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IEM winner Morrow banned from Go4SC2
ESL has banned the winner of their biggest SC2 event from participating in the next three Go4SC2 cups.
By Michael 'Zechs' Radford
Sep 6, 2010 20:45
ESL has banned the winner of their biggest SC2 event from participating in the next three Go4SC2 cups.ESL made an unexpected decision today when they barred Carl Stefan 'MorroW' Andersson from the next three Go4SC2 events. The move came after the IEM Cologne winner reportedly refused to play with 14 streamers. According to ESL: "During the final match of last Wednesday's final, MorroW deliberately ignored the instructions of a tournament admin, then later further disrespected the tournament administration."
The official statement from ESL does not go into detail about the offence, but does link to the rules about match streaming, confirming that spectators were at the heart of the issue. The league admitted that they did not want to ban such a big name player, but felt it was "necessary to ensure the smooth running of future cups."
Fortunately for the outspoken Swede, the ban only affects Go4SC2 and no other tournaments. Never the less, it makes it more difficult for him to qualify for the monthly final and the chance to win €500. The fact that he won the cup in question (last Wednesday Cup #34) may help his cause, however, assuming that the result stands. The status of said result has not been mentioned by ESL, presumably meaning that it will remain in place.
Image courtesy of ESL/Julia Cristophers
The official statement from ESL does not go into detail about the offence, but does link to the rules about match streaming, confirming that spectators were at the heart of the issue. The league admitted that they did not want to ban such a big name player, but felt it was "necessary to ensure the smooth running of future cups."
Fortunately for the outspoken Swede, the ban only affects Go4SC2 and no other tournaments. Never the less, it makes it more difficult for him to qualify for the monthly final and the chance to win €500. The fact that he won the cup in question (last Wednesday Cup #34) may help his cause, however, assuming that the result stands. The status of said result has not been mentioned by ESL, presumably meaning that it will remain in place.
Image courtesy of ESL/Julia Cristophers
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he didnt want to let take stream the game for ESL TV and take already said on stream that there'll be consequences for his bahavior
CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME !
ofc germans want german caster since they dont understand english? come on, 14 casters, really? seems like esl dont know how unstable sc2 is yet.......
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RIP MATT "ZALMAH" RYDER
You need 2 players, 1 admin, 1 streamer and make it an english one, and be done with it.
Or he could possibly stream the video too one guy who streams it to 13 other guys, hence the gamer will not suffer from lack of bandwidth lag.
This news Zechs wrote is not very close to what really happenend. MorroW was banned only for one playday and ESL regretted that there had been so many casters and immediately changed the rules.
On September 06 2010 03:27 Shawngood wrote:
Since the same argument is being brought up here constantly: We actually changed our streaming policy since Wednesday's disaster and now only "verified" casters will be allowed in the games in the quarter finals and all the later stages. In the currently running cup we have 2-3 casters and no observers besides one admin in the matches and as far as I can tell there were no lag issues so far.
It is actually in our interest to only have a selected few casters so that we can promote their streams on our website better and have a better run tournament overall. The rule of "anyone is welcome to stream" was introduced in beta when we were eager to have as much exposure as possible. There won't be 14 streamers or whatever ridiculous number is thrown aorund here again in a Go4SC2 match.
Regarding MorroW's ban: Since we didn't announce any ban for MorroW on our website so far please take any info Rakaka or other community websites release with a grain of salt. Yes, one of our admins did talk to MorroW after the cup and we didn't let him play in today's cup but I'm sure we will find a better solution to this issue as well since it's obvious that his behaviour was caused by our organization.