At first I'd like to quote one post from .EU forum:
In relation to last interview with Viktor Kislyi (CEO of Wargaming.net, developers of World of Tanks) that took place on “Tank Fest” in the UK, 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1 Sarmacki Batalion Pancerny and Pirates would like to make an official statement being an answer for accusations stated by Victor Kislyi.
We want to express our huge disappointment with the judgement stated by Victor Kislyi that Polish or Polish players containing Clans are commonly using “weak point skins” to take advantage over enemy.
This statement is absolutely not true and very painful specially said by as representative person as CEO of Wargaming.net. We are outraged of being practically called cheaters. Since the beginning of World of Tanks Polish players took places on the podium in every competition and championship You organized only by very hard work, being well organized and determination, also defeating our Russian colleagues in EU-RU server battles. We were all waiting with big excitement for “Ural Steel” tournament that supposed to give us the chance to fight against the best in the world for ultimate prize.
Russian teams were favourites in „Ural Steel” tournament – much bigger community and day to day Clan Wars battles, taking place months before EU server, was much better preparation for this tournament than grinding after release through low level tanks in standard random battles or companies and filling up empty spaces after players that left our clan with the end of beta test.
Victor Kislyi’s interview suggesting that Polish teams didn’t win “Ural Steel” finals because there was no “weak point skins” in Moscow and that all teams had equal chances wasn’t exactly the truth as:
- to Moscow went only those who were able get Visa, not the optimal squad
- difficulties with changing Russian version of the game (using Cyrillic alphabet) for European, made really difficult for other teams to understand who is playing which tank
- Russian commentator “selling” positions of unspotted tanks (of course not clear for non-russian speaking players)
- big screens that allowed to see enemy’s team tactics and positions
- general tendency to neglect European teams and other organisational problems despite hard work of Schperling and juraj (whom we thank once more)
We do understand that most of the problems (besides invitations to Russia) wasn’t Wargaming’s fault and we do not have any complains however neglecting them in order to suggest that European teams can't win without unfair advantage is unacceptable.
Link in this post leads to video(go forward to 3:20):
Such a 'funny story'.
But well, it is not everything...
Redbull12 post:
Russian commentator: "1stPAD lost its 2 tanks in city. No more 1stPAD`s tanks in the city" RED had to be grateful for this and a lot more similar infos which could be heard by whole audience and players.
About second matter: playng against RED I was sitting in a place which allowed me to raise my head and see screen with position of all enemy tanks. Of course I didnt look on this screen - that would be unfair and if sb caught me, my team would be DQ - but YES - I had possibility to look on screen which showed view from RED`s side.
And that is 'funny story'.:D
Personally I think this whole Ural Steel thing was bullshit. EU and NA players had difficulties with coming to Russia as there was Visa needed, so teams couldn't complete best squads which lead to lose against well organised RU teams which didn't have Visa problem... They didn't prepared everything the way it should be, Commentators were telling about not spotted tanks(see quote above) and there were possibilities to spy enemy teams easily which also shouldn't happen. And then we come to prizes, looks like they were so sure about this weakspot skins that they prepared prizes only for RU players such as netbooks with russian(that one funny with signs) keyboards.
Just to finish this post I'll add a quote:
If you can't do something properly, just don't do it at all.
