A few thoughts on the Chupze-Case

Hey bitches,

i know you were expecting me to publish funny troll-content, but given recent events it looks like my first contribution to this blog will deal with a serious matter.

For those of you who haven't watched this evenings SWL-matches i will quickly sum up what happened: JG won the iCTF qualifiers, kicking w00p and vaQ out of the tournament. After both games various participants and spectators accused Chupze of using aim-hacks. Due to the matches being played without Anti-Cheat-Client there is at least the possibility he did. The SWL-Admins promised to review the demos and ban Chupze from the tournament if they find him guilty of cheating.

And this is where the problems begin: How can they tell? How can anyone tell? Like i said before the games were played without an anti-cheat-client, leaving us with only what we can see in the demos to base our judgement on.

The demos show the matches "from the servers perspective", so to speak, they resemble only the data received by the server. They don't contain any information on what's been going on client-side. We can watch the demos over and over again and point to suspicious frags, but how can we ultimately tell if they were just lucky-shots or the result of an aimbot/triggerbot? Also i'm not sure how the demos are affected by ping differences, it's quite possible they are not even 100% accurate.

By the way, personally i am convinced Chupze used cheats. Chupze is a great player for sure, you can tell by his impressive jumping-skills on reissen. But we can't deduce from that he hasn't turned on his cheats on occassions, just to make sure }JG{ would not accidentaly lose the match despite their potential. Some of the more important shots Chupze hit looked really strange and very similar to what i've seen from other people who evidently used cheats. This, combined with the fact some of his former clanmates (who i trust) testified he has access to cheats and used them frequently during public games, lead me to the conclusion he must be a hacker.

However, this is yet another problem. Clearly i'm not neutral on this matter since it was my clan he allegedly cheated against. And let's be honest, neither are most of the SWL-Admins. TheLove is his clanmate, KaZ was victim of his cheats. This means Achille will need to decide this case alone, forced to speak a verdict without real evidence.

This is a tough situation. Not banning chupze from the tournament will most likely result in a shitstorm because it all looks so obvious. Banning him on the other hand is likely to result in a shitstorm too because there's no real evidence. And you can't blame either side for being upset.

However, there is one thing you should bear in mind: If Chupze get's banned from SWL, it's his own fault. He's been caught cheating before, he must have been aware of the danger of losing his credibility. If people believe he's still cheating it's because of a mistake HE made in the past. And although there might be no way for us to prove he used cheats during this evenings games, he must not be surprised so many of us are absolutely certain he did.

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