OpTic India’s former player “forsaken” receives near-lifetime ban from ESIC CS: GO events

The former OpTic India player found himself in the center of attention of the entire Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community last week, but it wasn’t really for anything positive. Instead, Nikhil “forsaken” Kumawat became a living meme that players mocked after being caught in the infamous “Word.exe” cheating controversy

Now, after OpTic has cut off its relations with the Indian young man accused of cheating in the eXTREMELAND ZOWIE Asia tournament, “forsaken” seems to be continuing to face the trouble that has come from doing so. According to ESIC, which regulates the rules of many major eSports tournaments, the player has been banned from participating in any event supervised by Esports Integrity Coalition for five years , according to GM Kezra Powell’s statement.

Although the fraud incident at the match against Revolution in the previous eXTREMESLAND Asia – which the Korean team MVP won – was the biggest scandal in the player’s career, it seems that another case has been discovered where “forsaken” used the fake Word.exe cheat file during ESL India Premiership tournament. In other words, the biggest achievement in the history of the team, which put them on the CS: GO world map as the best Indian team was the result of the use of “forsaken” twisted ways.

With that in mind, the win from OpTic India may be withdrawn by ESL, which will announce its decision later today. Although his teammates weren’t involved, OpTic has laid off the entire CS: GO lineup because of “forsaken” doing. Knowing all this, the ESIC decision in Kumawat’s five-year ban seems to be just the fair ending the player deserved after a fake career that tarnished his team’s reputation and CS: GO eSports in general.

“It is always desperately sad when something like this happens in esports, but this case is particularly disappointing as we have previously shown compassion and consideration for Kumawat in our prior dealings with him,” ESIC commissioner Ian Smith said in a statement. “Additionally, he has caused great damage to Indian CS:GO and esports and devalued an excellent competition. There is no place in esports for cheats like Kumawat and, at a personal level, I hope we never see him back in CS:GO or any other game again.” Ouch!

“Forsaken” defended his use of cheats in an interview with a site yesterday, saying he was confident in many of his abilities aside of his ability to aim. In a shooting game where all you do is aim at enemies to kill them, that argument does not seem to make sense to us.

“If I could go back i would probably delete the day I started playing Counter-Strike, Nothing good has happened to me since i started playing that game.” Forsaken said in a laughable statement knowing that “deletion” is not really his best ability (we’re referring to his failed attempt to delete the Word.exe file, of course).

“I am broken inside, but I’m paying for what I did, I have committed a far greater mistake for the community and I must not only pay for my mistake but also for the people who trusted me, I know my career in Counter-Strike is over.” You bet it is.

You can watch some of the best Nikhil “highlights” below. Let us know how many suspicious Kills you’ve detected in the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-m-Y9dbbM