[[Valid] [Gul'dan] Ghostbláck]

Your character name: Lifæ
Character who you're reporting: Ghostbláck
Realm: Gul'dan
Date of incident: 01/25/18
Description & Evidence:

Hello,

I would like to report six players for wintrading in the 3s bracket.

Players are : 

- Ghostbláck (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14383922)

- Komang (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14766707)

- Saíden (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14697035)

- Tumaxy (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14752319)

- Trosdres (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14772082)

- Krashuj (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14775209)

 

We only need to look at Ghostbláck's history in 3vs3 to understand the issue. 5 pages of games against each other with barely enough damage to kill all 3 opponents. If you look to the detail some toons don't even do damage. All games last one minute only. There are about 70 games.

Also, if you look at these toons' armories you can notice that Tumaxy, Trosdres, Krashuj are all Boris toons, with green Boris gear, and nothing else. One of them doesn't even have Boris gear and is at 0 Ilvl !!!. They are only used for wintrade. A couple of screens will show you that wintrade, but don't forget to check Ghostbláck's history's details here (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/ranking_detail/5/7/1/14383922)  and click "3vs3 and "History" and the armory of the players to be sure you have all the evidence you need. This is outrageous ovbious wintrade without even an effort to hide it. What's even worse, this guy is ranked SECOND of the server, he would get titles out of this, even though he has never played any of the 70 games !

 

Rules ask for a ban and a rating reset for all six of them (rating reset being the most important part).

 

Thank you for your time.

[[Valid] [Gul'dan] Ssole]

Your character name: Lifæ
Character who you're reporting: Ssole
Realm: Gul'dan
Date of incident: 01/25/18
Description & Evidence:

Hello,

I would like to report six players for wintrading in the 3s bracket.

Players are : 

- Kempächii (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14740492)

- Ssole (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/13141339)

- Dudukiller (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14772686)

- Cáspian (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14768405)

- Mmirra (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14771136)

- Rousemary (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14772629)

 

We only need to look at Ssole's history in 3vs3 to understand the issue. 3 pages of games against each other with barely enough damage to kill all 3 opponents. If you look to the detail some toons don't even do damage. All games last one minute only. There are about 40 games.

Also, if you look at these toons' armories you can notice that Cáspian, Mmirra, Rousemary are all Boris toons, with green Boris gear, and nothing else. They are only used for wintrade. A couple of screens will show you that wintrade, but don't forget to check Ssole's history's details here (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/ranking_detail/5/7/1/13141339)  and click "3vs3 and "History" and the armory of the players to be sure you have all the evidence you need. This is outrageous ovbious wintrade without even an effort to hide it.

 

Rules ask for a ban and a rating reset for all six of them (rating reset being the most important part).

 

Thank you for your time.

[[Valid] [Gul'dan] Guepek]

Your character name: Lifæ
Character who you're reporting: Guepek
Realm: Gul'dan
Date of incident: 01/25/18
Description & Evidence:

Hello, 

 

I would like to report the following players for wintrade :

- Guepek (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/ranking_detail/5/7/0/14715230)

- Goor (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/12760347)

- Atlante (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/12944265)

 

They wintraded in season 3 and were never punished. At the moment I write this, the games are visible in Guepek's history, page 22 and maybe 23. Here come the screenshots. Fell free to inspect the games in detail if need be, you will notice that many games are played without damage, healing or killing blows, and both opponents are leaving. Other games are played with damage, but so little that it's not even enough to kill a geared lvl 100 player. We can safely assume that because the games happened around 2350 rating, people had at least a bit of gear.

Guepek got about 100 points out of this.

 

It is also worth mentioning that a fourth player was involved, Isjonny, who is thought to be Guepek's toon, but because of my report from a few days ago, Isjonny was suddenly deleted. Indeed, if you look at the details of the games, one time there is an opponent with a blank name. On my screens of last report that was Isjonny here. Also, if you check https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14604670 which is Isjonny's armory, you notice he has no name.

It looks like the last report created some panic among the guilty.

 

Rules say that a ban and a rating reset for all 3 (or all 4) of them is in order. 

 

I didn't upload all of my screens today, since they are in the other report and you can check Guepek's history manually anyways. It shows the reality way more than screens, I guess.

 

Thank you for your time, screenshots follow.

 

[[Invalid] [Gul'dan] Guepek]

Your character name: Reportmaster
Character who you're reporting: Guepek
Realm: Gul'dan
Date of incident: 01/17/18
Description & Evidence:

Hello,

I would like to report four players for a past wintrade (you need four players to windtrade in 2vs2 that has been unpunished. 

The names are Guepek (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14715230), Isjonny (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/14604670), Atlante (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/12944265) and Goor (https://firestorm-servers.com/us/community/armory/5/7/12760347).

I will detail my accusation now and put all the screenshots after, so feel free to come back here when you look at the screenshots, or look down to the screenshots if you're reading this.

 

The wintrade session I'm talking about happened in Season 3 and my research has shown me that these players were never punished. I know for a fact that the two Priests are still active in Season 4 with a decent rating even though they aren't exceptional players by any means.

Me and some friends are playing different comps based on Hunters and Druids or Priests, comps that were good in retail, whereas those guys are playing comps full of bugs and act as if they were veteran players. The fact that they play stupid comps which take advantage of Firestorm bugs to do more damage (I am not detailing this here, but I can via PM if you wish to know, even though I don't think it can be considered as the player's fault) annoyed me so I checked their history and found that wintrade.

I am asking, if you conclude that it was indeed wintrade, that the sanction be applied in Season 4, with the appropriate ban and rating reset (the reset is the important part, it's too often forgotten) so they know they can't get away with wintrading, and don't do it later as Season 4 goes forth. I think that it is very important to uphold the rules of the server especially now that there are fewer players.

 

Now, onto the explanation. All my screenshots are from Guepek history, because he seems to have benefited from this wintrade session the most and because of that his history contains all the matches (because two people would often leave for the wintrade thing, and when someone leaves, the game isn't in his history, but Guepek seems to always be on the winning side, so we know he stayed inside until the end). I am sure however that you can find some of the games in the other players' history if you want to look at that.

 

The first two screenshots display what the history looks like on the outside. You can see on the first screen two games against Atlante, then three games where the opponents simply left, then a game against Isjonny. On the second screen six empty games and one against Goor. Now this isn't enough evidence so lets dig in into detail a bit.

 

The third screen details three games. The first one Guepek teams with Goor against Atlante could look like a real game, 3 mins, almost 2M damage on one side, but no damage at all, not even a DoT from both healers, and very few healing overall. In report archives we have lots of examples of games like this who were disguised as not wintrade when they were, and GMs found out. And this was only the first game. Second game, Guepek teams with Goor again, against Atlante, and same thing, almost 1M5 damage but you will easily notice that the healing doesn't smells fishy on both sides. Third game Goor and Guepek are still together, both opponents left before the killing blow, but you notice that there is ZERO healing on Guepek & Goor's side this time, one killing blow, who must have left, shortly followed by his alive partner. I know, this is weird.

 

The fourth screen details three games as well. The first one, Goor and Guepek are together, no healing AND you can notice that this time, the sum of all damage is extremely, if not exactly, close to two players' health. We can safely assume that they did just enough damage to kill one (we see a killing blow), the dead leaves, so he is removed from history, and the living one leaves shortly before death, removing himself effectively from history as well. The second one we see that Guepek has teamed up with Atlante. Almost no healing, no killing blow, a total damage sum below 150k when players have around 450k health and it's two players per team... Nothing more to add. The third match looks more real, but because of all the other games and the fact that Isjonny really looks like the missing name (until now we only had Goor, Atlante and Guepek) plus the fact that Guepek and Isjonny are guildmates, and that we are well aware that players throw in one or two real games in the mix to make it look realm almost everytime there is a wintrade.... I would understand if you consider that this game isn't to take into account because it's not obvious enough even if circumstantial evidence seems to point at Isjonny, so let's leave it aside and let you judge, shall we ?

 

Onto the fifth screen. We see four games with Guepek and Atlante together. 0 killing blow in 4 games. Very low, if not zero, healing. Never an opponent who stays until he is killed or arena ends (since there are no names and no killing blows). A total damage sum which, each game, is below the average health of two players. I don't believe this screen needs further explanation. 

 

On the sixth and last screen you see three games (well, actually four but the first one is the last of last screenshot). The first two games Guepek is with Atlante,no opponent, no killing blow, no healing and no damage. Third game Guepek is still with Atlante, against Goor, Goor doesn't do any damage nor healing, his partner left, and Guepek and Atlante do just enough damage to kill him and damage a bit the player who left.

 

Now, we have all the screenshots explained. Lets be sure everything is clear : I described the game in the order the appear in history, which means they happened the other way around, last game of last screen was the first to take place. This makes more sense. You see that all the games happened during the same week, with absolutely no other game in between, with the same players all the time, and all the games are fishy if we look at them alone. Now look at them together, it becomes hyper weird and suspicious. 

 

To me, that's how it happened. October 12nd : the four of them decide to wintrade. They do a first game with a little damage and a killing blow. They decide it's not fast enough, and the next two games they leave instantly. After that, maybe they decided to stop for today, but the safest bet is that real teams started queueing (you can know who is in an arena with /who command, and if you are wintrading and that the queue doesn't happen on all four toons, you will know that someone else is queueing. You just need to alt f4 so you don't lose points, and don't appear in histories). So, because they can't play against themselves now, they stop. But they keep going the day after, October 13rd. They manage to do about six games with some low damage from time to time and a game that looks real so they think they are not detectable (as I said, you could take that one out of the picture, they might have queueing into someone else by accident but it looks weird, doesn't it ?), and need to stop again. Therefore, they keep going for a few games on October 17th.

 

You noticed that they switched partners sometimes, and faced the toon they were with. I mean, Guepek and Atlante were together and got rating, and Goor lost some. Them, Guepek teams with Goor and they win, while Atlante loses rating. The explanation is quite simple : this way, you get rating on toon A and B, but C (and D) lose rating. Then, you make A team with C and B team with D. You want rating on A (Guepek). But because A teamed with B at start, B has some nice rating as well. so when you swap teams, A and C will face B and still get nice rating because B has some to offer (and it is common knowledge of every wow player that it is always the highest rating in the team that gets taken into account for the math at the end of the game. I hope I was clear enough.

 

At the end of their little wintrading escapade Guepek had fone from 2335 rating to 2444, so +109. Isn't that outrageous ? If you want to, you can look at the detail of rating gained every game.

 

Please be aware that the day I write this report the games are on pages 18 and 19 of his history, so if you want to check yourself, go there, but if he plays other games today or any other day before you look at this, the wintraded games might be farther in his history. I trust you will know how to find them.

 

Contact me if something I said was unclear. I really think I explained every detail I had in mind that could make you doubt, but I could have forgotten one. Feel free to pm me if you're not sure because lack if evidence, and if this is evidence I have, I will edit the report. Please excuse any typo or grammatical error, I tried to be careful but English isn't my native language.

 

Have a nice day.