match fixing
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Counter-Strike Match Fixing Is So Bad The FBI Is Getting Involved
We’ve seen plenty of Australians get pinged by police and tournament organisers for match fixing and illegal betting, but the problem is apparently so bad that the FBI is now getting involved to clean up North America.
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Rainbow 6: Siege Coach Casually Announces His Team Threw A Match On Twitter
Betting on your own games is bad enough. But just for good measure, a high profile Rainbow 6 Siege (R6) team has landed themselves right in the shit for deliberately throwing a game for better competitive seeding.
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DreamHack Unbans CS:GO Players Who Cheated And Fixed Matches
Last July, esports organisation ESL lifted the lifetime ban on tournament participation from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players who had been caught cheating or participating in match-fixing schemes. The new sanctions now call for a two-year ban on cheaters and a five-year ban on match fixers, with the potential for longer bans in extreme cases. This…
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A StarCraft World Champion Has Been Charged With Match Fixing
He’s not even 20. But over the last few years, Lee “Life” Seung established himself as one of the world’s most dominant StarCraft 2 players. Life found himself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons earlier this year though when he was taken into custody by the Changwon District Prosecutor’s Officer. The Zerg player has…