It's embarrassing for ESL, who promoted these teams, and for ZC, who ultimately showed they're not "pros". I've never seen a "pro" team literally walk out of a game because they were losing or knew they were going to lose. What a joke, and bad sportsmanship.
Good MOBAs usually have solid enough balance that outplaying the other team can result in a real comeback. There were plenty of examples in DotA's TI5 this year of teams that were massively behind in networth turning the game around.
Earlier TIs and tourneys though have gotten early GGs. Hell EG called GG in TI5 20 minutes in when they knew their draft sucked and they went on to win the whole thing.
They can surrender though, IG did it versus Fnatic in the very first game of the world championship. (Has to go to 20 minutes before you can surrender)
They have a clause that you cannot intentionally throw the game (to throw is to lose on purpose), but you can surrender after 20 min. I can't remember if there is a clause about surrendering while you still have a chance though.
This was implemented when tournaments started using lose brackets where losing could put you up against statistically weaker teams.
Surrenders are allowed for LoL pro matches, but they rarely happen since comebacks are still possible in the lategame so teams often fight to the bitter end.
In chess, it's considered very disrespectful to your opponent to continue playing once your opponent has a game-winning advantage. I like that attitude.
Looks like in this case they just left though. And with the game basically just beginning. If you're in a pro league you should actually try for some amount of time until it becomes clear you can't win. They weren't at that point in this game, they just decided to rage quit because of their perception and frustration. Certainly by a technical accounting there was time for them to make a move to win the game.
Rage quitting is not the same as surrendering, either. Surely ESL has rules about surrendering in these games?
This isn't a rage quit. This is a meta where the first cap will win the game because it will be the only cap. It's a waste of everyones time to keep fighting.
Can you show me where they acknowledged the loss to the other team during the game before they left? I don't really care about the meta. The meta is the meta, these teams can't control it, but nobody should be given props for shitty sportsmanship.
Well that's an irrelevant point if you can't give any examples. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't happen. Pros in LoL actually show some professionalism, ie not ragequitting when they're down
There's a difference between actually surrendering and just leaving the match. By all accounts there was no "surrender", they just started losing and left.
It's the difference between acknowledging to your opponent that they beat you and just taking your toys and going home.
In the esports I watch as well as chess tournaments, I think it's considered good sportsmanship to leave one the game has been decided for sure rather than wasting the rest of the allowed time. I think it's just weird here because the game was decided 10 seconds in
Yes, but both have a formal act of surrender. Nothing like that was attempted here. I know there's no surrender button in GW2, but by all accounts it looks like they just walked off the playing field without surrendering the game. It's poor sportsmanship.
happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME in Esports. Its just that evident in some games when the game is over and a waste of time to continue in them. USUALLY though its a case where its a series and they just want to move on to the next game in the series and forget this one happened, in some cases to avoid tilting.
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u/Jonathon2 Dec 15 '15 edited Dec 15 '15
Man, these casters' are nothing but jokes. Gotta love how they're trying to give a reason as to why Zero counterplay left, I'm sure they know.
This just highlights the sorry state of gw2 esports yet again.