lordraphael wrote:Dolan wrote:Let's not exaggerate, this is just tournament fraud, it's not comparable to actual unlawful acts.
sc2 life went to prison for matchfixing. and if aoe 3 was as big as sc2 or even bigger this could also apply in the same category. Just saying, here its obviously just some rdm dudes doing sth wrong, but technically it is an unlawful act if you look at it from a certain perspective.
Could be, but it depends on how that SC2 tourney was organised. If it was organised by some company and players had to sign a legal agreement before participating, then participation was assimilated with a contractual relation. You broke the contract, you were liable to legal repercussions.
I don't think it's the size of the community that made the difference, it's how the tourney was organised, if players were required to agree to a legally enforceable agreement or not.
Simply smurfing on ESO in a tourney organised unofficially, that doesn't require players to agree to any legal document before participating, cannot lead to legally enforceable consequences, imo. Esoc is not legally incorporated anywhere and cannot bind anyone contractually. EscapeAOE is legally incorporated through their parent company from Germany, so probably players at the LAN will have to sign an agreement there.
LE. Yeah, so, if you check that SC2 incident, the event was organised by an e-sports company Korea e-Sports Association (which is actually a South Korean
governmental agency, lol) and the participants were professional players. The event had enough recognition that it was accepted by betting houses. None of these conditions apply to this modest tourney, whose qualification stage is handled by a self-organised online community, a website basically.