The PSL Title Matches will take place in a bit more than an hour, hope to see you!
We did not really want to heat-up the Asylum matter as it really does not help much to argue about something we won't change. However, some things have been said repeatedly that made us doubt people have understand what we wrote. Maybe our post was too complicated and did not stress out the basic arguments enough to be understandable for non-native english speakers. We would therefore like to repeat the core points we gave and respond to some points that have been brought up against us:
1. Our decision is based on what we found out technically via our anti-cheat binary. We let Asylum play again after his match vs. Undertaker to make really sure he cheats. And he did.
2. We won't provide the technical evidence that we have - for two reasons: most importantly it would tremendously help the wrong people and besides that the critics of our decision would probably still not be satisfied because they might not even have the technical background to know what we were doing and/or you could always doubt any evidence by saying it's fake. An example: if we gave a log that showed some output indicating a cheat, critics could still just say that this is not a log from that game, it would not prove anything as it's just some text. Even what the critics refer to as the only "real" evidence (ie. to fully disclose how the mechanism works) would not solve the conflict. It would still not give the critics the "absolute" evidence that asylum was detected, as the critics were not seeing the mechanism getting triggered live during the game. We really have no incentive to reveal that information therefore. It would only do harm and mean a lot of work to put in a new way to detect cheaters, if not more. We can't make you understand, but we hope you do.
3. The Videos are no proof, nor do or did we ever claim that they are(!). They are what we created to make you see how such a cheat works, and we picked the situations where Asylum must have "guessed" where the enemy is. We had the impression that so many good "guesses" in a 5 minute game would be convincing and therefore might serve you as something to believe in our decision. And: Of course Asylum looked towards other directions in other scenes - but this does not prove his innocence. Keep in mind that that's exactly what everyone would do who tries to hide his cheating. If you really think about it, you'll figure that the moments where he did not look are the ONLY important ones. There - and only there - it's narrowed down to either you believe he's the best "guesser" of all times, or he's not.
4. We're not related to the SCC. We even objected as the whole thing was based not on techical evidence, but only on the opinion of some players. It was one of the reasons to start with our anti-cheat binary. But: I still believe the idea to do something against cheaters was honorable and we wish more people would see that all they were trying to do is solving an urgent matter in the best way they could. The means were insufficient and in our opinion it's good that they stopped. But the will they showed to do something is honorable and not something that should be used against them by others who don't do anything about cheating.
5. We are not related to the ESL, nor their responsibles. We do not even really follow what they do nor do we know how they came up with their decision on Asylum. Our decision was not even influenced by it, as we didn't even know he was banned there before. Our only bond to ESL was a few chats with XP from ESL and the mutual agreement that we would not stage games at the same days and times. We also considered having the ESL ladders for a way to qualify for PSL without much following up and that's about it.
6. FK had the chance to replay their title match. The timeframe was short, but we would like two things to be taken into consideration when talking about that issue: for one thing almost every other tournament would ban the team without even giving an opportunity to replay the match. You coud even say it's rather unfair that we gave the opportunity than vice versa. The other thing is that we had to look for a second qualifying team. A team who won with a cheater can't seriously expect neither us nor the rest of the community to wait until you it's fully satisfied with everything. We would even rather dare to say that the ones that play the game honestly have a right that the damage created by the cheater is as small as it can be for them.
7. We are not saying nor even trying to say or sugesting that Asylum or FK are people we don't like or anything similar. The opposite is much rather the case. We were always aware that they play an important role in the sauer community and are a bunch of very positive, friendly and good players. This Asylum issue won't change that, nor do we want the community in any way to create false prejudices against FK and cube2.fr and vice versa. FK showed a reaction that is very human and would have been similar in any other clan who knows each other as well from mumble like FK does. Something like this is hard to believe if you believe you know someone well from audio-chat. Anyway - both FK and the whole french speaking community are still more than welcome to play in PSL (excluding of course Asylum for the year of his ban). And to make that very clear: we only kicked people for their behaviour during the Qualification games namely b/c of their name changes, provokative names, text-spamming and repeated disturbing from outside. This was not even something new, but rather something we even had to do and did several times in the months/years before. We had to take the necessary steps and we will do it again and against anyone who is attacking/dusturbing in the future.
We would like you to read some of the ongoing discussion. Yet again, we can only repeat that we have to accept and will accept that some of you will dislike us and PSL for the decision. We believe it your right to question what we do, and we actually even rather have people who do question what we do than people who don't reflect things at all. Anyway, we had to decide that way, otherwise the whole anti-cheat-client-philosohy would just be absurd... Ok. Here are some Links to the discussion:
Discussion at the TC-Forum (mind the order, its from latest to oldest) (mefisto seems to be one who really got our point)
