ESEA investigates GMX claims

31/1/2015 - 22:26

ESEA has announced that it is looking into Robin "GMX" Stahmer's claims that Epsilon lost a match against OverGaming on purpose.

Robin "⁠GMX⁠" Stahmer revealed earlier today, just 48 hours after being released from Epsilon, that his former team lost an ESEA match against OverGaming on purpose to profit from bets placed by friends on the Spanish side.

French veteran Steeve "⁠Ozstrik3r⁠" Flavigni, a well-known figure in the French scene, has since confirmed that he knew Epsilon were going to lose the match and that he placed a bet on the Spanish team, albeit one with a very low value.

ESEA has now revealed that it will not stay indifferent to these claims and that it has reached out to Valve to discuss this matter.

"Recently, reports have surfaced regarding a former European ESEA Invite team, Epsilon eSports, allegedly fixing a match," ESEA co-founder Eric "lpkane" Thunberg said.

we've reached out to Valve and provided all information we presently have available, and will continue to investigate this matter internally

as mentioned in this post: https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&a...

match fixing has no place in professional gaming, and we plan to continue to do all in our power to combat it

"We've reached out to Valve and provided all information we presently have available, and will continue to investigate this matter internally.

As mentioned in this post, match fixing has no place in professional gaming, and we plan to continue to do all in our power to combat it."

GMX's claims come just a week after the stunning match-fixing scandal in North America, which resulted in bans handed by Valve and several tournament organisers to seven people, including five professional players.

Valve to ban epsilon, i'm from the future

2015-01-31 22:28

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"match fixing has no place in professional gaming" but mining bitcoins does Kappa

2015-01-31 22:33

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Shots fired:D

2015-01-31 22:36

true and rekt

2015-01-31 23:08

Shrekt

2015-01-31 23:15

+1 rekt

2015-01-31 23:28

cause bitcoins is a part of 'professional gaming'

2015-01-31 23:39

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esea deal in professional gaming so close enough :)

2015-02-01 00:02

2015-01-31 23:42

I was gonna post the same goddamn thing, +20

2015-01-31 23:48

POW!!!

2015-02-01 00:11

Dude it was a ROGUE employee can you say witch-hunt!!! kappa

2015-02-01 00:17

Worldstar!!! Worldstar!!! Gottem! I laugh at the kids still feeding esea $$ after all that shit.

2015-02-01 01:42

well done

2015-02-01 12:26

Ban is deserved Stealing money from their own fans is sucha horrid thing

2015-01-31 22:43

don't think he's lying xd

2015-01-31 22:26

nt bruh

hah not today sorry

Nice try GMX

2015-01-31 22:29

haha you're not N1, nt loser.

2015-01-31 22:30

gotta get rid of the competition so the shitter players can get through xd

instead of streaming u camp @ hltv and try to get the 1st comment? solid :D

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yep +1

2015-01-31 22:32

your comment is so much awesome when you read your nick afterward , well done

2015-01-31 22:42

You failed your highness, I am a jedi, like my father before me

2015-02-01 00:43

GMX calm down your heart and give centryz his ID back

2015-02-01 02:58

Wow..

GG RIPSILON

Fixilon, but i'm not gonna light it yet []. I'll make sure to have stock available for the coming week tho. Sales promise to be huge!.

2015-01-31 23:16

leL

OMG

wowwwwwow

Interesting!

light up a candle for epsilon [*]

[-] I tried to light the candle but the wind created by all this throws put it out :(

+1 to my portuguese fellow

makes sense overgaming doesn't win matches the throw explains everything

HMMM... SALTY.

NICE, as it should be. take them all down, clean this fucking scene. Set the standards, Thanks valve, thanks ESEA, thanks "Snitches", we are getting there.

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Hell's yeah!

2015-01-31 22:41

Thanks for bitcoin mining, ESEA :v

no fuck that shit, I am against that bitcoining scandal, they had to pay back to all the damaged PC after the scam went public and they fired the guy behind it afaik. but still I am thanking esea for taking action against the matchfixers and cheaters now in this situation. you dont realize it but most organisations could easily look through their fingers and just let this fade away into nothing.

2015-01-31 22:46

2015-01-31 23:52

he stabbed back epsilon..he has a low skill and a big mouth..scumbag

Yes agree, protect the cheaters...

Protect the "cheaters" ? what?

2015-01-31 22:39

I was making it more clear of what he was saying cause he doesn't even know what he's saying cause he's an idiot.

2015-02-01 00:32

swag is a douchebag because he didn't say anything. This guy is a douchebag because he said something. lol

I thought fxy0 was the knife expert :)

2015-02-01 06:03

ayy lmao i would kick him ass if meet him irl

When noone snitched out ex-iBP, people are calling them pussies. When GMX snith them out, he is retarded. Fucking doublefaced people

Stupid is gonna be stupid, not much one can do about it.

2015-01-31 22:34

GMX maybe did the right think but I think people are more angry about his timing... He could have told that BEFORE he was kicked and then it would have been about sportsmanship or fairplay but now it is just because he is angry at his teammates because he was kicked due to his low skill level.

2015-01-31 22:40

He would have been banned himself in the process and thus ending his career in CS. Now that it is over anyway, he might aswell come clean.

2015-01-31 23:11

yeye I'm not denying that. I just don't like the people who praise him because he tells the truth about some matchfixing. I mean he is a bad person and the only reason he told about it was because he could not benefit from it anymore. I don't like the rest of Epsilon players too because of the throw of course but right now we are talking about GMX :)

2015-01-31 23:41

Like Forrest Gump said. Stupid is what stupid does.

2015-02-01 00:06

ban them !

DRAMA FK INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!

well if they get banned its just better cause teams will probably not throw anymore if even more people get banned

2015-01-31 22:31

it's fake...gmx is a scumbag

Thxs for letting us know God.

2015-01-31 22:35

finally ! GMX <3

haha,rekt,bb scream and co

lmao ESEA = FBI ?

well, they threw a match on ESEA, don't you think they will be interested in investigating this? duuuuh

2015-01-31 23:24

I'm curious about the outcome.

ESL, your move! Invite dAT instead of throwers.

bye bye epsilon who is next?

It was a great day for honest people

DAT>THROWSILON

rip epsilon, ugly death [*]

2015-01-31 22:37

If lpkane is 1 co-founder, who's the second co-founder of ESEA?

Torbull who owned Team 3D

2015-01-31 22:49

Alright, thanks.

2015-02-01 00:28

How can they prove that a team threw the game?? Someone know?

let's torture them. it's always helps.

2015-02-01 00:21

Indeed!

2015-02-01 00:33

RIP Epsilon

Bye, Epsilon.

You deserve getting ban pepsilon Rekt

Pepperoni soon @_@

2015-01-31 22:44

interesting shit. RIP Epsilon

2015-01-31 22:45

Ez skenz ez lyF3

2015-01-31 22:47

Virtus Throw next pls

2015-01-31 22:48

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+1 lets get rid of pasha he is such a monkey yet still the community love him.

2015-01-31 23:18

we will see what happens i want to see every cheater and matchfixer removed but then cs pro scene would be 50% smaller :D

2015-02-01 00:07

Hes a good guy who doesnt hurt a fly, just doing his thing streaming and being nice, why would anyone hate him other than of jealousy?

2015-02-01 11:59

Colse csgolounge :)

BB Scream & fxy0 :(

Ok. And at the end every pro team will be banned except NiP. kappa

2015-01-31 22:50

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i think after 2 months only 1 team in each region will be left, nip, c9, wolf, VOx eminor

2015-01-31 23:00

nah, c9 probably throwed one or more too since they are from NA! about 2nd two teams i am not sure since they are almost not in in bets etc

2015-01-31 23:05

They only throw once they see how bad jordan is playing never before the game begins though : DD

2015-02-01 00:29

you cant be sure, however i believe that 70% of teams that was in loungebets throwed atleast once

2015-02-01 00:35

overgaming won easy because epsilon are noobs not for throw

2015-01-31 22:57

How many other teams do the same shit! :/

2015-01-31 23:02

i think at least 50% did throw once

2015-01-31 23:03

54 % - 46% is a good match to throw...SRSLY !!!!!!!!?

2015-01-31 23:07

it's epsilon everytime under 20% man :D

PJSalt

OMG I LOST MAX BET ON THIS GAME I WANT REFUND PLAOXKSO PLS KAPPA

2015-01-31 23:13

isnt ESEA that scum company who put bitcoin miners in clients of their customers? LPKANE is an pathological liar who wants to be an part of the scene He think's he has connections with valve, he said after Sf's ban there were more incoming.. now LPKane where are the bans u joker? esea=shit stays shit

2015-01-31 23:38

^This

2015-02-01 00:22

Feel bad for Fxy0, if he gets banned :( Hope he is not in this maxfixing shit..

2015-02-01 00:01

there goes the French scene now :( seems like if this keeps on going this way all the out of TOP 20 teams in the world will be competing for TOP 1 in the world with "silver" ranks :( Sad the way its going, but its not sad if you look at it in a way to make the scene better and with the strict rules which is what it should be... gg

2015-02-01 00:05

good

2015-02-01 00:09

Gmx fucking cunt..please god not Scream only not Scream ill cry ;_;

2015-02-01 00:50

noo not scream ill do anything plz

2015-02-01 01:25

baguettes getting btfo

2015-02-01 01:35

rip scream ripsilon pepsilon betsilon

2015-02-01 02:23

2015-02-01 02:59

HLTV logik min ven! ;)

He is a douchebag for saying AFTER he got kicked Pussy who wants to drag down others

2015-02-01 10:23

If this is true the others deserve to be drag down are you fucking kiding me?

2015-02-01 14:27

Yes but he had nothing to lose by doing so now,in fact he gets revenge. But when he had something to lose (when he was in the team, which is his spot in th team) he decide to keep his mouth shut. Do you realise what a fucktard GMX is now? Its true the others deserved to be banned, but it is almost as though GMX is manipulating valve to do so as an act of revenge. GMX is wrong, Epsilon is wrong, 2 wrongs doesn't make one right but i say GMX deserves a punishment for the way he is acting.

2015-02-01 15:56

People are wondering why GMX didn't admit before he got kicked. Are people seriously this stupid, why the hell would he admit if he was still in the team? Use brain please. Yes it was a "bitch" move, but too bad, they are all at fault for match-fixing. Epsilon needs to release them before they all get banned to save some Reputation.

2015-02-01 04:01

If he had real morals and not a vengeful motive he should have admitted when he was in the team. But he didn't had morals and all he had done is reveal the matchfixing as a form of revenge rather than "doing the right thing" I hope Epsilon doesn't get ban just to make GMX GMAD, banning everyone even GMX only allows GMX to get what he wants.

2015-02-01 15:54

GMX is just mad he got kicked from Epsilon, fucking cry baby

2015-02-01 04:04

still doesnt make it right.

2015-02-01 07:58

Throw on a 54-46? thats just stupid

2015-02-01 04:15

RIP SCREAM MY FRIEND!

2015-02-01 04:50

My turn to shine in the Pro level!! KAPPA

2015-02-01 06:05

fucking scream the idol of schoolboys also homoboy will be banned! HOORAY!

2015-02-01 07:23

epsilon is crap anyway so no one will miss their team if they get banned)

2015-02-01 07:42

Hopefully Valve will come to realize their unreasonable judgement on the 6 NA players. Alter their current statement with a fair judgement, like 2-4 years, when judging this case.

2015-02-01 07:59

good luck banning them when they weren't stupid enough to bet with their own accs or accs linked to them. Even gmx admitted that there isn't any actual proof or paper trail. No doubt epsilon has been throwing for a long time with the forfeits and shit, but valve won't do anything because there isn't any evidence. What are they gonna do? ban everyone on scream's friendslist? epsilon will get away with it, the same way skadoodle didnt get punished because he got paid via paypal.

2015-02-01 08:25

how do you know esea arent mining bitcoins are we speak?

2015-02-01 08:47

Because there's no evidence pointing towards it?

2015-02-01 11:44

Fxy0 gets let go, says nothing for the longest time ( and he's the toxic one ), GMX let go, 48 hrs later he starts a petty witch-hunt with no definitive evidence. Something just doesn't seem right.

2015-02-01 12:22

GMX is a piece of shit,bann from life because,he is a rat.He is mad cuz bad pfff.

2015-02-01 12:44

Hahaha, such a bitch move from GMX just because he's a horrible player and they kicked him instead of fxy0.

2015-02-01 13:24

twitter.com/gmxcsgo/status/5619667670616..

2015-02-01 21:42

rip scream ;c

2015-02-02 06:50