I just want to point out the replays mentioned by chobo earlier. he plays nestea, colganzi, ogsforgg, lzgamer etc. and these would be worth an analysis. these were his recent NA ladder games
also worth mentioning is his uploading of replays. after his masters cup win i told him to upload all his reps and he did so instantly without hesitation. IF he is a hacker, he is certainly very confident of the way he conceals it to upload his games so freely.
as strafe and others come forward with more replays, feel free to compile all the replays in one post to make it easy for people to download and analyze.
I just want to point out the replays mentioned by chobo earlier. he plays nestea, colganzi, ogsforgg, lzgamer etc. and these would be worth an analysis. these were his recent NA ladder games
also worth mentioning is his uploading of replays. after his masters cup win i told him to upload all his reps and he did so instantly without hesitation. IF he is a hacker, he is certainly very confident of the way he conceals it to upload his games so freely.
as strafe and others come forward with more replays, feel free to compile all the replays in one post to make it easy for people to download and analyze.
yeah but wouldn't it be awkward if he didn't upload his replays? LOL
and also he only uploaded 2 games vs enderr, didnt he 2-1 enderr? one game is missing
Serious accusations! Hopefully the truth can be found. Since it was my event he won, i'd definitely love to hear more about these concerns, as well as more input from CHoBo.
It's worth noting that while this is his first big tournament win, he has participated in many! Masters Cups, SEASL, etc. Always plays decent, but not quite placing. Perhaps Sunday it just all went right for him?
Also he has been both GM on SEA + NA for quite some time. Unsure of KR ranking? Unless hacked every game from day 1, clearly is a smart and skilled player.
He has coached quite a few people, and preaches an unorthodox style. Grand Master Manual coach here.
Has been labelled a very cheesy, all-in and unorthodox player by many. This may work well in ladder games, but tournaments are a different situation, which may explain the lack of success to date.
I was only able to watch the Masters Cup finals live - missed the other games in the tournament due to admin duties.
That G1 4 rax push on Shakuras wasn't really suspicious to me. If he was paying attention to the minimap me might have spotted the overlord near his rax's, as it did show up. Further more, as he pushes out, no lings on towers? Then pokes up ramp and already 2 spines + queens minimun, all indicate that he'd been scouted, and Mafia was fairly prepared for it, likely producing/holding back some lings. Like he said, might have won, might have lost, that all seems pretty reasonable to me. Furthermore he made some nice decisions later into the game, building up the vikings, only revealing some, going for bc/ghost, but largely i think it came down to that lucky nuke, which Mafia admitted he missed. No nuke, Mafia might/probably would have won.
G2 was just a well executed proxy, and smart position. G3 i think he just outplayed Mafia, won the main engagement, killed off mutas, was able to keep on pushing the advantage from there, with the benefit of nice tank positioning and drops. Mafia likely quite tired i'd imagine at this time.
- Would love to hear more about other replays. More from CHoBo, and see him attend and perform at live events, which is the best way to prove ones ability to the community.
From what i've seen, and his records to date, i don't think there is sufficient evidence of hacking. We all must be sure, as it's a pretty big thing to accuse someone of. Would be very sad if he does actually hack.
I'm not that great at analysis, so i'll leave it to those better at the task, and have a stronger understanding of the game.
Concrete Evidence
thanks to BIGGUN for noticing it
Today 1:21 PM: Peleus: http://drop.sc/191657 - That's a replay of me vs Chobo 15 mins before Masters Cup. Kinda embarrising because I got shut down so hard with a failed all in and it makes me look pretty bad
(Extra analysis regarding this game)
please proceed to 9:20 to 9:40 on chobos point of view
Today 1:21 PM: Peleus: http://drop.sc/191657 - That's a replay of me vs Chobo 15 mins before Masters Cup. Kinda embarrising because I got shut down so hard with a failed all in and it makes me look pretty bad
(Extra analysis regarding this game)
please proceed to 9:20 to 9:40 on chobos point of view
SC2Gears could be used like this to really get in deep for the actions that the player/program makes to really pick the replay apart piece by piece.
TAHardyBoyRossi & Biggun Right here.
As you can see from Rossi's post above, I noticed that if you watch the replay of Chobo vs Peleus from Chobo's perspective, from 9:20 to 9:40 he has 4 marines selected and his view is still for this whole time. But in sc2 gears there are many actions being performed.
One of them is "Select Engineering Bay". How is this possible when Chobo doesn't have an engineering bay?
Edit: What I believe this is, is a screen lock. His screen on the replay is frozen on him selecting 4 marines and looking over his production. He is going around and clicking Peleus' buildings and these come up as his own actions.
Edit 2: I don't think I explained this very well but this is what i believe is happening.
Chobo uses from kind of hack to freeze his screen, so in the replay it shows him looking over his production with 4 marines selected. But his real view is looking at the buildings in Chobo's base. I think Chobo clicked on Peleus' buildings, and when he does this, it comes up as an action for him.
Let me give an example. I believe that chobo clicked on Peleus' evo chambers. On sc2gears there is a command:
9:24 AsGCHoBo Select Engineering Bay (90384), Deselect all
9:24 AsGCHoBo Upgrade Terran Infantry Armor 1
Chobo doesn't even have an engineering bay building at all. So when he clicks on Peleus' evo chambers, it shows the command that he selected "engineering bays".
I'm not sure if this helps to explains things at all but this is my theory.
Last edited by TABiggun; Tue, 5th-Jun-2012 at 3:35 PM.
9:24 AsGCHoBo Select Engineering Bay (90384), Deselect all
Sorry Chobo, you are busted. you do not even have an engineering bay in this game, sc2gears has proven to us that you are using a program to conceal your 20 second screenlock hack
This is 100% concrete evidence. you cannot explain this, you are a proven hacker
Well, replays really are nothing more than a long list of commands exactly like the snippet that was posted, which the game client interprets on the fly - that's why replays can lag on 8x speed on a weak PC because its having to interpret and display the actions so fast, and also why replay files are only a few KB instead of several GB as they would be were they video.
Its plenty conceivable that a program could cause the game client to write confusing actions.
I have extremely limited experience with SC2gears. Is it reliable at noting actions like this? Perhaps this is just the program bugging out or something. But I do agree that is incredibly suspicious and I'm leaning more towards him hacking.
I have extremely limited experience with SC2gears. Is it reliable at noting actions like this? Perhaps this is just the program bugging out or something. But I do agree that is incredibly suspicious and I'm leaning more towards him hacking.
So far, all we can see from this record of actions is that SC2gears appears to be reporting actions that don't happen when you actually watch the replay. The cause of that can't really be determined for sure unless we have a sample size greater than 1 replay.
I have extremely limited experience with SC2gears. Is it reliable at noting actions like this? Perhaps this is just the program bugging out or something. But I do agree that is incredibly suspicious and I'm leaning more towards him hacking.
Well, both my sc2gears and Rossi's have the same things, and im sure anyone else who runs an analysis through sc2 gears.
I am now inspecting other replays of games played in LANs of professional players to compare what actions are being performed and if there are any similar things occuring.
I would also like to add that these actions that are 'missing' from Chobo's point of view can be found in other games.
On Mafia vs Chobo on shakuras, at 5:30 Chobo randomly looks into the main. In the replay it shows him having scvs selected and not making any commands.
But in sc2 gears there are two commands which read "Build Refinery", when he doesnt do that at all.
5:29 AsGCHoBo Select Supply Depot (20368), Deselect all 5:29 AsGCHoBo Lower Supply Depot (Supply Depot)
5:30 iMMafia Select Hatchery (10290), Deselect all 5:30 AsGCHoBo Select Supply Depot (103cc), Deselect all
5:30 iMMafia Select Drone x14 (10294,10298,1029c,102a0,102a4,102a8,102dc,202e0,1 02e4,102e8,10308,10314,10340,1034c), Deselect all
5:30 iMMafia Select Hatchery (10290), Deselect all 5:30 AsGCHoBo Lower Supply Depot (Supply Depot)
5:31 AsGCHoBo Select SCV (303fc), Deselect all
5:31 iMMafia Right click; target: x=137.4,y=129.5 5:31 AsGCHoBo Build Refinery; target: Vespene Geyser (10210)
5:31 AsGCHoBo Select SCV (102c8), Deselect all 5:31 AsGCHoBo Build Refinery; target: Vespene Geyser (10238)
5:32 iMMafia Right click; target: Mineral Field (10028)
5:32 AsGCHoBo Hotkey Select 4
5:32 iMMafia Hotkey Select 4
5:32 AsGCHoBo Attack; target: x=31.8,y=55.0
5:32 iMMafia Select Larva x4 (303e4,10484,1048c,10494), Deselect all
5:32 iMMafia Train Drone
5:32 iMMafia Train Drone
5:32 AsGCHoBo Deselect all
5:33 AsGCHoBo Right click; target: x=25.9,y=56.9
5:33 AsGCHoBo Right click; target: x=25.2,y=56.7
Edit: The data was wrong due to sc2gears time conversion, but there is still a very suspicious blatent look at the main and natural for no reason.
Last edited by TABiggun; Tue, 5th-Jun-2012 at 4:16 PM.
As xpaperclip has just pointed out, SC2gears lists those actions in real time, whereas the replay runs on Blizzard time. 9:31 on the replay is not necessarily at the same point as the sc2gears list, unless sc2gears is running on blizzard time.
As xpaperclip has just pointed out, SC2gears lists those actions in real time, whereas the replay runs on Blizzard time. 9:31 on the replay is not necessarily at the same point as the sc2gears list, unless sc2gears is running on blizzard time.
According to Sc2gears
"Sc2gears by default converts APM and time values to real time. You can disable this on the Replay parser tab of the Miscellaneous settings dialog. "
Is this what you are referring to?
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If you ever manage to do anything remotely decent at LAN then maybe you will have a decent argument, but untill you stop losing to mid masters SEA players on lan but rape top-tier players online, you're always going to be a joke just like you were well before this thread even opened.
I'm not referring to just that particular game, I mean like could you pick a random 20 seconds from any game and reliably get a list of actions that is accurate to what happens when you watch the replay.
Because if so then yea sure 100% hacker ban the ******. If not then that's not a very good way to confirm/disconfirm hackers.
i think its also important to look into the hacks interaction with sc2gears, i have no idea how it works so may be nothing, but it might have a special interaction
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