På engelska, då jag inte är medlem på HLTV får någon gärna göra en tråd där och lägga upp brevet, tack.

Open letter to:

The community
Anders Blume
Auguste “Semmler” Masson
Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett
Henry “HenryG” Greer
Jason “Moses” O’Toole
Richard “RLewis” Lewis
Duncan “Thorin” Shields
Robin “Flusha” Rönnquist
Andreas “Schneider” Lindberg
Jesper “JW” Wecksell
Pawel “Byali” Bielinski
Kristian “k0nfig” Wienecke




I cooked dinner at home yesterday and put on the RLewis show with "Dan M". Perfect to have on in the background while you do other things. It ended up that I saw the whole program. 1h and 40m.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDAGYyXi48

Will return to the program later.

When I was young alot of players cheated in the the scene, but the cheats was not as sophisticated as they are now. Back in the days there could be semi-professionals really sit down with a sheet over their head and the screen to hide what they where doing.

Now you can install a cheat by putting your mouse into the USB port, launch a cheat with a cell phone through the IP, having a cheat who only makes a little sound when the crosshair is drawn over an opponent (nothing visually or mechanically). How the hell should someone stop all this in an industry where you have everything to gain and not really very much to lose?

When I talked with other professionals and casters / admins / journalists all agree: no one dares to talk about the elephant in the room.

Things you should take into consideration not mentioned too often:

"CS: GO has a huge crowd and starting to get big prize pools" - Yeah, no. The crowd is between 9-26 (most common - twitch stats) and does not pay to watch. The turnament we had just sometime ago “StarSeries” had a prize pool of $300,000, That is what Wayne Rooney is paid A WEEK.



"But They have anti-cheat, admins, they turn in their gear to the admins before and after matches and stuff" - As RLewis and Thorin knows, as do I and probably you, the coders that scripts the cheats are way ahead of any anti-cheat.

And yes, They do turn their gear in to an admin when they arrive at the arena. But it's a fucking plastic box sitting next to the warm-up computers. They even go get it to play between and after games. They could easily change keyboards or mouses after the admins check them (which they do not).

So you have a community with a rather small prize pool, with sponsors that does not pay shitload of money to advertise, with casters that doesn’t get paid very much (why do you think RoomOnFire, Dropthebomb, RLewisshot etc. Starting to pop up more frequently now?)

The difference between then and now, however, is money. A player who is reasonably well (with or without cheating) can make money in the following ways:

Winning the prize money LAN
Winning the prize money Online
Income through streaming
Match fixing
Skins
Sponsorship agreement
Boosting service

And if you're very good (with or without cheating), you can become a multimillionaire, let’s take Robin "Flusha" Rönnquist as an example:

http://www.esportsearnings.com/players/3878-flusha-robin-ronnquist

Total Prize Money earned:
$ 376,636.40 From 98 Tournaments

This is only from tournaments, not from the sponsorship, donations, skins, etc.

Back to the youtube clip I linked at the beginning, Rlewis says exactly this "But you gotta have balls of steel to cheat at LAN” (or cheat anywhere actually).

But do you really need to have Balls of Steel? Believe me, I love CS: GO, do not care much about the other games, but I certainly understand people who say "it's just a computer game." Cause basically it is actually just a computer game. The entire community isn’t worth very much. But it is thanks to all the viewers and all the sponsors that it all goes around.

Let’s do a scenario where a player gets caught for cheating live on stage, that should be a worst case scenario. The cheater will get up from his chair, then go backstage, then maybe get back to the hotel, feel shame, talk to his nearest teammates.


Legally if you look from the organizer (We can take ESL in this case), the player and the team will be disqualified from the tournament. The guy sells his computer, might go back to studying or start working at his uncle’s company, life goes on and he leaves the e-sport behind him. Is he affected at all?

However, the e-sport community would be affected enormously. The sponsors may withdraw, players can become suspicious, toxic, organizations may suffer. All suffer in addition to that one player.

Do you wonder how the legal punishment for the player that got caught looks?, read below.

It doesn’t say anywhere that the player will have to pay back his earnings, either by a LAN or online.
One can only get rid of prize money during the time of the tournament / season played, not previous. Source:

http://gfx.esl.eu/media/eu/csgo/eslone/katowice2015/ESLOne_CSGO_Rulebook.pdf

I'm not pointing the finger since I made many suspicious things because of pure hunches or using the lightest of noise that you can pick up, but some things that happened out there in the scene should be direct evidence.

In addition, there IS evidence already of some players,

"JW" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8haSl9iG0
"Schneider" (Znajder ") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeAMyljvsAQ
"Flusha" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upI8NYFzhkw
“Byali” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlUSVW1hAc
“k0nfig” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYllUMj87d8

If this isn’t cheating, then I don’t know what happend.

Thoorin and RLewis talks about Flusha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6emUgO5BMDU

Then people need to understand that there is a big difference in frame rate on youtube and on a demo. Demo’s can sometimes show things that are not true, Smokes etc. But that’s another story.

In addition, I have talked to them all, Semmler, Sadokist, Henry, admins and lastly pro players, they all say things that they don’t out publicly, (except perhaps Thoorin and RLewis in the clip I linked above. "

So what is my solution to this?

Legally binding agreements from now on regarding repayment when using the cheats.

The tournament accounts. (Flusha has said that he usually inspect their trophys on warm ups, and therefore think it is important that players get to have them during tournaments, what the fuck?

All the players leave their CFG (which they already do) and provides what equipment they want, so the admins set up their equipment right before each match. The player should really just sit down and play.

Hiring a bunch of coders with good pay to prevent future fraud (proven tactics from both the CIA and Google).


Using keylogger / Notifier - example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUD-RPAyHnI

There are certainly more solutions, especially on online games.

My last question.

If there is no cheating ever, why don’t we ever see any clips from (not just fishy, but really fishy):

Olofm, S1mple, f0rest, GT, Niko, Happy, Kenny, Neo and so on and so on.

I understand that people are looking like crazy when something comes up, but it seems to be very many more from some of the players, and we have not even dug in tier 2 and tier 3 scene where there are lots of match fixing.


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