SC Match Fixing in Sydney Morning Herald

GTR

51281 Posts

September 02 2010 06:24 GMT

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week.

Was reading the newspaper in my free period today at school in the library and I found something pretty awesome.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-decade-of-betting-scandals-20100831-14fpl.html

SOUTH KOREA

STARCRAFT 2010 In South Korea several professional players of the computer game StarCraft were accused of match fixing. Seven are investigated and two StarCraft personalities - Ma Jae-Yoon and By.CrocuS - are revealed for working as brokers between betters and gamers. It was such a big story in South Korea, it was liked to the 1919 Black Sox controversy.

FragKrag

United States11538 Posts

September 02 2010 06:25 GMT

I assume this is because of the large amount of south koreans in Australia?

pretty cool though :D

micronesia

United States24494 Posts

September 02 2010 06:32 GMT

For some reason the Australian newspapers always put things I find interesting. One time my uncle (in Australia) e-mailed me pointing me to a topic of physics education I might be interested in reading about and the article was referencing my previous physics professors haha

Chesner

Iceland817 Posts

September 02 2010 06:41 GMT

When I read the title I thought there was some serious match fixing going on in Australia ><

Dance.

United States389 Posts

September 02 2010 06:49 GMT

On September 02 2010 15:41 Chesner wrote:
When I read the title I thought there was some serious match fixing going on in Australia ><

chogoling

Australia173 Posts

September 02 2010 06:55 GMT

for reference
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my phone cam is only 2mp so quality is bad. First image shows a story on significant match fixing in recent years. Second image is the small section on StarCraft.

Polar_Nada

United States1548 Posts

September 02 2010 07:19 GMT

hahah wow. didnt know they would post a little article on that! sort of good how starcraft is gaining a little exposure XD

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

September 02 2010 07:27 GMT

On September 02 2010 15:41 Chesner wrote:
When I read the title I thought there was some serious match fixing going on in Australia ><

This is what I was thinking too haha, my reaction was like "ohhhhhh crap" but then I thought the Australian SC scene was pretty small, how the heck did it make it onto the newspapers?

After clicking the link I also saw the match fixing in Sumo Wrestling