Recently there have been an enormous amount of hate towards Fnatic and Flusha. Most notably because of the "dishonorable boost" and accusations towards Flusha cheating. Here is what I think about it. (this is purely opinion, and you have a right to your own opinion.)
Recently, Flusha made a statement about all the accusations. You can find what he said here: http://tinyurl.com/k3zmrpj I will be discussing about what he said.
First, he stated that he has never been banned at all in his life. That doesn't really help with anything since Sf and KQLY were never banned in their life as well.
Second, he says this: "The only thing i can say about the clips on me is that i have a very different playstyle and i lift my mouse ALOT more than the average pro player." Now this is completely true, and if you watch Flusha on LAN he actually DOES lift his mouse up excessively.
Third, he says: "The last thing i would like to say is that this community is a ******* joke, ever since this witch hunt started 9 out of 10 messages to me on twitter/facebook
has been insults or deaththreats." This is an opinion, but i completely agree that the way this community has taken on the matter is really immature and disgusting.
Now before I move on ahead, I'll be discussing a few of the "proofs" of Flusha hacking.
[1] http://gfycat.com/InconsequentialRightCrossbill In the gif, Flusha flicks his mouse strangely to the center of a player behind the wall. Yes, this is definitely suspicious, and this had me questioning him as well. But if you think about it more, a lot of players flick and spray behind walls as they try to do anything to give them an advantage. I've watched some of Flusha's demos, and it seems like he usually always has this fast pace sprays through the walls. Most of the times it never connects with anything, but this time it did.
Now once again, I can't deny the fact that it looks insanely suspicious especially with the flick. But imagine what this clip would look like WITHOUT the x-ray. It would look like any other random spray, it just so happened that this one actually connected with the player on the other hand.
[2] http://gfycat.com/FoolishPowerfulBlackfish In this gif, Flusha flicks to the player in the smoke. This one proves nothing in my opinion. Watch Flusha's demos, he picks up his mouse a lot when he turns, and he does this even when there are no players around. It just happened that his crosshair swung across a player when he readjusted his mouse. When you pick up your mouse as much as he does, (or any other player that does this really), this has to happen to you atleast once every game or so.
[3] http://gfycat.com/CriminalBriskBallpython Now this one is one of the most suspicious clips. But has anyone ever thought to look at how he moves his mouse when this happens? Look at Flusha in the back, and you can actually see how he moves his mouse. If he had a button he clicked that would auto aim for him, he wouldn't have moved his arm THAT much. The way he moved his mouse was in sync with the way his crosshair moved, and once again, he does this type of mouse movement a lot when moving his crosshair even when there is no one around.
For times sake, I won't be going through more clips, but these are called "clips" for a reason. Watch Flusha's entire demos instead of just the parts that look suspicious. A LOT of things can be perceived in a different way if you only look at certain parts of it. If you watch his demo's you'll notice that he does this same flick and pick up way of moving through out the whole game, and it's not surprise if he picks up his mouse when its on someone once in a while.
I still think there is still a small possibility that he is hacking, but there are small possibility for everything. But the point is that we don't know FOR SURE if he is hacking, or if he's not. Even if you are 100% convinced that he is hacking, just imagine if he isn't for a second and think about how the community has been treating him. How would you feel?
Now the dishonorable boost... I think they are getting a whole lot more hate for this just because of the constant smashing and pounding on Fnatic before this. Honestly, I think if any other team knew about this spot, they would try to use it too to give them an advantage if they were playing for $250,000 in a major tournament. In fact, they would do anything to give them an edge. There is NO DOUBT at all that this boost was unfair, and the decision to replay the map is the correct decision, but can you really hate Fnatic that much for doing something in order to give them a win?
Yeah, I know they knew about it for 2 months or so and didn't want anyone else to find out. But if you found this super cool tactic that would give you an edge, would you just go out and let everyone find out? It is a glitch with the map, but think about it this way: what if Fnatic didn't think it was really illegal. Because when I first watched it happen, it looked like they were just standing on the ledge. It was until after it all happened that we started taking a closer look at it to see it was "pixel walking". So in that assumption, Fnatic really just thought it was a tactic that would give them an edge, but why would they want anyone else to know?
All in all, it doesn't even matter if Fnatic is cheating or if what they did was "insanely dishonorable!", the way the community has been treating the situation and has been treating Fnatic is absolutely disgusting and something we should be ashamed of. There are better ways to deal with this, but witch hunting and making non-stop hate towards them is not the way to go.
They are human too, nothing is for sure, you can dislike what they are doing but the way the communities been acting on it is not the way to do go with it.
TL;DR: Just read the whole post before before you bring your pitchforks.
-Xenon