Taiwan Disqualified From The Hearthstone Global Games For Stream Sniping
It's not only Kripparrian that gets stream sniped! Taiwan was caught using a tournament broadcast to help them make decisions in their recent matches against Singapore. Due to the disqualification, Singapore will now be advancing to BlizzCon instead of Taiwan.
Quote from BlizzardThe Chinese Taipei Hearthstone Global Games (HGG) team has been disqualified from the Hearthstone Global Games competition.
Following the Chinese Taipei vs. Singapore match, the Chinese Taipei team uploaded a video of their gameplay. Upon review of the video, and after reviewing in-person statements from the players, the Hearthstone Esports team has determined that members of the Chinese Taipei team used the delayed tournament broadcast to aid them in a decision during the game. This behavior is prohibited in our tournament rules under section 7.11a. Specifically, players are prohibited from “[s]tream sniping, or any general attempt by a player to spectate his or her own match or get information from another person spectating the match.”
Based on the timing of this disqualification, the Singapore HGG team will advance in place of the Chinese Taipei team to the playoff stage of the Hearthstone Global Games at BlizzCon.
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Posted Oct 11, 2018 (Boomsday)Lol such nuubs
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Posted Oct 10, 2018 (Boomsday)According to Ranker.com, Singapore is #175 in corruption rankings. All of the Muslim countries are near the top of the list. Go figure.
So as far as corruption goes...Singapore isn't the worst.
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Posted Oct 15, 2018 (Boomsday)maybe the list is proof of corruption
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Posted Oct 10, 2018 (Boomsday)FeelsBadMan MingLee
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Posted Oct 8, 2018 (Boomsday)MingLee
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Posted Oct 7, 2018 (Boomsday)remove
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)Curious but how is last years champion Tom60229 still allowed to compete Singapore after in the HCT after his team was disqualified for cheating?
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)No. The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2017 has ranked Singapore as the 6th least corrupt country in the world.
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017#table
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Posted Oct 10, 2018 (Boomsday)Must have bought that ranking :D
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Posted Oct 10, 2018 (Boomsday)I don't know anything about corruption in Singapore but there is a reason it's called a perception index, those numbers are not necessarily indicative of actual corruption, it's based off of polls of reported corruption. So technically speaking, if the corruption is thorough enough, you might appear the least corrupt. In Denmark, for example, lobbyism is legal, and so a Union leader or a corporate CEO can have dinner with political parties or chief of finance. It still undermines democracy but it's not perceived as corruption.
Additionally, those polls are related to public sector corruption, and probably (I didn't check) doesn't have a single question about gaming ethics or sports practitioners in general.
"The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean."
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)If you dont put a long delay on your stream when youre playing online poker tournaments its on you, the pokersites probably wont care unless they think there is collusion going on.
In streamed live tournaments they use a longer delay, if i recall correctly the EPT (european poker tour) streams with hole cards have 1 hour delay. Also i assume you cant have phones at the table. It doesnt make it impossible to cheat but it would take balls of steels to do it in a live scenario while being filmed.
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)They act like little kids...."oh it's against the rules...let's do it lulz"....that has nothing to do with fair sportsmanship.
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)To take it 1 step further, if I were a competitive player and had the opportunity to hack the HS servers to gain an unfair advantage (whether it be to see my opponent's hand or to manipulate the RNG) and thought I had a reasonably high chance to get away with it, I would do it in a heartbeat. Even though sniping a delayed stream is a fairly small advantage, it's really no surprise someone took advantage of it when there's money to be gained by doing so.
And I doubt this is the first time someone stream sniped a streamed tournament. How many times do you think it's happened and the person never got caught?
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)Maybe you should change your attitude and get some morals and self respect. Articles like this one only exists because people like you exists.
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)First off, how does someone get caught doing this? Unless they told someone about what they were doing it should be pretty much impossible to detect that someone's watching a stream (especially if they use a different computer/IP, which is pretty easy to do by remoting into another computer).
And second, making it possible to cheat in a tournament is just plain stupid. The fact there's a rule against stream sniping isn't really that helpful considering there's money at stake. It's against the law to steal, yet stores still lock their door at night.
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)by being morons
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Posted Oct 6, 2018 (Boomsday)This was answered in another thread there was voice recording of the players and he said "no he cant have MCT because he discarded it during tracking"
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Posted Oct 9, 2018 (Boomsday)i know. That's the very definition of morons
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Posted Oct 5, 2018 (Boomsday)A simple solution is to stream games only after it has finished. Doesn't have to be one hr or whole match, just the game so the delay is not too long. Also, there can be a rule prohibiting players from announcing results to anyone until the stream has finished.
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Posted Oct 5, 2018 (Boomsday)who cares......esports is for lames