ideal gaming - our point of view


	Date: 21/01-2008 Contact: Kaare ‘unkleK’ Bøje Email: unkleK@ideal-gaming.com IRC (Quakenet): #ideal Counter-Strike 1.6
	Spiller udelukket fra ESL - Vores syn på sagen Player Banned from ESL - Our point of view Dansk & English

	ideal gaming – statement Vi har en kedelig nyhed, en nyhed vi helst ikke vil fortælle om, men som professionel organisation føler vi os forpligtet til at give offentligheden indsigt i hvad der foregår hos ideal gaming. Det sidste år har vi kæmpet os op blandt den danske top i Counter-Strike, det har kostet blod, sved og tårer at nå op på det niveau vi har i dag. ideal gaming har besøgt de fleste danske LANs, været i Spanien, Sverige og Tyskland, hvor vi har vist det danske flag og gjort det rigtig godt. We have sad news, so sad that we would rather not tell you about it, but as a professional organization we feel obligated to give the public an insight in what’s going in ideal gaming The last year we’ve fought hard and are a part of the Danish top teams in Counter-Strike, with blood, sweat and tears we’ve reached the level are at now. ideal gaming visited most Danish LAN events, but we also went to Spain, Sweden and Germany, where we showed the Danish flag and did quite well. ideal gaming spiller i forskellige online ligaer, bl.a. ESL, hvor vi har mødt flere danske tophold og vundet nok kampe til at ende på en 1. plads i EPS sæson 2. ideal gaming play in various online leagues, such as ESL wehere we’ve met several danish top teams and furthermore we won enough matches to take the 1st place in EPS season 2. Fakta er at ESL bruger AEQ og scanner konstant for eksterne programmer og andre ureglementerede hjælpemidler. Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych er blevet taget af deres scanner i at have brugt et AEQ hack. Ifølge ESL egen scanner viser den at Marc ikke snød ingame. Fact is that ESL is using AEQ and is constantly scanning for external programs and other inappropriate tools . Marc “nexiz” Woolrych has been caught by the scanner using some kind of AEQ hack. According to the ESL scanner Marc didn’t cheat ingame. Dommen er faldet og Marc er umiddelbart blevet udelukket i 2 år fra al deltagelse i ESL regi. Dette finder vi yderst uretfærdig og stiller os uforstående overfor denne beslutning, dog er der blevet nævnt at straffen kan sættes ned til 1 år, hvis Marc vil indordne sig under visse ting som ESL kræver. Vi forstår ikke deres konklusion. There has been a verdict and Marc is banned 2 years from all gaming which has to do with ESL. We find this unreasonable and it is for us hard to understand this decision. There’s a possibility to get the 2 years reduced, if Marc will do what ESL tells him to, then he will banned for a year. We do not understand this conclusion. Yderligere er ideal gaming blevet frataget 6 point i EPS sæson 2 og skal derfor spille playoffs. Furthermore ideal gaming lost 6 points in EPS season 2 and we are now in the playoffs. Ledelsen i ideal har valgt at suspendere Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych fra ideal gaming indtil videre. The management within ideal gaming has chosen to suspend Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych until further notice. Vi vil gerne takke Henrik Kepler for at holde os informeret og give os tid til at få stablet et ”forsvar” på benene. We would like to thank Henrik Kepler for keeping us informed and giving us the time to get this ”defense” up. Nedenfor kan i læse Marcs version af historien og de øvrige spilleres opfattelse af hele den her situation. Below you can read Marcs version of the story and also the Counter-Strike team has added their story. Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych - Statement Det er den 3. januar kl. 15-16. Det kunne have været hvilken som helst dag. Jeg sidder og surfer på XplayN.com, og falder over nogle fora vedrørende cheat på aequitas. Jeg beslutter mig for at ”google” temaet, og falder over noget aequihack. Jeg henter det, følger ”read me”, vælger et tilfældigt matchlink (formentlig ”ideal vs. Gravitas). Jeg går ind i CS og spiller mod nogle BOTs på min egen lokale server. Jeg lukker derefter counter-strike ned og kigger på de screenshots som aequitas har taget. Jeg ser at aequitas har taget billeder med wallhack på, så jeg konkluderer at det ikke er muligt at bruge wallhack på aequitas – jeg kan i hvert fald ikke finde ud af det. Jeg sletter filerne og genstarter computeren flere gange, så der ikke er noget tilbage i min registry database. Jeg er på dette tidspunkt ikke klar over at der bliver lavet en log fil som automatisk bliver sendt til ESL’s database i Tyskland. Jeg regnede med at det var den fil man uploadede efter en eventuel kamp. Det er dette, som har fældet mig. It's the 3. January 3 og 4 pm. It could have been every other day. Im surfing on XplayN.com and stumble upon forum thread regarding cheat on aequitas. I decide to "google" the subject and find some aequihack. I download it, follow the instructions, choose a random matchlink(probably "ideal vs. Gravitas). I open CS and play vs. some BOTs on my own local server. After that i close CS and look at the screenshots aequitas took. I see several screenshots with wallhack on them, which leads me to the conclusion that the aequihack doesn't work, at least not of my knowledge. I delete the aequitas archive files and reboot the computer several times so there no proof left in my registry database. At this point im not aware that a log file has automaticly been sent to ESL's database in Germany. I figured it was the file one uploaded after a match that would go to the database. It's this i've been caught on. Senere på aftenen spiller vi mod Gravitas Gaming, og der er ingen problemer – jeg har ikke snydt! Later that day, we played vs. Gravitas Gaming, and there was no problems - i didn't cheat! På min fødselsdag 11 dage senere, den 14. januar, får jeg et uventet opkald fra en af vores managers i ideal gaming. Han har en kedelig nyhed som siger, at jeg er blevet taget i en scan, som viser at jeg har brugt noget ulovligt i kampen mod Gravitas. Dette kan jeg selvfølgelig ikke forstå, da jeg aldrig nogen sinde ville kunne finde på at benytte mig af snyd eller ureglementerede hjælpemidler i en kamp. Det er alt jeg får af vide og jeg går ind til mine gæster. On my birthday, 11 days later i receive a unexpected phonecall from one of our managers. He tells me that ive been caugt in a scan which shows that i've use something illegal in our match vs. Gravitas. Of course im confused, since I could never think of doing a thing like that in a match. Thats all I hear about that and i return to my guests. Senere på aftenen diskuterer jeg sagen med mine holdkammerater, og fortæller dem ærligt, at jeg har siddet og rodet med nogle ting, men at jeg aldrig i mit liv ville kunne finde på at bruge snyd i en kamp. Later that night I discuss the subject with my teammates, and tell them, honestly, that i've messed around with some stuff, but I could never think of using cheat in a match. Jeg vil gerne påpege, at det var ren og skær nysgerrighed som fik mig til at teste programmet. Og jeg havde ingen intentioner om at snyde. Jeg var ikke klar over, hvilke konsekvenser dette ville medføre. Nu ser det ud som om, at min cs-karriere slutter her. Alt jeg har knoklet for, time efter time, i flere år, står til at blive revet væk, fordi jeg var nysgerrig. Jeg er fuldstændig forståelig overfor, at der skal være en straf – det kan jeg godt se, nu hvor jeg tænker over det bagefter. Jeg kan godt forstå ESL ikke værdsætter at man eksperimenterer med programmer til at omgå deres anti-cheat. Men at udelukke mig i 2 år og gøre en ende på min cs-karriere, mener jeg ikke er retfærdigt. I would like to point out, that it was purely curiosity that made me test the program. I had no intentions of cheating, I didn't know which consequences this would lead to. Now, it looks like my CS-career is over. Everything i've worked for, day after day in many years, is about to be thrown away because I was curious. I fully understand that there has to be a punishment, i see that now. I understand that ESL doesn't appreciate one experimenting with programs to avoid their anti-cheat. But to ban me in 2 years and end my cs-career, I see no justice in. Counter-Strike holdet Counter-Strike team I ideal gaming tager alle spillere stor afstand fra brug af cheat og andre eksterne programmer og vi vil under ingen omstændigheder accepterer brug af disse i kampsituationer. Dette vil medfører øjebliklig udsmidning fra holdet. Når dette så er sagt, så er vi er yderst uenige med den dom Electronic Sports League (ESL) har afsagt over en af vores spiller og gode kammerat, nexiz. Vi har stor respekt for at marc indrømmer hele forløbet omkring at han har downloadet aequihack med den hensigt at undersøge en forumtråd, og vi er også 100% overbevist om at dette er hvad der er reelt set er sket d. 3 januar. Marc har været en del af holdet i over 1 år og flere af os spillere har tilbragt over 10 lan turneringer med ham på holdet, så vi er ikke i tvivl om hans troværdig og at han brænder for at få dette hold til at fungere. In ideal gaming all the players don't tolerate the use of cheat or any external programs and we will under no circumstance accept the use of these in matches. This leads to the immediate throw of the team. When all of this is said, we totally disagree with the verdict ESL has given one of our players and good friend, nexiz. We deeply respect Marc for admitting the whole course, that he downloadet aequihack with the intention to simply test the truth of a forum thread, and were also 100% certain that this is what happened the 3. January. Marc has been a part of the team for the better part of 1 year and some of us has played over 10 lan tournaments with him on the team. We do not doubt his credebility or the fact that he is passionate about this team and making it succeed. For at vende tilbage til den korkrete sag, så kan alle vist blive enige om at Marc har begået en stor fejl ved overhovedet at hente et ekstern program der forsøger at omgå anti-cheat. ESL vælger at se meget firkantet på dette og idømmer Marc en 2 års straf og udelukkelse fra alt. Det er den samme straf som man vil få for at snyde i 1 eller 10 kampe. ESLs egne logs viser at tidspunktet for den logfil deres scanner har kigget i ikke er under gravitas kampen, men om eftermiddagen før kampen. Marc har altså ikke snydt i selve kampen men om eftermiddagen før kampen. Loggen ville også kunne vise at han er connected til en lan server. Returning to the subject in matter, we think that we can all agree that Marc made a huge mistake, with even downloading an external program, that tries to trick aequitas. ESL chooses to look at this very consequently and find Marcs penalty to be a 2 years seclusion of everything. That is the same penalty which you would get for cheating en 1 or 10 matches. ESLs own logs shows that the log file which was found illegal was not during the Gravitas match, but in the afternoon before the match. This shows that Marc didn't cheat in the match, but in the afternoon. The log will also prove that he was connected to his own lan server. Vi mener på holdet at Marc skal have en straf for det han har gjort. Tilgengæld mener vi at det er fuldstændig urimeligt og kan slet ikke se nogen logik i at udelukke ham i 2 år med mulighed for at andre danske turneringer følger med. Dette vil i såfald stoppe hans cs karriere og jeg må endnu gøre opmærksom på at der ikke er beviser for at han har snydt i en kamp. Vi vil mene at en udelukkelse fra 1 EPS sæson vil være en langt mere fair straf, men stadig en straf som vil vise at det ikke er iorden at rode med programmer der kan forbi gå aequitas. We on the team, belive that Marc should be punished for what he did. On the other hand, we think its completely unreasonable and see no logik in suspending him for 2 yours with the possibility that other danish tournaments follows. This would end his CS-career and we yet again point out that there is no proof of him cheating an a match. We believe that a suspension of 1 EPS season would be a far more fair punishment, but still a punishment that will show that it's not alright to fool around with aequihack. Vi forventer ingen medlidenhed men håber at scenen vil respekterer og har forståelse for både spillernes og marcs nuværende situation. We expect no compassion, but hope that the scene will respect and show understanding for the players and Marcs current situation.

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	Dansk: Press Release - Kort version ideal gaming management Dato: 20/01-2008 Kontakt: Kaare ‘unkleK’ Bøje Email: unkleK@ideal-gaming.com IRC (Quakenet): #ideal ideal gaming - player banned from ESL Counter-Strike 1.6 Kedelige nyheder, vi har de sidste dage kæmpet en kamp – forgæves. D. 3. Januar har ESL via et scan system fundet AEQ hack på en computer tilhørende en spiller fra ideal gaming. Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych har haft testet AEQ hack og er derfor udelukket fra ESL i 2 år – indtil videre. Ifølge ESL egen scanner viser den at Marc ikke snød ingame. Ledelsen i ideal gaming har taget den svære beslutning at suspendere Marc fra ideal gaming indtil videre. Vi opfordrer til at læse de individuelle statements. www.ideal-gaming.com/esl-statement Hvis skulle ønske mere information omkring denne situation eller ønsker at lave et interview, så tøv ikke med at kontakte os. *English: Press Release - Short version* ideal gaming management Date: 20/01-2008 Contact: Kaare ‘unkleK’ Bøje Email: unkleK@ideal-gaming.com IRC (Quakenet): #ideal ideal gaming - player banned from ESL Counter-Strike 1.6 Sad news, we’ve been in a tough ”fight” the last days - all this was in vain The 3. of January ESL found an AEQ hack on a computer belonging to an ideal gaming Counter-Strike player. Marc ”nexiz” Woolrych has been involved in testing an AEQ hack and that’s why he is banned from ESL in 2 years – for now. According to the ESL scanner Marc didn’t cheat ingame. The management had to make the really hard decision and suspend Marc Woolrych from ideal gaming until further notice. We encourage you to read the individual statements. www.ideal-gaming.com/esl-statement If you would like to get more information on this topic or schedule an interview, please do not hesitate to contact us.