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WCS Disciplinary Rulings - Jan 15 2019 - Cyan, JieShi, Rou…

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geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8255 Posts
January 16 2019 02:59 GMT
#21
Puck and Astrea should be banned as well in this case.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
January 16 2019 03:28 GMT
#22
On January 16 2019 11:59 geokilla wrote:
Puck and Astrea should be banned as well in this case.


Blizz checked Puck's replays and didn't find that puCK and Astrea were breaking any rules.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/agewna/wcs_disciplinary_rulings/ee62x6c/
DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
January 16 2019 06:21 GMT
#23
They are trying too hard to kill the scene.
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Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
January 16 2019 07:01 GMT
#24
So these individuals were found guilty of #collusion. Hoping that some other individuals are found guilty of #collusion as well.
SC2Duderino
Profile Joined September 2013
Austria13 Posts
January 16 2019 07:50 GMT
#25
Well done Blizzard and a big thank you to the people who flagged this in the first place. Keep the scene honest!
Howard_Kao
Profile Joined September 2018
China261 Posts
January 16 2019 08:05 GMT
#26
I think the problem is still the online ladder qualifier which make people think that they have the chance to cheat and not being caught. In the future this will be happened again if there are still this kind of qualifying way.
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DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
January 16 2019 08:06 GMT
#27
Europe qualifier was fine and fun.
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shadow4723
Profile Joined October 2018
87 Posts
January 16 2019 08:22 GMT
#28
I can't imagine Nice just making the collusion between Puck and Astrea completely up. I am not sure what the replay analysis did to explain why Nice believed they were colluding.

Also, Nice should get less sentencing since he has done something else than Cyan and Jieshi: the time has to fit the crime. Regarding the time, I feel like Cyan and Jieshi got away with so little punishment. I would have banned them for the whole season and they only got banned until about the end of WCS Winter
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12133 Posts
January 16 2019 08:31 GMT
#29
On January 16 2019 17:22 shadow4723 wrote:
I can't imagine Nice just making the collusion between Puck and Astrea completely up. I am not sure what the replay analysis did to explain why Nice believed they were colluding.

Also, Nice should get less sentencing since he has done something else than Cyan and Jieshi: the time has to fit the crime. Regarding the time, I feel like Cyan and Jieshi got away with so little punishment. I would have banned them for the whole season and they only got banned until about the end of WCS Winter

Well, there's one hypothesis that is the most obvious and the most easy to spot. I leave the rest upon you
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-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1927 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-16 09:35:31
January 16 2019 09:33 GMT
#30
On January 16 2019 17:22 shadow4723 wrote:
I can't imagine Nice just making the collusion between Puck and Astrea completely up. I am not sure what the replay analysis did to explain why Nice believed they were colluding.

Also, Nice should get less sentencing since he has done something else than Cyan and Jieshi: the time has to fit the crime. Regarding the time, I feel like Cyan and Jieshi got away with so little punishment. I would have banned them for the whole season and they only got banned until about the end of WCS Winter


My best bet is that as the deadline was closing, it's harder to play more standard games, and thus as P players, the games devolve further and further into stupid looking games. That however, does not mean they were colluding together. Perhaps, both playing incredibly dumb to get a win quickly. At that point in the competition, and with the chinese players gaining points quickly, a loss is pretty much irrelevant, you just need points as fast as you can, and then try to not leave the game if you're gonna lose so it goes past the deadline if possible if u play vs some1 u dont want to gain points, or just leave if u dont mind losing to a person at that point

Astrea was also streaming at this time to my knowledge?, cant really remember, but he was actively streaming some of it, and for how much puck grinds ladder/duration of his involvement in WCS, it just seems way too far-fetched to me. If blizzard also came to a similar conclusion, with the replay in their possession, then really all we can do is trust their decision unless there is real reason to suspect otherwise.... and coming from the people who just tried to rig essentially 4 spots... that doesn't lend much weight to an argument.

I'm glad Blizzard gave a longer sentence this time around than the last infractions by players; and if it happens again, I hope the length doubles again.
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stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2755 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-16 09:47:25
January 16 2019 09:46 GMT
#31
On January 16 2019 10:27 Pandain wrote:
Yeah, I don't have the information Blizzard does, but if Astrea knowingly had a thrown game, he should be banned. Zero tolerance.


Yes, the reason why there are not punished (being not effective cuz they were a few seconds late) is ridiculous.
Edit : my bad, should have read the whole thread.
busyghost
Profile Joined August 2017
82 Posts
January 16 2019 09:48 GMT
#32
On January 16 2019 17:05 Howard_Kao wrote:
I think the problem is still the online ladder qualifier which make people think that they have the chance to cheat and not being caught. In the future this will be happened again if there are still this kind of qualifying way.


It will promote better acting I guess.. The lessons for potential cheaters are obvious for the last three occasions in SC2.

1. Do never try to do instant quit games, they are too obvious.

2. Do not cross share accounts, most of the time players were caught via this method since it's easy to trace IPs.

3. Whatever contact methods you use with your friends, do never use in-game chat and do not publish intents on public social media.

4. Do make the games vary like not using the same all-in strategy over and over again.

5. Do not try to win all the time it looks too suspicious, lol but DNS tried to win 2 lose 1 i if I remember but he was still caught.

Anyone wants to add?


The major evidence for Cyan and Jieshi to get caught hard was:

1. The change of hot key setup and was similar to the ones Cyan used
2. The 0s free wins given to Jieshi, Cyan and Nice's accounts, literally instant quits.
3. Cyan found Route on his fan club group, and the chat history was exposed.
4. Route was investigated and gave in the details.
5. The in-game stats showed that both Cyan and Jieshi's IP address have shared Route's accounts.

4 and 5 were the most lethal

The major evidence for Nice to be punished was just one:

1. He asked Route's account for a quick free win before the deadline time, using in-game chat.


Maybe "smarter" cheaters can analyse these and cheat even better.
Ultimately this method is pretty much just:

1. get your main account's MMR high enough and stop there.
2. Use a threshold MMR account (like 6000-6200MMRish0) to stop competitors from beblow.
CxWiLL
Profile Joined May 2013
China830 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-16 10:41:30
January 16 2019 10:36 GMT
#33
On January 16 2019 18:48 busyghost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2019 17:05 Howard_Kao wrote:
I think the problem is still the online ladder qualifier which make people think that they have the chance to cheat and not being caught. In the future this will be happened again if there are still this kind of qualifying way.


It will promote better acting I guess.. The lessons for potential cheaters are obvious for the last three occasions in SC2.

1. Do never try to do instant quit games, they are too obvious.

2. Do not cross share accounts, most of the time players were caught via this method since it's easy to trace IPs.

3. Whatever contact methods you use with your friends, do never use in-game chat and do not publish intents on public social media.

4. Do make the games vary like not using the same all-in strategy over and over again.

5. Do not try to win all the time it looks too suspicious, lol but DNS tried to win 2 lose 1 i if I remember but he was still caught.

Anyone wants to add?


The major evidence for Cyan and Jieshi to get caught hard was:

1. The change of hot key setup and was similar to the ones Cyan used
2. The 0s free wins given to Jieshi, Cyan and Nice's accounts, literally instant quits.
3. Cyan found Route on his fan club group, and the chat history was exposed.
4. Route was investigated and gave in the details.
5. The in-game stats showed that both Cyan and Jieshi's IP address have shared Route's accounts.

4 and 5 were the most lethal

The major evidence for Nice to be punished was just one:

1. He asked Route's account for a quick free win before the deadline time, using in-game chat.


Maybe "smarter" cheaters can analyse these and cheat even better.
Ultimately this method is pretty much just:

1. get your main account's MMR high enough and stop there.
2. Use a threshold MMR account (like 6000-6200MMRish0) to stop competitors from beblow.


At least BLZ should stop using those ladder standing at specific moment as the criteria, which make winning or losing one single game matters too much in the last moment. Something like average MMR in the final day would be a much more reasonable factor.

Basically Cyan, Jieshi and Nice are fully capable of getting 6.4kMMR without doubt, but they 'panic cheat' when they see Puck losing 3 games in a row to Astrea.
IshinShishi
Profile Joined April 2012
Japan6156 Posts
January 16 2019 11:24 GMT
#34
honestly feels unfair to Nice on the grand scheme of things
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Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-16 13:09:45
January 16 2019 11:33 GMT
#35
On January 16 2019 20:24 IshinShishi wrote:
honestly feels unfair to Nice on the grand scheme of things

Not really unfair, it's just kinda sad. From what i gathered, he really didnt intend to collude with Cyan and Jienshi at the beginning but was tempted into it, possibly because he has seen that they are doing it, and he believed Astera is doing it as well, so i guess he figured he doesnt want to be the only sucker who's just grinding.

I really hope that the info from reddit is correct, and Blizz has analyzed the Puck vs Astera replay(s) before concluding the investigation.

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Gianttt
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands194 Posts
January 16 2019 12:02 GMT
#36
On January 16 2019 10:25 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2019 10:20 busyghost wrote:
On January 16 2019 09:56 phodacbiet wrote:
On January 16 2019 09:29 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On January 16 2019 09:29 Fecalfeast wrote:
I'm glad this was resolved quickly and painlessly

Maybe not so painless



If that's the case, Nice needs to appeal and we need to do some more investigation.


NICE apologised on facebook.
According to his apology, he did not know the true identity of Route but noticed that he gave free wins to Chinese speakung accounts.
However, in the last few minutes he intentionaly messaged Route to give him a free win when he found Astrea and Puck were doing a suspicious game.
However, the official end time is 11.59 min exact but Astrea and Puck left at 11.59.58 so that game DID NOT COUNT. But HIS last game against Route was INTENTIONAL and the game ended at 11.58 and thus was effective.



I mean if Astrea and Puck were colluding they should also get banned regardless of whether they made the deadline or not. However, if they were merely rushing each other because they were trying to finish the game before 11.59 then that's not against the rules I think.


Correct. That is making use of the rules, regardless if it sounds fair or not.
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graNite
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany4434 Posts
January 16 2019 13:12 GMT
#37
I dont have all the information, but what did Nice do wrong? If he did not login to the Route account, what can he do if someone jsut instant leaves against him but plays all others?

I can log in to the KR server, win all matches and always instant leave against maru, would that get maru banned?
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55594 Posts
January 16 2019 13:14 GMT
#38
On January 16 2019 12:28 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2019 11:59 geokilla wrote:
Puck and Astrea should be banned as well in this case.


Blizz checked Puck's replays and didn't find that puCK and Astrea were breaking any rules.

I mean, the decision is up to Blizzard obviously. But regarding this I would like to remind everyone of the time where MajOr left EU ladder games during the ladder qualifier because he was sick. That's a lot less suspicious than Astrea and puCK and he still got banned from 1 season of Copa America.
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Tadenatesh
Profile Joined January 2019
3 Posts
January 16 2019 13:19 GMT
#39
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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
January 16 2019 13:27 GMT
#40
Sometimes when it comes to justice, one person may go free and another may be found guilty, despite suspicions being that both of them are guilty. That's because of something called "preponderance of evidence". It's not right to sentence people guilty based on suspicions.

Besides, wasn't Astrea streaming at the time? I thought I remembered seeing a clip of his stream on sc2 reddit. But maybe my mind is misremembering.
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