OK, I was reluctant to post it before it actually spread to major DotA and HoN related news sites but now I guess it would make for an interesting read.

HunteR_, one of the major HoN/DotA competitive "animators" got exposed as a pedophile and overall shady character. It began with some DotA money defraudation etc. and made his former business partner team up with hackers (initial evidence was found after HunteR himself gave Solace access to his servers!) to monitor his dealings...

The whole story can be found here:

http://mops.freetzi.com/dxd/

It's creepy, shocking, sad and amusing all at the same time (since luckily no one was truly hurt here)...

And you know - several months ago when looking at pictures of HunteR_ Greasy and I were laughing about how he had a "rapeface" in each and every photo - we had NO IDEA.
Similar observation by someone on IRC:

(4:28:01 PM) zzqq: even just seeing his pic
(4:28:04 PM) zzqq: you can tell there is something wrong
(4:28:07 PM) zzqq: he looks like a serial killer
(4:28:10 PM) zzqq: turns out he was just a pedophile
(4:28:20 PM) zzqq: i consider everyone lucky really

ROFL

Just look at him yourself and judge:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 2327783115
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 2327783115
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 2327783115
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 2327783115

This stare, it eats your soul. 0_o
He screwed himself over big-time - he's also married... All major organizations he had ties to are now turning their back on him, which also hurts the community A LOT. Honcast.com - the biggest tournament VoD and stream site was owned by HunterR's company, he teamed up with S2 Games, the best HoN team in the world WHP/x6/LOAD was sponsored by him and so on... Sigh...

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Ha, ha - more HoN Drama. This time one of S2's partners turned out to be a long-time scammer and overall liar/douchebag:

http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/nevadigital/

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Man, S2 need to just set up their own media coverage shit and kick out all these scammers and douchebags...

And not be so desperate for partnerships. I get it, they want HoN to become a big e-sport, but for crying out loud - pick some better known companies or ones that are more transparent.
There are sharks just preying on this kind of upstart naive studios, games and communities.

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell