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On March 14 2019 11:57 jy_9876543210 wrote:
Macsed's response:

"说下当时情况吧,第一盘打完我觉得这个人很菜,当然所有人都和我这么说,我也觉得他很菜,然后第二盘才会选择一个低保rush因为我觉得只要过去把他门口的兵营打了就能赢,但是我过去看到他家里有个兵营没开气我以为他要开2矿,我就封了他得气,一旦封了他拿什么打我低保?可我万万没想到他这个战术是rail教他的,因为在职业内战里面这种战术是不成立的,所以我就没多想。打完这场比赛rail跑过来疯狂炫耀说是我教的,因为他知道我会觉得他是菜鸟肯定会想快点结束,然后就家里一个兵营外面3个兵营来骗我。果真我被骗到了,当时被骗到了乱导致各种失误,但是我认为就算不失误这一盘我也赢不了,因为我家里已经挡不住了,他只要在外面开个基地农民传出来也是随便赢。哎都怪我,太丢人了"
My translation:
"The situation was, after the first map I thought this guy is weak, of course that's also what everyone's been telling me, and I felt the same. So on the second map I decided to cannon rush since I thought I could win by destroying the gateway in his base, but when I saw his base, there's a gateway but no gas, so I thought he's gonna expand, and I blocked his gas, so he can't stop my cannon rush. But what I didn't know was that it's rail who taught him this strategy, because he knew that I would try to finish this game quickly since I thought my opponent is weak, and he tricked me by one gateway in main base and 3 proxies outside. That totally got me, and resulted in a lot of mistakes from me. But I think even if I didn't make those mistakes, I still wouldn't win that map, since I couldn't defend my base, he could just make another base and recall the probes. It's my fault, this is an embarrassing game."
Popkiller
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3415 Posts
March 13 2019 09:16 GMT
#101
If Pinnacle says there was nothing strange, that's probably the end of it.

Unless Macsed suddenly confesses or some chat logs turn up, I don't see how anyone could prove this. It seems like it is really difficult to investigate matchfixing by starting with the players or the games themselves.

Easy way for players to make some money.
AshtonEG
Profile Joined March 2019
2 Posts
March 13 2019 09:53 GMT
#102
As a casual diamond player, I would really like seeing myself in a groupstage of a big offline tournament, then winning one game against a pro player (preferably Serral or Maru), and eventually getting paid. That must be fun.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16007 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 10:26:01
March 13 2019 10:03 GMT
#103
Jeez I wonder how you can even matchfix against a player 2000 MMR below you without it becoming ridicolously obvious.

Edit: nvm should've read the comments before responding
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12904 Posts
March 13 2019 10:08 GMT
#104
There are still mornings like that where you see such a news on TL and it sucks :/.
Not as bad as the big ones within the korean scene that happened the last few years, but it's a not so friendly reminder that these sort of things ain't in the past yet.

This looks very suspicious (I trust the OP for the betting lines thing), especially considering that a GM/ex-pro can lose against a top master (mayyybe mid-master) but against a diamond no way, it's not in the variance threshold of upsets imho.
Hopefully we'll get more intel though.
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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
March 13 2019 10:17 GMT
#105
On March 13 2019 18:16 Popkiller wrote:
If Pinnacle says there was nothing strange, that's probably the end of it.

Unless Macsed suddenly confesses or some chat logs turn up, I don't see how anyone could prove this. It seems like it is really difficult to investigate matchfixing by starting with the players or the games themselves.

Easy way for players to make some money.

Which scares me a fair bit knowing this kind of thing is a possibility.
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-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
March 13 2019 10:19 GMT
#106
On March 13 2019 10:37 tcb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 13 2019 10:27 phodacbiet wrote:
On March 13 2019 10:23 tcb wrote:
On March 13 2019 10:13 11cc wrote:
On March 13 2019 10:11 tcb wrote:
On March 13 2019 09:44 Nakajin wrote:
On March 13 2019 09:38 tcb wrote:
the match casted by chinese side channal.the game was macsed played a cannon rush while seventy91 played a 4 gateway zealot rush,that was a funny game. I tend to this only a coincidence~


Could we have the replay?

On March 13 2019 09:40 Saggymidgetbooty6969 wrote:
On March 13 2019 09:34 Xain0n wrote:
On March 13 2019 09:05 Nakajin wrote:
Fuck

Not gonna lie it make me a bit nervous about Drager taking a map of Dark and Elazer, is he a legit pretty good player/ are the betting lines ok?


Drager is 1400 on Aligulac, his single map against Dark was actually more likely than MeomaikA beating Maru 2-0.

didnt see Meomaika maru but i assume nydus allins were involved, its incredibly easy to lose to them and theyre also insanely easy to execute to perfection so i am not suprised maru can drop a series vs a 6k zerg if the zerg is using some new nydus meme

Don't worry no one thinks Maru is matchfixing, even Life couldn't spend all the cash he made

Good to know that Drager is a legit good player



I found the match videos https://vku.youku.com/live/ilproom?spm=a2h0k.11417342.soresults.dtitle&id=8014696
3hours and 15minutes begins


Wont play for me


sorry...i will upload it……may be youtube?


Yes please! Gogo! Can you also upload the first game as well? We need to see the entire series.




sorry…I don't have a experence use OBS or youtube so the video quanlity is very low


Steals double gas after scouting no probes and 1 gate. Attacks zealots with his probe in opponents base when his whole build is based on keeping them alive. Builds a gate, but doesn't wall. Puts cannon as a wall instead??????? Builds a pylon in minerals instead of rewalling with ANYTHING....+cannon..... killing zealot after the pylon...???? Keeps cannon wallin even with 300 minerals???????

idk, i guess that could be random luck or him playing dumb due to thinking the opponent is much worse than he was... but like... he is 6k+ on kr... this sort of stuff... literally never happens... :/ really sketch imo
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TaKeTV
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany1199 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 10:25:39
March 13 2019 10:20 GMT
#107
I think pinnacle is known for rather removing a bet if the circumstances are really fishy, so my bet (no pun intended..) would be that it gets removed if reported to them.

Edit: didnt see that pinnacle was emailed. Strange that they don't cancel that bet. I dont want to say its a guaranteed matchfix, and a stupid loss _can_ happen while it doesn't 99,999999999999% of the time. Yet if that scenario occurs its unlikely a person did also bet on it to shift the whole line.

Either that was a really mad person or a fix to me but in any case, if you don't have proof its always just an assumption.
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p1cass0
Profile Joined May 2016
46 Posts
March 13 2019 10:55 GMT
#108
You are making a very serious accusation only because someone lost to a much better player? I don't believe TL is allowing this. You could post this s**t every time when Cinderella story happens and made you lose money. This is why gamblers are so annoying in any sports community.
TaKeTV
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany1199 Posts
March 13 2019 10:58 GMT
#109
On March 13 2019 19:55 p1cass0 wrote:
You are making a very serious accusation only because someone lost to a much better player? I don't believe TL is allowing this. You could post this s**t every time when Cinderella story happens and made you lose money. This is why gamblers are so annoying in any sports community.


take the time to read it again and understand it.
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Xalorian
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada433 Posts
March 13 2019 11:01 GMT
#110
Last minute bet that shift the betting line are not that common, a stupid loss like that is not that common (game is extremly sloppy and weird). Neither of them are "proof" of anything. When they happen at the same time tho, it seems pretty obvious that it was either match fixed or, possibly, a delay let someone bet after the game had started and the sloppiness ensued?

Either way, without an actual proof (chat log/tracked money), it seems crazy to punish, even tho I would guess that it's highly likely it was fixed.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
March 13 2019 11:34 GMT
#111
On March 13 2019 19:55 p1cass0 wrote:
You are making a very serious accusation only because someone lost to a much better player? I don't believe TL is allowing this. You could post this s**t every time when Cinderella story happens and made you lose money. This is why gamblers are so annoying in any sports community.

You really shouldnt backseat moderate, especially when you're clearly in the wrong/ didnt bother to read through the evidence.

I agree, it's not 100% definitive, each individual element of the story could be explained away as unlikely happenstance, but since all of them happened at once, it's basically 99% sure. It's not tangible proof, but more than enough circumstential proof for me, and certainly enough to talk about the possibility that indeed it happened.
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Puosu
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
6990 Posts
March 13 2019 11:45 GMT
#112
Would you people count it as match fixing if MacSed told someone beforehand he was gonna play less than seriously versus his newbie opponent? This kind of insider information could make the eccentric bet ~+EV...

I mean, there's gotta be somekinda foresight in play here, but perhaps not necessarily intentional match fixing.
Xalorian
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada433 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 12:07:49
March 13 2019 12:03 GMT
#113
On March 13 2019 20:45 Puosu wrote:
Would you people count it as match fixing if MacSed told someone beforehand he was gonna play less than seriously versus his newbie opponent? This kind of insider information could make the eccentric bet ~+EV...

I mean, there's gotta be somekinda foresight in play here, but perhaps not necessarily intentional match fixing.


Yes, it would be "match fixing". Or at least against the rule of the tournament. Playing worst against a specific opponent is unfair to the rest of the field and goes against the integrity of the tournament.

Of course it's hard to prove that you had "intentions". That you "meant to play bad" or "less than seriously". It's why something more is needed to be 100% sure.

I am guessing we will never get that definitive proof. I hope MacSed realise how close he was to getting caught and never do it again, basically. I guess it's the best case for the scene now.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 13 2019 12:56 GMT
#114
yeah it was probably fixed

you know what else is probably fixed? betting on that stupid spongebob song being sung or not at the super bowl. did you know that betting sites had odds for that? how easy is it for the people and that actually control the event, and their friends, to simply bet "no they won't sing it" and then not have them sing it.

sorry I know this is a complete tangent but that's bothered me since then, lol


NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 13:22:34
March 13 2019 13:20 GMT
#115
This is very simple.

1) Macsed knows there's a massive skill disparity between him and his opponent and the only way he can lose is by playing very risky/doing a dumb build. What does he do? A very weak, slow version of a cannon rush beginning below the opponents base that he intentionally misexecutes in all kinds of ways.

2) He scouts the opponent's base early and based on what he sees he can easily tell the opponent is proxying. How does he react? Just continues with his very stupid, slow cannon rush instead of making defense at home. If he was trying to win he would halt his cannon rush at that moment and just defend his main and win the game. He knows way better than to continue the cannon rush after seeing what he scouted.

3) Intentionally loses a cannon he was making in the opponent's base when his attention couldn't even be taken by anything else. He's literally sitting there wiggling his probes back and forth letting the cannon die without a cancel LOL

4) Opponent makes a gateway in his own base instead of going completely all in with his proxy because he knows MacSed is going to cannon rush him (its prearranged) and has to give a show of supposedly "defending" it. If he didn't know a cannon rush was on the way it would be better to have everything proxied.

5) Oh no! Now a zealot is on the way to my main! Better make a very late wall when I knew this was coming a long time ago. I'll use a gateway and a super vulnerable cannon when I could just complete the wall with a resilient gateway forming a much stronger more efficient wall if I actually wanted to win!

6) As OP mentioned, the betting line moving like this is a suspicious as it gets. No one would be huge money on Seventy to win unless it was fixed.

Yes, he matchfixed. It's very stupid to overlook the massive amount of evidence of this. There's more that I haven't even mentioned here as if that wasn't already more than enough.
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
March 13 2019 13:26 GMT
#116
Oh I even forgot to mention the fact that at the end he let both zealots live with almost no HP left because he realized he needs to make sure there's no chance for him to win or draw the game.
Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden24591 Posts
March 13 2019 13:26 GMT
#117
On March 13 2019 20:45 Puosu wrote:
Would you people count it as match fixing if MacSed told someone beforehand he was gonna play less than seriously versus his newbie opponent? This kind of insider information could make the eccentric bet ~+EV...

I mean, there's gotta be somekinda foresight in play here, but perhaps not necessarily intentional match fixing.


I might be in the wrong, but I am fairly certain that matchfixing in the past hasn't just been stuff like a player saying "I will fold in game two" but rather a third party acquiring information on an opener and then giving it to the opponent. That is, as far as I can recollect, part of what occured in the big BW match fixing scandal.

That is not to say that a mid-Dia player could certainly win even with a rush against a pro, but perhaps it is possible.
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
March 13 2019 13:28 GMT
#118
On March 13 2019 21:56 travis wrote:
yeah it was probably fixed

you know what else is probably fixed? betting on that stupid spongebob song being sung or not at the super bowl. did you know that betting sites had odds for that? how easy is it for the people and that actually control the event, and their friends, to simply bet "no they won't sing it" and then not have them sing it.

sorry I know this is a complete tangent but that's bothered me since then, lol



I would assume insider trading laws apply to betting or there are similar ones, so that would be a major felony level crime for what could only be a minor payout if you're not going to throw up major red flags.
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 13:48:59
March 13 2019 13:48 GMT
#119
If anyone still has serious doubts after posts 115 & 116 you probably won't be convinced until you have proof that's impossible to deny. Unfortunately we live in a world where such proof is very hard to come by. Or perhaps you haven't played protoss at a masters or higher level and that blinds you from seeing that a professional protoss cannot possibly play this way in a major tournament unless they want to lose.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-13 13:49:05
March 13 2019 13:48 GMT
#120
On March 13 2019 21:56 travis wrote:
yeah it was probably fixed

you know what else is probably fixed? betting on that stupid spongebob song being sung or not at the super bowl. did you know that betting sites had odds for that? how easy is it for the people and that actually control the event, and their friends, to simply bet "no they won't sing it" and then not have them sing it.

sorry I know this is a complete tangent but that's bothered me since then, lol




On a kinda related note.

You can bet on freaking election results on that site.
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