How do you feel about collusion in gaming?

Post » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:16 pm

http://shoryuken.com/2013/07/30/major-tournaments-agree-to-rules-standardization-on-player-collusion-event-coverage-determined-by-rule-inclusion-and-enforcement/

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Recently there was a video game tournament, http://www.thevideoxgames.com/, where some people believe that the two participants in the Grand Finals of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Marvel_vs._Capcom_3 under performed and worked in collusion with each other to split the winnings. The reason some people believe there was collusion was because the two players did not play with characters they usually use in the finals of tournaments.

The two participants of in the Grand Finals of UMVC3 were http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=NYChrisG&oq=NYChrisG&gs_l=youtube.3..0l8j0i5.597.2129.0.2442.8.8.0.0.0.0.98.555.8.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.GDpUabLv65Y and http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=EMP+Flocker&oq=EMP+Flocker&gs_l=youtube.3..0.1257.1896.0.2106.2.2.0.0.0.0.88.142.2.2.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.FXwrMpWlHe4.

EMP Flocker was the winner of the recent EVO 2013 game tournament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_Championship_Series#Evo_2013 and AGE NYChrisG was regarded as the strongest player going in to the UMVC3 EVO 2013 tournament by last years EVO 2013 UMVC3 winner. http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2013/jul/14/filipino-champ-while-chrisg-most-dominant-player-i-will-win-evo-year-interviews-pr-balrog-and-more/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72x9sjShG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8hv6IGQSkI

You can see that the characters that EMP Flocker uses in the UMVC3 VxG 2013 Grand Finals are different from what he used at the UMVC3 EVO 2013 Grand Finals. This difference in character use caused suspicion of collusion.

Collusion is not new. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Justin+Wong&oq=Justin+Wong&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.858.1983.0.2081.11.8.0.3.3.0.73.351.8.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.5vFpLrLxwN4, a professional gamer, talks about participating in pot splitting with http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WolfKrone&oq=WolfKrone&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.4055.5175.0.5265.9.7.0.2.2.0.87.481.7.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.niFz3-U91Vc, also a professional gamer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfmRWTqPq3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y1jbYOYhqs

What do you guys think about Collusion and Pot Splitting?

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ANaIs GRelot
 
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Post » Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:18 pm

I'm not the most moral person..so I don't mind

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Post » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:46 pm

Didn't this happen in the Olympics recently? Some Chinese badminton players were messing up purposely to help their teammates get into the finals.
My opinion on collusion is that if somebody honestly doesn't want to win the game on their own in a fair match then they shouldn't be playing the game competitively.
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