Another E-Sports story here -- and I seem to be seeing more of these...
Kotaku for this one...
A European Starcraft tournament had a player disqualified from it this weekend.
Steffen Hoffland faced Wenlei Dei in a best-of-three match.
The first game took over three hours.
The second and third never took place.
Hoffland incorporated a turtle-and-stall strategy against Dei, hoping (apparently quite-literally) to stall Dei to sleep.
Problem is, he got so bored with the process, he started to go off-game and go other places on the Internet.
When you're playing Final Fantasy XI at home, this is marginal.
When you're playing professional Starcraft for a spot on the World Championship Series, this is illegal!
Especially when you're dropping by Twitch on your own match and your Twitter and finding out privileged information on your opponent!
Worse yet, when he finally decides to hit the alarm clock and win, he screams in chat "IM A TERRORIST" (no apostrophe), and charges for the win.
It is for that for which he was disqualified.
Two other players in the same tournament were also disqualified (and also banned for the remainder of the first 2015 professional season) for even DISCUSSING match-fixing in their qualifier tournament.
Starcraft, as people like Brian Tuohy well knows, has had many issues with match-fixing over the years.
Someone at Blizzard had better get even firmer control of the Starcraft leagues, or else that whole game is going to fail.
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