Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Matchmaking is a system created by Valve that allows players to use servers run by Valve and secured with VAC or Valve Anti-Cheat program. This program was introduced in the launch of the game. Cheating is a large problem that sadly occurs too much in the competitive community. To stop this Valve has shown very little of their future goals to update the system or release possible news about a new anti-cheat system. Many pro players have been accused of using cheats in matches. In recent news 2 pro players were caught red handed the the system. Not the over-watch system but the pure system finding cheats in their clients. Players SF and kqly have received VAC bans on their accounts. In a post on his facebook account Kqly said this. (Translated from French)

As you may have seen yesterday, I was banned by VAC and unfortunately it was justified.I wanted to say that I am really sorry for all the people who supported me, I am aware that with my bullshit, my career is now over and my team in a very bad position. They did not deserve it. End of August, it put me in contact with a program supex0 (he had solid arguments and explained to me that many players pros used its program). I me y am interested curiosity. He put me on rights for 7 days, and as a con, the temptation was too great and I wanted to see what it gave on public servers and MM.Subsequently I did not continue to use it, I'd just join Titan and I didn't need to take unnecessary risk while I had all that I needed: a high-level team, a solid structure... My curiosity made me default and today my CS career is finished after 12 years spent on the game.I lost everything and I don't expect any compassion, I made a bullshit and I'm going to assume it. Unfortunately everything stops here and once again, I am really sorry to have disappointed.

That is 100% from his facebook page. Many streamers and people that are tired of cheaters have retired from the broken matchmaking system and switched to other competitive systems with a stronger anti-cheat program. Such are ESEA, CEVO, Altpug.

The choice is yours...

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Busy Quick Update

Work has been busy around the office with recording a large montage for my YouTube channel. I am working hard to write blogs but time is very scarce in my schedule at the moment. I do have some CS:GO news to put in this post. So lets Begin...

Fnatic win ESEA LAN. In a intense nail bitter of a game fnatic managed to pull out a win against Virtus.Pro, many people were hoping to see a Virtus.PLOW throughout the whole entire tournament. The question is, did they show the full brute force the plow can do? I will let you guys think of if they did. Lots of other teams were trying out new stragies, teams like iBUYPOWER changed out desi to adreN in their lineup. AdreN was a player that played with the team back before when anger and before swag join the team. AdreN definetly showed he can peform at higher level teams, rather than his team TST or The Stream Team. The team is a Premier level team that focuses on the fact that they stream every minute of practice, scrims and matches. With that aside here are the final standings for ESEA LAN Season 17...

1. Fnatic
2. Virtus.Pro
3.Team iBUYPOWER
4. Denial eSports
5. Cloud9
6. Titan
7. mousesports
8. eLevate

To walk through the standings and a more in-depth review on the teams performances. Fnatic winning the whole tournament, definitely showed up to win and showed nothing less, showing they can be the #1 team in the world. Virtus.Pro Polish team that worked very hard throughout the tournament but failed to perform 100% in the finals vs. Fnatic. iBP showed improvement with the addition of adreN to the lineup. One thing to note about iBP is that it is not 100% proven that adreN is the 5th. It was said that he was only used for a fill in and to try to shift around the styles of the team. The different styles showed as the team showed improvement and moved to 3rd place just above Denial. Denial defiantly a team under the radar shocked many people at home and at the LAN. It was obvious to say that the team put in lots of practice with their strategies and studying other teams. Below them in a shocking 5th place is Cloud9 who failed to perform in yet another tournament, just as in DreamHack the team had lots of problems, same blame that fact of not having enough rest and becoming to tired from all the flights to home then to Dallas. In 6th place Titan with their new fifth man showed they definitely did not have enough time to work together new strategies and fully understand each others strengths and differences. In 7th place mousesports was a team that were thought to do better, not to win the LAN but to come in a higher standing. In a tough last place eLevate another small level team showed what they can do but was never able to fully win.

Well that is about it for the ESEA Season 17 LAN Finals in Dallas, Texas registering for the next season of ESEA has already begun. Signup now.

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Emergency Sudden News

At the time iBUYPOWER CS players Steel, and Dazed have been released from the roster. More news will be coming soon so stay tuned for more.

Blog Receives HUGE Update and Future Info

This Blog has just received a major update including a media player located at the top of the page. Future news is set to launch a permanent website that would replace this current blog. More news will be posted shortly and more minor updates will happen in the near future.
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Match Fixing in Pro E-Sports - Team Dignitas Problems

Match fixing has always been a problem with any type of game whether its baseball players like Derek Jeter that make millions of dollars for just sitting on a bench and wearing a uniform or e-sports teams. Match fixing works best with sports that have bets that can be placed. Online betting is the same as regular betting both being illegal for younger kids. Lets make an example to show how match fixing works (these examples are random). Fnatic and NiP are set to play a match in 1 day. The betting opens on csgolounge.com and people begin to place bets. Normally in fixed matches large value skins are bet and large value skins are won if everything goes the right way. This is unknown for the people and admins at any betting sites are not aware of these situations as they are kept secret. Overall this is large reasons that online betting may not be the smartest thing to do, unless you have some empty money under the belt, promise not to get addicted and BE PREPARED TO LOSE STUFF. Lots of negatives come from betting at a young age as many studies show. The urge for excessive drinking and depression increases with betting. If you just want to have fun ignore the possibilities but always be prepared for the possible events to happen in the future.

Team Dignitas a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Professional team from Europe are a group of men that work jobs other than playing Counter-Strike. Team practices are often hard to fit in and as a result from this some results may show in matches. As many people are aware Fragbite Masters is a tournament currently underway. Spots at the LAN final are given through an online tournament. Casters Anders and Semmler are some of the most popular casters for the game and are casting every tournament game. Casters help to explain the large problems with online tournaments. Server problems are very common, hard to predict, and can last a long time. Online matches sadly have a large chance of DDOS on the server. This causes the server to basically over-load and spill the problem back on the players. Most of the time it will kick everybody out of the server and impossible to re-join. Servers swaps then take a while for players to all connect and be prepared for the match. It is hard to tell but most of the Team Dig matches in this online tournament have been plagued with problems. Players have even resorted to VPN and other possible solutions through these tough attacks. More information will be released soon as the tournament continues on through the LAN finals scheduled on November 8.

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Quick Stats on Dreamhack

Titan

K - D

+/-

HS %

Rating

 Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub

44-35

+9

29.5

1.21

 Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

44-34

+10

52.3

1.20

 Hovik 'KQLY' Tovmassian

41-29

+12

46.3

1.18

 Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans

37-27

+10

32.4

1.14

 Mathieu 'Maniac' Quiquerez

37-36

+1

48.6

0.97

 

 

LDLC

K - D

+/-

HS %

Rating

 Richard 'shox' Papillon

37-38

-1

27.0

0.98

 Nathan 'NBK' Schmitt

36-40

-4

41.7

0.93

 Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey

30-41

-11

53.3

0.79

 Vincent 'Happy' Cervoni

27-40

-13

18.5

0.71

 Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux

31-44

-13

25.8

0.70

Sources: hltv.org

Titan Win Dreamhack Stockholm

Yes this news is a couple of days old but this event was a little under the radar for some people. This tournament was still a Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament with a winning of $10,000. Ninjas in Pajamas were one of the teams expected to deliver big in the tournament by many people. The chances of NiP playing better would be increased with the dominantly Swedish crowd in the city of Stockholm located in Sweden. NiP however were knocked out early in almost the group stages of the tournament disappointing many people.
NiP Grade: D-
With that important lose it is important for betters to remember that YES NiP can disappoint when they are needed most. With that lose the odds of the Starseries tournament have started against NiP. It is important for Xizt the in-game leader to bring back hope from the NiP fans. NiP will play the winner of Titan VP.
Titan with there new and improved line up including

kennyS
KQLY
Ex6TenZ
apEXXXX
Maniac^

The new line up impressed many people at home. The awping skills of KQLY were something that was commonly talked about. The awp shots of kennyS were as normal as one of the game winning shots included and quick kill followed by 2 seconds later a no-scope. A excellent performance was given by every member of the team.
Titan Grade: A+

Fnatic another team that made it close and were eliminated in the Semi-Finals put up great games against some teams. The main team awper for Fnatic JW definitely proved he showed up to win when he dropped 2 aces in all of the tournament. Also including plenty of SICK shots that can be found all over social media sites. With that being said the team lost in the Semi-Finals only because the team relied to much on the performance and opening kills in rounds. Team Captain DevilWalk helped his best for giving important strats and plays to the in-game leader pronax.
Fnatic Grade: B

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PS Sorry for the break in between blogs.