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The original was posted on /r/dota2 by /u/goodwarrior12345 on 2024-11-14 15:14:51+00:00.

I was watching a stream just now and just witnessed the wildest shit. The game started off normally. Radiant wasn’t having a great time at first but eventually they managed to even the game out. At some point though their Bloodseker started acting weird, like he would not listen to calls, run around and press random buttons in teamfights, all that stuff. Radiant kept winning fightsdespite that, so Seeker just straight up went afk next to a neutral camp that he kept farming every minute to not get the abandon. Radiant begged him to keep playing and asking what his issue was, he ignored everything and kept silently AFKing.

All this resulted in them essentially having to play 4v5, and the game became much harder. Once Radiant went for their second rosh, Seeker ran in, stole the aegis, fed it immediately and went back to AFKing. After that his only contribution was suspiciously dying to Invoker’s sunstrikes every few minutes. Despite his best efforts however, Radiant kept edging closer and closer to victory, they forced Dire to buyback at their base, then killed all of their cores with those buybacks on cooldown. Radiant were all but guaranteed to win. And then… this happened.

After the diebacks, Bloodseeker on Radiant and Clockwork and Phoenix on Dire disconnected at the same time, tricking the server into believing there are connectivity issues with it, “detecting” poor network conditions and not scoring the game. So what happened was, these three players tried to wintrade, and at first they were subtle about it, but the more the game went on the more blatant it became, and when even that didn’t work, they crashed the server right before they would have lost. I was honestly shocked, I’d seen wintrading and server DDOSing before of course, but I’ve never seen it combined and be this obvious.

I unfortunately cannot link the match ID because dotabuff seems to not record matches that don’t get scored due to poor network conditions, but I’ve noted some profiles of the people involved. This is Phoenix, this is Clockwork, but I couldn’t find Bloodseeker because he had a blank name so I cannot search for it. Not gonna link anyone else because I don’t know if they were in on it or not.

Not sure if this method of not getting your games scored is a well-known exploit or not, but it should definitely get fixed, and something needs to be done about wintraders in high MMR.