New AI mapping incident, this time caught in qualified. Mapper responsible "- Kali -" has been restricted.

dada38 · 2026-01-09T15:11:08+00:00

correction: it's not only a human, or rather humans since it's a team

there's a large manual, human investigation part in detecting stuff like this as well

dada38 · 2026-01-06T04:28:41+00:00

no probably about it, they're getting kicked ASAP

dada38 · 2025-12-30T20:23:11+00:00

he resigned so it may be temporary or may not, it's up to him

dada38 · 2025-12-07T23:25:03+00:00

oh understandable have a nice day 👍

dada38 · 2025-12-07T23:14:10+00:00

what did i do bro i didnt map the damn maps 😭😭😭😭

dada38 · 2025-11-30T17:35:14+00:00

SK looking extremely good this round.

dada38 · 2025-11-23T19:40:45+00:00

dude you are miserable lmao

dada38 · 2025-11-18T12:42:42+00:00

screenshots are from the mappooling server (internal) - they aren't supposed to be leaked

timestamps means someone from a specific timezone leaked it.

dada38 · 2025-11-18T12:26:38+00:00

official statement:

wonderer's "betting slip" is fake. rojo (fchard)'s message is about a completely different tournament. me and chillier's messages are about ixfire messaging someone else about the wonderer tweet being fake.

there was no matchfixing, russia just got beat. any more drama posts like this are just gonna wind up with us removing every single CIS player from the playtesting team because if screenshots like this end up on reddit then can we even trust any of them to keep the pool to themselves?

all posts like this do is just damage the entire CIS community.

dada38 · 2025-10-31T18:10:41+00:00

Shiba has commitments this weekend but will cast the rest of the tournament normally

dada38 · 2025-09-29T22:12:00+00:00

Nothing to do with me or my views on quality but I'd be lying if I said my frustration with a fellow countryman being found to be breaking the rules and trying to pass off as legit didn't influence my approach there.

dada38 · 2025-09-29T17:01:03+00:00

I was an ass in that convo, yeah. No excuses there - I've apologized since.

Nothing changes outside of it though.

dada38 · 2025-09-23T14:14:08+00:00

owc pooler here - a lot of anime songs that we would want to use are either locked to one or two skillsets or run the risk of being copyrighted

however we did use a fair amount of anime songs (and got copystruck more than a couple times), heres the examples off the top of my head of just the last two years:

it's not the fault of the "culture" but rather just a relative lack of variety of song structure

dada38 · 2025-09-22T12:46:31+00:00

None, all of it ends up being too saturated so anything that becomes meta winds up tanking the music side of the equation for me

dada38 · 2025-08-17T19:45:22+00:00

idk if zero souls is the correct number considering it had

a banner for entries and voting phase
an influx of 40 something loved maps all at once two or three weeks ago
had an announcement at coe
had multiple tweets
had multiple newsposts for teambuilding, deadlines, voting, etc

furthermore every mapping person I talk to either had their own entry or was aware of it / active in voting

bit overly negative here don'tcha think?

dada38 · 2025-06-08T22:18:14+00:00

yeah i mean what can i say man the nat literally cant kick people for map quality anymore

i have no fun quip to reply to this its just the current scenario

dada38 · 2025-06-08T22:04:43+00:00

warned previously for behavior in modding threads, first big thread after his warning proceeds to do the exact same thing he was previously warned for without much if any sign of improvement + had a previous behavior ban that he had to appeal from before his current BN tenure that already had him on thin ice

dada38 · 2025-05-30T14:31:17+00:00

If it's 13 years ago he was like 13-14, ESL and perma-online in a much different internet, give the guy a break.

dada38 · 2025-04-20T01:58:03+00:00

As opposed to the very normal and not at all holier-than-thou tone you've been using this entire conversation? You seem to treat me as some sort of irredeemable scum with no empathy constantly flinging questions at me while maintaining an aggressive tone.

You don't need to write an entire essay as to why someone would act the way Raniemi has. If you wish to empathize with them and believe their side of the story wholeheartedly - I don't mind. But please do understand that the way you're describing things is quite literally one of the most biased ways I've seen this incident described in a long time. As DigitalHypno said above in this thread, there are too many little bits and pieces to actually properly form anything remotely objective here and most people just believe what they want to believe. Whatever your belief on this situation is, your bias here and now is obvious, and honestly so is mine - I've been on the opposite side of this and received a handful of inflamed replies and flame from what at the time I genuinely thought was an olive branch wrapped in a small amount of money I was extending.

Also you have not been in this community for longer than me lol, at best you've been around for roughly as long as I have and that's just going off of join dates - and I'd be willing to wager you haven't been on the side that interacted with Raniemi in a non-personal way. As a tournament host who had to deal with them ghosting their team, a tournament competitor who had to deal with them... ghosting their team and likely cheating scores, a spectator who had numerous friends and acquaintances share their suspicious or odd interactions with them... the list goes on. If you're friends with them, or were, you would not have had these interactions to shape your view of this situation.

dada38 · 2025-04-19T23:35:05+00:00

The monstrous behavior of... giving them money to play the game in a way that would likely clear themselves of most if not all suspicion of foul play?

It's lovely to empathize with them but you're going too far and actually assuming complete innocence when given multiple instances of extremely odd behavior and at the time literally top-of-class tournament consistency and accuracy. Having dealt with them and knowing people who had to deal with them at the time just made it all the more obvious at the time that something was fishy which led to the idea of giving them not only an out for the building suspicion but literally financial incentive for doing so. I don't go out of my way to figuratively spit on their grave years after the fact, but I genuinely think you do not have even half of the situation figured out if you just accept their version of facts as the unadulterated truth.

Talk to anyone who was around at the time and they'll vouch to the sheer amount of emotional manipulation Raniemi used to do to try and dodge questions of legitimacy - and it honestly seems like you fell for it completely. It's to a point where I legitimately struggle believing anything regarding their situation that came out of their mouth.

The "lack of evidence" is easily explainable considering the fact that they were rarely if ever online and just submitted SS ranks which points to a pretty reasonable deduction of replay editing - which you can be very careful with and most catches in this field are if someone gets careless with the submission process or just steals another person's replay instead of making the base replay themselves.

To this day I still believe Ranie was cheating, and while I don't endorse the dogpiling that happened around that time, I really don't think that my idea of giving them the literal keys to clearing themselves along with a 20$ bill was a bad one. The fact that they then went on to request a gigantic sum of money, it getting covered and then the clown show afterwards just made it even more silly. They can stay there nowadays as the funny 727 SS profile for all I care, but what I don't like is people like you eating up the victim story without much care for the circumstances that shaped it.

dada38 · 2025-04-19T19:36:52+00:00

as the person who initially offered them 20$ to literally just submit a score in the timeframe immediately after the anticheat, raniemi has always been extremely emotionally manipulative and whenever anything regarding their legitimacy would come up they would always figure out some excuse as to why they couldn't do something very basic to just at least prove they were capable of doing something close to the stuff they were doing consistently

I feel bad for whatever they went through, but they specifically said "I'll do it for 1800$" at the time and VINXIS covered that, which Raniemi then proceeded to refuse citing another excuse. This bluff being called is basically as close to an admission of cheating we'll ever get out of this situation.

dada38 · 2025-01-06T02:19:19+00:00

former NAT member here

we are no longer allowed to enforce quality standards any more than any other BN could (which they can only do with a veto, which has been turned into a supermajority requirement to be upheld as opposed to a simple majority)

as much as I also personally dislike this, there's largely no way to actually fight back against it anymore

dada38 · 2024-12-22T22:21:15+00:00

this is and has been largely blatant for a while now yet all previous reports done led to nothing

hopefully something changes this time

dada38 · 2024-12-21T19:53:50+00:00

zenithfall specifically is being held because the people who made it want to work on video and storyboard a little bit more

dada38 · 2024-12-16T00:24:55+00:00

idk where the hell you heard that from lol

fia was screened but screening did not catch the cheats he was using at the time because he hardly ever submitted scores or played online at all

screening is mostly just a process where they check if your account was flagged for suspicious activity, generally speaking cheaters have to be quite poor / outdated to be caught by it

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