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Friday, December 11, 2020
37 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coaches have been banned by the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC), after it was found out that they had been using a bug that gave them an unfair advantage.
The bug allows coaches to look at a random place of the map, which they normally would not be able to do. This way, they were sometimes able to see where the enemy players were and gather valuable information to gain an unfair advantage.
On August 26, 2020, Mariusz ‘Loord’ Cybulski, the coach of Wis?a Kraków, posted a tweet about the bug. The developer of the game, Valve, fixed the bug on the same day. At first the bug looked like a small issue, with only 3 coaches being banned in the following days. However, ESIC decided to launch an investigation and announced that they would be looking at game demo’s of coaches to see if they had used the bug. After investigating 20% of the demo’s, ESIC released their first statement on September 28, 2020. 37 coaches of major esports teams had been found guilty. The ban periods varied depending on how many times the coach had used the bug and on confession.
ForZe’s coach Sergey “?lmbt?” Bezhanov was unbanned two weeks later after his evidence was deemed credible.
The full list of banned coaches and their ban periods can be seen here.