"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" Pros Banned

PC Gamer has Details on a Few High-Profile Professional "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" Players Who were Banned this Week by VALVe's Anti-Cheat Software. They also Offer Some Background on the Cheat they are Accused of Using, Saying it "is allegedly very difficult to detect, so much so, it’s not out of the question for it to have been used at live LAN events". They also Explain How this Comes at a Crucial Time, as a Big Tournament is about to Get Underway:


"Admissions of hacking by three professional CS:GO players have cast a shadow of suspicion on the CS:GO competitive scene. The outed players, Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian, Simon "smn" Beck, and Gordon "Sf" Giry each received in-game bans through VAC earlier this week. The revelations call into question the players’ past performances, both during online tournaments and at LAN events, where the cheat, which allegedly connects through a player’s Steam Workshop, could have been used. For some in the scene, the news also presents the uncomfortable possibility that other professional players have used similar, still-undetected cheats in tournament play.

These revelations could not have come at a worse time for CS:GO e-sports — we’re days away from the biggest tournament in the game’s history, the DreamHack Winter 2014. Professional CS:GO players have been VAC banned before, but arguably not such high-profile players. KQLY, the most prominent player of the three, admitted in a statement on Facebook (that I’ve translated from French using Facebook’s integrated tool) that he had used a third-party program “for seven days”. KQLY denied using the program while he was a member of Titan (during the DreamHack Invitational, for example, which Titan won).

“As you may have seen yesterday, I was banned by VAC and unfortunately it was justified”, KQLY wrote. “I wanted to say that I am really sorry for all the people who supported me, I am aware that with my bullshit, my career is now over and my team in a very bad position. They did not deserve it.” When he was offered use of the program, KQLY says, the provider reassured him that “many pro players” were using it."




Info Source:

http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-competitive-scene-embroiled-in-hacking-scandal-as-three-players-are-banned

http://www.hltv.org/news/7439-moxxi-zaider-banned-in-denmark

http://www.dreamhack.se/stockholm14/2014/09/10/dreamhack-stockholm-csgo-invitational

https://www.facebook.com/KQLYY/posts/663241367127259