Radu ‘Rdu’ Dima wins the Dreamhack Viagame Hearthstone Championship
17 year old Romanian player, Radu 'Rdu' Dima has taken first place at the Dreamhack Viagame Hearthstone Championship after a thrilling yet controversial 3-0 win over Jason 'Amaz' Chan. He went through some of the tournament favourites to get there, including Jan 'Ekop' Palys as well as Andrey 'Reynad' Yanyuk in two more close series, coming from behind both times. The final set however will be clouded in controversy, as certain members of his friends list decided to message Rdu the cards that his opponent Amaz was holding in his hand. However, due to the fact that Rdu held lethal the admins decided that a game replay was unneeded. Many pro players and personalities have voiced their opinions on the matter, including Artosis and Totalbiscuit, and some of these opinions are below:
Proven cheating in Hearthstone tournament, organizer @viagame says there will be no re-game -http://bit.ly/1uyMBvd Viagame blames Dreamhack admins for refusing to regame. The stream had no delay on it. The incompetence is real, what in the christ are you baffoons doing over there?
About what happened...
from Totalbiscuit's twitter (@TotalBiscuit)
RDU was messaged about a 2 cards in Amazs hand during game 2 of the DreamHack finals.
This was greatly discussed amongst all of the top pros, and not one thinks he cheated.
The game was already over. The information had no chance of helping RDU, because he was definitely going to win no matter what at that point.
RDU looked very upset when this happened, and we even saw him call over an admin immediately after the game.
There's some stupid theories going around about hi mom meaning leeroy jenkins or something.
I've done more eSports events than probably anyone in the world, and I can tell you definitively that hi mom is exactly what every single ass who messages someone during a stream says. The fact that more than one person messaged him shows that he didn't cheat even more. You dont set up a cheating circle with multiple people, it's 100x more likely to come out.
Please discontinue this ridiculous hatred of young and talented 17 year old kid who had idiots on his friends list.
Dan 'Artosis' Stemkoski's take on the controversy in the final series
