comes from people the players know personally, like friends and people they know. They first approach people as if they are asking for favor, then grabs hold of them and take control.

Stork said he himself got an offer to matchfix during his progaming days, when he was at his height from someone he personally knows by phone. Stork said the offer was larger than his month's salary (thousands of dollars), but he immediately cut his friend off, and told his team of the situation

But since Korea don't have much monetary punishment for these match-fixing incidents, its easy to get enticed as punishment isn't much of a deterrent as it is very lenient.

The initial amount that is often quoted to be matchfixed for, such as sky getting $4.5k, savior getting $2k, for matchfixing is in no way true according to him, since other factors go in as well, since player participating in matchfixing would participate in betting himself and getting their cuts.

Stork said he felt enraged as he saw people stop attending live matches during SC2 era with matchfixing. When he saw attendance fall, he couldnt help but to think about matchfixers who had ruined all these that his predecessors and the peers paved way for.

He also believes that while matchfixers could work in other fields, they should never step into the game they ruined as streamer again. [life, savior, ect]

Interesting perspective from the man himself. Very slimy methods from broker to hook these gamers.

edit: However, its not to say matchfixers can't be taken light of either: These matchfixers already got education from kespa after the whole original BW matchfixing incident as well so they should know better.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
March 15 2018 11:50 GMT
#2
I think this is great to have it stated so clearly, maybe people will finally understand that the match-fixing players aren't the worth scum on Earth, but that really this title should be reserved for exactly those people described here who manipulated them into it.
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
March 15 2018 12:03 GMT
#3
On March 15 2018 20:50 opisska wrote:
I think this is great to have it stated so clearly, maybe people will finally understand that the match-fixing players aren't the worth scum on Earth, but that really this title should be reserved for exactly those people described here who manipulated them into it.


Yes, but majority of blame should be placed on the matchbroker, but not all responsibility should escape the matchfixers themselves. It explains their decision and how they could be influenced, but not excuse the crime itself

To other peers and progamers, these people returning to scene is unthinkable after damage they caused due to their greed and temptation
Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37023 Posts
March 15 2018 12:51 GMT
#4
You need to provide a source or I will have to close this thread.
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-15 12:59:44
March 15 2018 12:57 GMT
#5
On March 15 2018 21:51 Seeker wrote:
You need to provide a source or I will have to close this thread.


It was from sea stream: you can probably check it from afreeca playback. Will be probably be uploaded on his or stork's YouTube soon.

Stork uploaded it: https://youtu.be/ce_bz1_sC3Q
Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37023 Posts
March 15 2018 13:01 GMT
#6
On March 15 2018 21:57 jinjin5000 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2018 21:51 Seeker wrote:
You need to provide a source or I will have to close this thread.


It was from sea stream: you can probably check it from afreeca playback. Will be probably be uploaded on his or stork's YouTube soon.

Stork uploaded it: https://youtu.be/ce_bz1_sC3Q

Perfect. Thank you.
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Poixyois
Profile Joined March 2018
16 Posts
March 15 2018 13:42 GMT
#7
And that is exclusive to Starcraft 2? Doesnt happen like that in any other game?
jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
March 15 2018 13:44 GMT
#8
On March 15 2018 22:42 Poixyois wrote:
And that is exclusive to Starcraft 2? Doesnt happen like that in any other game?


This is first time so much clarification and information had been released, after years of tip toeing around and talking around the sc2 matchfixing incident from korea.
ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
March 15 2018 13:47 GMT
#9
Have foreigners ever fixed matches or is this exclusive to the korean community?
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DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
March 15 2018 13:52 GMT
#10
Lol seriously , divert attention to SC2 while it s BW who is in turmoil, what a beautiful mentality ...

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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
March 15 2018 14:01 GMT
#11
On March 15 2018 22:52 DieuCure wrote:
Lol seriously , divert attention to SC2 while it s BW who is in turmoil, what a beautiful mentality ...


This isnt sc2 vs bw. Stork brought it up to explain his perspective as coach vs as a player during savior incident as well as now.

In turn, it also cleared tons of info that were left unclear during sc2 matchfixing incident and explains tons of stuff, namely, olimoly explanations, mal's tournement being suspicious, mal getting duped by tourny organizers, how players were approached, ect.

Stork cleared that all up when it was left for interpretation for years...
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15952 Posts
March 15 2018 14:02 GMT
#12
Wait they forced players to matchfix by threatening of exposing them?
Then maybe the caught matchfixers are the ones that refused to continue matchfixing and thus got exposed.
So maybe the real scum wasn't caught and continued matchfixing while we punished the people that stood up against it...
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Race Bannon
Profile Blog Joined February 2016
689 Posts
March 15 2018 14:42 GMT
#13
^fair assumption. Until we can plausibly determine the profile of matchfixing players, we ought to consider the possibility that the ones previously outed in connection with it were scapegoats, i.e. damage control.
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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
March 15 2018 14:46 GMT
#14
On March 15 2018 23:01 jinjin5000 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2018 22:52 DieuCure wrote:
Lol seriously , divert attention to SC2 while it s BW who is in turmoil, what a beautiful mentality ...


This isnt sc2 vs bw. Stork brought it up to explain his perspective as coach vs as a player during savior incident as well as now.

In turn, it also cleared tons of info that were left unclear during sc2 matchfixing incident and explains tons of stuff, namely, olimoly explanations, mal's tournement being suspicious, mal getting duped by tourny organizers, how players were approached, ect.

Stork cleared that all up when it was left for interpretation for years...

Don't feed the somehow-still-not-banned troll.
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seopthi
Profile Blog Joined December 2014
391 Posts
March 15 2018 17:38 GMT
#15
Why has not this been said before the recent match-fixing scandal?

Among the problems is that there is no prevention - of course, that is hard to do with the scene being small, but long time ago all the players had to go through sportsmanship trainings where they would educate them about these dangers. I only know about them in SC2 and the ended in about 2012.

Of course, there are no resources for such trainings, but the point is that pretending that the past scandals have not happened has surely not helped. I find it absurd that there is so little info about what happened with BBoongBBoong, Gerrard, and Life. Perhaps had it been more discussed, had people like Stork said what he just said earlier and these practices were well known, players would've been more careful.

I very much think it's a mistake that it's a big no-no talking about the past cases and even here any threads are closed, or in the best heavily discouraged - and I do not mean empty repetitive threads, I mean that when for example there is a rare new information (such as Artosis talking about Life shortly on his stream) it gets deleted here and downvoted on reddit. Doping/cheating cases in traditional sports are heavily documented and discussed in media, while SC media does the opposite.


Of course, Sky is a scum, but now he'll just go do something else knowing that few months from now, no-one will (be allowed to) mention his name. But sweeping these things under the carpet won't help. Stork should have been talking about this (even in a greater detail) before, but still, it wouldn't be discussed here or on reddit, because "we've to move on and not bring more attention to matchfixing," as has happened few times before.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10673 Posts
March 15 2018 21:25 GMT
#16
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1424 Posts
March 16 2018 06:13 GMT
#17
It doesnt seem too far fetched these matchfixers would walk away with tons of money tho

so you have

1) money u got for match fixing

2) betting tons of money across betting sites

3) telling ur friends about it, taking ur cut from there

Wonder how much these guys really made, not the official figure.


Theres no way life, savior, sky, ect only walked away with "just" thousands of dollars from this.
ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
March 16 2018 13:07 GMT
#18
Makes me wonder if this sort of thing happens in the foreign community.
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anatem
Profile Joined September 2010
Romania1369 Posts
April 25 2018 09:22 GMT
#19
Not this matchfixing bullshit again...
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RaiZ
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
2813 Posts
April 25 2018 10:05 GMT
#20
On April 25 2018 18:22 anatem wrote:
Not this matchfixing bullshit again...

I understand that's dreadful to talk about it, but if we don't want another one, we may need to know how to prevent it. If the players can fully understand how to not get involved, then it's all good, right ?

I mean, it was really a shame that savior got involved in this. This guy had so much talent and he blew it. I could understand it if the players were in financial troubles, but to happen to the best players it's not an excuse.

It's kind of like Tennis and their challengers. Match fixing happens often, simply because those players are hardly getting paid. I blame it for the huge difference in payout between the first and last place.
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