Counter-Strike participant Blagoi ‘oxygeN’ Dimitrov has been accused of allegedly utilizing “unlawful methods to achieve benefit,” following 500’s event victory towards Partizan at CCT Season 2 Europe Collection #17.
On February 15, 500 received the event by defeating Partizan Esports within the Grand-Remaining 2-1, nonetheless, the legitimacy of that end result was known as into query by B8 participant Artem ‘kensizor’ Kapran who shared clips from 500’s semi-final towards B8, and the Grand Remaining towards Partizan Esports.
Kensizor questioned how oxygeN “all the time guesses the place the enemy is standing,” linking a sequence of clips that seem to point out the Bulgarian hard-clearing angles that the B8 and Partizan gamers are occupying.
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Jovan Mijailović, president of Partizan Esports, addressed the clips straight, stating “We misplaced CCT Tour Finals because of [the] opponent workforce clearly utilizing unlawful methods to achieve benefit within the sport. Such a disgrace that they’re allowed to even take part in Counter-Strike ranked tournaments. We consider that TO ought to look into it. Anyhow, I’m so happy with my workforce!”
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Nonetheless, there was some pushback to the accusations with Counter-Strike caster, Josh ‘Emenjay’ Martin, replying to Mijailović, arguing that the clips could also be a results of in-game protocols or data 500 had within the rounds, concluding “Anybody can take out-of-context clips from a stream with x-ray and say they’re fishy.”
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Because the clips circulated on social media, a number of notable gamers and personalities within the Counter-Strike neighborhood shared their opinions of the alleged foul play.
Former Main semi-finalist, Joakim ‘jkaem’ Myrbostad, now representing BC.Recreation Esports, shared his suspicions of 500 stating “Ngl, I mentioned one thing was off after enjoying vs him 3 occasions final 10 days. However I didn’t wish to be a complainer however these clips makes me actually marvel if there’s something. Wish to hear from himself, as a result of I’ve seen some foolish feedback from them as a substitute of explaining.”
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4-time Main successful IGL, Lukas ‘gla1ve’ Rossander said “Bro please inform me that is by some means taken out of context as a result of wtf is that this.”
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Whereas many focussed on the accusations, the clips brought on others to give attention to the broader well being of Counter-Strike’s aggressive scene. With Valve mandating event guidelines that imply solely sure occasions are categorized as ‘ranked’, there may be elevated significance on these occasions to take care of excessive requirements of aggressive integrity.
Former Liquid coach, Luis ‘peacemaker’ Tadeu, identified that Valve’s new rating system means shedding to cheaters is much more damaging as “you won’t solely lose to a man probably dishonest however you additionally lose factors and invitations by being pressured to play these On-line Cups.”
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Counter-Strike caster, Neo ‘Ne0kai’ Caine, and Spanish skilled participant Alejandro ‘mopoz’ Fernández shared related views that, whereas the clips don’t affirm dishonest, the incident ought to act as a wake-up name to TOs (event organizers) to implement guidelines that require cameras to be pointed on the gamers’ PCs to make sure outcomes are legit.
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