Esports Integrity Commission has issued bans on 37 top flight CSGO coaches for abusing the spectator bug.
Spectator bug came to light right after, Heroic took ESL One Cologne home, and to their misfortune, their coach HUNDEN was first to be accused of exploitation. Being an underdog team and taking down teams who are much higher up in the ranking table rained down the suspicions on them form the community.
After knowing, ESIC took charge of the matter and consulted with veteran esports referee Michal Slowinski to resolve the issue. Slowinski was tasked with looking into demos across several competitions to figure out the abuses.
Since then, several coaches owned up to exploiting it to give their team the upper hand, and finally, after the monthlong investigation, ESIC has named 37 individuals who are convicted have been handed bans which only concludes 20% of the total investigation.
Check out the list below alongside the period they have been banned for
Sr. No | Name | Duration |
1 | Slaava “Twista” Räsänen | 15.75 months |
2 | Peter “casle” Sørensen | 10 months |
3 | Rodrigo “dinamo” Haro | 10 months |
4 | Arno “ArnoZ1K4” Junior | 10 months |
5 | Allan “Rejin” Petersen | 19.8 months |
6 | Eliomar “glou” Hernandez | 10 months |
7 | Arthur “prd” Resende | 10 months |
8 | Alexey “NooK” Kozlovskiy | 7.5 months |
9 | Henrique “rikz” Waku | 10 months |
10 | Alessandro “Apoka” Marcucci | 5.4 months |
11 | Aleksandr “zoneR” Bogatiryev | 36 months |
12 | Germán “hellpa” Morath | 10 months |
13 | Egor “fuRy^” Morin | 7.5 months |
14 | Aset “Solaar” Sembiyev | 10 months |
15 | Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen | 8 months |
16 | Ricardo “dead” Sinigaglia | 6.5 months |
17 | Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira | 4 months |
18 | Faruk “pita” Pita | 10 months |
19 | Erik “AKIMOV” Akimov | 7.5 months |
20 | Ivan “F_1N” Kochugov | 8.75 months |
21 | Bruno “ellllll” Ono | 10 months |
22 | Pedro “peu” Lopes | 5 months |
23 | Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström | 5.5 months |
24 | Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski | 6 months |
25 | Anton “ToH1o” Georgiev | 10 months |
26 | Andrey “Andi” Prokhorov | 10 months |
27 | Milan “pepik” Gellebra | 10 months |
28 | Morgan “B1GGY” Madour | 7.5 months |
29 | Christian “chrille” Lindberg | 10 months |
30 | Sergey “starix” Ischuk | 10 months |
31 | Alexander “ave” Holdt | 6 months |
32 | Jasmeet “RoSeY” Gill | 10 months |
33 | Sergey “lmbt” Bezhanov | 7.5 months |
34 | Henrik “FeTiSh” Christensen | 3.75 months |
35 | Mikołaj “miNirox” Michałków | 3.75 months |
36 | Nikolay “pNshr” Paunin | 3.75 months |
37 | Casper “ruggah” Due | 3.75 months |
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