35 CSGO players banned from competing for betting

In October, Esports Integrity Commision (ESIC) – an association formed in 2016 that investigates and denounces “any form of cheating in esports, including match-fixing and doping” – banned seven CSGO players Professional for Betting. This is taboo in professional sports. The association also warned that this was only “a small part of a large investigation” and that “there are many investigations related to match-fixing”.

Recently, the organization announced the results of the investigation from the ESEA tournament in Australia. An additional 35 players were banned from CSGO from one to five years, and two of those banned in October also received increased penalties.

“Over the years, ESIC has continuously investigated Betting violations and suspected match-fixing on a global scale. While this issue is not exclusive to ESEA, this announcement is the result of an investigation by CSGO Australia.”

In order to ensure “fair and reasonable” penalties, ESIC divides penalties as follows:

• Level 1: In-play betting – 12 months
• Level 2: Bet on a match you participate in – 24 months
• Level 3: Continuous Bet (Place on more than 10 matches) – 36 months
• Level 4: Semi-Level – 48 months
• Level 5: Sell levels many times (sell your team more than 10 matches – 60 months

Here are the banned players and their penalties:

• Jeremy “motion” Lloyd – 12 months
• Patrick “falcon” Romano De Sousa – 12 months
• Jonathan “Del” Sackesen – 12 months
• Grayson “vax” Uppington – 12 months
• Aiden “meta” Wiringi Jones – 12 months
• Kaito “minusthecoffee” Massey – 12 months
• John “jcg” Grima – 12 months
• Isaac “prodigy” Dahlan – 12 months
• Billy “beetee” Thomson – 12 months
• Kieren “Muzoona” Jackson-Clapper – 12 months
• Matthew “zilla” Zdilar – 12 months
• James “roflko” Lytras – 12 months
• Damon “damyo” Portelli – 12 months
• Jak “jtr” Robinson – 12 months
• Daniel “rekonz” Mort – 12 months
• Nicolas “plunge” Gulloti – 12 months
• Marcus “mdk” Kyriazopoulos – 12 months
• Joel “pears” Kurta – 12 months
• James “jamie” MacPahil – 12 months
• Ioan (Ionica) “bowie” Tuleasca – 12 months
• Joshua “joshaaye” Wilson – 12 months
• Ryan “kragz” Clarke – 12 months
• Stephen “sjanastasi” Anastasi – 12 months
• Damian “jd” Simonovic – 12 months
• Carlos “rackem” Jefferys – 12 months
• Joshua “jhd” Hough-Devine – 12 months
• Corey “netik (aka nettik)” Browne – 12 months
• Roman “matr1kz” Santos – 24 months
• Cailain “caily” Lovegrove – 24 months
• Akram “adk” Smida – 24 months
• Andy “Noobster” Zhang – 36 months
• Jayden “foggers” Graham – 48 months
• Sam “greed” Mitchell – 48 months
• Mate “habbo hotel” Poduje – 48 months
• Samuel “samy” Jarvis – 48 months
• Daniel “deezy” Zhang – 48 months
• John “wots” Zhu – 48 months
• Daryl “mayker” May – 48 months
• Matthew “jam” Castro – 60 months
• Alvin “Gravins” Changgra – 60 months
• Wilson “willyks” Sugianto – 60 months

The list includes two players who received a one-year ban in October: Akram “adk” Smida (formerly using the nickname “akram”) was given a two-year ban, while Daryl “mayker” May is now a two-year ban. four years. The penalty applies to all ESIC member organizations, including ESL, DreamHack, WePlay, BLAST, LVP, Nodwin, Eden, Relog, UCC, Allied, Kronoverse, Estars and 247 Leagues. ESIC also requested that the organizers who are not part of the group should also respect this penalty.

The association said this penalty only comes from betting on ESIC member tournaments and has not mentioned match-fixing. However, they said “there is a high probability that there are a lot of cases being investigated by ESIC and law enforcement.”

ESIC said it detected “collusion between close parties” from banned players. In particular, there are many betting acts that take place as if the player himself was the one placing the bet. Because these people are not CSGO players, they are not within the scope of ESIC’s investigation, but “their conduct will be sent to the legal side for investigation into criminal law violations.”

ESIC issues sanctions against 35 players for betting related offences & extends bans for 2 players previously sanctioned in October 2020.

ESIC will continue to investigate further offences in Australia, NA and Europe in cooperation with law enforcement.
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— ESIC (@ESIC_Official) January 22, 2021

This is a big investigation and the introduction of the law will definitely deter the players. While the investigation only covers professional CSGO tournaments in Australia, ESIC said it is also investigating North American and European CSGO tournaments, “as well as numerous tournaments in other titles”.

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