Korea Dota League Postpones Grand Finals’ Decider
[UPDATED 12:16 p.m.] In an unfortunate turn of events, Korea Dota League (KDL) postpones its Season 4 Grand Finals’ deciding game five match between Philippine team Rave-Dota and Korea’s very own MVP.Phoenix, Friday, Dec. 19.
In a post by Khatie, Rave-Dota’s Facebook page admin, she said that the “KDL championship will resume tomorrow.”
The Facebook post by Rave-Dota
After both teams finished the drafting phase, the live stream went down and the said postponement came into place. The series is currently tied at 2-all. Game 5 will be played, Saturday, Dec. 20, 1 p.m. (GMT+8).
THE DRAFT. Rave Dota and MVP.Phoenix finished the drafting stage before game 5’s postponement.
Game four…poor?
There were some technical problems late into the series. In the middle of game four, consecutive pauses were observed due to unstable game latency and tremendous lag, making the game unplayable. Both teams eventually agreed to a game reload.
“There were big [lags] to both teams, Rave and MVP Phoenix,” MVP.Phoenix said in a statement. “The [lags] were created by the servers and they were quite heavy, so we paused. We tried several times to continue the game after we saved the game before, of course.”
The game reload was agreed upon by both teams on a “certain point of the game after the lags were gone.”
“Everything happened in the agreement of both teams and with the agreement of the referees,” MVP said in the same statement. “So it was no cheating either unfair manners or playing.”
However, the game four reload caused other problems, such as a free Aghanim’s Scepter skill on Timbersaw (giving him two ultimate skills) and MVP.QO‘s Templar Assassin’s Aegis timer reset, forcing him to “suicide” his hero in the interest of fairness.
“[Timbersaw] didn’t use [his ultimate] until he gets an Aghanim’s Scepter,” Rave Dota’s captain, Mark “Cast” Pilar, said in his conversation with Khatie which was screen captured and posted in their team’s Facebook page. “As for MVP.QO‘s Aegis, its timer got reset, that’s why he made a suicide.”
PAUSED. Game 4 between Rave and MVP.Phoenix experienced a lot of technical difficulties leading to a game reload. (Photo shared by Cleo Arias in PeSO’s page)
Rave had the upper hand before the pauses came into play. Rave.Chrissy‘s Broodmother was pushing bottom lane, reaching the enemy’s bottom lane set of barracks when most of the players got disconnected from the game leading to the game reload. After the reload, the breaks of the game caused Rave’s loss in game four, forcing a game five decider.
No Korean Drama
The game four technical problem stirred social media criticisms. Netizens in the twitch chat during the live stream came up with the the tirades, “Korean Diry League” and “Korean Drama League”, mocking the the acronym of the tournament.
“There were no cheating happened,” Pilar said in the screen captured conversation.
The racial comments by netizens caused “disappointment” in the MVP camp.
“We, especially me, are very disappointed and sad about so much hatred, so much [racism] and so much prejudices we received [in] the last couple of hours for no reason,” MVP’s team manager, JeeF, said. “Some people pass judgments without slightly knowing what is going on.”
JeeF stood ground on the team’s values and sportsmanship.
“We would never ever cheat!” JeeF said. “We have always played fair like sportsmen and we were always nice. And we will keep this attitude! Moreover, no one got money for losing or anything like that! If you doubt it, then go ask Rave.”
“We will stay like we are: Proud, friendly and always giving our very best,” he added. “If you can’t handle it, then just leave it (sic)!”
More on this as the matter unfolds.
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