The Esports Integrity Fee (ESIC) has imposed an interim suspension on Crew SENZA (also called “Rosy”, following its acquisition by Senza) and its present rostered gamers, coaches, and group workers.
The suspension comes amid an ESIC investigation into alleged breaches of its Anti-Corruption Code and Code of Conduct. In a press release, ESIC mentioned it was investigating Crew SENZA over the next:
Alleged use of prohibited outdoors data throughout competitors;
Potential betting-related misconduct related to matches involving the group; and
Alleged account-sharing and id irregularities.
Crew SENZA have been suspended pending investigation. Picture Credit score: Brett Jordan/Unsplash
ESIC mentioned that in the course of the investigation, “all present rostered gamers, coaches, and workers are ineligible to take part in ESIC Member Occasions.“
It seems this relates primarily to the members of Rosy, who’ve been changed since Senza acquired the group.
Crew SENZA Suspends Gamers After Inner Investigation
Crew SENZA launched its personal investigation final month and suspended participant Kirsan “byek” Ivanov, over allegations of account sharing and dishonest.
The group mentioned, as byek had refused to touch upon the state of affairs, that that they had fined him round $30,000 and he was faraway from the roster.
Following the investigation, the group introduced a completely new lineup firstly of this month. It seems from the ESIC assertion that this lineup may also be suspended, however the allegations centre across the earlier roster.
Customers on X highlighted suspicious gameplay by the group when often called Rosy.
Another clips in match vs ROSY, this time on Historic, I’ll put greatest 3 clipsThis is a tutorial on the right pathing for enter the B website 😂 pic.twitter.com/XP2YatVgc5
— Fisic0 (@cl_fisico) July 13, 2025
Fellow Russian Reinstated After Cooperating With ESIC
On the identical time, fellow Russian esports competitor Erkhan “gokushima” Bagynanov had his punishment lowered for cooperating with ESIC.
ESIC had banned gokushima for 2 years for breaching its code of conduct. Nonetheless, final week, the group introduced that the participant could be allowed to compete once more after offering “materials help to ESIC, together with data and corroboration that supported subsequent enforcement actions in opposition to different individuals.”
An ESIC assertion famous the knowledge offered by gokushima led to five-year bans for Aleksandr “Ruler” Maximov, Dmitriy “propleh” Senigov, and Petr “timeagento” Markheev. As well as, the group issued a lifetime ban to Egor “zLy” Polyakov.
The assertion saying the suspension for Crew SENZA was launched on the identical day. Though there was no particular indication that the instances are related, the assertion associated to gokushima did observe that he offered, “Different data presently being utilized by ESIC in one other ongoing investigation into match-fixing actions.”
