[iM tgun]

MLG's decision is stupid as ****. Everyone needs to stop making such short-sighted decisions based off such warped information.

Here's what we know 100% confirmed from multiple people:

ARAM 1st game was agreed upon by Curse + Dignitas
They were going to chop the money 50/50 as opposed to 20k/12k 1st/2nd This is not 100% confirmed, but generally agreed upon. I think curse is saying this is not the case.

That's what we know and has been confirmed. All of the games were played out after the ARAM as per standard (with both teams playing as standard as possible; nothing new shown as they wanted to hide strats for the upcoming regionals).

To put it into SC2 perspective, the first game is a huge joke and should definitely be punished. I have no qualms with that. However, the next four games are as simple as, in a ZvP, the zerg going 3-hatch roach/ling every game and the protoss cycling between four different 2-base allins that he's shown before.

Would you say that's match-fixing? Of course, you'd scold them for the first game (let's say, for arguments sake, they made it NR15..) -- however, the result wasn't fixed at all.

To put it into perspective: if you hadn't known that they were chopping the money, would the punishment still be the same? The results would have, in fact, benefited dignitas more if they won, due to their seedings at the regionals. They lost, 2-3, thus not effecting their seedings.

People need to understand that what they decide to do with their prize money is up to them. It isn't match fixing, collusion or anything of the sort.. that's what pisses me off. This is nothing to the level of the (CoCa?) fiasco -- at most, they should be docked a small percentage of their prize money, not have all of it removed. That, to me, is MLG being ******* ridiculous -- however, MLG being ridiculous isn't news to anyone. They're an awfully ran tournament.

ALSO -- The wording is wrong. "The final, deciding match was an ARAM" ? The first game was ARAM, dig took the 2nd game in a standard game and then curse provided a 3-0 swing to bring it to 3-2 their favour.

And some added perspective -- when myself and Iaguz played the ARENA $1k lan waaaaaaay back when, the prize pool was slated to be $1k 1st, $0 2nd. We agreed upon (between ourselves) $700 / $300 split. We then played our ******* asses off. I myself would do the same even if it was $500 / $500 and the pure feeling of winning. However, would you deem what we did match fixing? Collusion? Against the rules? That's essentially what happened here. The players went behind the admins backs to alter the prizes. They still went out, played damn well and put on some fun games.

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	great post ^_^
	breadfan:	ty for the correction re: when they played the ARAM