Talvez a maioria não tenha reparado, mas o jogo que colocou frente a frente exotic.osm e H2k.Thermaltake apenas ontem se deu por concluído, tudo porque a equipa da Estónia não procedeu ao upload dos seus logs do Aequitas, programa de uso obrigatório em todas as competições sob a responsabilidade da Electronic Sports League.

Após o concluir da partida e o não-upload dos ficheiros obrigatórios para o sistema da ESL, a equipa exotic.osm decidiu notificar os responsáveis pela competição desta falta por parte da equipa H2k através da não aceitação do resultado e o consequente protesto face á situação.

O admin responsável pelo qualificador português, s0nc, foi um dos principais intervenientes na discussão deste assunto entre com os responsáveis internacionais pela Intel Core 2 Extreme Masters by ESL. Após mais de uma semana de conversações, o admin responsável pelo protesto deu o seu parecer ontem, ilibando a equipa H2k.Thermaltake de qualquer falta, concluindo assim que essa deveria ser a equipa a seguir em frente.

Tanto os logs do Aequitas como as demos que a equipa portuguesa exigiu durante o protesto não foram enviadas, a parcialidade demonstrada pelo admin responsável e a falta de palavra do mesmo levou a equipa portuguesa a ser eliminada da competição.

Infelizmente esta não é a primeira vez que tal situação ocorre, também a selecção nacional de FIFA já foi alvo da organização alemã aquando da Nations Cup, podem relembrar o sucedido aqui.

O comunicado hoje lançado publicamente é da autoria da equipa de administração da ESL Portugal Counter-Strike, com o apoio da equipa envolvida, exotic.osm, e redigido em inglês.

De simples compreensão, o comunicado por ler-se abaixo:

Comunicado Oficial – ESL Portugal Counter-Strike

“The following announcement has the purpose to show the indignation of the ESL Portugal Counter-Strike Admins and exotic-island team.

Our displeasure regards the actions taken by the QR1 Extreme Masters administration, which was unable to impose the rules of the tournament, concerning a protest presented by the Portuguese team exotic-island after the game against H2K.

Let us start from the beginning:
ESL rules demand that every file must be uploaded to the website, concretely to the matchmedia of the match’s webpage. For this competition (ESL Extreme Masters), the players were obliged from the very beginning to use the anti-cheats program named ESL Aequitas. In cases where there is no file proof of such program running during the game or impossibility of its utilization (without error screenshot), the team would be immediately disqualified.
Another ESL rule states that if the demo/replay upload is not demanded by the admin, but if the other team makes such request, the opposite team must upload the demos/replays in a stipulated period of time.

The following episode narrates what really happened.

After the match between exotic-island and H2K, the five players from exotic-island presented themselves to the admin with the program Aequitas turned on and their respective files, protocol that was not followed by the team H2K when only one player was meeting the full requirements.
At the end of the match, exotic-island presented a protest to the admin since four players from H2K did not use the program ESL Aequitas during the game. The players from H2K responded to this stating that they were having problems with the referred application. However, to act by the rules, team H2K should have informed an admin about those problems with ESL Aequitas as well as exotic-island before the match. This last one was the one with power to authorize the players from H2K to play without the referred program.

Still during the protest, exotic-island team solicited that every demo recorded by the missing players from H2K should be submitted to the website. The admin’s team responsible by the protest stipulated a deadline of forty-eight hours after the complaint (the protest was made at 2:30 am, September 29 2006). After forty-eight hours, no demo/replay file was available at the website. The admin team, deliberating against their previous word, extended the deadline until Tuesday, 11:59 pm, October 3 2006. However, past the extended deadline, only one demo/replay was available at ESL’s website, concretely to the matchmedia of the match’s webpage. The players only posted an external link from ESL for demo/replay download which was considered invalid by the admin team, as stated by the rules and by their own words.

Given such confusion and injustice, the present announcement demands a formal and public apologize from ESL Extreme Masters Admin Team for the actions taken, where they didn’t applied the rules and stepped back on their word.

The decision was made and we cannot do anything about it. Apologizing would ease down the sorrow of ESL PT CS as well as exotic-island’s feelings for the admin team and injustice. We, “Portugal”, are getting used to the injustices committed against national teams in ESL international events, and we hope that once and for all ESL takes measures so this kind of situation will not happen again.

Best regards,
ESL Portugal Counter-Strike Admins
Exotic-island Counter-Strike Team
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