Quote (Fej @ 25 Mar 2015 09:50)
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Marineking vs. Byul in Proleague. Byul does a proxy hatch cheese build. Marineking briefly moves a reaper south enough in his base to see a spine crawler building just outside his base. From his perspective, there would be a medium sized red dot on his minimap, even if he did not see the spine/creep when he moved his reaper. Marineking continues to not react to the spine crawler, casters are baffled, MK builds a third CC. By that time Byul has broken the rocks, creep and lings are in Marineking's base, and this is when MK "reacts", cancels his third CC, tries to defend and loses easily.
After the game, the esports betting site Pinnacle announces that it is canceling all bets on the game, due to suspicious betting patterns (someone, or some ones, bet heavily on Byul before the match, even though on paper he was not such a heavy favourite, if at all).
Combine these two facts, and it is pretty hard to say Marineking did not throw the game. If you had a spine crawler on your minimap below your base, would you not see it? Maybe, if you're in Silver or Bronze league. Marineking is a pro-gamer, players of his skill level constantly look at their mini-maps, it is unfathomable that he didn't see the spine, or if he did, that he would "react" to it in such a way.
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