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Brown
Afghanistan367 Posts
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Ub3rNoOb3r
Canada209 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36362 Posts
those two are the two best at the tournament. it's a strategic play and perfectly legitimate one. you give yourself the best chance to win the tournament. if midas is good enough to drop a game on purpose and still qualify, more power to him. if he wants to lose on purpose to avoid xellos let him. there's nothing in the rules that says you "have to try" or "you have to play your best to show quality games to spectators." they are trying to win and doing this gives them the best chance. when you are a competitor you do everything in your power to do so. there's no reason people should be criticizing them. there's nothing in the official rules about this, so it's perfectly fine. if WCG wanted to avoid this they should've made it double elimination in the brackets. frankly i'd consider midas a bad player if he DIDN'T do something about facing Xellos before the finals. | ||
fbs
United Kingdom2476 Posts
I haven't bothered reading the rules on the WCG website as I don't care enough too but I'm sure if these guys are professional gamers then they should know them and wouldn't be going out of their way to break them so blatantly. The exact same situation has happened in previous world cups (football) and examples of games were teams are not fully trying to win happens all the time in the champions league every year so don't anyone try and limit this behaviour to WCG. | ||
Freezer_au
Australia1459 Posts
Have to add that Midas what he did was pretty smart. If 25k is at stake I would do the same thing. | ||
prower
15 Posts
if you're reading this, watch out midas =/ | ||
Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
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Yuljan
2196 Posts
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Ash
Malaysia1978 Posts
On October 08 2004 09:06 prower wrote: uhoh, some of my friends from Russia went to WCG this year, and they say that what midas did not only insulted Advocate, but also their entire country... they say they're going to try to "catch midas alone" sometime between now and tomorrow and "teach him a lesson". i tried to stop them but they seem pretty intent on doing it... if you're reading this, watch out midas =/ that'd be retarded | ||
jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
On October 08 2004 09:06 prower wrote: uhoh, some of my friends from Russia went to WCG this year, and they say that what midas did not only insulted Advocate, but also their entire country... they say they're going to try to "catch midas alone" sometime between now and tomorrow and "teach him a lesson". i tried to stop them but they seem pretty intent on doing it... if you're reading this, watch out midas =/ Omg! Thats riddiculus, someone stop them-_- Didnt something like this happen last year too? I cant remember what it was exactly but i remember i laughed.,.;; post link plz | ||
Silvanel
Poland4601 Posts
If system is not valid it doesnt mean you can expliot that weakness, it is not fair nor it is legitimate. Doing so is usally restricted and punished by ban, if something like this would happend in any "real" sport responsible would be punished for sure (and almost always not only by discualfiation in that event, but for long period of time). The fact that thos kind of behavior is tolreted in WCG truly shows how far sc (and other copmuter games) is from being a "real" sport. | ||
Silvanel
Poland4601 Posts
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Chris307
3095 Posts
On October 08 2004 08:44 Brown wrote: I guess it's a difference culture, in the socalist heaven of Europe, where all morality is relative, throwing a game is fine, but where I live it's consider cheating and in all sports is prohibited. Where do you live? Afghanistan? Quit being such a shithead, it's not cheating | ||
Chris307
3095 Posts
YOU ALL HAVE SAND IN YOUR VAGINAS. | ||
Hautamaki
Canada1311 Posts
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jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
On October 08 2004 09:39 Silvanel wrote: Aspeak was Russian victim if i remember correctly Yeah! Thats it...they insulted eachother and then 5 drunk russians broke french teams door in the night and started to fight or something. haha! Someone has the link? I searched for wcg in the forum and found like 100 topics with wcg in title-_- | ||
jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
On October 08 2004 09:26 Silvanel wrote: If you found a bug in game (or playing system, or whatever) and exploit it, in order gain advantage over other players it is cheating. It would be banned even in computer games. Try doing so in any good mmorpg, we all know that you would be banned. If system is not valid it doesnt mean you can expliot that weakness, it is not fair nor it is legitimate. Doing so is usally restricted and punished by ban, if something like this would happend in any "real" sport responsible would be punished for sure (and almost always not only by discualfiation in that event, but for long period of time). The fact that thos kind of behavior is tolreted in WCG truly shows how far sc (and other copmuter games) is from being a "real" sport. But hey...losing intentionally is not a bug right? | ||
Yarertz
Djibouti1891 Posts
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exalted
United States3612 Posts
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On October 08 2004 10:00 exalted wrote: Why couldn't midas have just played a bad tvt with gol tank? It's hard to play bad on purpose... | ||
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