The recent bans of coaches are far from the first high-profile event in the history of competitive CS: GO. Some players were caught cheating at tournaments, others were secretly taking stimulants, and still others were cheated or simply didn’t care about their own organizations. Cybersport.ru remembers the spree Immortals, arrogant players Fnatic and other scandalous teams.
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Fnatic – the main villains of CS: GO
The history of esports in CS: GO is usually divided into so-called eras – era Astralis, Team Liquid, Heroic (which, as a joke, lasted only a day), etc. At the dawn of discipline, the eras were much longer than now: after all, there were ten times fewer tournaments and prepared teams. And the longest of the “old” eras was marked by the dominance of Fnatic.
In 2014-2016. before the meteoric rise of the Brazilians under the leadership FalleN it was the Swedes who were the leaders in the world Counter-Strike. The team routinely won tournament after tournament, so the results of the championships could be easily predicted even before the start of the playoffs. The ease with which Fnatic dealt with everyone, at the same time aroused admiration, indignation and an underlying desire that, well, at least someone would defeat her. The team almost always found itself in scandals not of its own free will – against the background of the greatness of the team, any incident immediately attracted the attention of the community. Still, we are talking about Fnatic itself!
Years go by, but Fnatic is still strong. Photo: Jennika Ojala / DreamHack
Probably everyone has seen the recording from DreamHack Bucharest 2013, where Fnatic vilifies on what Ninjas in Pajamas, and Jesper JW Bill of Exchange also refuses to shake hands GeT_RiGhT after the match – all because of a disagreement over the overtime rules: Fnatic won, but she was forced to replay the extra rounds. And although after the game Patrick cArn Sattermon and the captain Andreas MODDII Freed apologized to the community, it was from that moment that Fnatic began to turn into a villain. The tournament, by the way, was won by NiP, and Fnatic took over two months later at the first Major.
If you ask an ordinary CS: GO fan who personifies Fnatic, he will surely name the permanent JW trio, flusha and KRiMZ – and each of them has a far from perfect background. We have already talked about the first one above, the second is suspected of cheating throughout his career, and the third, although the most secretive, is overly impulsive and emotional – what are the blows by keyboard and a non-trivial story about bad tattoo…
However, the main person involved in the most famous scandal associated with Fnatic turned out to be olofmeister – which is in fact an example of the ideal esports player. In the quarterfinals of the fourth Major, Fnatic lost no chance to the French from LDLC on the decisive map Overpass – 3:13. The match turned upside down when the Swedes began to make little-known landing on the basis of spetsnaz, which gave an overview of the entire map. Everyone was shocked by Fnatic’s trick – it was thanks to her that the Swedes eventually took all the remaining rounds and won. But that was only the beginning of the story.
Immediately after the match, the administrators decided that Fnatic’s trick was the so-called pixel walking, that is, the use of a bug, which means a violation of the championship rules. The organizers offered the teams to replay the second half of the meeting, but Fnatic refused and withdrew from the championship – either out of pride, or realizing that it would not win otherwise. History will be silent about this, but the episode itself was immortalized in the game.
With this sign, olofboost became part of CS: GO history
In recent years, Fnatic has lost its former positions, paying attention to the team in the public field somewhat diminished. Nevertheless, the trail of “villainy” will always haunt her.
IBUYPOWER – public flogging of those who bet
The stereotype is still alive in the community that fake matches regularly take place even in the highest echelons of Counter-Strike. However, even if we assume that this is so, there are clearly not very many who want to – nevertheless, the opportunity to earn lifetime bans on the majors hardly attracts anyone. The first and hopefully the last professional team to be punished in this way was iBUYPOWER Esports…
The team and its members have a rather tragic history. The team was formed in 2013 and showed itself at the very first tournament. The championship was dedicated to the tenth anniversary Complexity Gaming – primordially the main team of the region. In the playoffs DaZeD beat stellar Complexity twice with Hiko, n0thing and… swag, which will soon move to iBUYPOWER.
Very quickly, the team staked out the title of the second team in North America (after Complexity Gaming, the composition of which later moved to Cloud9), regularly won local tournaments and played at the majors (although not to say that it was very successful). It seemed that the roster had a great future, but suddenly it turned out that the team had passed the game against a notorious outsider for the sake of skins.
In a match against NetcodeGuides (which would later go to Counter Logic Gaming) iBUYPOWER players frankly didn’t try to win: they didn’t kill rivals in the back, put a bomb under crossfire, or simply ran out onto the dots, not looking around.
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