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Coca and Byun punished for match fixing
Posted by Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev 6 months ago
Photo by: WellPlayed.org
SlayerS_Coca and GhostKingPrime (ex ZenexByun) will suffer consequences due to fixing a match between themselves at the ESV Korean Weekly. Both players will not be competing in any current or future tournaments until their teams consider otherwise.
A translation post on TL.net tells the story of Coca and Byun who decided, midway through their second game at the ESV Korean Weekly, to actually reveal their swindle in game chat. Coca had won the first match and was obviously winning the second as well being on six base to Byun's one when the terran asked Coca to surrender. The source also provides an English transcript of the chat, which went like that:
Byun: fuck fuck
Coca: Trap card!
Byun: I got dominated fuck
Coca: You have to put down a planetary. I have 3 expansions.
Byun: No it's not that. Mutas
Byun: Leave fuck fuck fuck
Coca: I surrender
Byun: Let's go to a third game
Coca: ok. gg
*Coca leaves game*
Coca: Trap card!
Byun: I got dominated fuck
Coca: You have to put down a planetary. I have 3 expansions.
Byun: No it's not that. Mutas
Byun: Leave fuck fuck fuck
Coca: I surrender
Byun: Let's go to a third game
Coca: ok. gg
*Coca leaves game*
Following the incident, Coca has forfeited his Code S spot and has been removed out of the SlayerS A team, will live and train outside the SlayerS house and won't participate in any tournaments until the team finds him having mended his pro-player mentality. The latter goes for Byun as well, although he will remain to live and train in the Prime team house. Both players are banned from participating in Korean Weeklies until January 1st 2012.
GomTV has also taken the initiative to investigate the matter and will release an official statement shortly.
| Links |
| TeamLiquid.net - Source (English) |
| Thisisgame.com - Source (Korean) |
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| if this is true, they should recieve WAY more severe bans/fines! maby ban them from any pro gaming for 3 years or something like that, we need to strike down on things like this HARD! |
| From the tl.net thread, looks like it's true. |
He threw away won game, for fun (one game out of three). Its not as bad as fixing a important match that people bet real money on, geez.  |
| wow, people took this too seriously. Poor coca, he was getting really good. |
| #1 This is no different from when Demuslim threw those MLG qualifiers vs Idra, because he already had the spot. Nobody cares. As #3 pointed out it didn't matter that much, and it was actually strategically correct of him to do, because this meant he could potentially face him again in GSL and beat him where it actually matters. |
| insanely stupid. two friends and one left a game to be funny. the ONLY 'correction' should be for them to be told 'no' and they say 'oh okay coca wins 2-0 then' not a childish reaction like #1 had loolollolo moron |
| I also think coca deserves the wrath of god. Strike him down.. HARD! |
| It might be too harsh, but it was a good decision. They need to be set up as an example to prevent future matches where a player loses on purpose. Losing on purpose makes eSports look like a joke, even if it's a smaller league. |
| At least they could have come up with a better plan than one player (other than IdrA ofc) randomly leaves the game. |
| I still think they should strike down on this WAY harder, this is an official game that coca throws on purpose to help his friend, which is just ridicoulous.. I don't care if this game wasn't important to coca, this was an official game in a tournament, that might not be such an important tournament but we can not have people throw games as they please just because they don't find the tournament that important! Give them both a 3 year ban from any e-sport I'd say, and they should still be glad they won't end up like savior with a life time ban! |
| Guys, this is a lot less serious than what saviOr did. Chill out. The teams dealt with it in the correct way. Hope Gom doesn't overreact to pressure from the public. |
| he liked to say the "F" word a lot. "F" this and "F" that Forrest Gump |
| c c c c c c :D |
| why they do mach fixing, they didn't see the consecuences to Savior when he match fixed? |
| so in esports people are supposted to hate each other? theres no place for fun anymore? |
| it's some little Weekly tournament for 100e max prize pool where they play for practice for big tournaments and since they are friends they decide to make it more interesting and play 3rd game. As u can see CoCa dominate Byun so he was confident in hes skills that he will be able do it once again. And why not its practice game for them after all. And iv notice some ppl are to harsh on them, and try to set an example for future proGamers but mine opinion its they dont deserve this one... I mean so hard punishment. This year in Euro Basketball championship Greece try to pay german referee to fix game and referee declained and Greece national selection was punish with same amount of money as they offer to referee, what is hilarious 5k e. |
| This is NOT fair. Let me say why. I actually agree that we cannot have this happen, otherwise the line between match-fixing/bribery and having fun/helping a friend will become too thin, and this will be unfair. However, although these players shouldn't of done that, they should be punished so harshly THIS time. They should be warned, this should be publicised so everyone knows, and then if repeated this is a good level of punishment. This is pretty harsh and ruining two guys careers for now :( |
| #11 At least Savior was a monster |
| #18 Fair rules apply regardless of who you are. |
| I think SlayerS did well in responding this way. They want to give an example and this match fixing definitely could tarnish the way their team is viewed among other professional teams. So they set the bar high and punished Coca and Byun harshly so that it will never occur again. I agree that having Coca forfeit his Code S is harsh, but this punishment means match fixing will never cross Coca or Byun's minds. |
| I don't find it soooooo important, they just wanted to go to another game, come'on! |
| #21 Because they could have easily done it without sacrificing the integrity of the tournament. How hard is it to just finish him off, and start your own custom game for more practice? =.= |
| Not only that chat doesn't prove anything, but also this is absolutely retarded. Coca won this is not match fixing... EDIT: I'm actually really sad for Coca the guy was becoming really good. |
| How can people say that we should not take this serious and that the punishment was harsh? I don't understand this. This was an official match, the fact that it was in a tournament that isn't really that important doesnt matter. They fixed an offical match, and I think they should be glad they aren't banned from all e-sport for a lifetime! And I really think they deserve a loong ban from everything, and not just to set an example.. if it was to set an example, I'd say ban them from all e-sports tournaments for a lifetime. |
| #24 fixing a match means you arrange the outcome beforehand. Just read what #23 wrote. I didn't follow the game but if Coca actually won, then it's rather a really sophisticated match fixing: letting your opponent to win, declaring it publicly, only for him to return the favor by losing while faking serious gameplay. A conspiracy no doubt! Again, if #23 is right and Coca had won, you should stop considering this as match fixing. It's just like #16 said. The guy trusted his abilities to win so he didn't mind a 3rd game since he was the better player. He probably did that to make things a bit more spicy, like giving a handicap of sorts. I completely agree with #17. Tournament rules should be respected but this just sounds like an overkill... Edit: Hmm from what I've read on teamliquid.net Coca actually lost the third game so #23 is wrong. That's why I got to completely agree with 26. In the future you should really include the results of the match in the article since it's a really important detail >_< |
| From where I stand, I consider this the perfect punishment. The two did something stupid and yes, it might not be as harsh as the BroodWar cases but it was wrong at least by some criteria. The punishment imposed by the teams is severe enough yet not too damaging. It's like grounding your kid for trying to steal a waffle from the supermarket - it's wrong and they should suffer the consequences just to set their discipline straight. That is all I see here. |
| #25 well said we have to know who end up winning eventually. CoCa #8 ranked by gg.net in the whole world its sad to throw that ace from a scene. If it is fixed they would do it before game and in some serious tournament, not something not even tracked by gg.net... After all he can leave Korea like Puma did and become some international clan Ace player he is same caliber player as PuMa is or even better atm. This should be a warning to all proGamers what will be punishment for fixing a match in the future, and decrease this one to something more appropriate since its first time it happened and wasn`t serious. That is mine opinion. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/vie wmessage.php?topic_id=285566 |
| Kick out the best zerg in your house... GOOD IDEA Honestly people are taking this way to seriously The guy is 17 years old of course hes gona make a stupid mistake every now and then, the important thing is to show him his mistake and explain to him why it is wrong so he can learn and grow from it. this punishment is way to harsh especially for such a insignificant tournament such as this. if it was the gsl finals or something i could understand this kind of punishment. Also didnt Nestea throw blizcon to MVP, or did i just misread things awhile back, whats up with thatO.o |
| now there are only 2 zerg remaining in the GSL! LEENOCK and NESTEA! |
| What most people dont seem to understand is that a Code B spot was on the line in this tournament. I think the punishment is fine |
| Code B for CoCa who is in Code S
he give Byun 2nd chance since they are friends and CoCa play that tournament just for practice obviously... |
| #32 They can practice a lot outside of the tourneys and I am pretty sure they do, there was absolutely no reason for CoCa to give Byun a free win, except if he wanted for Byun to win, which is just that, match fixing. |
| This is simple: Coca let byun win because he wanted byun to get a code a spot, which is mach fixing and I still think they should get way more severe bans than this! it's like they don't rly care about this, because it wasnt in one of the biggest tournaments.. but it was still an official tournament |
| #32 So you think that if Man Utd already won premier league 2 rounds before the end of the season, and they lose a game on purpose to Tottenham because then Tottenham will get the last champions league spot instead of Man City, because man utd and man city are rivals its ok? people complain that norwegian punsihment is too soft after terrorist attacks this summer, but norwegian morale and respect for rules is obv quite strong |
| WOW ... u guys saying that they deserve more than this are just.... they are friends and allowed to do what they want. If they wanted to play a third so that they can play another exciting game, yea maybe warn them not to do it again but ban them till 2012? seriously what a joke |
| #34... U play dota.. what do u know? |
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