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Illegal Gambling Rampant in Korean Pro-Scene
Posted by Roy "Phantom[xz]" Kwan 2 years ago
Articles confirming rumors of illegal gambling and match rigging of professional StarCraft matches have been recently posted by a user at TeamLiquid.net. The first news of this hit the foreign community when
Dan "Rekrul" Schreiber posted a video blog regarding the rumors. He could not provide any solid evidence on the scandal, but he reassured us that he had a reliable source. A day later, his rumors would be confirmed.Fomos.kr had written several articles on the issue, one of which says that the player rigging began in 2008, while the illegal betting stretched as far back as 2006. Several other articles are summarized by the TL.net poster; these articles cover issues from how the scandal began to when the e-sports organizers found out and what their response to it was.
There are several high-level pro-gamers involved, one of which is
Ma "Savior" Jae Yoon. In his blog, Rekrul states that Savior is rumored to have accumulated around $2,000,000 from the illegal betting and match rigging, while on average each player would receive about $4500 from throwing each game. Retired pro-gamers as well as coaches and a commentator are also said to be involved.Illegal gambling and match rigging is nothing new in competitive sports. Scandals such as this have gone on in every popular professional sport in the world. Whether this further legitimizes StarCraft is a sport or not, controversy and scandals such as this one can only bring question and doubt into the integrity of the sport.
| Links |
| TeamLiquid.net - Source |
| TeamLiquid.net - Rekrul (vblog) |
| Fomos - Source (Korean) |
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| well, that makes sense. 2 many players lost games in a very stupid fashion taht even a D- player would think is crazy. i guess in some way this wont SHOCK many ppl, but the fact is it makes starcraft even more unstable, especially after so many maphacks bots and god knows what circulating the internet. Anyway im guessing ppl will keep playing starcraft just for the fun of it, no matter how bad things go, there will always be ppl who will want to play it more or less competivly. Also dont forget 1 thing, many of these gamers arent paied astronomical figures like, lets say Cristiano Ronaldo in the Real Madrid. THey "work" over 12h a day, live in a small home full of testosterone (except STX, lucky bastards having Tossgirl), and 0 life. In that case, im guessing even id take onto that to get money. |
| Really disappointing. It's not overly surprising right now, but I think once more names are released it will be. |
| retired progamer, commentator, coachs rofl^^ this is judgment day for starcraft pro scene. Can't wait for the list being released, this is gonna be painful. |
| sad I hope boxer wasn't involved |
| i was always wondering how savior lost so fast so much skill. |
| I suspect the guy who talks to be excellent at manipulating Still... this sucked |
| #4 Yeah... And Nada, too. |
| another article against korean BW leagues etc. it seems that something want crush the scene and leagues. maybe is sc2 the reason :P |
| Now, all we need is mrow to translate all this shit for us, and we can finally learn something about it. |
| i dont think savior has 2,000,000 $, thats a lot fo money for koreans |
| Rek, ure a legend mate, look what youve done......... |
Hey this is just further proof that it is an actual sport  |
| Very sad news =( |
| Will these players/coaches/casters face jailtime? If so, this is a good news, we will be having a new Pro-team, prisoner's ACE force. Go and win next Proleague! |
| sAviOr: I will destroy everyone in 2010. Unless you pay me not to. |
| aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxaxxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa that manbitch savior :D but anyway fuck him - he throwed some matches and now he can't win even if he wanted to so fuck him I hope he rots away with that money |
| gj savior |
| savior getting it done! |
| down right pathetic and sad. these players / coaches/ kespa officials should be faced with jail time. no different then throwing games in Champions league, NBA , MLB , NHL or the NFL. the money isnt quite the same but should still be disciplined to some extent. |
| very intelligent on the part of savior whit 2million he don't need to play anymore his life is assured I congratulate him |
| Savior surely destroyed everyone in earning in 2009. |
IPX destroyed everyone.........  |
| Savior is rumored to have accumulated around $2,000,000 "the money isnt quite the same but should still be disciplined to some extent." #20 are you retarded to some extent ?! with that kind of money I can live for the rest of my life . and if I had it and someone stole it from me I would simply kill him . |
| @ 16: WHAT THE FUCK MAN? Now even the comments got stolen from tl.net?!?!? Dude............. |
| @25, Soooooo?does that man its ok to fuck with the audience? OF COURSE NOT, people will always try to cheat, THATS WHAT THE GODDAMNED RULES ARE FOR, to avoid that, you cant just come 2 years later and say HEYYY! y know wat? Savior lost on purpose! and just want people to say "aw man its ok i would have done the same" MAN WTF? ITS WRONG , maybe not pathetic but its stupid and show that money can indeed buy everything...so you cut the shit off. If they want more money organize something or whatever to make kespa look like an ass and make them pay more or W/E, but dont justify your cheating, this is very similir to the TSL thing "I cheated because no one will play with me!" "Aaaaw its ok ma.....oh no wait a minute, your FUCKING BANNED FROM OUR EVENTS!" |
| lol, i so knew this would happen. |
| And also, the news are WRONG; ITS NOT 2 million dollars for fucks sake, its around 4000k to drop a game.........and 20 000 was the max ammount paid.... |
| It might have been 2mil WON which is nothing. |
Rekrul San Diego. April 11 2010 09:02. Posts 13588 Profile Blog ya actually it was a joke happy late april fools! |
| Wait and see, the Chinese pro scene will come big after this |
| @30: My point exactly @31 You know nothing bout rek do you? |
Is this some kind of joke? Like 1st of April or something?  |
| i saw rekrul's post when he did it, but man, this is so impressive anyways |
| Sad. Simply sad. |
koreans...  |
| Is IdrA involved xD ? |
| #38 actualy it was idra who payed them, he wanted to play with them but he never had enough money :DD |
how could be idra involved, no skill = no money  |
| I don't know if all of this is true or not, but it's really weird why this information would leak just now when Blizzard want so much to take over the Korean scene. Think about it. |
| Everything gets worse if theres a LOT of money around it. |
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| this is just another thing against korean sc bw scene because they want to destroy sc bw and replace it with sc2 |
| lololololol looks like he was not only the maestro of zerg!!! |
| "states that Savior is rumored to have accumulated around $2,000,000 from the illegal betting" ????????????????????????! u cant be serious xDDD |
| i found a list of players they are checking those players / those players are under suspicion: Park 'YellOw[ArnC]' Myung Soo Park 'Luxury' Chan Soo Shin 'SangHo' Sang Ho Kim 'EffOrt' Jung Woo Jin 'Movie' Young Hwa Ma 'sAviOr' Jae Yoon Kim 'Bisu' Taek Yon Song 'Stork' Byung Goo Doh 'BeSt' Jae Wook Jo 'hero' Il Jang Jung 'Fantasy' Myung Hoon Shin 'UpMaGiC' Hee Seung Lee 'Jaedong' Jae Dong Shin 'Leta' Sang Moon Won 'Justin' Jong Seo Kim 'go.go' Chang Hee from http://www.fragster.de/artikel/13859 /sc-progaming-vor-dem-abgrund-wettskandal-erschuttert-sudkorea_sc/ |
| For as long as no one gets banned from playing pro, or no one actually gets punished in any possible way, I continue thinking this is just another way to try and weaken both Kespa and Korean pro-scene in attempt to get more people to SC2, mostly Koreans in this matter. Maybe I'm wrong though... In that case, well, what can be said. All the best players are on this list. If they are all guilty, that would most certainly destroy big deal of Korean scene. |
| the fuck!! all the good players are cheating???? fuck...they have become intelligent well, enjoy the money freaking pros!!  |
| would love a list of the progamers involved, oh man i hope flash wasnt :<< |
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