Cheating Love

Okay okay, I know. I said this blog would be about cheating in sports and video games. But, from now on, I want to make this blog about cheating in any kind of context. Sports, video games, relationships, in school and the most controversial examples of plagiarism. If you guys like this idea or not, let me know in the comments. Anyways, this week I really wanted to talk to you guys about something that's been on my mind. And that is, people who cheat when they're in a relationship. This bothers me for a number of reasons so I'll just get right into it.

Relationships nowadays (especially at my age) are pretty crappy. There's statistics that prove it. 57% of men have admitted to having an emotional or physical affair during any relationship. That means that out of every couple in the us, about 35 million men have cheated on their wives. Just goes to show how faithful men are these days.

https://youtu.be/ekAXPCphKXQ?t=22s

But what about women? How often do they cheat? Well, they aren't so different. 54% of women have admitted to having an emotional or physical affair during any relationship. So in reality, men and women are pretty equal on how often they cheat.

Another question this brings up is, what compels men and women to cheat? I believe that relationships should only happen between people that are tied on a deeper emotional level and that there's trust between the two individuals. Infatuation shouldn't be the cause of a relationship. I guess you could say that I don't believe in love at first sight. Because, the person I could possibly see one day that I find beautiful and attractive could end up being a very repulsive person in terms of their personality or their attitude.

To conclude this very different blog post, relationships are a very important bond between people that shouldn't be taken for granted and abused through cheating and affairs. Those individuals need to learn to love each other and to have trust in each other.

Sources:
http://modernwomandigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cheating-woman.jpg

Exploitation in Video Games: Volume 1

Okay, before we start the blog post let me get this out of the way. I really like the video game Counter Strike: Global Offensive or (if you prefer) CS:GO. It's a highly addicting multiplayer game that has a very competitive gaming scene. I know people that play this game day and night just hoping to improve their skills and to get themselves in a better rank. It demands a lot of patience because you need to play a lot in order to improve your skills. Anyways, CS:GO has a lot of tournaments that happen all over the world, with many teams wanting to compete for (usually) money. This money helps fuel some gamers to practice and practice to become the best players in the entire game. With their skills, they go to tournament after tournament winning money. But, probably one of the most infamous games to ever happen was at the Dreamhack Winter tournament in 2014.

It was the Championship Quarter Finals and the two teams to compete were LDLC and Fnatic which are two very good teams in my opinion (Better than me anyways). The game was going along smoothly with LDLC leading 12-3 (you need to win 16 rounds to win the game) going into the second half. At this point, everyone watching the match (including myself) thought the game was decided and that LDLC was for sure gonna win the match. But, of course that was not the case. The second half started and everything was pretty typical. The counter-terrorists (Fnatic) were defending the bomb sites and the terrorists (LDLC) were pushing up to plant the bomb. But then, something great happens. Fnatic start standing on top of each other and they get to a spot which is able to cover a very large portion of the map.

(If you want to see the boost in action)

This was the deciding factor in the match. This boost alone helped Fnatic win the game. Some people were amazed, and some people were furious. I was somewhere in between and I'll explain why. Before the tournament, Fnatic said they had been planning something a couple months in advance of the tournament. But the rules stated that if any exploits were found on the map, whoever discovered them had to declare them so that they can be fixed before any tournaments. Fnatic disobeyed this and kept their secret until the tournament itself. Because of their poor choice, Fnatic got disqualified after the game was over even though they won. To me this was the right choice on Dreamhack's part because they clearly disobeyed the rules and kept an exploit to themselves when they were supposed to let them know. Because of the results of this match, it will go on as one of the most infamous and amazing games ever to happen in the history of CS:GO.

I think the worst part of this entire match was the fact that Olofmeister from Fnatic

(The guy who got all the boost kills) was using this cheap and overpowered gun.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGgT1lyp3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQ71mfmt80

Doping in the Olympics Volume 1: Ben Johnson

          Doping in the Olympics is not an uncommon thing. Now you might be wondering: What is doping? Well, doping is when athletes who feel the need to cheat take steroids or other performance enhancing drugs in order to win at their sport. It has happened at every single Olympic game except for only 6 times, out of 25 Olympic games. Every time the Olympics come around, some athletes think they can get away with doping. But not in the case of Ben Johnson.

          Ben Johnson was a Jamaican born Canadian former sprinter who won two bronze medals and at the 1984 Olympic games and one gold medal at the 1988 Olympic games. Only three days after his race in the 1988 Olympic games, his blood and urine samples were found to be positive for Anabolic steroids. After the Olympics were over, Ben admitted to using steroids and so the International Association of Athletics Federations took away his world record and the International Olympic Committee took away his gold medal. Luckily, Ben Johnson is the only Canadian athlete to ever get a medal taken away at the Olympics.

Ben Johnson in 1988 at the Seoul Olympic Games.

          Ben Johnson was a very fast man. As a matter of fact, when he won the gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics he was actually the fastest man in the world for his time of 9.79 seconds. But as soon as the International Olympic Committee found out that he took Anabolic steroids, they immediately took his record away and removed it from the Olympic records so he was no longer the fastest man in the world. Taking drugs in order to enhance one's performance for any kind of sport like Olympic sports, National Sports and regional sports is considered unethical by most sports organizations including the International Olympic Committee, and in almost every case of it, the athlete gets disqualified and anything won gets stripped.

          Personally, I believe that it's perfectly fine that they took away his record and medal because it is very unfair to other athletes who are trying to compete. I like to think about what Mr. Noecker told us on the first day of class: "Taking steroids is the easy way out instead of putting the hard work needed to succeed".

Sources: 
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/drug-scandal-hits-us-athletes/
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/ben-johnson-1.html
https://books.google.ca/books?id=c4oQAR2G4OgC&pg=PA99&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/may/25/ben-johnson-seoul-olympics-1988
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02656/ben-johnson_2656894k.jpg
Mr. Noecker