Three CS: GO pros banned from this tournament’s qualifiers for cheating

Three players from the European Minor qualifier for the ELEAGUE Boston Major were banned yesterday. Reason? Cheating, of course.

KerZe of Team Optimistic, Ciocardau of Invictus Aquilas, and SodaH of PlanetenOG were suspects of cheating by CEVO, the server client host, during their online matches. Under the light of those circumstances, Team Optimistic, Invictus Aquilas, and PlanetenOG were all disqualified from the European Minor qualifier because of the player bans.

Invictus Aquilas defended Ciocardau’s integrity on Twitter after their match, saying that his ban was a “huge breach of trust from CEVO.” They later tweeted links to their player’s demos to prove his innocence on the matter. On the other hand, this wasn’t the first time for SodaH being banned on CEVO’s client. EKLN, another player for PlanetenOG, is also a player of interest in the controversy, after a suspicious Steam chat log surfaced.

We truly hope to see no more cheating in the upcoming CS:GO tournaments, especially ELEAGUE Major: Boston as well as in future online qualifier matches in other tournaments.