Proof of Pro CSGO Players Cheating???
Cheating is probably the most annoying thing in every sport. Since monetizing esports, cheating has become a normal thing, and a lot of players got VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) banned from the servers. Some countries take this issue seriously, and you can actually go to prison for creating cheats in China and South Korea.
For example, one programmer was arrested in China, and he was facing 15 years behind bars for creating and selling cheat programs. South Korea tried to fix this problem by criminalizing the creation and distribution of such cheat programs. Cheat programmers can do jail time up to 5 years, or they can get up to $43,000 in fines.
CS:GO Cheating
When it comes to CS:GO, Valve has a strict policy, and all VAC bans are permanent. In the ESL league, on March 24th, 2017, it was announced that VAC bans would be equivalent to a two-year ESL ban, while in all other Major leagues, VAC bans are permanent.
One cheat programmer opened a thread on Reddit, and he answered community questions with detailed explanations. He did not give any names, but he did admit that many players from tier 2 and tier 3 leagues bought cheats from him. More about that here.
Many professional players tried to use cheats and got caught. Some players who got VAC banned include Flex from ESP league on ESEA live stream, emilio from Team Property in a match against Hellraisers, and even KQLY from Titan, which was a tier 1 team at the time. You can see a full list here.
However, many of them are still able to stay under the radar and they are still undetected in the tier 1 league.
Disclaimer: We are not followers or makers of conspiracy theories and we are not making any accusations. This is just the article about the facts and evidence stated in one place. You can see for yourself and make your own opinion.
How People Cheat on LAN Tournaments in CS:GO:
First of all, let’s explain software assistance available for cheating in CS:GO:
- Aimbots or triggerbots – this is a program that automatically shoots when an opponent appears within the field-of-view or aiming reticule of the player. Theese programs can be modified, and they can go undetected under VAC radar.
- Wallhacks – this is a software that allows people to see through walls and know the exact location of the enemy.
- Recoil scripts – this software helps you to control recoil
Aimbots are easy to detect, and they are not used in LAN tournaments. On the other side, some people use triggerbots like a wallhack; they use them to find the location of their enemies.
The most common cheat is a recoil control cheat that allows players to control the recoil of certain rifles with just one click. We all know how hard it is to master recoil controls of rifle guns in CS:GO. Only a few players can shoot 30 bullets at the same spot without cheating. Others use scripts to do that. They implement the scripts along with their configurations on the USB flash drives they are allowed to bring with them to the tournaments. The same goes for wallhacking.
Is it even possible to use wallhack in LAN tournaments with hundreds of people watching you? Most people say that it is impossible to cheat on LAN tournaments, but it isn’t. Cheaters can’t actually see where the enemy is on their screen, but they can press a button that activates this cheat, and their crosshair slowly moves towards the enemy, so it looks like normal movement. The player who is cheating does not lift the mouse, but the crosshair moves towards the enemy, so it is really easy to use and hard to detect. Cheaters can actually know where the enemy is without seeing him. It’s helpful in 1-on-1 situations where players know exactly where the enemy is because the player knows where to pre-aim.
This way of cheating is best explained in this short YouTube video:
How Can Cheaters Be Stopped???
Where does this end? Is there a way to stop cheating??
There is a VAC secure system that “detects” cheats. When a new cheat is detected, the VAC system is updated immediately. Every cheat leaves a trail, and players that use a detected cheat get VAC banned from official community servers. Within days of a VAC system update, new cheats will have already been coded, quickly out-dating the system and leaving it useless.
In conclusion, the VAC system is useless, and it can detect only old cheats that are widely spread across the internet. With that being said, let’s consider a new way to stop cheaters, at least in tournaments where enormous amounts of money are involved.
Pro players are allowed to use their gaming equipment but not their PCs. However, they are allowed to use their own USB flash drives to install “personal configuration.” Many players abuse that, and they install cheat scripts with that configuration. Those flash drives should be checked by an admin or banned completely.
This would not be enough because the new mouses and keyboards have their own memory and they can be programmed to carry cheats in the near future. The only solution is to add mouse cameras to the LAN tournaments and monitor everything.
Every Major should have mouse cameras and player POV cameras. Everything should be monitored. Who knows? Maybe Valve is doing this on purpose, allowing cheating to make matches more intense in order to make more money from esports. One thing is for sure, there are cheaters in the pro-competitive scene and Valve is not doing enough to stop that.
What does this mean for betting?
From the CSGO betting aspect, cheating is a serious issue. No matter how much time you spent on analyses, if someone is cheating, he would win the crucial rounds and the match eventually. Try to avoid lower leagues and online competitions. There are fewer cheaters in LAN tournaments and higher leagues, because it is harder to cheat in front of admins, public and thousands of online viewers. The biggest mistake you can do while making a bet is to bet on someone you think is cheating. Potential cheaters are unpredictable, they do not use their cheats in every match and you can never know when will they perform above their level. This is a great paradox, don’t bet on cheaters and don’t bet against them. Just try to avoid betting on matches where you suspect there is a cheater in one team.
Suspicious Pro Players:
If you are interested in this topic, you should visit the YouTube Channel of Dan M. This guy is obsessed with conspiracy theories of pro players cheating. Even though, he did admit that there are some naturally talented CS:GO players like s1mple, olofmeister, and GeT_RiGhT who are just born to be the best. GeT_RiGhZ and olof even admitted to using the crowd as a cheat. In LAN events, they constantly aim through the walls and wait for the crowd to respond. If they hear the crowd go wild, that means someone is behind the wall, and they shoot. This is just a trick that smart players use, but what about real cheaters?
Flusha
Flusha is currently a Fnatic player in the tier 1 league. He has been accused of cheating many times through the years. He did deny everything on his Facebook page, claiming that he has a different playstyle.
“The only thing I can say about the clips on me is that I have a very different playstyle and I lift my mouse A LOT more than the average pro player.”
He did try to explain that he is playing differently and later deleted that post. Why would you try to explain anything if you are not feeling guilty??
There is just too much evidence that he is cheating. His demos are full of behaviour that can’t really be explained and aimlocks through the walls, and he seems to know where the enemy is without any previous info in clutch situations and important rounds.
Evidence of flusha cheating:
On top of that, even famous streamer Summit1g looked into that because he could not believe that flusha was cheating, but he later came to the conclusion that it is possible. You can see it for yourself here
There is also a recorded conversation of G2’s player, shox, with some of his friends, where he says that flusha is too obvious and that he won’t even shake hands with him anymore.
Somebody
Somebody is a current player on the Chinese TyLoo team. With a 1.12 rating on HLTV, he is currently one of the best CS:GO players from China. Even though they are not competing in the tier 1 league, he has been under the radar ever since the match against Cloud9 in Eleague. That crosshair transfer from the connector to the window (on Mirage) was strong evidence of cheating and using triggerbot or similar software.
There are plenty of situations where we can clearly see that this player is using triggebot. See for yourself:
k0nfig
k0nfig is a current player of tier-1 team OpTic gaming. There is not as much evidence against him. However, there are some situations that are weird and unexplainable. For example, there was the situation on Dust2 with accidental aim lock through the box in the clutch situation, but the most interesting is the one against mouz on Cache with two clean aim locks where he accidentally fires directly at the enemy through the wall and afterwards gets panicky trying to hide it. See for yourself:
Subroza
He’s a young Canadian player currently playing for Ghost. He was caught cheating while playing for CLG many times, and he is still playing on a competitive scene. It is funny how Valve is doing nothing with all this evidence. This player is even cheating while killing bots:
The most interesting situation is on Overpass against NRG. He did spam through wood and “accidentally” had 6 aim-locks in 10 seconds. It is just too embarrassing for a competitive scene to allow something like this to happen in LAN tournaments:
DeadFox
DeadFox is a current player from Hellraisers. If he is cheating, then he is smart, and he does not leave enough evidence. However, there is one moment where we can clearly see an aimbot. He aims at the enemy through a box and fires at a completely different enemy on the other side of the map. Did he press some button to help him aim at the enemy through the box and end up aiming at a completely different guy??? See for yourself:
byali
byali is a Virtus.pro player. He was caught cheating in his early beginnings. We can see clear aimlock in one match against Deponerent and the match against the former tier-1 team who got banned for fixing matches, famous iBUYPOWER. He is not cheating anymore, but he did use some aim software a few years ago. That is a fact.
NiKo
NiKo is one of the best players in the world, a current player of FaZe clan. He is not a cheater, and he does not belong to this group, but as we said, nobody is cheating unless proved otherwise. So, if other players from this list are not cheaters, we can add NiKo to the list as well. Anyway, he had only one suspicious moment on the Train two years ago. He aim-locked the head of Friberg and then peeked and killed him. However, Friberg was standing on a common spot, and NiKo tried to do that again in some matches, but no one was holding that angle. It can be a coincidence. We think it is, but you can see it for yourself:
This is our full list for now. If you know any more players that are suspicious, feel free to comment below.
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