The following article will summarize everything about the recent CSGO-related coach bug drama. This includes the time when the team used the bug, when the bug was discovered, and the date the team was punished.
Update September 9, #2: Valve announced that teams that are disqualified from participating in Regional Major Ranking events because of a coach bug will also lose their RMR points. That means Hard Legion and MIBR will be disqualified from ESL One: Road to Rio – CIS and Road to Rio – North Marica as well as cs_summit 6 – North America.
Updated September 9th: Singularity Coach, Peter “casle” Sørensen confessed to discovering and using the bug during his December 2019 match against North in the WESG 2019 North Europe qualifier. He said he informed ESIC during his official self-confessions.
Coaches at every tier are at the center of an investigation after the coach bug was discovered. However, this bug has existed in the gamee for many years but has not been made public. Specifically, this bug allows the coach to “scan” the whole scene at any selected location on the map in real time, which helps the team using the bug to understand the opponent’s movement and economic information in an unbiased way. equal.
A large-scale investigation broke out to find the violators and things have not stopped. Several coaches have received long-term bans by tournament organizers after being found to have used this bug. Some have been suspended from work by their own organizations, while others have confessed to their actions and face pending punishment.
Keeping things up to date is becoming increasingly difficult as the list of purges continues to grow every day. Let’s see what happened and who those names are.
What is this error?
As mentioned above, it gives the coach a full view of any position on the map at the beginning of the game and they can rotate the camera as they like. Unless they fix themselves by logging back into the server or changing to one of the players’ perspective, they can stay in this position to scan the entire map.
For those wondering how this coaching bug works, here is a short clip of me being bugged on mirage, A spot. You can pick any location on the map you want. And yes, you can rotate the camera angle as much as you want. pic.twitter.com/C0CdDV9zXi
— Michal Slowinski (@michau9_) August 31, 2020
This mistake is easy to make in almost any attempt in CSGO. All the coaches need to do to activate is enter the coaching slot before anyone joins the team, and they can choose where they want to watch.
How did this investigation begin?
It started in August, when longtime referee Michal Slowinski and ESEA software developer Steve Dudenhoeffer volunteered to investigate the coach’s error after being personally reported by several coaches and players. There is some claim that this bug dates back to 2016, but that cannot be confirmed.
The duo put in 12 hours a day for three weeks, they watched 1,500 match demos and their hard work paid off at the end of August (even though they weren’t paid for it).
Which trainer is stuck?
On Monday, August 31, ESL and DreamHack announced three coaches were banned from their tournaments because of the bug. Alexander “zoneR” Hard Legion’s Bogatiryev received the heaviest penalty of a two-year ban since he was found to have taken advantage of this error in six maps in three matches of ESL One: Road to Rio – CIS. Heroic’s Nicolai “HUNDDEN” Petersen was banned for 12 months after fouling a total of 10 rounds of a map at DreamHack Masters Spring, while MIBR’s Ricardo “dead” Sinigaglia was banned for 6 months for using in a round on Road to Rio – North America.
The ban order was issued after consulting with ESIC. Soon after, other tournament organizers belonging to ESIC members, including BLAST, WePlay!, Eeden Esports and UCC also issued a ban. Meanwhile, esports investigators urge non-ESIC member organizations to also introduce the ban “for the sake of protecting the international CSGO esports scene.”
Not long after, Beyond the Summit also banned the next two awards for “dead” because of another penalty in the game within the framework of CS_Summit 6.
Those are fines for now, but it looks like it won’t stop there as more and more violations come to light by Slowinski on Twitter. The entire Hard Legion team continued to suffer after zoneR as support for Coach Erik “AKIMOV” Akimov was also found to be using the bug in other tournaments. Moving on, K23’s Aset “Solaar” Sembiyev was suspended by the organization. In addition to the Road to Rio incident, HUNDEN admitted to using the bug in the second game of the 13-round Home Sweet Home Cup in a row.
Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira was condemned when he used the bug at ECS Season 7 early 2019 after discovering the bug a few days ago. Coach Furia explains and explains in full in the video below, including recorded conversations between the team during the match. He said he was ‘alt-tab’ out of the game for almost the entire match and didn’t transmit any information to his teammates.
ESIC agreed with Slowinski and Dudenhoeffer to investigate an additional 25,000 demos since 2016. Investigators predict it will take eight months to complete. During this time, ESIC also introduced a formal “revealing period” until September 13 and called on the offending parties to speak up for themselves and admit to taking advantage of the error.
Many parties made it public later, Faruk “pita” Pita was the first big name, he said he used this error when he was a coach for NiP at the ESL Pro League match in November 2018. Allan “Rejin” Peterson also came to light when he claimed to have used it in four games from 2017-2018 while on Tricked, and Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov of Gambit Youngster also used the bug in the map earlier this year. In Brazil, Arthur “prd” Resende of Red Canids, Herique “rikz” Waku of DETONA and Bruno “ellllll” PaiN’s Ono confessed to using coach bugs in official matches. But all three admitted they did not use the information obtained to their advantage.
What is happening right now?
With Michal Slowinski sharing on Twitter that “lots of coaches” have volunteered to report, it looks like we’ll soon know more details. another case in the near future. In addition, the investigation is still far from over and some tournament organizers have yet to issue a penalty for the known cases. In fact, there are still a lot of demos to see, so we don’t know the severity of this bug and how deeply it is ingrained in CSGO, especially after Slowinski said that there are still two variants of this bug still exist. somewhere.
Reminder: ESIC opened up a Confession Period that will run until September 13.
A lot of coaches came forward already (behind the closed doors), please take this opportunity to do the right thing. This is going to help you. You cannot get away with this… https://t.co/nQtCA68Mvp
— Michal Slowinski (@michau9_) September 4, 2020
Below is a list of coaches known or accused of using this bug. The list will be updated as new information becomes available.
Alexander “zoneR” Bogatiryev (Hard Legion) – Banned for 24 months from ESIC member organization tournaments for foul play in six games of Road to Rio, accused of using extra in 5 maps in Home Sweet Home Cups. Contract canceled by Hard Legion.
Nicholas “HUNDEN” Petersen (Heroic) – Banned for 12 months from ESIC member tournaments for using it in 10 rounds at DreamHack Masters Spring, admitted to using it in 13 more rounds in the Home Sweet Home Cup. Suspended by Heroic.
Ricardo “dead” Sinigaglia (MIBR) – Six-month ban from ESIC member tournaments for foul play in one round of Road to Rio, two bans from Beyond the Summit for use of error in cs_summit 6. Suspended by MIBR.
Erik “AKIMOV” Akimov (Hard Legion) – Accused of foul play in at least one match. Contract canceled by Hard Legion.
Aset “Solaar” Sembiyev (K23) – Admits foul play in a match. Suspended by K23.
Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira (FURIA) – Caught using a bug in two games, posted a video explaining it.
Faruk “pita” Pita (formerly NiP) – Admits a foul in a match. No new developments.
Allan “Rejin” Petersen (mousesports) – Admits foul play in four maps while coaching Tricked. Suspended by mousesports.
Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov (Gambit Youngsters) – Admit errors in a map. Suspended by Gambit
Henrique “rikz” Waku (DETONA) – Found a bug in a match, but admitted not using this information. No new developments.
Arthur “prd” Resende (RED Canids) – Admit the error, but do not use this information. No new developments.
Bruno “ellllll” Ono (paiN) – Detects an error, but admits it does not affect the results. No new developments.
Pedro “peu” Lopes (W7M) – Detects misuse, but admits not to use this information. No new developments.
Peter “casle” Sørensen (Singularity) – Admit errors in a map. No new developments.
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