Valve reduce Rejin's Major ban following appeal

22-9-2023 10:59

Allan "⁠Rejin⁠" Petersen has successfully appealed his coaching bug ban and will be allowed to participate in Majors in the second half of 2024.

Rejin originally received a permanent Major ban in 2021 for seven instances of use of the coaching bug

Danish ex-coach Rejin will be allowed to participate in Valve-sponsored competitions again from the second 2024 Major after his ban for use of the coaching bug was reduced to five Majors.

This is a result of the 35-year-old's successful appeal with the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC), in which he "substantiated that the extent of [his] bug exploitation was not as initially calculated." This appeal was accepted by Valve, according to the regulatory body.

Rejin was banned by ESIC in September 2020 after he was found to have used the coaching bug, which in some situations allowed coaches to gain an unfair advantage, in seven instances.

ESIC used so-called "demerit points" to determine the length of their coaching bans, a value that was based on the number of matches and rounds in which the bug was used and that Valve later took over to issue Major bans of varying lengths.

Rejin was originally assigned eight points for his offenses, enough to receive a permanent Major ban. This has now been revised to five points and five Majors following the appeal, which means his ban will expire following the conclusion of PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen in March.

Best known for his time in MOUZ, which ended as a result of his ban in late 2020, Rejin has served in several different staff roles in MAD Lions, Entropiq, and Endpoint. Since June he has served as the Sports Director of Danish organization Sashi.

lul

2023-09-22 11:00

sure bud

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+1 XD first abuse it like hell and now "glad i can move on" well bud, if u didnt start this shit in first place u wouldnt need to move on huh

2023-09-22 12:08

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say what you say, at least he owned up to it rather than denying it constantly or blaming it on players / org forcing him to do it :)

2023-09-22 13:12

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That's the bare minimum

2023-09-25 22:45

0/8

2023-09-22 11:01

>Petersen HUNDEN's brother?

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that's like top 5 most common Danish lastnames, so I find it very unlikely

2023-09-22 12:14

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yeah but >Petersen >Coach >Abused coach bug so many coincidences

2023-09-22 12:59

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a lot of danes in CS, therefore also a lot of coaches it's damn near impossible to find a coach who was active back then but didn't use the coach bug, so imo it really just boils to a coincidence where two coaches bear the same lastname

2023-09-22 13:06

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dude i was joking ):

2023-09-22 14:34

oh my bad lmao

2023-09-22 15:26

Ger had also a lot of coaches- But non of them cheated. It is a question of character

2023-09-22 14:36

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idk about that tbh, I just know some coaches received a ban even though their use of the bug was unavoidable, cf. it was a bug

2023-09-22 15:25

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Unavoidable?? They could of told the admin of the match to restart the round lmfao

2023-09-22 18:52

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some coaches did and some even reported it directly to valve, still received a ban in the end tho

2023-09-22 19:40

Those coaches are already unbanned so making the right choice and not abusing helped them

2023-09-22 19:55

ye but you were questioning the unavoidable part, the bug was IN the game, in a lot of cases it wasn't a deliberate move from the coach to have the bug, it was just there

2023-09-22 22:03

And they got unbanned fast? im saying people who are still banned deserved it.

2023-09-22 23:08

statista.com/statistics/745971/most-comm.. actually I was way off, Petersen is top 11 lmao from my own experience you meet someone named Petersen every 100 meters

2023-09-22 13:09

And first name Rasmus? 🤔

2023-09-22 13:15

who?

2023-09-22 13:19

Probably referring to Nielsen (HooXi) being the most common surname in the link.

2023-09-22 14:29

oh, thought he was somehow referring to Rasmus Paludan lmao

2023-09-22 15:24

Haha

2023-09-24 14:14

unban zoneR and tr3vl now

2023-09-22 11:02

haha sure. who cares

2023-09-22 11:04

you mean Mechanogun? Bruhhhh that mf tweakin hella hard with that new alias.

2023-09-22 13:33

ooof this almost singelhandedly killed cs scene

2023-09-22 11:10

good for him ig

2023-09-22 11:16

not like he will coach a major team anyways, oh well, there is always EG

2023-09-22 11:17

Major Team and EG KEKW

2023-09-25 17:21

surely through the NA RMR even EG can qualify...

2023-09-25 18:48

Paris Major RMR had them in 11th....

2023-09-26 01:51

that was the old team, they look a lot better now. For all its worth, they are better than a year ago.

2023-09-26 08:30

hltv.org/news/37230/nouns-beat-eg-to-qua.. they clearly are still a really bad team....

2023-10-13 10:40

never said they are good, they looked better at the very least. eg will never be a top team unless they sign a established top roster

2023-10-15 09:16

“Thank you ESIC for the corporation a long the way”

2023-09-22 11:22

im feeling thank you to ESIC for the corporation a long the way.

2023-09-22 13:20

so great engleese by this manbun merchant

2023-09-22 13:21

embarrassing

Can't wait for him and hunden to work together... in the Norweigan oil fields preferably.

2023-09-22 11:42

once a cheater, always a cheater.

2023-09-22 11:55

fkn scum cheater

2023-09-22 12:02

Now can we unban Swag?

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2023-09-22 12:37

No. Different offence.

2023-09-23 03:06

Who cares? Kid made a mistake when he was very young. This guy cheated as a full grown man and he gets a pass?

2023-09-23 03:38

he didnt cost too much money to valve, probably

2023-09-23 14:11

Valve care. Not t tell them they are wrong. No payer and no coach who used bug should play. If that meant CSGO scene collapses then I am fine with it. Fuck double standards.

2023-09-28 00:17

Swag didn’t use a bug to win, he got paid to throw a match in a time where CSGO wasn’t that big of a deal and that got him permanently banned.

2023-09-28 01:34

Stealing 100 bux is the same as stealing 10000000 bux. It's a theft. The fact that CSGO wasn't that big when he commited a crime does change what he did. I am glad his punishment is so severe. It should be a clear message and actual deterrent to others.

2023-09-29 21:39

Okay you have to be trolling to say that a kid shouldn’t be forgiven for the mistake he made when he was 17. And CSGO in 2014 and CSGO in 2023 are completely different. Nobody in 2014 thought CS would be as big as it is today. Anybody would have thrown the game back in the day like: “What? I can make 2k USD just from throwing one game? Hell yeah.” That was literally 1/5th of the tournament’s prize pool. You’re either a child, immature, or trolling.

2023-09-29 22:05

I still find it absurd that literally NO players, leave alone teams got banned for that, just the coaches

2023-09-22 12:10

Hard to prove they were in on it

2023-09-22 13:38

You're supposed to believe that the coaches did cheat but they gave the info to nobody.

2023-09-22 17:48

Cheating in official matches? Welcome back, lad+

2023-09-22 12:16

yay'

2023-09-22 12:27

lol and the iBP guys are still fully banned? Clearly he couple grand iBP made is much worse than cheating. Well congrats to Reijin anyways.

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IBP was match-fixing and it was in the pro scene. Valve makes there no prisinors.

2023-09-22 14:38

when you think of it, match-fixing is a great way to teach people who are stupid enough to gamble to not do that ever again

2023-09-24 02:48

But match fixing is higher betray than cheating because you scam everyone not just the enemy team or tournament organisers

2023-09-24 04:18

What a complete disgrace. Jamppi as well.

2023-09-22 14:58

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Jamppi is free Valve changed that, when you cheated as a kid it has to be 5 years ago then you are allowed to play majors. If you do it in pro scene you are done.

2023-09-22 15:35

So Reijin did not cheat in the pro scene?

2023-09-22 15:52

?? what has Rejin to do with the Jamppi case? I talked about VAC bans

2023-09-22 16:01

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I agree with what you said about jamppi, i was referring to "If you do it in pro scene you are done" and about #53. You keep saying "in pro scene". The article says Reijin's punishment was reduced. Did he cheat in the pro scene or where?

2023-09-22 16:02

Rejin doesn't have a vac ban. The thing I said is all about the jamppi case and similar and also only about Vac Bans for cheating

2023-09-22 16:07

#53 IBP players don't have a vac ban as well yet their sentence was not reduced and they were lifetime banned. Rejin cheated on official matches and got a reduced sentence.

2023-09-22 16:08

They have a vac ban for match-fixing check ur facts And cheating isn match-fixing. That are two different cases.

2023-09-22 16:13

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2023-09-22 16:20

Cheating and match-fixing isn't technically the same but gives one of the teams an unfair advantage so imo they should be treated the same way.

2023-09-22 19:04

Yeah but valve doesn't do it. I am fine with the fact that caught match fixer get lifetime bans.

2023-09-23 06:27

Corporation?

2023-09-22 12:39

not even his keyboard believes in ESIC cooperation KEKW

2023-09-22 15:36

kkkk was searching for this comment

2023-09-27 20:02

Lesser-spotted ESIC

2023-09-22 13:01

I would never come back to cs just out of shame if I were him, but there appears to be something really bad in danish tap water

2023-09-22 13:07

from a chair to a lifetime

2023-09-22 13:14

they should'nt

2023-09-22 13:42

Never forget his awping vs G2 @ train

2023-09-22 14:02

Another ESIC L

Who cares about this trash?

2023-09-22 15:15

Ragepig coach

2023-09-22 18:37

this guy is not only shit at his job he also cheats at it. hope he doesnt hired by anyone..

2023-09-22 18:55

Cheats --> gets banned. I don't even know why valve or any serious competition holder allow cheaters to play on their leagues. "It was just a mistake" is not even close to a justification

2023-09-22 19:02

ESIC grow a spine challenge (impossible!)

2023-09-22 19:07

no car

2023-09-22 21:45

Corporation a long way... lmao

That's what happens when those who can't be are still trying to look and act 'professional'.

2023-09-23 03:19

C H E A T E R

2023-09-23 14:12

He was a good coach on MOUZ at some point, maybe he can make a comeback, I think he is planning to considering he made an appeal 3 years after the ban. Good to see, GL Rejin.

2023-09-23 16:11

so you support dirty cheaters? you must have a nice personality

2023-09-25 17:18