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NvRossi · Thu, 7th-Jun-2012, 8:50 PM

Introduction

A little history regarding Chobo is the well known fact that he has come out of absolutely nowhere to have a very impressive win rate on SEA with a very unique playstyle. Despite this, chobo has continually failed to represent in specifically LAN environments(losing to masters players at LAN) and online tournaments. Furthermore he even denied offers to join team Carnage(stating he doesn't have the time for a pro team).
The fact that he can be a top tier player capable of defeating the best of the best in both our scene and the NA ladder from being gold 3 months ago is fairly self explanatory imo.

Altogether this leads to players becoming suspicious about his playstyle and even for many to assume he hacks.

+ [Comments from Strafe during a ladder game with Chobo] +

+ [Comments From Tgun in Skype post MC] +

+ [Comments from Jazbas from the previous thread] +

I show these merely to point out the fact that people were already suspicious of his play.

What happens next is very surprising to most... Chobo clean sweeps a field comprising of Enderr, Targa, Yang, Mafia in what can be considered a very one-sided manner.
This is personally what made me look into this situation and made me so convinced that things just didn't add up with this guy and that we had to get to the end of it!

The Path to the Truth
So the path begins when Nirvana comes to me mentioning the fact that i'm looking at the wrong path... that Chobo may actually be having people smurfing on his account.

Exhibit 1

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So now the case widens... Chobo may not even be playing on these accounts at all. How can we prove this?

Well after some searching around we have fairly damning evidence:

Chobo's many Hotkeys setups

Hotkey Setup 1 (BIG THANKS TO MAFIA FOR SHOWING ME THIS VIDEO WHICH LEAD TO THIS)
http://www.twitch.tv/hybridslipper/b/306878207
1-4 Units
5: All Production Facilities
6: Orbital commands
7: Engineering Bay
These hotkeys remain consistent throughout both games in this VOD, big thanks to Navi for having this up!
http://imgur.com/Pdcjm

Hotkey Setup 2
http://www.twitch.tv/asgchobo/b/308023407

1-3: Units
4: Baracks Production
5: Orbital Commands
6: Starport production
This is apparently footage of Chobo streaming
http://imgur.com/XMCTd

Hotkey Setup 3
1. Orbital Commands
2. Expansion
3. Production Facilities
4. Units
http://imgur.com/rGuWG
This is the hotkey setup from the account when it was named Yamama
http://drop.sc/191955

Hotkey Setup 4
1. Baracks Production
2. Factory Production
3. Starport Production
4. Units
7. Expansion 3
8. Expansion 2
9. Expansion 1
0. Oribtal Command
http://imgur.com/NcCCe
http://drop.sc/193167

Most recent hotkey setup found for AsgChobo.

Now i want to focus specifically on hotkey setup number 4 at the moment -remember, there is 4 different hotkey setups all apparently Chobo's- as due to my detective work i have found out who this player actually corresponds to.

You may be wondering to yourself: "how on earth did he find another player who's hotkeys these correspond to?" and lucky for you im going to show you!

To be honest this was a bit of a Hail Mary. Upon looking at www.twitch.tv/asgchobo i noticed something. He was following someones stream....
This person can be seen here http://imgur.com/3Scgk

Now i'm thinking to myself... why on earth would he follow such an obscure player... For those who may not know vvvseohyeon aka lofseohyeon is a high rated Korean GM player who has very little interaction with our community but has laddered on SEA and NA.

So i throw that Hail Mary and check out one of my replays vs VVVSeohyeonfrom NA ladder and notice something very interesting!

Lets just take a look at his hotkeys shall we?
http://i.imgur.com/dgvme.jpg
http://drop.sc/193166

1. Baracks Production
2. Factory Production
3. Starport Production
4. Units
0. Oribtal Command

If you're still skeptical i would love for you to take a look at these replays and compare the initial 4 minutes of game time to compare the habit and tendency for the way that seohyeon rotates through his hotkeys.... for example at the beginning of the game he sets CC to 1-4 and 0, then continues to rotate the 1-4 hotkeys.

Sc2gears Analysis

This picture details 3 games of VVVseohyeon and his standard hotkey graph
http://imgur.com/dsnOl

This picture details 3 games of AsgChobo and his standard hotkey graph compaerd to vvvseohyeons from the previous image

http://imgur.com/DiOQg

I simply grabbed random replays for this test and found it to be pretty dam accurate...

I would like to make the claim that it was seohyeon playing on Chobo's account on Sunday in the masters cup.

OK YOU STILL WANT MORE PROOF?

http://challonge.com/mc15 VVVseohyeon plays in this masters cup, Chobo does not ( THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL MASTERS CUP)

http://challonge.com/mc16
http://challonge.com/mc17

Chobo plays in these 2 cups that are SEA only... Worth thinking about. These are the only masters cups that these 2 players play in.

More?

Chobo and Seohyeon both love a good 2 racks... One thing i noticed both these players do where they both already have the exact same hotkey setup is that they actually both hotkey the 2 baracks seperately!

Heres some more exhibits...

http://www.twitch.tv/limjinsutpz/b/320262962?t=76m0s An example of his proxy 2 racks and bunker wallin as exhibited vs enderr in the masters cup

http://www.twitch.tv/limjinsutpz/b/320262962?t=83m0s and another!

and a replay pack of chobo's 2 rackses

http://www.mediafire.com/?8c54p4t5spp9q03

Too similar to dispute.

Mafia wanted me to just keep it simple so heres 2 examples of 2 racks in which the hotkeys follow the exact same path

http://drop.sc/193171
http://drop.sc/193172

Conclusion

I think its finally safe to say that AsgChobo has not been honest with us and thus everything he has said to us so far has to be treated with a grain of salt.

lets take a trip down memory lane and have a look at some of the bullshit he has tried to feed us...

starting with my personal favourite

AsgChobo: "I dont have anything to hide"

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Lastly i want to take a look at Chobo's path up until this point and my interpretation of it.
Chobo starts out with some harmless portrait farming in season 2(indicated by http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=753 yet hilariously denied by chobo). He then provides or pays multiple people to smurf on his account for him to achieve significantly high win ratios and rankings on the SEA ladder. As his confidence grows so is his willingess to risk it all. this is simply my opinion in regards to the hacks as i still find there were so many signifcant signs of hacking.

I want to end on this note that i feel most of us would share... (thanks to NvPinder for the video)

You Tube

Quick Comments

	iM MaFia:
	syfMiley:	hardy evidence
	TAEdgE:
	TAminimat:
	NvJazBas:	gg. ******* disgusting
	Baldie:
	Pox:
	[TA]LoSt:	Seeya mate..
	Cyanide:	looks pretty damning imo
	Maynarde:	Amazing detective work lol
	Insom:
	FvRphoneheha:	Holy shit
	souljah:	good detective work hard-on boys =)
	zenabi:	This the type of stuff that was needed to be brought forward. Well done, mr holmes
	Eddie:
	VoxMSI.Rogue:	Rossi you rule
	iMSystem:	This babe needs a Pizza for all his hard work!
	Zepph:
	TABiggun:	***** got fucked
	mGGDaedalus:
	Shieldz:	OP
	inFeZa:	You deserve credit for this work
	TCPLemminks:	for the effort
	syfPhoenix:	bye bye
	deL:	these gave me raging clues
	ToR.Arnor:	good work
	TAriiChard:
	Neoneoz:	detective rossi !
	mOOnGLaDe:
	BearPack:
	Another:	thread of the year, well done dude
	iVnStinger:
	xGKingdelete:
	Chappo:
	Makuly:
	crAzerk:	hardyboyz
	Nemo:	Impressive work Rossi ! Your efforts unraveled the truth
	x5.Revenant:	Have all my rep and babies!
	nGenLight:	almost forgot
	aLtNinja:	TOO GOOD
	nirvAnA:
	LGShaft:
	TAhackdZ:	I have a raging clue right about now!
	mGMUSE:	i liek entourage
	asdfSchnitzel:	Holy crap the rep list is long! o.0
	neKo: