The recording was released after Ian Smith, the Commissioner of the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC), revealed that the FBI joined hands with ESIC in investigating the North American CS: GO match-fixing scandal.
The three CS: GO players allegedly featured in the audio are Sebastian “retchy” Tropiano, Kevin “4pack” Przypasniak, and Carson “nosraC” O’Reilly, who were all part of the organization Rebirth at the time.
They can supposedly be heard openly discussing the outcome of their matches against Incognito and Russian Canadians. There is also mention of two other CS: GO players’ name in the recording, who are Alex “vek” Voynov and David “J0LZ” Jolin, as having agreed to partake in the match-fixing scheme.
However, Vek denied any involvement with match-fixing in a now-deleted twitlonger post. Moreover, Dexerto interviewed J0LZ, where he denied having made any agreement with Retchy.
Leaked recording among three CS: GO players regarding ESEA match-fixing
The full transcript of the recording is as follows:
The long series of cheating and match-fixing scandals in the CS: GO scene recently
This audio recording reveal comes after a chain of other cheating and match-fixing scandals in the North American CS: GO scene. Quite naturally, the CS: GO scene is under rigorous scrutiny.
In September 2020, 37 CS: GO coaches faced the ban hammer across all ESIC member tournament hosts. This was only the tip of the iceberg, since ESIC came up with initial results after investigating 20% of the available data.
In October 2020, ESIC issued bans on 7 CS: GO pro players after their involvement in betting-related offenses. ESIC made it clear that they were not taking these offenses lightly and that they were involving Australian Law Enforcement in the case, since Australian Criminal Code was breached.
All these scandals also had a chilling effect on the Valorant scene, as several of the CS: GO players meanwhile switched ship to Valorant at that point.
Then at the end of March 2021, the involvement of FBI in the investigation became public, which indicates there will be far-reaching effects, not only to the pro players involved in the scandal, but to the CS: GO and the Valorant esports scenes as well.
While all these investigations and convictions are not good for the public image of the esports scene, the end result after stringent punishment of the perpetrators will hopefully ensure a clean and fair competitive environment.
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