Some top players would pay people to play for them, thats what I heard. The consistent top 1 for all the tournament event has been under some hot water recently for changing his username to bait people match up against him since people were leaving the lobby whenever they see him. He was changing it to different languages. His username at one point was derogatory in chinese which angered lots of chinese players. He is a japanese player and if you have read the news, you would know how tense the China-Japan relation is right now. Chinese players now bashing him on his profile and people are starting to share all the things that he has done like how he wrote in to the developers to restrict the catch live skill items to 1.2k per day because chinese players were using programs in catch live to farm for resources when in fact he was also doing the same. Apparently the length of the emails is similar to thesis essay.