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Summary of ‘Developer’s hour’ radio show on Wargaming FM. Special episode for ‘WoT Football Championship’.
Special guest of the show Pavel Vorobey, project manager of Wargaming.net Offline Competitive Gaming division.
– Yes, there is an issue with players using forbidden mods in football mode. Modificated aim is being used (this mod auto aims at football), these players receive a substantial advantage. We learned to identify these people and you might’ve seen the first stage of disqualifications. At present we are actively monitoring and fight illegal mods usage.
– 22 thousand teams registered for the Championship, so it became one of the biggest tournaments we held. There was only one similar in scale – WoT Race Championship.
– This Monday afternoon the list of second round games will be ready (June 28-29th).
– Artashes Antonyan (Арташес Антонян, Belorussian play-by-play announcer) will host the Cup Final live July 9th at 18:00 MSK (3 pm GMT). The show will be big and interesting.
– There were no fixed matches noticed. Such arrangements are rather hard to make.
– No points are given for defeat in overtime.
– Before group stage games we held an inspection and removed tanks. (of Cheaters). Every Championship stage we will carry out additional inspections and ban guilty players!
– This year the football physics behavior is more realistic.
– We did consider a scenario with a reserve player in the tournament. But most of the time this player would not play in this tournament, and we decided to limit a team to three players. It’s better and easier to create your own team.
