WRX2

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:04 pm

oh yeah i remember that novice thing, hmm more evidence, not like i feel like getting no reponse to sending wrx2 an email saying who owns which recording, just so that a few people can move up on the leaderboard. If they are a team they did certainly coordinate to all use one version of mame, something hard to do with a team, although it did take wrx2 a few weeks before it/they all started recording with one mame version.

QRS · Post by **QRS** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:42 pm

WRX2 == a team. I am 100% sure about that. It is not two or three members... it is a whole gang. Maybe Hisa knows the details? I´m sure they are at least 10. Too many recordings on too little time.

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 11:02 pm

Chad wrote:oh yeah i remember that novice thing, hmm more evidence, not like i feel like getting no reponse to sending wrx2 an email saying who owns which recording, just so that a few people can move up on the leaderboard. If they are a team they did certainly coordinate to all use one version of mame, something hard to do with a team, although it did take wrx2 a few weeks before it/they all started recording with one mame version.

Then we have the fact that, according to the server's logs, the flurry of 59 uploads came from two different IP addresses.

I also note that the 8 recordings that were for games not recordable by .70 were done with different regular MAME versions, carefully avoiding wolfmame, which would have given away information about the computer they were recorded with.

We also have "Cicola Guidi", a mysterious new member with an Italian name, but whose posts have been traced by Barry and Butter as coming from Korea. He hints that WRX2 is two people and has all WRX2's and BBH's inps for the same time period already organized and tallied.

Then the inscrutable Hisa, MARP's answer to Batman's Riddler, tells us rather conspicuously that "Still Grand total of .jp is bigger than grand total of WRX2." A quick search of MARP player names turns up only 4 members with ".jp" in their names. Was Hisa dropping us a clue as to the number of members in WRX2?

If indeed all WRX2's recordings were made by only two individuals their performance is still incredible, but still not allowed by MARP.

The more unsavory possibility is that the two individuals are coordinating the efforts of more players, and that the recordings may have been made by any number of people.

The theory that this is all the work of one person playing legitimately just doesn't seem to fit the observed data well at all.

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 11:17 pm

Um, yeah, so anyway, are any of the editors actually going to DO something about this...? Or do we have to wait until the clown car of Korean aces finally runs over BBH?

We've known they were a team for several months...

tar · Post by **tar** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 4:55 am

Buttermaker

Plscores had to quit

Does marp still retain those inp. scores?

JTC:wrote of wrx2

their performance is still incredible

BBH has about a 4 or 5 year head start on the race.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:13 am

tar wrote:Buttermaker
Plscores had to quit
Does marp still retain those inp. scores?

Yes. 10 recordings. But without importance in leaderboard. Players that make this scores don't play now in HotTeam and any other team. I don't know where theye are.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:17 am

Ouch there are 1 inp Grunt and 1 BlackTiger. They play solo in HotTeam now. They don't have time now to uploads for solo account.

tar · Post by **tar** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:18 am

Timmykins--------------Oceanview

Where are they?

GHEMANT · Post by **GHEMANT** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:54 am

Weehawk wrote:
Chad wrote:We also have "Cicola Guidi", a mysterious new member with an Italian name, but whose posts have been traced by Barry and Butter as coming from Korea. He hints that WRX2 is two people and has all WRX2's

How is "Cicola" Guidi?

Cicola not is a italian name.....

NICOLA DE GUIDI is a italian member (ESP RA.DE. record) he does not speak English.

Cicola is not italian record member....

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:50 pm

GHEMANT wrote:Cicola not is a italian name.....

I don't think it's a real name at all.

I'm sure it was meant to sound Italian though.

Why, you think it's Korean?

GHEMANT · Post by **GHEMANT** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:37 am

weehawk wrote: Why, you think it's Korean?

yes, is probably Korean.... of sure, not is italian member...

and WRX2 is probably a team (but for me is not a problem, for me is important see a new very good INP)

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:32 am

Weehawk wrote:...whose posts have been traced by Barry and Butter as coming from Korea

GHEMANT wrote:yes, is probably Korean

Weehawk wrote:I don't think it's a real name at all. I'm sure it was meant to sound Italian though.

GHEMANT wrote:of sure, not is italian member...

LN2 · Post by **LN2** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:12 am

oh, I don't think members have issues with the inps being here. The issue is the "team" existing as 1 account which in the overall leaderboard competition of MARP isn't exactly fair to individuals.

MARP accounts are supposed to be individual accounts.

If each member of the WRX2 team registered with MARP and uploaded under their own account where perhaps the account name has (WRX2) as part of the name that's cool.

A few other teams have done this...so WRX2 can also.

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:39 am

But lets face it, it's not going to happen is it. Short of deleting the account and all the inps with it (which I don't think will happen), we are going to have to get used to WRX2 and his many friends.

Time to move on I think..

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:55 am

Move on to another subject I meant, not from marp. I'm not that bothered!