The founder of the Insilio team, Oleg RachelR Tyurkaev, talked about the problems of ESEA and how tournaments of this series are used to make money unfairly.
Now all this has turned into a business. RuFire is right. A team slot in ESEA Advanced costs 300 thousand Russian rubles. You buy a slot, bring your friends there, buy them a $200 cheat engine, and they *** [destroy] all. You make huge winnings on bets, then disband the team or take it to HLTV and resell the slot to another team.Oleg RachelR Tyurkov
What is ESEA?
ESEA is a league where 4th, 3rd and 2nd tier teams compete. The best teams in the league receive large cash prizes and slots at popular events. The league is divided into divisions, the champion of the highest division of the current season will receive a slot in the ESL Challenger League, with the help of which it will be possible to enter other major ESL tournaments.
The leagues are incredibly huge: 870 teams are participating in the current season of the European league, most of which are quickly assembled stacks. And this creates a massive number of problems.
Problems of ESEA
Eight hundred seventy teams is a huge amount, and keeping track of all teams is impossible, given that registration in the lower division is entirely free. And this creates a vast space for a variety of cheats.
For example, buying a slot for cheaters and earning from prizes or reselling a place in higher divisions. No one except ESEA itself tracks matches.
Thus, at least 50% of the teams in the lower division can be cheaters. And many use impunity to make money. So what to do with it?
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What To Do With Cheats On ESEA?
A special commission on ethics called ESIC was created to monitor and punish unfair play in esports. They should solve such problems and clean up the scene, but where are the bans of the ESEA teams?
One and a half months ago, a former employee of ESIC spoke on this topic. He said that ESIC is not interested in investigating suspicious mathces. But why?
Unfortunately, ESIC has repeatedly proven its incompetence in matters of investigation and punishment. At first, the commission was compromised by their high-profile investigation of using a coaching bug on the professional stage. Then ESIC banned all coaches indiscriminately and did not accept appeals in situations where the coaches were not to blame.
The last episode noted by ESIC was the case of Mykola HUNDEN Petersen. The commission stated that the trainer cooperated with them and was ready to undergo "additional training". At the same time, ESIC completely removed HUNDEN's accusations of sharing sensitive info from the archive.
Therefore, it is not worth counting on ESIC, and Counter-Strike needs a separate transparent commission dealing with cheating and fixed matches. This must be done before the amateur, and semi-professional competitive scenes are entirely spoiled.
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