{"id":5762,"date":"2010-04-14T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"match-fixing-allegations-shake-south-korea-s-competitive-gaming-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5762-match-fixing-allegations-shake-south-korea-s-competitive-gaming-scene","title":{"rendered":"Match fixing allegations shake South Korea\u2019s competitive gaming scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StarCraft is huge in South Korea. In fact, it&rsquo;s a national sport, with televised matches and massive sponsorships.<\/p>\n<p>Recent allegations have appeared on StarCraft community site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamliquid.net\/forum\/viewmessage.php?topic_id=119403\" target=\"_blank\">Teamliquid.net<\/a> that claim that top players have been leaking top secret replay footage for a fee, as well as even throwing matches and conspiring with illegal gambling organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently teams housing suspected cheaters have promised to remove those players.<\/p>\n<p>While Blizzard has tried to get involved, its reach is limited given that it is a US company, and the ruling body for eSports in Korea (KeSPA) is taking ownership of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption reports bubble to the surface of StarCraft\u2019s competitive leagues <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}