Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet (tomshardware.com) 10
Andorra Telecom, the only ISP in the principality of Andorra, suffered repeated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during a multi-day Twitch gaming tournament. From a report: The DDoS attacks occurred during the scheduled SquidCraft Games tournament in Minecraft, one of the most successful Twitch Rivals tournaments ever broadcast. Eight or more Andorran streamers were eliminated from the Twitch tournament after the second day of attacks due to their repeated disconnects. There is some suspicion that perpetrators planned the DDoS attacks on Andorra Telecom to cheat the Andorran's of their chance to win the $100,000 pot. The SquidCraft Games was a highly anticipated Twitch streaming event designed to emulate the hit Netflix series called The Squid Game in Minecraft. As noted, it has been a viral game streaming event with a peak viewership of over a million on day two of the event. As per the TV series, this is an elimination game, and in this Twitch event, there is a healthy prize pot of $100,000 to ensure participants would be highly competitive. The event will end on Tuesday. A significant portion of the 150 SquidCraft games participants lives in Andorra. Spanish language reports of the event confirm that day one went without a hitch for all players, in terms of fairness. The games "green light, red light," and "hide and seek" ran smoothly to their conclusions.
organizers didn't have a lot of choices? (Score:3)
What about stopping the tournament? So that some one can't cheat to win
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Postponing might not be practical. The timetable has been published, the other players arranged their schedules to be available.
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well letting someone cheat and take out significant portion.
and with suspicion that perpetrators planned to cheat then you may really to need to stop and not give someone an big prize.
As with an $100K pot you may have BIG LAW SUITS from the people who loss + maybe criminal charges and IF they can prove that other perpetrators did it and twitch schedules is an bigger deal then letting them run an rigged game?
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I guess it depends if they have any evidence that it is cheating, as opposed to just someone trolling.
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well letting someone cheat and take out significant portion.
Well to be honest they cheating the cheaters, Andorra its a very little country and almost all of those streamers live there just to avoid paying taxes at Spain.
Have you ever been to Andorra? (Score:3)
If you stand in Andorra La Vieja and stretch out your arms, your fingers, you'll have one hand in Spain and the other in France. I suspect a couple of RaspPis and a small ethernet hub are enough to DDOS the entire country.
In related news... (Score:2)
They tried digging their way out, but it only made things worse.
The routers were overwhelmed (Score:2)
Both of them.