Valve has announced that, in the wake of match-fixing allegations in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, seven players have been banned from all future events sponsored by the publisher.
In a post on the Counter-Strike blog it was revealed that following an internal investigation of players involved “in the Cevo Season 5 match between iBUYPOWER and NetCodeGuides.com” there had been “a substantial number of high valued items won from that match by Duc “cud” Pham were transferred ( via Derek “dboorn” Boorn ) to iBUYPOWER players and NetCodeGuides founder, Casey Foster.”
The seven banned players are Duc “cud” Pham, Derek “dboorn” Boorn, Casey Foster, Sam “Dazed” Marine, Braxton “swag” Pierce, Keven “AZK” Larivière and Joshua “Steel” Nissan. Valve also issued a warning regarding betting on CS:GO which reads:
“Professional players, their managers, and teams’ organization staff, should under no circumstances gamble on CS:GO matches, associate with high volume CS:GO gamblers, or deliver information to others that might influence their CS:GO bets.”
The Daily Dot has reported extensively on the scandal and in-depth information and analysis can be found in its report.
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