Ontem durante um jogo contra os russos PiTER para o 1º pré qualificador online para o próximo major, a DreamHack Cluj, o jogador Viliam "villiG" Andrascik da equipa finlandesa nerdRage foi banido da plataforma FACEIT, que era a plataforma que estava a ser usada para organizar este pré-qualificador.

Mais tarde o próprio jogador admitiu num comunicado que estava a usar cheats, e que a razão por detrás dessa decisão foi o facto de esta ser talvez uma das suas últimas oportunidades de se qualificar para um torneio major.

Comunicado de villiG para o site HLTV.org:

    "The truth is, last night I bought an aimbot for the dreamhack qualifier in order to qualify or rather maximise the chances of qualifying for the major," Andrascik told HLTV.org.

    "It was a really dumb move but a move I felt I had to make, as It was probably my last chance to go somewhere with cs and my team mate jOELZ has decided to not play the qualifier with us for no reason which put me under so much pressure to perform. I was getting really bored of playing the game 6 days a week and it was eating up too much time and controlling my life.

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    "I can also explain why it was detected, because I set it up 1 hour before the qualifier and had almost 0 idea of what I was doing. Ironically, in the end I ended up playing much worse as I was too paranoid to frag or do anything weird. I was 6-4 on the whole of ct side on cache which is amazing in my opinion :D.

    "Regardless, I am sorry if I let anyone down, especially my team mates who deserve much better than being hated for my wrongdoing. If there is anyone you need to hate it’s definately me and not them, because they are all amazing players.

    "I also wanna apologise to nerdRage and their sponsors, they are an amazing group of people.

    "Don’t hate me too much, there are many others that are cheating in this qualifier :)."

A equipa nerdRage reagiu também de imediato á situação removendo o jogador permanentemente da equipa, a qual é agora formada pelos seguintes jogadores:

Joel "jOELZ" Aalto
Juho "juhob" Kampinen
Hampus "hMp" Netzell
Rasmus "NIZN" Nisula