Top two League of Legends teams disqualified in MLG Summer Championship

So glad to see someone get their hand caught in the cookie jar.  What an absolute shame to all those who don't cheat.

Whatever. To me this isn't news. Couldn't care less. Lance Armstrong getting torn apart for doping in an industry where you either dope and win or don't and lose, that's news. Also an interesting starting point to discuss sports in our society, and the expectations we have of athletes. This LOL situation is a cut and dry issue. Not interesting.

Sounds like justice to me.

Huh. I guess MLG's rigidity isn't just screwing over fighting game players any more. So nice to see them broadening their horizons. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESPORTS!

the game is not that really competitive compared to other moba games out there.. no wonder pro players are resulting into this kind of schemes 

i personally enjoyed the aram match...but still there are other viewers who dont like aram or dont want to waste their time watching aram...i think the punishment was harsh but it will make an example to others

A little harsh i thought. The whole giving it too the other teams does not make sense either.  I feel like the MLG did not know what to do with the situation thus, disqualification is the easy way to go.  The whole thing is just, huh?

I think the most interesting thing here is that I actually cared enough to click...

So.. they wanted to split the pot, they were disqualified.. but then they split the prize money between 2 other teams?  Sounds hypocrytical to me.

I wonder if any of them use steroids. I mean steroids for gamers, I wonder what that would be.....

They didn't decide to "share" the prize money. They chose to get a guaranteed payout.  Ban 'em for life.

You think this is collusion? No way Neil O'Donnell would have had to thrown 2 interceptions to Larry Brown. 

It would be like if the Lakers and the Celtics in a playoff game decided not play basketball and play horse instead :/

Everyone is calling it poor sportsmanship, when it's the exact opposite. Competitive-minded people are fucking bizarre.

It's a shame about the outcome because essentially it's a really nice gesture. Imagine how much better off everyone would be if we were willing to share more.I guess that it is a competitive sport  though, so there can be only one winner.

I guess the problem lies in that it's a spectator sport as well with advertisers so they need or want to keep the passion, the fight and the intensity of a final. It's allowed at most poker tables but in cases it's not it's so that there can be no accusations of collusion which is always in bad sportsmanship.

  all mid matches can be pretty intense,especially going random. you can't go back and purchase items till someone kills you,mometum can shift from 1 team to the other more frequently then ur typical sf 5v5. cant forget the health generators  and denying ur opponent from getting it before ur teamate does etc.

Prize money is being split amongst teams 3-6, not just 3 & 4. Source: https://twitter.com/MrMLGAdam/status/239884998486941696

i want to give a special shot out to dota 2 while im here. : )

Why is the tournament in Raleigh? I know that Epic & Red Storm are nearby, but... whatever. Raleigh Sucks.

I don't see what's the big fuzz about. They decided to have some fun, take the pressure off. And since this news, the attention to LoL jumped even higher. Alright, LoL has 11 million users per month, largest prize pool in history of "eSports" - fair enough, but let them have some fun. Oh, the users paid for their subscription, they deserve a show? What can I say when GSL in South Korea get's a PvP final match, before 1.4 patch?- super short games, 4 gate vs 4 gate....and 5 in a row...uhuuu, how exciting.

Well can't say that this doesn't make sense. I think any formal tournament has this rule in place.

Could be classed as match fixing, should have checked it before making the deals... Hopefully that's why they were banned and not just because everyone sees this form of gaming to be some sort of "elite profession" that can't allow teams to have fun...

On the other hand I don't really care to watch other people playing... Gaming should be fun even with competative play.

Competition organizers want MLG to actually be "professional" like other legit sports. The top two teams, who had already secured the first two spots by competing and winning decide together to enjoy this high-level competition by playing an unorthodox game. They agreed to split the prize because they didn't want money to get in the way of game.

Maybe it's because I don't watch or follow any MLG stuff, but this just sounds like two teams of great competitors coming together in good spirits to enjoy a battle. Granted it's unheard of (or impossible because most MLSports teams are ALREADY paid, win or loose) for legit sports to do this, but I fail to see why they were DQed.

They fought in the competition and beat everyone else. This proves that they were at the top of their game. They didn't agree that one team or the other would win, and I'm sure they both wanted to beat the other. They just decided to take the "serious" out of it and play a game they loved the way they wanted. Sound like an unheard of level of good sportsmanship; it's all about playing the game.

Of course, since no other legit sport would do this MLG decided "esports" can't either. Thus, they've preserved the stuffy attitude all competitive sports have. "Collusion" is an agreement to to LIMIT OPEN COMPETITION by defrauding or gaining an unfair advantage. Please explain to me how they did this. They already beat the other teams legally. They knew one of them was going to win, and played to win. They just did it on their own terms.

I couldn't keep a straight face. Code of conduct. . hah.I guess the MLG was desperate for a scandal to fit in with real sports. 

Could someone please explain what "All Random, All Middle" means and what this has to do with the disqualification? I get that agreeing to split the pot prior (emphasis on prior) to the game is definitely collusion but why was there mention of "ARAM"?

It's really disappointing when you think about all the time and effort all the players and teams put into competing in this tournament only to have the finalists not take it seriously in the championship match. They pissed on all the other teams, the fans, the league organizers and the game itself. It's disgraceful. 

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I didn't even manage to watch that shitty MLG stream.

People don't watch MLG to see the best players play for fun, they watch MLG to see the best players compete at the highest levels of gaming.

that was just SO DUMB!

Let me get this straight so a pro team that splits prize money with another team is disqualified right? However if say a pro team goes to another pro team house which many MLG Halo Pro teams do right before the MLG tournament then that is not grounds for disqualification? This is just like what happened to MewTwoKing and the whole Super Smash Brothers Brawl scandal.

I can totally understand why they did it. To stay in the top teams you have to basically put your entire life into it, meaning that for some of them prize money is the only money that they get for entire months at a time. So if they could guarantee that they would get some money out of it (even if they let themselves only have the chance to get half of it) then I can see why they would agree to it.

I wonder what would have happened if they didn't pre-plan it and instead the winning side simply decided to give the other team half the money once they recieved it?

Well, now teams 3 and 4 know the joy of winning by default!

All our lives, adults teach us how to share, and when we grow up and finally figure it out, we lose everything. Ain't that a shame? Lol.