Season 3 started this week and while everyone is grinding personal rating in order to use the S3 weapons and shoulders, the water cooler talk around the arenas is about the rampant win-trading that took place on the final days of Season 2. After a few heated threads like this and this, Blizzard finally decided to respond — initially, after acknowledging the problem, Blizzard chose to ignore it, but then recanted:

We’ve been in contact with our support teams in regards to this, and action being taken. We will and have been reading and investigating reports and taking action where we can verify this is occurring. Please keep in mind that while we will be investigating all reports, there will be cases where the investigation can’t be considered conclusive and action may not be taken. That’s just a standard disclaimer of course; we hope to be able to get all of them. As always, details of our investigations won’t be made public.

This is of course contrary to other posts I’ve made, and I do apologize for my confusion and any problems I’ve caused those of you concerned with the issue. -Drysc

Some ‘guilty’ teams have been banned and stripped of their ratings and some teams did not. As always, Blizzard is tight-lipped on it’s policing. Regardless, a black cloud has been cast and hopefully Blizzard will have measures to prevent this from happening in Season 3.

Dreamhack Lineup Set
The eight-team lineup for the 3v3 ‘finals’ at Dreamhack, Sweden is now set with 3 teams from Europe and 5 teams from the United States. Here’s hoping for some solid matches. Be interesting to see the lineups that will be trotted out, especially since the long gap since WSVG LA was cancelled. Here are the eight teams as reported by WoR:

1. SK Gaming (EU)
2. fnatic.Oldschool (EU)
3. MeetYourMakers (EU)
4. MoB TurtleForce (US)
5. MoB TurtlePower (US)
6. Team Pandemic (US)
7. fnatic.Insurrection (US)
8. Evil Geniuses (US)

Schedule and more information here.

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3 Responses to “Season 2* Ends with an Asterisk; Dreamhack Lineup Set”

1. cire Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 9:10 am

   I hope there will be a internet broadcast like Blizzcon so everybody can see the matches live. I would love to see them.

2. Alex Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 9:25 am

   Zizek (warlock), Hamchook (hunter), and Xanderx (holy priest) won the first round on MobTurtlePower.
   
   Magog: Exciting match. MoB came back from 0-2 vs. Pandemic. First time Pandemic has ever lost a series. Looking forward to day 2.

3. Glave Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

   Did you guys just watch the footage from the ESL TV stream or is there another place to view it?

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