"Turtle Rock One Versus One Tournament, 14:30."There it was, my eyes instantly drawn to the top right part of the interface, yet another automated tournament on Battle.Net, on one of my favourite maps no less. I wanted so to partake, but with a new crash-hack plaguing the ladder, I assumed it would be nothing but a test of my patience. I decided, however, after a moment's deep thought, to give it a shot, but stop as soon as I got hacked.
Four games in and I had yet to meet a hacker, winning every game quite convincingly. A fifth game seemed reasonable, I convinced myself while pressing the "search" button. And a fifth opponent was indeed found for me, a Human player. Up until then, every crash-hacker I'd met was Night Elf, so I was quite surprised when everything started lagging, and I was quick to suicide-rush his base to grab the win before disconnecting (for more on the crash-hack, read this, or this).
Some would call me insane, but, running on the high of denying a hacker his would-be ill-gotten gains, I went for yet another game, figuring I was close enough to reach the top 16 (who later go on to the elimination rounds) to not let some dopey hack stand between me and e-glory eternal. But lo and behold, my next opponent was a hacker, too, and one far more intelligent than what I'd previously faced. Disarming his crash-hack at the price of all but giving him the win, I felt discouraged. He was levels ahead of me, hero-wise, and had every other conciveable advantage. Luckily for me, I remembered the golden rule of hackers; They always suck ass at the game, you know, since they resort to hacking. Humiliated, he conceded the game after what can only be described as godlike multitasking on my part, harassing him all game, never letting up. Foolish hackers should know better than to try their hand at besting Starshaped - cyberathlete extraordinaire.
Sadly enough, I made it all the way to the semifinals before facing yet another hacker, who successfully defeated me (despite having the Rocky Theme playing in my head). A plague on his Battle.Net account!
Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting e-mails from any of the major e-sports teams (SK, WemadeFOX etc.) with their offers. SK.Starshaped, anyone?
Addendum: Here are a select few replays, for those interested:
Versus crash-hackers: (Note the incredibly high APM of the hackers, a tell-tale after-the-fact way to see if they really did hack)
http://tft.replayers.com/?action=view&id=141042
http://tft.replayers.com/?action=view&id=141043
Round one of the top 16 elimination rounds:
http://tft.replayers.com/?action=view&id=141056
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Entertaining read.
So where's the replay?
Hi Loof.
Yes on the replay
hay guyz wot is goin on in dis thrade
Many thanks.
Updated the entry to add some replays.
Uhm, in the epic match where you are supposed to win vs a enemy "levels ahead" (read: 1 level) I didn't really understand why did he leave, he was in much better position than you and there was almost no way he would lose. Maybe he crashed when you blew that building?
Well, the way I see it, he saw I was almost done with my sanctums (as the crash-hack includes a maphack, or vice versa) and he had been harassed pretty hard all game and sucked at handling it (even with the aforementioned maphack), so he gave up, maybe figuring it wasn't worth the effort.
He didn't crash, though, I'm fairly certain.
Also, he was almost level three when I was just level one, AND he had chosen Water Element to my Blizzard. Any decent player should have just been able to ride it out and own me, but, like I said, hackers always suck ass at the game.
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