After a thorough investigation into the use of a CS:GO spectator bug, 37 coaches have been given bans by ESIC ranging from under four months to three years.
The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) released their findings on September 28 which revealed the outcomes of the investigation.
There were 99,650 demos available to be examined however only 20% of these were investigated.
Despite this, ESIC details that these demos “likely comprise the most substantial cases of abuse.”
In the report, ESIC reveals that the bug had been flagged to admins in tournaments as far back as 2017. However, ESIC has chosen not to comment on these prior reports due to the fact that these were non-ESIC member tournaments.
With regards to further investigation, ESIC stated the following: “ESIC anticipates that it will only need to issue one further report at the end of October which will conclude the investigation into Spectator Bug abuse.”
Which coaches were banned and what does this mean?
Here is a full list of all 37 coaches who received bans, courtesy of HLTV:
Slaava “Twista” Räsänen (2 cases) – 15.75 months (12.50% concessions)
Peter “casle” Sørensen (2) – 10 months (0%)
Rodrigo “dinamo” Haro (2) – 10 months (0%)
Arno “ArnoZ1K4” Junior (1) – 10 months (0%)
Allan “Rejin” Petersen (7) – 19.8 months (45%)
Eliomar “glou” Hernandez (2) – 10 months (0%)
Arthur “prd” Resende (5) – 10 months (0%)
Alexey “NooK” Kozlovskiy (1) – 7.5 months (25%)
Henrique “rikz” Waku (1) – 10 months (0%)
Alessandro “Apoka” Marcucci (6) – 5.4 months (85%)
Aleksandr “zoneR” Bogatiryev (16) – 36 months (0%)
Germán “hellpa” Morath (2) – 10 months (0%)
Egor “fuRy^” Morin (1) – 7.5 months (25%)
Aset “Solaar” Sembiyev (2) – 10 months (0%)
Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen (2) – 8 months (20%)
Ricardo “dead” Sinigaglia (5) – 6.5 months (35%)
Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira (2) – 4 months (60%)
Faruk “pita” Pita (2) – 10 months (0%)
Erik “AKIMOV” Akimov (1) – 7.5 months (25%)
Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov (6) – 8.75 months (12.50%)
Bruno “ellllll” Ono (3) – 10 months (0%)
Pedro “peu” Lopes (2) – 5 months (0%)
Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (1) – 5.5 months (45%)
Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski (2) – 6 months (40%)
Anton “ToH1o” Georgiev (2) – 10 months (0%)
Andrey “Andi” Prokhorov (1) – 10 months (0%)
Milan “pepik” Gellebra (1) – 10 months (0%)
Morgan “B1GGY” Madour (3) – 7.5 months (25%)
Christian “chrille” Lindberg (2) – 10 months (0%)
starix (1) – 10 months (0%)
Alexander “ave” Holdt (1) – 6 months (40%)
Jasmeet “RoSeY” Gill (1) – 10 months (0%)
Sergey “lmbt” Bezhanov (3) – 7.5 months (25%)
Henrik “FeTiSh” Christensen (1) – 3.75 months (25%)
Mikołaj “miNirox” Michałków (1) – 3.75 months (25%)
Nikolay “pNshr” Paunin (1) – 3.75 months (25%)
Casper “ruggah” Due (1) – 3.75 months (25%)
So what exactly does this mean for these coaches? ESIC detailed each sanction that will directly affect the coaches.
The coaches must not be physically present or communicate with the team 15 minutes prior to the official match start until the end of the match.
They must not be in the game server during the match or be on the official match channel.
Finally, they must not be a part of the official map veto process before each match.
Many players were disappointed with the severity of some of the bans. Complexity CS:GO player “blameF” was surprised that some were issued just “a few months ban for cheating.”
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