Now gamers have become a job that is of interest to the public. The income that can be very tempting, especially if you often participate in tournaments and win. Becoming a professional gamer certainly requires a lot of sacrifice.
Time, energy, thoughts continue to be drained to hone skills to be better. A Pro Gamer is a person who is very good at playing a game and skillsis above the average of other players.
However, being a pro gamer doesn’t mean you won’t cheat like the examples below for professional gamers who were caught playing cheats during an official tournament. Of course, this act is not good because it uses improper methods to earn money and plays unsportsmanlike. Below are 10 pro gamers who were caught cheating in professional tournaments.
*The use of cheats or cheating involves video game players who use unconventional methods to create advantages or disadvantages from the general gameplay.
Pro Gamer Who Was Caught Playing Cheats
Who are these professional gamers? Here’s a complete list of Pro Gamers who were caught playing cheats
1. Nikhil “Forsaken” Kumawat – Optic India (CS:GO)
This is the most recent and popular case, Optic India is one of the teams that competed in the eXTREMESLAND Asia 2022. One of its members, Nikhil ‘Forsaken” Kumawat, was caught using aimbot during the match. This allows him to do perfect shooting accuracy in the game CS:GO.
After the committee checked, they found a cheat aimbot in the form of word files. Forsaken had deleted the existing evidence but the committee had visual evidence that they had obtained and also the cheat file that Forsaken had deleted was successfully restored.
As a result of his actions, Forsaken was banned from appearing in any official matches for life and the OpTic India Team was disqualified. It turns out that this is not the first time Forsaken has cheated. He also did it in 2022 which made him banned from playing for 6 months.
Through the official twitter account, OpTic India also immediately made an official statement after the incident, and Forsaken immediately kicked him from the team and ordered him to find another team that would still accept him.
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2. AtuuN – Thunder Predator (DOTA 2)
Cases of cheating or cheating have also happened in a game as big as DotA 2, it’s even worse during a super big tournament The International 2022 which has a total prize of USD 15 million or equivalent to Rp. 214 billion. Thunder Predator is a DotA 2 team from Peru.
At The International 2022 this team was forced to be disqualified because one of its members used a cheat. AtuuN was the member who was finally caught using his mouse macro program.
At that time AtuuN was using the hero Meepo, then with this macro AtuuN was very profitable. So with the use of this macro he no longer needs to press a lot of buttons while controlling skills ultimate from Meepo. By pressing that one macro button he made, Meepo can quickly teleport and then eject damage straight to the opponent.
3. Hovik “KQLY” Tovmassian – Titan (CS:GO)
In FPS games like CS:GO Shot accuracy is very important, it takes a long time to have high accuracy like pro gamers who have mastered it. In CS:GO games other than because skills there are also certain cheats to increase shot accuracy, namely aimbot.
With cheats aimbot, you can shoot anywhere or anywhere but the bullet will automatically hit the enemy and die. Of course, using cheats in playing casually is not allowed, especially as in the case of KQLY who is currently in this tournament.
KQYL is one of the CS:GO players who was caught cheating during a tournament in 2022 with the DreamHack competition. It uses an aimbot that creates it later banned, because of his actions, KQLY was immediately fired from Titan and the Titan team could not participate in the tournament.
4. Stephane “Shaiiko” Lebleu – beGenius (Rainbow Six: Siege)
The case is the same as AtuuN, this Shaiiko doesn’t use software cheats but uses mouse macros which makes playing easier than usual. Shaiiko is a pro gamer from France from the game Rainbow Six: Siege who was caught cheating during a Pro League tournament against the PENTA Sports team.
In game Rainbow Six: Siege the use of macros is strictly prohibited, macro that use this Shaiiko can withstand recoil the finished weapon will make it easier to shoot. He is banned from the ESL event for 2 years as a result of his actions.
5. KiD X – Overwatch
Blizzard always condemns cheaters and gives no mercy to anyone, if you want to use cheats while playing the Overwatch game, you should stop doing that because Blizzard will not give you any mercy.
This incident happened by a streamer from South Korea, namely KiD X, he was caught using a cheat aimbot when he’s playing it’s worse he does that when he’s live streaming and if you can see in the video above. As a result of his actions, KiD X at minute 3 was immediately banned permanently from Blizzard.
Even though KiD X is the top 500 player in the Overwatch game, of course this unsportsmanlike action tarnishes his reputation as a top player.
6. Kory “semphis’ Friesen – Cloud9 (CS:GO)
Maybe you have heard of cases of athletes who use doping to increase the energy in their bodies. It turns out that this also applies in esports that require high concentration in front of the screen.
One of the doping users in the world of esports is Semphis from the Cloud9 team. He uses Adderal which makes his body very energetic before the match. Because his confession made him fired from Cloud9. He also admitted that many other pro gamers used doping during matches.
Adderall is a stimulant that will provide energy to the body, the effect is the same as when using cocaine.
7. Woong – Azubu Frost (League of Legends)
It happened during the League of Legends Season 2 World Championship playoff competition in 2012, which at that time brought together 2 teams, namely Azubu Frost and TSM. You can see in the video above, when it was paused due to a technical problem.
The opposing team of TSM Chaox caught one of Azubu Frost’s members, Woong, being caught peeking at the large screen or rearview mirror several times during a pause to find out the enemy’s position.
As a result of this incident, he reported it to the committee and was subject to a very large sanction, namely USD 30 thousand or equivalent to Rp. 429 million. But the cool thing is that because of this violation Azubu Frost still won and made it to the next round.
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8. LOL Match Fixing – League of Legends
As the most successful MOBA game in the world, it turns out that there are only pro gamers in the game. This time Match Fixing happened, what was it? It is a match-fixing between the two teams, something that happened in the LoL game at the 2012 MLG League of Legends final championship.
As can be seen in the video above, the two teams Dignitas and Curse NA are playing and according to the organizers of MLG they conspired to do a conspiracy when both teams would play not seriously, and both teams agreed to each other to share the total prize won. Wow, what do you think?
9. Tom60229 – Hearthstone
It turns out that from the Hearthstone game there are also professional players who commit fraudulent actions. A Hearthstone world champion named Chen Wei or better known as Tom60229, who at that time was competing against Sequinox. Even though the match was broadcast live, you know, Tom60229 and his team conspired to commit fraud.
Want to know what kind of fraudulent act? Tom60229 was caught watching the live stream so he could see the opponent’s strategy, as a result he was caught and did not wait long he was immediately disqualified from the match.
10. Sado – Overwatch
Again, from the Overwatch game, there is also a return. This time, from a pro gamer named Sado, he is a player from the Philadelphia Fusion team, which is a team with the top 10 achievements of the Overwatch League, you know.
But at that time Sado was suspended due to his own actions, after he was finally caught by doing a boosting action using his own account. Boosting is the act of increasing the ranking of an account by using another account in order to get a win, which is actually the account that Sado plays alone.
Those are some pro gamers who have been caught cheating and being unsportsmanlike during tournaments and while livestreaming. And from all these actions, strict action was taken immediately. Don’t let yourself be determined to win or get money for you to cheat.
