Cheated to Blizzcon: Blizzard’s Tom “Kalgan” Chilton cheats Slip ‘n’ Slide (Skill Capped) to $50000

It’s always interesting to hear the commentators remark at how teams earned their place at BlizzCon. It’s even more interesting when a certain member of Blizzard knows for sure one team in particular doesn’t deserve their place. In fact, it’s more interesting still when this member of staff abetted this team in acquiring a place.

Isn’t it nice to have friends in high places? And who better to serve as an example than Pookz.

Poor Pookz was having trouble getting into qualifying range as DK/Mage/Priest. Fortunately for him, Snutz, Toez and HR weren’t having an easy time of it either as WLS. A bit of jiggery-pokery on the last day of Season 9 provided a much needed distraction and suddenly both teams weren’t doing so badly.

Snutz and Toez, truly a courageous and honourable pair, decided to ditch HR. Well he wasn’t going to stand for this; he hacked their accounts, deleted their characters and got them banned. While the retaliation may seem brutal, the phrase “just deserts” does come to mind.

Luckily for those two, Pookz has a friend.  His name is Tom “Kalgan” Chilton. You might be familiar with him. As the Lead Game Designer for World of Warcraft he certainly has a lot of sway.

Mr Chilton helps his friends out. He not only restored their characters with MMR and rating still intact, but he cloned them onto another account. With zero chance of qualifying without this intervention, some could say Mr Chilton is their knight in shining armour.

Unfortunately, the three of them still weren’t quite in qualifying range. It was no worry though because with a tiny bit of win trading anything is possible. In fact, it’s even speculated that Toez didn’t really fancy accepting a queue, so they achieved one of their many wins in a 2v3 scenario. I wonder how…

Rightfully an RLS should have had their place at the US Invitational, but Blizzard isn’t concerned about cheats and fair play. Indeed, Season 9 highlighted that fact. They were just glad they’d have the famous faces at the event.

It must be nice to have such contacts in the US. Indeed a series of top players in the US have had their accounts unbanned for activities such as using an Archaeology Bot. Kalimist though? Who’d unban him!

Fortunately, the team failed to capitalize on Kalgan’s corruption and ended up losing in the final to the Korean team, OMG.

**Edit**
Niko provided this interesting screenshot in the comments:
http://i.imgur.com/j1HPi.jpg

For those asking for a source, I’ll quote syeren in the comments:

“The players / teams / organizations who can provide proof are currently laying low, as it could prove detrimental to them depending on how Blizzard react.

The first I heard of this was the week following the US Regionals, where Yiska let me in on the whole drama.

The source is very valid, we just need the permission of the people providing the information to post up more information and names.”

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  • Wuster

    Pookz playing fucking awfully in the finals. Jesus he was so bad.

    • earlswtshirt

      posted by hoodrych

      “Won’t disclose information my ass.. seems like the community needs some clairification

      Let’s go back to the beginning of TR. Snutz, Toez and I had paired up with confidence since WLS was good and Warriors were looking like the best melee class. WLS beat DKLS which was running rampant, and stomped most caster cleaves (pre-patched shamans were talking), and generally felt like one of the strongest comps on TR. We never got to play as much as we wanted because Snutz was never around as he just got his first girlfriend and lost his virginity, frequently asking me for sex advice and telling me about his girlfriend’s yeast infection. We got maybe 2 decent sessions in on the first week of TR, and easily held 1st place, putting most of our confidence in what felt like a very strong WLS comp.

      Then blizzard patches mid TR, warrior 2h damage was nerfed by 8%, rogue damage was buffed by 6%, DK unholy buffed and the soul swap nerf hurt us as well. We started having trouble with teams like Diziet’s cleave, who we had no trouble with before. RLS was getting hard, DKLS seemed so much different than before and Shadowplay close to impossible after the spriest buffs. We had 2 teams going with 1 that was 100% safe for qualification. We didn’t have the same confidence as before the patch and were pretty frustrated by lack of practice, but mainly by lack of playtime because of Snutzs first girlfriend.

      At this time we were approached by Pookz who was concerned with qualifying and was scared his DK/Mage/Priest would be hit too hard with the frost DK nerf. We eventually agreed to give them some games on our alt team, put them in qual range, and they’d give us a game on our main team (which was already qual’d). This happened and was fairly easy to organize as it was the last day of Season 9 and most players were queueing on live. A week passes with no changes to the top 8. With about 2-3 days left before TR ends, and with Snutz showing no sign of trying to be on to practice or committing, Toez decided to leave and try to qualify a last minute Shadowplay with Shouri/Imbadz. Toez came forward and told me he would do this, which I respected and understood. However, this did not go well. They capped out at around rank 15 and it seemed Toez,Snutz and I were destined to go to regionals unconfident and moreso just for the free trip.

      1 day before TR ends, Snutz comes online and tries to get our WLS to play and Toez isn’t having it. Toez had no desire to play with Snutz since he was never on and was screwing our WLS out of practice. After seeing how the EU TR was dominated by MLS, Snutz starts queueing with Kollektiv and Pookz, they do EXTREMELY well and go something like 60-3 up to almost qual range. Kollektiv of course is already teaming up with Massive/Nadagast and can’t really commit to this new MLS team. This is where Toez comes in. Toez wanted to qual really bad and came “CrawlingBack” to Snutz to try a last minute MLS run. This went well. MLS dominated all the DKLS and melee cleaves, and had a very good shot at beating EG’s Shadowplay. I had no problem with any of these players before this. I wasn’t told they were going to try MLS, and how it would potentially screw me out of qualifying. I feel it was pretty shitty on their part to go behind my back knowing it would screw me over. Look, I understand the game is all about Comp. I would never deny them a much better shot at winning if they needed to play with a Mage. I understand the game changes and at that point MLS was a much better option than WLS. Was it a shitty way to go about it? Absouletly. Not to mention the DK/Mage/Priest (Phil/Mackenzie) team that Pookz was going to qualify with? Yeah, they’d be screwed out by this as well.

      Now was I upset or bitter at the time? Sure. Did I revenge “hack” anyone, No. Did I delete any characters? No. May I have provided someone who was upset about this situation as well with a few battle net e-mails? Maybe. Last day of TR and around mid afternoon there is word going around that Snutz got hacked, with his character deleted. I looked into this and found it hilarious, thinking that there is no way for them to come back from a hacked/banned account on the last day of TR, since TR REGISTRATION HAD BEEN CLOSED FOR WEEKS even if they bought a new account. Thinking back to the time where Crysalids RLS got hacked FOUR DAYS before a TR ended and there was no possibility of qualifying again, well unfortuanetly they didn’t have a Pookz on their team. 1 hour letter Snutz’s MLS is online and queueing arena. How was this possible? His account was hacked/banned, his character no longer existed on armory… and TR registration was closed. In comes Kalgan. Pookz apparently called Kalgan (Lead Developer of Blizzard) on his cellphone and told him the situation. Kalgan got Snutz a brand new TR registered account, his lock restored on that NEW account, MMR restored and invited to the team as well even when inviting when DISABLED. This was known because right after the phone call, Pookz came in skype bragging about how he just called his “pal kalgan” and got everything fixed. I guess it is about who you know. I’ve also heard that Pookz was “hacked” shortly after, and had a ban lifted on his account in under an hour. (we’ve all seen this process take a few days at least)

      Regardless of all there setbacks, 2 hours left before TR ends and Snutz MLS is top 12. They’re spamming games trying to qual and are getting within 100 rating, but at the same time getting tanked by Diziets Dk/Rog/Sham cleave. Venruki/Sodah/Valrath are also top 8 and 100% qual’d at this point, and begin queueing on an alt team and alt chars. They get Snutz’s team, what do you think happens? We all know Complexity.Red was Sodah/Venruki/Snutz.

      [screens]

      Even when Toez (Crawlingback) MISSED A QUEUE, they went in 3v2 and Sodah/Ven/Val gave them the win. This put them at within 10 rating of qualification, with only 30 minutes left before the server shut down. EG’s shadowplay witnessed all this, and decided to get on one of their high teams as Double healer/lock to 45min draw snipe them. They got in the same game, and after about 15 minutes Cdew DC’d – which gave Snutz MLS the win and enough points to qualify. The snipe ended up biting EG in the ass pretty hard, while unfortunate but pretty funny as well.

      Now don’t get me wrong, Pookz/Snutz/Toez are obivously all top tier and could most likely qualify regardless. Do they deserve it? Maybe. Do others deserve to have gone? Possibly. It all comes down to Blizzard being irresponsible and not labeling this as an Arena Tournament. They didn’t say anything about a top 8, or a LAN tournament, they just *didn’t clarify anything* which in the end gives them the power to do whatever the fuck they want. Benys/Crysalid/Reckful were the RLS that qualified. Why did Venoma/Gravemind/Reckful show up to regionals? (Hint: rhymes with Dalgan) Since when were players allowed to just be subsituted at the last minute… I thought this is the reason they make you play on your own account? They did whatever they want and invited whoever they wanted, and made it look legit by personally helping players they are friends with.

      When it’s all said and done Snutz MLS played well, which is suprising considering I’m sure they had almost no practice. They may have fucked me and others over which you could call a dick move, but they stil won a ton of money, so congrats to them. However that 2-3 PHD finals loss might be a perfect definition of of what karma tastes like, just sayin.

      tldr; snutz gf has yeast, people got fucked outta qualfying, win trading happens every tr whether you believe it or not, snutz mls won a ton of money from a shit game; karmas a bitch.

      best,
      hr”

    • Nex

      my mmr/personal/team rating was also restored and i havent got a friends whose name is Tom “Kalgan” Chilton ;)

      so dont overdo it…. only sad cause you didnt make it to blizzcon?

  • Quendimini

    well after reading this im glad that the backpedall team won :D And after reviewing it pookz made some mistakes.

  • syeren

    Hey guys, if you want to spread this news any faster, please up vote us on Reddit :p

    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/llk9e/cheated_to_blizzcon_blizzards_tom_kalgan_chilton/

  • valiane

    and GC is from outer space…. the amount of mud throwing going on in the pvp community is stupid… and really if you bot or do any other shit you shouldnt do expect to get banned…

  • pulstar

    I’m not particularly glad for OMG’s win (though they did play very nicely), but I’m extremely glad that Skill Capped did NOT. Why? Snutz is such a baby who cries and don’t know how to manage defeat. Plus, when he does win something, he acts like he’s the best and does not refrain from any kind of offensive gestures. I think I even saw Pookz shouting something at the team the beat in semifinals which, after reading your post, seems that much more incredible.
    I’m only sorry for Toez, only decent member of that team, calm guy who does not shout like a maniac and when he’s happy, he is happy for himself, not in the face of his opponents.
    Sorry Toez, you had to lose because you teamed with those two. Otherwise, respect for the gesture mentioned in the post.

  • jouni

    The source of this information would be cool. Pretty dirty if this is true.

    • syeren

      The players / teams / organizations who can provide proof are currently laying low, as it could prove detrimental to them depending on how Blizzard react.

      The first I heard of this was the following week after the US Regionals, where Yiska let me in on the whole drama.

      The source is very valid, we just need the permission of the people providing the information to post up more information and names.

      • jouni

        Okey. Seems reasonable enough. But till real evidence is shown I’m gonna stay really skeptical about this, and propably some other people too.

      • Valrath

        The source is Azael, I’m 100 % positive because I have heard this story from plenty of people and the one told here was exactly what I heard from Azael.

        He’s bitter because he lost.

        Honestly don’t even take that shit seriously because snut n co deserved to win and most of the things stated here are misinformed/not true.

    • trinica

      I would like the source as well, it does not matter if someone says the information is from a credible source…..Until there is 100% proof that this occurred these things should never be posted.

      My opinion at least.

      Nothing against you syeren. =P

  • cdlp

    They fucked over HR! Those bastards!

  • valiane

    you know jouni most of these BS posts never has a “real” source just some random made up shit

  • amagzz

    This is just as petty as the rumor you posted. Maybe it is true, although you don’t cite any factual evidence, so we’re supposed to take your word for it. But what is definite is that this kind of smearing just because your mad or bitter (only a negative emotion can motive someone to do this) is just plain stupid, silly and arrogant.

    This childish behavior amongst the WoW community is what makes it so god damn terrible. And I’m not saying it’s just you and I’m not trying to justify Skill Capped because they are equally as childish and petty some times. Why can’t we just take the tournament for what it was, good plays, bad plays and all? Why does one team have to be besmeared EVERY tournament?

    • syeren

      I don’t have to be mad or bitter to post the truth, do I?

      It’s a tournament that is designed for the most part to show who are the best team in WoW, not who has the highest up friend in Blizzard.

      • valiane

        facts wru?!

      • Valrath

        They beat everyone at the tournament how does this not prove they are the best team in WoW. Azael’s team IS NOT anywhere close to the best team.

    • valiane

      yea its actually really funny these kind of posts only appears when someone on this site is butthurt cause of someone winning/getting some placing at a tournement

  • niko

    http://i.imgur.com/j1HPi.jpg

    that was on AJ about 2 months ago.
    (completely unrelated to this blog)

    so it has to be true at some point

    • syeren

      Thank you, Niko.

      Everyone in the WoW community has been sitting on this info out of fear for what Blizzard could do unfortunately.

    • amagzz

      That’s not proof!

      Anyone can say anything about it. And especially since it’s coming from Hoodrych, it’s less convincing since he’s implicated in the situation and got ditched on the TR. Please try and make a better case.

      • valiane

        agreed, and if this game is so shit and the company behind it is shit, why are people still here? there are lots of other mmos around, not like wow is the only mmo. But I guess internet trolls need something to do in the evening

  • Shadyx

    There’s a difference. Usually, I agree that the community is generally throwing mud at each other out of pure jelousy, but when it comes to BlizzCon and tournaments in general, especially tournaments with prizemoney (in this case a quite large prize), I think that things like this should be taken seriously.
    Without sounding like too much of a “carer”, I think that stuff like that should be handled by law. Cause if Skilled-capped had infact won this tournament, attending by cheat/corruption and gone home with 75.000 dollars, it’s against the law. It’s like anything else, you cheat in any sort of game/sport on a proffesional level, you take the consequences.

    Apologies for the wall of text, this just bothered me.

    • valiane

      I 100% agree with you, but there is still a severe lack of evidence to support these accusations, and until something real, and not just a post on AJ, can prove that the accusations presented are true I will remain skeptic to the points presented in the original post.

      • amagzz

        The thing is that there can never be definitive proof for something like this and that all we can ever get are people’s own stories about what happened. And that’s why it’s completely POINTLESS in even talking about rumors like this because they can only ever definitively stay rumors and, in the general eyes of the gaming community, makes WoW’s community look terrible–a bunch of children pointing fingers and whining.

        Cheating probably happens, but we can’t ever know for sure, so why even bother talking about it on a personal, immediate level.

    • trc02

      They didnt won the 1st prize but they still won the 2nd one… so if all this cheat/corruption stuff is true its still against the law.

  • Compass

    “Luckily for those two, Pookz has a friend [...] He not only restored their characters with MMR and rating still intact, but he cloned them onto another account. With zero chance of qualifying without this intervention, some could say Mr Chilton is their knight in shining armour.”

    Honestly, this is what friends do. Your just pissed off cous you dont have friends like that.

    They got to the finals afterall, they didnt get their asses kicked in the first round. Dont say they were oh-so-not good enough to earn a spot at the tournament, when they made it to the finals for christ sake. If you’re saying that other teams who didnt get invited could have won the entire thing, i dont doubt that. Infact i know that for sure. But once in a while, you just let it be. Enjoy the way life is, and shrug at the mess. Stop hating. There’ll be other tournaments.

    • Wuster

      “Honestly, this is what friends do. Your just pissed off cous you dont have friends like that.”

      I don’t think they were “that” type of friends.

  • Twinpeaky

    It’s quite bizarre how many spotted cheats has been detected in this game – yet nothing has been done to those who has crossed the rules for fame and glory.

    Personally I was really hoping DNAW would win vs Snutz MLS considering that the story of how Kalgan helped Skill-capped was up on AJ some months ago.

    Another thing that’s quite bizarre is that no team here had a Dpriest or Rdruid but yet Blizzard hasn’t listed a single buff for any of these classes, instead they buffed MS who will only make Paladin and Shaman’s even more needed instead of those poor druid’s and priests.

    • Wuster

      I think WoW’s far beyond talking about how bizarre PvP changes are.

  • bushinryu

    I agree that this is a major issue and it speaks to a dark-side of Blizzard that is often hidden however there is no legal recourse in this situation.

    If u read through every Blizzard TOS, EULA, or tournament rules they have the last call on everything in the game NO MATTER WHAT! so the best we can hope for is that blizzard will make a public statement apologizing for their wrong doings and in some way compensating the other players in the tournament.

  • monfils

    i rly feel sorry for hydra…i rly do. in ur bio says every season rank 1 but s9…tc kind of missed it . dont get me wrong im not skill capped fan or anybody’s fan, but i dont see how without prove to blame a lot of people cuz of personal hate maybe cuz ur class atm sucks big time…again dont get me wrong ur are one of the best priest maybe the best but still that makes u like every other pathetic creature on forums……i dont care much im just amazed how your acting in that situation cuz not particapating at blizzcon or something….i dont know what in ur head man…everything everywhere i read now is how to hate others….its jutst wrong

    • skream

      the post wasnt written by hydra, dumbass

  • jaxz91

    I am the warlock from the RLS that got screwed out of playing in the tourney. A friend of mine linked me this article and i can tell you only scratched the surface of how hard we got fucked out of the opportunity to play in the tourney when we rightfully had a spot. Needless to say we were disappointed and outraged at the fact that they setup the situation for them to qualify. In the end blizzard got their way and we get fucked out of the chance for qualifying for blizzcon.

    TLDR BLIZZARD IS FULL OF ASSHOLES

    • Valrath

      Okay idiot you realize if snut did not qual with pookz then snutz would of been able to go with hood/toez when his acc got restored seeing as his other lock was still on the team. Pookz other team would of still been in qual range as well so theres no possible way you would of ever gone to regionals sorry bud.

  • umbrizzle

    you guys @ hydramist are pretty darn ballsy to make such serious accusations with no legitimate evidence. the title to the post just blatantly states that a man who restored deleted characters to their proper state is committing a crime. I’d be mad as fuck if my toons were deleted and couldn’t get them back. So I thank Tom Chilton for doing us all a favor by restoring those accounts and letting us see the best blizzcon i’ve ever fucking seen. Im also almost certain that if any of you were given a chance to play a MLS or WLD in the state of the game for 75k you’d take the MLS because the chances of winning are so much higher. No one wants to watch Hoodrych sit in UA and VT novas for days without fucking doing a single thing and no one wants to watch another RLS get ROFLSTOMPED by every other fucking comp in the tournament, believe me they wouldnt have gone far. I think the better team won at the end and i dont condone win trading, but the restoration of the characters with previous MMR is not a big fucking deal because they already had it, you’re making it seem that their MMR was like 2500 and got boosted to like 2800-900 or 3k for that mattter but that was not the case. RESTORED TO PREVIOUS MMR AND RATING. I say GG to skill cap and OMG. They made this tournament so much better by being here and not letting us down like EG did in the semi-finals. And as far as those who posted this you’re probably just mad because there were no euros playing in the finals. :SADFACE(

  • lordwza

    snutz pooks toez are shit, lmao learn your place bads….

  • pulstar

    Who won 3rd place?

    • umbrizzle

      3rd no one remembers.

  • Nex

    my mmr/personal/team rating was also restored and i havent got a friends whose name is Tom “Kalgan” Chilton ;)

    so dont overdo it…. only sad cause you didnt make it to blizzcon?

    hydra = gossip girl?? jk ;)

    • ihealyoupeel

      Again, Hydra wasn’t the one who wrote this.

  • Shin

    AOE vos gueules bande de merde.
    L2P j’ai win la blizzcon donc sucez ma bite.

  • Caesium

    I can see the point of view of everyone that is complaining about this issue, but, win trading onthe TR happens so much, im not justifying there actions, even if there are any actions to be justified but in all fairness to Snutz and co, they did go to BlizzCon and face and defeat many of the top players of the world, imo that is a lot harder than qualifying.

  • pulstar

    Who cares?
    I mean, you all say “no matter they wintraded, at blizzcon they got rank 2, so they’re very good anyway. That’s harder than qualifying”.
    While this may be true, what happens to the team which should’ve gone to blizzcon in the first place? How do you know they would not have performed as good as that kid snutz did?
    You have absolutely no point there. If they pretend to be the best, they have to actually pass through every step of getting to prove that.

    • Caesium

      Ok, lets say they wintraded, go back a few weeks and ignore all the HR stuff happening, Pooks Toez and Snutz are playing MLS from begining of TR, you really think they wouldnt have qualified? Snutz has got so much experience at tournaments aswell as Toez, they are good players and coming out in second shows that.

  • stepped

    after the reading the comments i feel that most ppl take this as, “they suck so, they had to wintrade to get to blizzcon”. I dont think that was the point in this post, but that they cheated to get there by wintrading. Sure they proved that they are skilled to become one of the best, but that dosent mean you have the right to wintrade. Hate to read things like this, that ppl start to wintrade to get to the topp, couse “we will get there enyway”. If this i true, they got banned, i know it suck balls, but eat it!!! and dont fucking use your status to get back! hate those ppls. But there is nothing that have proved this yet. So far. (mabye the speakers should start cheering at others then just the americans next time? seriously… enyoing as shit.)

  • Shin

    fermez vos gueules bande de sous merde. C’est un jeu, on vous a enculé point barre.

    L2P

  • Hawkon

    If this is true, then ye its a dickmove against Hoodrych, but I don’t see the big deal about the ‘friend’ at Blizzard, I recently got hacked and banned, wrote a ticket and less than 2 minutes later a GM responded on battle.net and unban me…

  • Shin

    SORTEZ DE CHEZ VOUS C UN JEU BANDE DE BOLOSS !
    ALLEZ BAISER TROU DBALLE !

  • holyshilidin

    I understand that all in all they did get special treatment like how i was kinda upset even tho i watch swifty that he was just excused when he purposely crashed servers. But guys, shouldnt ppl be more dissapointed at hR? i mean yeah dickish move from his partners to ditch him but he got their toons deleted… they STILL came back and won the teams that qualified and won them all. So does that not tell u they would have won them and qualified anyways?? Even if win trading happened to catch back yp to where they were before HR deleted team they still proved them selfs by WINNING the other finals to get to blizzcon. So im not sure whats with the cheating this and cheating that. Did they in the finals before blizzcon or blizzcon use cheats?? hacks? they played by the book and loss. HR is butt hurt they ditched him so idk why smear the name when they were goignt o blizzcon anyways. They proved they beat the rest at tournament realm by playing them i nfinals and owning them.

    • Lolwut

      They got their previous rating restored and wintraded to get qualified because they only had 30 minutes left.

      Of course, they are all great players but who says the orginal people who should have got qualified wouldn’t become first of the tournament?

  • Shin

    Wow c’est rempli de juif et d’arabe. Faut les biffler.

    Shin Wagba.

  • dude

    you da bullshit

  • Omgno

    rofl hydramist stay small, get wrecked by not going 2 blizzcon at all, and get wrecked by xandyn’s RMP last tourney.
    ur time is over.

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