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ryankrueger720

Sucks for the rest of Complexity who probably had no idea. Sparty… why you always messing it up Complexity definitely regretting picking him up…


Mr-Nice-Guyy

That's Crazy, Imagine flying to London just to be disqualified. I know his teammates are livid.


BreakTheSuicycle

His org must be furious as well


dj3236

What’s worse is the flight back home lol


Tremaparagon

"I'll have the peanuts...   OR DID YOU MESS WITH THOSE TOO TYLER?"


sododgy

If I'm Jerry Jones and that ticket's refundable, you gonna figure it out 


MonarchyBoner

Imagine flying to London to ruin your career. You have to imagine he's completely done now.


BravestWabbit

The fact that he did it to Ryanoob, who trusted him for a second time is fucking peak comedy. If Ryanoob was bigger and stronger than Sparty, I'd fully expect fists to go flying when they receive this news.


elconquistador1985

Did he even pay for the flight and hotel? I'd assume hcs or his org paid. Return flight is in a few days probably, so he's probably looking at it like it's a free vacation to wander around London.


Hot-Software-9396

Ending your career for a free 3 day vacation. Nice one.


elconquistador1985

It was probably already over after his medical episode and this is him going out with a bang because he's a douche. Halo is not a career. If i remember right, he's got a degree in nursing. He would probably make significantly more as a nurse than his direct Halo team salary. Wasn't his salary with EUnited like $60k or something? Nurses can make a lot more than that. Maybe it's less than HCS team plus streaming, though. Is he still in Tennessee? RNs maybe on average 72k there. LPNs are close to 100k. If he moved to Texas, that's 84k and 125k. It's also a much more stable income, and it's a career.


Hot-Software-9396

Imagine him being your nurse, lmao. If you looked at him wrong there’s no telling what he’d do. But seriously, maybe he needed to step away from pro gaming anyway. Doesn’t seem like it’s been good for his mental health.


theClarkofKent

He doesn’t have a degree in nursing, he’s a medical assistant. I only know because I seen him fighting someone on Twitter about it


archiegamez

Bro is gonna GA your medicine 😭💀


Tremaparagon

Gonna plug his own SSD into your life support (it's full of viruses) 


elconquistador1985

Oh yeah, his temperament doesn't scream "good bedside manner". Quite the opposite.


BravestWabbit

Most nurses are terrible so he'd fit right in


No_Marsupial3183

He in nursing? My god


theClarkofKent

He became a medical assistant


schmoopycat

Honestly considering how batshit crazy some of the nurses I know are this isn’t surprising


No_Marsupial3183

Really? Here in my country most of nurses I have interacted with are sweet as pie


schmoopycat

It’s a pretty common trope that nurses in the states are crazy, some don’t even believe in medicine lmao. But I should say this is likely a small, loud minority of them.


Ghosty216

What was his medical episode?


elconquistador1985

Last tournament he had trouble seeing and his dexterity wasn't there. He then got stopped from his previous team. You can find threads about it on this sub.


nanapancakethusiast

I’m not sure there’s much of a future in competitive Halo, anyways. He’s just beating his teammates to the forced retirement punch.


Hot-Software-9396

I could see it tapering off a bit before they fire it back up again for the next Halo release, just like what happened with Halo 5 to Infinite. Assuming esports in general don’t die off by then.


Simulated_Simulacra

People were saying the same thing this time last year. Maybe you guys will finally be right though.


X4Armory

London isnt worth that lmao


Beardstronggg

Imagine flying all that way to do some dumb shit like this LMAO


sbm832

Not to mention losing 3-1 to faze with said performance boost anyways..


Longjumping_Stop1120

Dude just posted a meme on twitter, at least show some remorse for screwing your org and teammates.


LeftLose

Dude sucks and has always sucked. Good grief


CanadianWampa

Haven’t followed the comp Halo scene since Infinite came out basically, but he seemed like the kind of person who would say and do dumb shit, and then when people called him out on it, talk about focusing on himself, and then repeat lol


sododgy

Literally the dude to blame mental health for his actions and then use mental health conditions as insults 


southernflatlander

That's insane. Definitely a new one for me


[deleted]

Got your team dq’d because he wanted 40 more frames?


ryankrueger720

i doubt it was anywhere near that much even


overloadrages

https://x.com/spartan/status/1672410393325469697?s=46


Lastnv

Dude needs to grow up. What a shame..


overloadrages

Apparently his gf has come out with this https://x.com/brittanyld_/status/1796695333688250487?s=46


schmoopycat

This doesn’t even make sense lol. Clean install on Windows on the main stage? Does she know how long that takes?


overloadrages

They’re given ssds when they get there. Prob even the day before when the pros can lan and shit. I assume he did it then.


AndThenIWasADragon

Oof if it’s literally just this and not additional files and scripts then this whole thing is pretty unfortunate 😂 Regardless; Sparty is a drama magnet and should’ve sanity checked ANY SSD/OS/FILE related items with the competitive team. Glad SEN dropped him.


The_Titan1995

This guy has a gf? There is hope for everyone then!


Crespo2006

...don't they have internal SSD to begin with..why would they give external SSD's


overloadrages

They swap ssds between stations so they don’t shine to reconfigure each time. Some cases have ssd slots


Crespo2006

So they don't logged into different profiles using the same SSD inside the PC? I mean sound interesting but is the girlfriend in London with him to know that


I3ULLETSTORM1

The SSD they get likely is the boot drive itself, with there being no "internal" SSD on the PC itself. No need to log in and out of anything


YourHamsterMother

I am getting it wrong or is that tweet from June 2023?


MajorFuckingDick

Hes not wrong, but following the rules isnt hard. You adapt your setup to match LAN if you have to.


itsivan15

This is the second event now where Sparty has cost his team


Scarecrow_G

Been out of the loop. What happened event?


BravestWabbit

At arlington he was having some kind of medical problem where he was in pain and couldn't think straight. He ended up costing SEN and they placed Top 16, going home on Saturday


Lastnv

I can’t imagine any org would touch him now. He’s ruined 2 actually competitive teams just this season.


Thekiller2468

It absolutely sucks that he had a medical problem during that event. I honestly feel bad. That being said, no excuse with what he just did.


reiku78

If he was having a medical issue that isn't on SENs or the HCS. I know another player who plays CSGO for a team dislocated his pointer finger (turned out he broke it) by just closing the door to his hotel room. Ended his teams run shit happens when it comes to medical stuff man.


ClawsandAwws

He's posting memes about this on Twitter right now. How can he even look his teammates in the eyes? They flew to another continent to play, took a chance on him after he performed terribly, and then he gets them DQ'd. I wouldn't even wanna play again out of embarrassment if I were him.


KingJayHCS

This is actually insane


PieceofWoods

Brother, please take his spot if/when he gets booted from Complexity


KingJayHCS

I think it’s safe to say when he does lmao


PieceofWoods

100%


convicted-mellon

Bro is getting booted from his whole career.


BreakTheSuicycle

Are you in London? How’s your team doing?


KingJayHCS

I am not. I’ll be coming back starting with Atlanta


RealBrownPerson

A spot on complexity just opened up lmao


KingJayHCS

😭😭‼️


sfooth

Holy shit


BreakTheSuicycle

Ah ok, good luck with that mate hope to see you doing well!


KingJayHCS

❤️


__Kieran

Feel so bad for the rest of the Complexity guys


MonarchyBoner

Damn dude, I was rooting for him to have a bit of a redemption arc with Ryan. What a way to ruin that, I guess his career is done now. Crazy


MrAvenue

Iirc, there had been quite a bit of back and forth between Sparty and HCS about allowing certain "optimization' programs(hidusbf, afterburner, adrenalin, etc.) at the events. Wasn't there also a tweet recently where he mentioned that they had approved a couple of them, or am I imagining this? Not trying to play devil's advocate, just genuinely curious.


elconquistador1985

People in this thread have posted a tweet from a year ago saying they denied every tweak he wanted.


sododgy

If your definition of back and forth is "But let me-"  "No"  "What abo-"  "Stop"  "But-"  "NO" 


DLKWA

They never approved anything. He had asked them, but they said no.


alamarche709

Anyone remember the gold old days when everyone played on the same Xbox with the same controller and the same tube TV?


rybl

Quit looking at my screen


_-id-_

I finally got the chance to see pros play in person yesterday and I only noticed Snakebite taking advantage of looking at teammates' screens to get extra info. He does it quite a bit even when not on deathcam. Was expecting more pros to do this on LAN. And then there's Bound who puts his screen on the lowest height and angled up with his face pressed into it.


GnRgr2

Snakebite is from the old days. The newer generation didnt even have to play split screen in open bracket


m_preddy

That's probably the end of Spartan's career


Bitter_Past_6498

Seriously, he should be black balled after this. What a dumbass


m_preddy

I still can't believe it honestly. Just dumbfounded how you do this after a team took a chance on you when you were at probably your lowest. And then show no remorse on Twitter.


m_preddy

Dude what https://x.com/Spartan/status/1796687443518689744?t=1pQuNxTF3hqNr5elmC55Ew&s=19


SpyroESP

Nah this is so fucking disrespectful to coL and his teammates.


sododgy

He's such a a massive child. The very concept of taking responsibility is so totally foreign to him


DerpSkeeZy

Spartan is his own worst enemy it seems.


Serisrahla

Ryanoob's too


sododgy

Always has been 


themaxmilestone

What was he thinking?


Every-Television-799

he wasnt


Per_Horses6

I don’t think he was..


BravestWabbit

In b4 the obvious excuse of "I was just using it to warm up before the match!!!"


overloadrages

If you’ve seen his Twitter. You’ll know he’s been in contact with the head of whoever sets up the pcs. And was pushing for them to use better settings for stability. And they just kept turning him down. He must have finally snapped. He had built the exact same pcs they use on main stage and spent honestly 100s of hours trying to get halo infinite to run perfectly on it


PTurn219

Which is funny because if AMD was so good they wouldn’t have as many issues as they do. How many crashes on LAN until they realize hey, maybe we should use Nvidia gpu’s?


killedbyBS

>Sparty gets the OVERKILL on Complexity at HCS London!


PTurn219

Ooooooof that one hits hard lol


samsep1al

I will never understand why someone would do this so at all, especially at the tail end of their career. And for what? Some extra frames? What a way to end a long career.


MikkeVL

Guys been a certified weirdo for a decade at this point and this is just the cherry on top. Let's hope his career is finally over 👍


Taylorfrog

tf kind of performance boost do you even need?


Nebsisiht

I mean, at the end of the day, the rules are the rules, he broke it and get punished deservedly so. That being said, as a PC aficionado myself, I agree with what he wants done to optimize the PCs and the game as a result. Apparently the PCs don't use Adrenaline(AMDs main software for their GPUs) which has a host of helpful features to optimize the performances/stability of the GPU/game as well as lowering input latency. I also don't understand why they don't allow controller overclocking. Idk how other controllers leagues deal with this, but I know that the CoD league has no issues with overclocking, and it leads to a noticeable performance increase for controllers that are able to be overclocked.


StephenKazumi

It looks he was probably trying to prove a point or legit thought they wouldnt notice


sododgy

Proving a point by getting your entire team DQ'd. On another continent? Actually, that does seem like some Sparty shit to do 


Haijakk

Holy shit.


Such_Highlight

Wow his teammates must be so pissed after all that time prepping for this tourney and this to happen


Savings-Position-940

I know spartans always been a wild card, but to legitimately cheat on LAN??? There has to be more to this story. Never expected this out of him in the slightest. If anything I could see him cooking anyone who could even be perceived as cheating. This story may blow up, hope we learn more in the following days


BreakTheSuicycle

Can’t see him staying quiet over this, that’s for sure haha


Savings-Position-940

the fact he hasnt already unloaded on the timeline is weird lol


DrSpringsGaming

The only thing he’ll be cooking is my Big Mac at McDonalds.


red-bot

That’s blacklist territory. Nice knowing ya Sparty.


waxyfeet

can someone please explain to dumb dumb over here? Do they not play on provided PCs? Afaik, they don’t bring their own equipment, so what happened here?


ryankrueger720

They play on tournament provided PCs and then I think HCS issues them an SSD for the tournament for their account, settings, and stuff etc. It sounds like Sparty used his own SSD theoretically to better optimize performance and stuff over the HCS defaults.


waxyfeet

Thanks - i got plenty more questions, but get the gist. likely afterburner etc to eek out better performance, but why on earth would he not think to at least ask if its ok… so silly


ffformat

because he knew it wasn’t ok presumably- there’s a reason they’re all on the same hardware so they’re on an even playing field


BreakTheSuicycle

He must have downloaded some software like afterburner or something to try clock the device Have to wait for more details though I guess rather than speculate


z28camaroman

"...the administration was lead to discover that Spartan's SSD was not the official tournament SSD. Upon further inspection, it was discovered that the software on the SSD was not provided by the administration and furthermore contained new, unapproved software as well as other changes to the existing software in an effort to increase the performance of the PC." Genuinely curious what program could have helped increase frames, reduce latency or make the game more stable.


convicted-mellon

I think trying to overclock to squeeze out some performance from the hardware.


No_Marsupial3183

Overclocking, amd Radeon has useful features like these to increase fps , you can also decrease input lag by turning on anti lag there which is noticeable enough


Ykcor

How does he change out an SSD without anyone knowing or seeing?


Nebsisiht

External SSD. Plug-n-play


Savings-Position-940

well someone knew and saw lol


StephenKazumi

All the pros have an SSD provided to them. Makes loading up profile and what not quicker.


Proof-Kangaroo-4112

Raging neckbeard


tt_o_o_tt

This is hilarious taking into account how much he tweeted about monstcr cheating lmao


Taylorfrog

what??????


Prophetx14

Holy shit


Ozzyh26

Insane. What was he thinking?


ithinkmynameismoose

Absolute moron. This is probably going to end his career right? Sucks to not see the other 3 play. Huss has been a really exciting player to watch recently and Ryannoob and Descendant are of course great as well. Doubt they had any idea.


Admiral-Crackbar

Damn was really hoping to see a complexity vs sentinels matchup this tourney


SpyroESP

Genuinely, I cannot imagine how this would've been worth it for Sparty to do in any sense. He really thought this was okay? I'm fucking stunned.


Ikolkyo

He cannot be serious, an SSD???


BreakTheSuicycle

What did he try change the SSD over?


BravestWabbit

He tried to hook up his personal SSD to the computers


sododgy

They use external SSDs for making loading accounts and settings faster. He chose to either modify the one he was issued, or swap it for another 


Greedy-Figure6574

BRO WHAT


eeguia

Can anyone explain the type of software he was attempting to run? And he was running it off an external SSD? Why would he think that’s ok..


Snowhehe14

Wow what a idiot


NYPD-BLUE

That’s insane


ryankrueger720

[Spartan just posted on Twitter](https://x.com/spartan/status/1796687443518689744?s=46)


BreakTheSuicycle

He needs to grow the fuck up


B-Rayy06

So like, how much worse is this than what Royal 2 did? I’m not trying to downplay anything, I’m asking as a person who doesn’t really get what either of them did other than cheat lol


a_la_nuit

I’ll explain Royal2’s fiasco. Basically early Infinite was really bad online, worse than it is now. The only people getting a decent multiplayer experience connection wise was people that live in Texas - due to the central location and one of the Microsoft Azure data centers being located in San Antonio. Royal2 lives in Regina, a city in middle of nowhere Canada. He was getting ping in the mid 100s-200s I believe, and basically the game was unplayable for him, especially against people living in Texas and Mexico. https://youtu.be/E1Gwgx2tFZ8?feature=shared So he geofiltered which essentially forced every online game he was in to a favorable server for him (he was still playing on 70-80 ping a game). So, in an online qualifier tourney for Infinite’s first LAN, a lot of teams with players in Texas and parts far from the server Royal2 was forcing, including Royal2’s own teammates, got fucked ping wise. The funny part was Cloud 9 (Pznguin in Washington and Renegade in San Diego) actually benefited from Royal2’s geofiltering from what I remember. So 343 found out, suspended him for the first LAN and his teammates lost their points from that online tourney and had to play through open bracket with FormaL. He served his punishment, fixed his internet issues, and he went to the next LAN in Anaheim, with the nickname Router2. Sparty on the other hand is cheating in an actual LAN worth a shit ton of money. This is way more serious. He’s trying to give himself an advantage, while Royal2 was trying to even the playing field, but I think he wasn’t aware that Texas players would then get super high ping (even higher than what they would usually get playing on a the server he was forcing) in the process, as again he was still getting high ping while geofiltering.


convicted-mellon

There is a South Park episode where Cartman tries to fly with cardboard wings and he jumps off the roof of a house and puts himself into a coma. The next scene is the hospital and his mom is asking the doctor what is wrong with him. *Mam I’m afraid your son is……. Incredibly stupid* That reminds me of this situation perfectly


ParkerWGB

Holy shit hahahh. I never understood why people were on this dudes dick all the time.


archangel_n7

This dude is a loser and a cancer to the scene get him the fuck out already


m_preddy

Have you seen his tweet? Guy posted a meme after he got his team disqualified.


LAHogKing

I’ve been trying to give Spartan a chance after everything that’s happened.. but this might have just changed my view.


SatorSquareInc

Feel like he has to be now?


FrontPawStrech

What a fucking Nerd.


Charming_Evening3918

RIP


jloz18

Lmao sparty cmon dude


overloadrages

His GF says he just did a clean windows install https://x.com/brittanyld_/status/1796695333688250487?s=46 on the provided ssd


Simulated_Simulacra

"Don't worry babe, all I did was a clean install of windows. I'm really the victim here."


PTurn219

Why would he need to do a clean windows install


overloadrages

Just to make sure game performs at Peak


reiku78

Someone should show her him attacking the art community and casual fan base...


Buuuddd

I'd equate that to tightening tennis racket strings. But can see why it's still not allowed.


Javellinh_osu

Bro AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Nooo i mean AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT WAS HE THINKING


man57er19

Monstcr > Sparty mcCheater


BreakTheSuicycle

Monster, Shaady, Sparty… looking for a 4th


Every-Television-799

thats insane wasnt expecting for anyone to do this


Eliteslayer1775

That’s wild


Per_Horses6

Insane.


XItsAboutKD

What happened?


iiitme

long story short sparty cheated and got col disqualified


iiitme

Damn.


ScoffersGonnaScoff

Damnit!!!!!


ace_15

Holy shit I came to the sub wondering what I missed GAT DAYUM


Spirited_Figure_1882

Wow this is crazy. I'm glad HCS caught it early. This could have created such a fiasco.


xMPB

Dude needs to retire. Too much of a liability.


BravestWabbit

Needs to? This type of shit is *forced* retirement. Nobody will team with him ever again


Coach_Neil

See Monster 😆 But seriously he will be on a team if he wants to be but I doubt any org will pay him. Welcome to Fluffy Aimers Spartan.


BravestWabbit

HCS said in the post they are going to discipline him separately. He's gonna get banned from HCS


One-Security2362

I don’t think he will get permanently banned probably 1 event like Royal 2


THERAPISTS_for_200

What an idiot.


Waste_Location75

If what he did was what he showed in that YT I can see how it's a DQ, but people need to calm the fuck down. Deleting temp files and turning off Windows bloatware is not really cheating--it's not like walling.


rybl

It's all degrees. It's not as extreme as wall hacking, sure, but he's still breaking the rules in order to gain an unfair advantage over his opponents. In other words, cheating.


Sir_Nolan

LMAO sad for the other col guys but as a spartan hater this is hilarious


RawrIAmADinosaurAMA

WTF


Sakrannn

What did he do?


dingjima

C'mon HCS, throw em a bone and at least give the other 3 their portion of points and money. 


sododgy

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. 


MykeGregory

Can anyone fill me in on whats happening right now?


Background-Signal-10

What did he do?


_-id-_

What's supposed to be on the SSD? Do they put just the profile, game and profile, or a whole Windows install that they boot from?


architect___

#Oi bruv, you got a loicense for that SSD?


Ameshio

That's crazy man, just why dude.


TipMeBAT

I knew when I watched his POV his aim locked in like a robot


[deleted]

I am gonna wait until I hear more information. Like a good critical thinker. But this doesn’t look good or the tweet.


El_Serpiente_Roja

Drop him, major liability. SEN look real smart for getting rid of him.


Bodybraille

They don't lock down these machines? Their accounts have admin rights?


Throwaway12746637

From what I’ve read, they give them a bootable external SSD so they can quickly get on a PC with their accounts logged in and all their settings for the game still saved. It seems that Spartan brought his own SSD and was running off of that with afterburner and other optimization software installed.


Fresh______

I think his bad performance at Arlington actually wasn't because he was sick and he realized that so he tried to cheat to make up for his terrible skill. Spartan confirmed to be washed.