ESEA mimics Valve's bans

7/2/2015 - 01:00

ESEA has announced that it has banned ex-ESC and four former Epsilon members following Valve's match-fixing investigation.

Earlier on Friday, it was revealed that the former ESC Gaming team and four ex-members of Epsilon had been handed indefinite bans from all major events following a match-fixing investigation conducted by Valve itself.

The news came as a huge blow to the Polish team, who were due to attend the offline qualifier for ESL One Katowice next week and were on the verge of completing a move to a new organisation after leaving ESC Gaming.

ESEA has now announced that it has followed up on Valve's decision with indefinite bans of their own to all players for what it described as "gambling violation".

ex-ESC were sitting eighth in ESEA Invite, in which they are already marked as "dead", with a 2-6 record.

The following players have been banned by ESEA:

Very good! ban them from everything please.

2015-02-07 01:07

5 replies

Yaaayyy no ScreaM ban.

2015-02-07 01:57

2015-02-07 02:02

stfu idiot they are innocent

2015-02-07 02:51

1 reply

ye in Poland maybe.

2015-02-07 03:06

so ban everyone pro, coz everyone bet on csgolounge more than 1 time, dat logic.

2015-02-07 11:05

lmao

3 replies

still dont get why whole ESC was banned if Rallen and Mouz were only accused for betting at Alsen throw.

2015-02-07 01:34

2 replies

Neither do I, because if thise is the case, other people should be banned as well (Shazham, VP). Probably Valve is holding back information like they always do. Or they are incredibly stupid and banned ex ESC for no reason.

2015-02-07 03:13

Same with ScreaM. He took part in the Epsilon's throw no matter if he knew about it or not. Minise and Szpero both didnt take part in the any betting same like ScreaM did and they are still punished.

2015-02-07 03:39

oh damn

omg

okay..

here we go!

rotfl

expected

2015-02-07 01:08

skål

ExPeKtEd

New Team, ThrowMasters

ESEA.. Such a Sheep... A sheep that mines your bitcoins.

We said bye bye too ;)

2015-02-07 01:09

8 replies

2015-02-07 01:10

Like any eu team will play CEVO lel

2015-02-07 02:00

cya next season

2015-02-07 02:11

Some invegistation by you? Or just simple ban?

2015-02-07 02:38

Cevo is shit anyway

2015-02-07 09:54

who cares about shit cevo

2015-02-07 10:01

not worth a newspost

2015-02-07 11:34

So, i guess you didnt say bye bye in the end ;)

2015-02-07 22:01

RIP At this rate we won't have a competitive scene by summer

+1337

Cheating is not the only way you become a pro.

2015-02-07 01:16

REKT

hey FACE IT do the same, thank you

Is these players enough to form a league with all banned throwers and cheaters? :D

lol cya

baj

more trigger happy with bans than hltv.org admins

they only do this so they can make the front page and stay relevant

2015-02-07 01:11

+shazham plz

omg, bul und rzal

2015-02-07 01:12

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

keep investigating, pretty soon there will be no competitive cs go left :) games dead, gg

RIP... when will this end? RIP CS

2015-02-07 01:13

something wrong with kurwalandia

what the fuck

-1

2015-02-07 01:14

respect to valve & esea !

remove my post bout the truth that ESEA should be banned by valve from hosting tournaments since they illegitimate put harming software on unaware clients computer's and lpkane is an pathological liar who wants to fit in and in his lies he believes he has contact with valve (remember he said there were more bans incoming after Sf? and that esea helped valve catch kqly and sf?! all lies) lies lies lies, esea is trash

esea was always shit, nothing new

2015-02-07 01:20

They wont, because they work with eachother now, although that's what lpkane has been trying to do since the lift off the company. It seems to be working in his favor at this point.

2015-02-07 01:21

ban them.. BAN THEM ALL!!!

2015-02-07 01:15

rest in pepperoni :)

Ripperoni

if esc guys who were just betting were banned why shazam hasnt got banned either?

Bcs esc guys dont belong to big organization.

2015-02-07 01:18

polish match-fixing ring broken up by big papa valve.

2015-02-07 01:17

gj, ban all polish onions

RIP

Whatever. If they got banned from Valve sponsored majors, they would disband anyway.

ESEA fucking idiots. Banning people without proofs just like in soviet russia under stalin.

2015-02-07 01:22

Yes, just like internment of japanese americans after Pearl Harbor.

2015-02-07 01:28

RIPERINO POLAKINOS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2015-02-07 01:19

i still believe :D if i start now be pro i can be best since to summer there will be no pro teams lol thx god i dont play anymore that trash game

jesus. I feel sad for the ESC guys, just as they were going to make a big move and quit real life shit to focus on CS career, banned without any evidence shown. rip [*]

2015-02-07 01:23

protip: there was evidence stop being such a sheep.

2015-02-07 03:02

protip: suck a dick i.imgur.com/XV2ssDS.gif

2015-02-07 22:02

lol dam

Lots of angry kids in here ='( rekt

skins ruined their careers..that's good...I hope everyone who throwed for skins gets banned

2015-02-07 01:27

you mad you lost skins?

2015-02-07 01:36

pls faceit ban them also

nobody cares about this shitty esea xD srsly

2015-02-07 01:30

inb4 "CEVO and FACEIT also ban"

2015-02-07 01:31

#19

2015-02-07 01:38

ripperino

2015-02-07 01:35

ban anyone who has ever placed a bet

So does StarLadder by the way ;)

lol i wonder did they give them reason why esc was baned because most likely them both suck valve dick in hope they will get money from volvo on major

Why B1GGY? He wasn`t even a player of Epsilon when they threw

2015-02-07 01:40

rip competitive cs 2012-2014 Please light a candle, [*] in memory for our fallen brothers

2015-02-07 01:44

Poland stronk.

2015-02-07 01:48

GO BAN ALL TEAMS/WHY NOT?!

2015-02-07 01:50

proof or bs

2015-02-07 02:01

you are bestard. #fuckvolvo

2015-02-07 02:03

sad for polisch scene

2015-02-07 02:07

FK csgolounge FK DDOSERS FK CSGO PIS

2015-02-07 02:09

suck polishg!!! EFADSXcv

2015-02-07 02:10

Don't worry, GabeN knows why - you don't need to know why. /close

Expected.

poor polish, always throwing

2015-02-07 02:14

They haven't threw any game :)

2015-02-07 02:16

then why ban?

2015-02-07 02:33

That is the question. They are probably accused of betting on Alsen's thrown match, but 2 of ESC players didn't even bet. No explanation by Valve though, just community guesses.

2015-02-07 02:43

rip poland

2015-02-07 02:15

It's just the beginning.

2015-02-07 02:39

nice to see ESEA is doglike to Valve

2015-02-07 02:45

just chill let us have our players

2015-02-07 02:48

Hell yeah let's ban everyone! It would be so fun to see the whole cs:go scene banned for a year :D This game would instantly die, GJ Valve and ESEA :)

2015-02-07 03:10

Bullshit ...

2015-02-07 03:20

What happening with CS scene...

2015-02-07 03:42

Poles coming out and complaining , while they all probably bashed IBP/epsilon

2015-02-07 03:47

Im having an orgasm .. BAN to all the throwers for life !!

2015-02-07 04:04

#FREEESC release them Gaben !

2015-02-07 04:23

2015-02-07 04:41

Imo this ban fest that is going on is just stupid without external betting sites such as csgolounge this wouldn't be a problem. These players are still human they make mistakes, but there is absolutely no reason to ruin the scene that is trying to currently gain a reputation. A statement should have been realeased by valve saying that any players from this moment on caught fixing matches would be banned, this entire situation has been gone at all wrong.

2015-02-07 04:45

aw i liked rallen gg valve finally dropping the hammer.

2015-02-07 04:49

welp looks like valve fucked it up again. whats integrity.

2015-02-08 04:41

nice, no bitcoin allowed..err *matchfixing

2015-02-07 04:50

if ban EX-ESC, Ban ShaHZaM too... on ibp vs netcode.

2015-02-07 04:53

yeah and scream too

2015-02-07 07:39

[*]

2015-02-07 05:58

"innocent"

2015-02-07 06:42

GJ Valve

2015-02-07 06:57

loool

2015-02-07 07:14

2015-02-07 07:28

why isn't scream banned, if minise, szpero and innocent are?

2015-02-07 07:38

because he dont throw?

2015-02-07 07:49

minise, szpero and innocent also didnt bet on alsen's game, yet they're banned. scream also participated in match that has been threw, so it's exactly the same thing.

2015-02-07 07:54

Well, I think it's fair to say that you don't know all the details. I agree that Valve should inform us better but I think they might know something more than us that makes a difference.

2015-02-07 08:17

There goes the entire Polish scene.

2015-02-07 07:50

Well , is this a perma ban? :( R.I.P

2015-02-07 07:52

1 year AFAIK.

2015-02-07 08:19

still they didnt touch any t1 team so what about is that shitstorm... scream should be banned to but he have 2much viewers on twitch just double standards... wp volvo

2015-02-07 08:20

I agree but the first t1 team they would touch is VP, I think they didn't have the guts to do that.

2015-02-07 08:21

they wont do that cuz reputation of the game would suffer

2015-02-07 08:44

Will they show anything that can prove that they really fixed a match? Or r they just gonna ban them from everything without any serious reason?

2015-02-07 08:29

virtus pro next omg

2015-02-07 08:36

lol poland trash

2015-02-07 08:55

lol israel trash much sense xD

2015-02-07 10:06

imagine throws t1-t2 from israel =DDDDD

2015-02-07 10:15

No kebab players from myR? Or i miss something

2015-02-07 09:06

The kebab shield is too stronK for Gaben.

2015-02-07 10:31

so stiupid whay?

2015-02-07 09:20

i hope valve did investigate this enough.. there is few players that i think are not envolved in this shit.. and gmx saved scream . is that right or is scream innocent?

2015-02-07 09:41

IMO valve should give us and them any proof because now ban on these 2 players who didn't bet makes no sense at all

2015-02-07 10:02

lol...

2015-02-07 10:26

VALVE should ban only ONE thing - csgolounge! who the fck needs it?

2015-02-07 10:34

ex ESC will be unbanned :)

2015-02-07 10:42

I don't understand how they can do this without any reason. Which match was fixed?

2015-02-07 10:52

Alsen

2015-02-07 10:58

Dat and overgaming

Hopefully all these bans from events will result in a cleaner future for online betting/gaming in the CS community.. Hopefully this scares off the rest of those out there still matchfixing or considering doing so..

2015-02-07 11:11

"In light of these features, our public decisions will be fairer and more moral once we put empathy aside. Our policies are improved when we appreciate that a hundred deaths are worse than one, even if we know the name of the one, and when we acknowledge that the life of someone in a faraway country is worth as much as the life a neighbor, even if our emotions pull us in a different direction. Without empathy, we are better able to grasp the importance of vaccinating children and responding to climate change. These acts impose costs on real people in the here and now for the sake of abstract future benefits, so tackling them may require overriding empathetic responses that favor the comfort and well being of individuals today. We can rethink humanitarian aid and the criminal justice system, choosing to draw on a reasoned, even counter-empathetic, analysis of moral obligation and likely consequences." replace some of the words with counter-strike terms. This is HLTV now; trashtalking others and refuse to look at facts and actually demanding facts besides statements that doesn't provide any evidence. And just because people ain't popular nor well-known it doesn't mean that they can't be in the same problematic situation as a pro-player. I'm out :)

2015-02-07 11:31

gj ban polando biczys

ban the kebab too

2015-02-07 11:42

#freeexesc

2015-02-07 11:46

ahahhaha enjoy noobs

2015-02-07 11:54

but esea was the best miner of all time

2015-02-07 12:07

Lol poland

2015-02-07 12:16

shit players

2015-02-07 12:40

Shit ESC

2015-02-07 12:42

ESEA= volvo fanbois

2015-02-07 12:58

ddos csgolounge KARMA

2015-02-07 13:30

ESEA showed me now why they suck actualy. Following Valve bans, when they don't have any evidence to show. Everyone knows Valve and now ESEA don't have those evidence and it sucks. Propably their CS:Go Carrer are ended, not because ban, just because ppl are so much idiots and flame everyone of players for selling matches. This keep much nerves and it will work not good for their psychic ...

2015-02-07 14:06