StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea 471
dotarray writes with this snippet: "The largest scandal in e-sports history is currently unfolding in Korea, with revelations that a number of current pro gamers are involved with match setups and illegal betting. While the gamers are unnamed at this point, the story is said to touch many A-list StarCraft celebrities, including sAviOr, Ja Mae Yoon, one of the best-known and most successful players of all time."
Name is wrong - Jae Yoon Ma (Score:5, Informative)
His first name is Jae Yoon, and his surname is Ma. Typically written in Korean with the surname first, as Ma Jae Yoon. Ja Mae Yoon is wrong.
Re:A-list? What? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:A-list? What? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:A-list? What? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A-list? What? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:As long as it's not Boxer, I'm ok (Score:4, Informative)
Criminals? I guess you mean criminal suspects, since it's the police rather than the court that "have gotten involved".
Re:A-list? What? (Score:5, Informative)
A couple posts (e.g. the top one on this page [teamliquid.net]) dispute it's at that degree of popularity:
bjornkavist:
PanzerDragoon:
Re:A-list? What? (Score:2, Informative)
Ma Jae-Yoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Jae-Yoon
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ma+Jae-Yoon
Re:A-list? What? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A-list? What? (Score:5, Informative)
mainly because you're a tool. Here is what a search of him in Korea looks like:
http://search.naver.com/search.naver?sm=tab_hty&where=nexearch&query=%B8%B6%C0%E7%C0%B1&x=0&y=0 [naver.com]
news sites, images, magazine covers, videos, etc
This does deserve a story (Score:2, Informative)
More to the point, there is real talent, years of honing your skill, and real fans involved here. That's what makes this match fixing a real deal. That's too bad, this young sport deserves better.
Re:How is this news? (Score:4, Informative)
Further Information (Score:2, Informative)
Re:As long as it's not Boxer, I'm ok (Score:3, Informative)
No, you're absolutely correct.
Re:Sport? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:In a way it's nice.. (Score:3, Informative)
It blows my mind how many kids are fed the lies that they can make it in pro sports. I your skills aren't better than 1 in 100,000, you're not going to make it into pro sports.
Bull (Score:1, Informative)
"...most sex offenders are repeat offenders..." is false.
Sex offenders are less likely to show recidivism than most other folks jailed for felonies. It's one of the very few crimes where we do a good job of helping offenders control themselves.
The parent is lying, plain and simple.
Re:recidivism (Score:3, Informative)
Wrong. Recidivism rates are much higher for people who are driven by a desire for money than they are for sexual offenders. Evidence from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/rpr94.txt [usdoj.gov]
"Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were --
robbers (70.2%)
burglars (74.0%)
larcenists (74.6%)
motor vehicle thieves (78.8%)
possessors/sellers of
stolen property (77.4%)
possessors/sellers of
illegal weapons (70.2%).
What these high-rate offenders have in common is that they were all in prison for what are generally thought of as crimes for money. By contrast, many of those with the lowest rearrest rates -- persons convicted of homicide (40.7%), rapists (46.0%), other sexual assaulters (41.4%), other violent offenders (51.7%), and those convicted of driving under the influence (51.5%) -- were in prison for crimes not generally motivated by desire for material gain."
Sexual offenders and pedophiles are a problem, but attempting to solve it with bad data won't work.