Look at:
[A-Tier Tournaments - Liquipedia - The StarCraft II Encyclopedia]
Please just delete zerg. What is the point of having that race.
Terrans will follow suit soon too, then the game will be balanced with 1 race.
In the entirety of sc2 history, zerg hasn’t been this bad.
PvZ is 100% a rigged matchup right now.
Yeah it’s nuts. The counsel is so biased they will tell you your opinion is irrelevant because you are not as good as serral, then do a 180 and say Clem’s opinion is irrelevant because he’s just tilting and biased.
They will tell a hundred Zerg gms that they have a skill issue, then turn around and say herO loses because of balance.
I am wondering if they are being bribed or blackmailed. Or maybe they are running a protection racket where they buff you but only if you give them some of the tournament winnings. It’s hard to imagine any of these are the case, but every honest explanation I can think of simpy can’t explain why they are so incredibly biased for Protoss that they are willing to rig PvZ to a 63% win-rate. It’s not that they rigged it per se, it’s that they rigged it and continue to defend it like it’s a good thing and refuse to change it.
Add in that it’s a shadow council, nobody knows how it works or who is on it, and that multiplies the suspicious nature a hundred fold. There is no reason to hide their identities if what they are doing is on the up and up. They could be mining content out of it, creating youtube videos.
Why are they so secretive? Why do they refuse to actually balance the game? Why do they care only about Serral and nobody else? Why do they gaslight everyone that they have a skill issue, then turn around and cry balance when hero loses? Just try to think of an honest explanation that actually makes sense of all this nonsense. I can’t find one. There is nothing logical about this except a very strong bias to protect protoss at all costs.
Until Protoss wins a world title, probably going to have to get used to it.
If they are artificially pumping Protoss performance to force a world title then that’s just matchfixing. If they are matchfixing, the authorities that regulate sports should probably be given a heads up.
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging, hippodroming, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
Interesting. Would you say holding protoss performance at >50% win-rates until they win a world title is a form of achieving a predetermined result? Better yet, if someone where trying to achieve a predetermined result, would they do anything different?
There are so many ethical concerns to what they are doing it’s frankly alarming. I am searching high and low to find an innocent interpretation of the available evidence and it’s very hard to find anything. PvZ win-rates clocked in at the highest since 2011 and people on the forums are saying “get used to it until protoss win a world title.” That is a truly alarming statement.
This is my best theory but, again, we’re talking about a shadow-council so who honestly knows.
How isn’t that deceptive practices and/or fraud? Explain it to me. I am all ears. If this is true, an obvious solution could be (this is not legal advice - talk to your own attorney before acting):
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Boom, no more deceptive practices because, well, everyone is on the same page.
Because the balance counsel refuses to be public and transparent, people are left wondering who they are, how they operate, what their goals are. Frankly, we don’t even know if they actually exist. I can’t recall a single official blizzard blog post introducing the balance counsel. Did I miss it? Where was it.
Protoss actually won GSL this year, after been buffed for 5+ years straight.
Isn’t it interesting how they only win when PvZ/PvT win-rates are above 55%. Meanwhile Serral wins EWC as PvZ win-rates are 63%.
Monitoring youtube and twitch, using chatgpt to generate summaries from vod transcripts, under the assumption that the council is fulll of streamers, they have doubled-down on Protoss. There’s been a spike of positive terms like “Classic is amazing” and “Showtime is a maestro”, meanwhile criticism of top terrans has likewise increased.
One noteable exception is that a large tournament caster accidentally let it slip that protoss defense is impenetrable in PvT, the other caster immediately jumped on him, and he stumbled over words as he backtracked and rewrote what he said. This indicates casters are coordinating a narrative. He obviously went off script, panicked, and then backtracked.
The problem is, they can gaslight viewers but history tells us the viewers and players can judge for themselves whether it is fair. In much the same way the caster realized PvT defense is impenetrable, everyone watching can also tell. So my prediction on how this plays out is that casters will pull a “Nathanias” and reduce their own credibility if/when they are dishonest about the game state. If they try to gaslight viewers that their own eyes are lying, this will actually amplify the focus on the issue. It’s called the Streisand effect.
The Streisand effect will be even more profound as Terrans continue to get wrecked in tournaments, and switch to Protoss. Clem is the #2 ranked player on the ladder as Protoss as we speak. Maru has shown he can beat top Zergs in PvZ, too.
It’s a no-brainer: PvX is incredibly rigged to favor Protoss and pro players optimize decisions to maximize win-rate. They are going to switch to Protoss. That’s the logical evolution of this system. How will viewers react to all the terrans switching to Protoss, and every terran who doesn’t switch getting annihilated in PvT? They will conclude Protoss is busted. If the casters try to gaslight them, they will conclude the casters are morons who are practically blind.
In other words, this problem solves itself with enough time. The only question is how many esports careers are going to take the Nathanias route in the process. Place your bets here.