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.
Not all heroes wear capes. Thanks for the recap.
Anyone got the video of the match?
Oh wow, all of those guys are assholes now. I will be actively rooting against them from now on.
"Dynamic vision" roflmao
Wow, is this the highest-rated single comment on Hearthpwn?!
"Play around swipe? NO! Stream snipe! Yeah!"
Watching a replay of the matches, has I usually do.. it did look odd and I remember thinking well that's wiers.. I guess it's true. If you need to cheat to win, your really just a loser
I agree.
Can't recall the name but I heard of a high legend player who openly admits to sniping legend streamers to improve his ladder finish and gain more points.
Well done for the honesty I guess but as far as I am concerned it makes him a cheat and invalidates any success or tournament performance that player makes.
To do this in a tournament is even worse, against the rules and is far from having any honor whatsoever.
I always thought the stream has a 15 minute delay. How is it possible to get usefull information from this? (except it's an Odd Warrior mirror match)
If you know MC Tech isn't playable, then you can swarm the board.
And it had the 15min delay, but was a "Pro match". They always rope every single turn, even if the only option is hero power.
I dont get it. So HGG was streamed without significant delay? Isnt that the fault of organizers in the first place?
The game was longer than the delay, they normally do 15 minutes.
wow
I have thought many times about what keep people from cheating this way. I mean, how can Blizzard know it?
it's not "sniping" it's "ghosting"!! learn your twitch, blizz!! damn... O.o
What scum.
I guess he got sniped as well lol