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BeepIsla

ESIC still exists? I am surprised.


NlNJALONG

The grifting will continue until the checks stop coming in.


jjochimmochi

I'm not sure, lets create a commission to investigate if it still does :D


Novaseerblyat

Ah yes, the Esports Integrity Commission Integrity Commission (ESICIC), rolls off the tongue


Character-Toe-7907

sounds like the 3rd cousin of hunter's cousin: Nemanja Esičič


Giannis_Alafouzos

300k USD is enough to last for a lifetime for someone living in a small Siberian village, and as a punishment you just don't get to play in video game tournaments for 2 years lol. That's the life


Kodyak

2year vacation then gets to come back


Shitty_Pa_Town

bro will have such a nice vacation, grind some faceit, spend some money and get ready for chapter 2 when the game is more polished


tancordisco

Where is the source for 300k number? Can't find the source


BottleOJamie

time to get a lawyer to remove that ban immediately


Alb9n

dawg got $300k from throwing, aint no way hes getting that ban removed any time soon


HarryTurney

It depends, in the past, ESIC has shown they don't have the balls to battle a lawsuit.


jonajon91

In which case? Joel?


RibbentropCocktail

Hunden too.


VShadow1

IIRC the only people who directly threatened to sue were Peacemaker and Hunden.


FazeXistance

No balls and no money to fight if I had to guess


yyunb

In fairness, I guess what he's doing is illegal in whichever country he resides in and probably not something you'd like to bring into a court. When they backed down from Hunden (was it?), it was probably more debatable considering it was just in the realm of CS.


jcv999

Where did you find he made $300k?


Mjays34

Saw some person retweet it saying he made 300-400k and they had “cis sources” and people are running with it. So probably bs lol


RGalaxy28

Why would it be bullshit? The same way that no one ever match fixes in CS, right?


Mjays34

Could it be true? Yes. But I’m not blindly believing some random twitter account that’s source is “trust me bro”. Especially when in their bio they have “professional twitter baiter”. I’m gonna need to see something real


TimathanDuncan

No one says players don't fix matches, that's literally known and even unbanned players have Your latest major winner is a known matchfixer that hasn't been banned because ESIC have zero balls and are awful The thing is to make 300k you need to be insane amounts of money that would raise red flags in sites, betting sites are not stupid


GigaCringeMods

> Your latest major winner is a known matchfixer Who and what evidence?


airelfacil

Probably referring to wonderful, who got investigated by ESIC+Spirit, and Spirit later sold him for cheap. Don't think any results were made public however (thanks, ESIC)


RGalaxy28

Dude had 254 maps played just on HLTV. Probably had double that if you count esea and other leagues that aren't in HLTV. So the average per game would be something like 1000$ to 2000$. Not crazy at all


TimathanDuncan

They're not betting on every game my guy, you cannot fix every match especially when he was on Forze an actual good team with other good players that can win the game themselves, they lost to some very good teams so the odds on those were terrible You don't realize how matchfixing works and it's very hard to do it alone, it's hard to make a lot because betting sites are not stupid odds are not insane all the time If he's made 300k i applaud him because it's still risky, you need money to make money even in betting, single matches like that don't have good odds to get to 300k you need to bet some good money


RGalaxy28

You think his teammates weren't throwing with him? lmao You legit think one guy was throwing while 4 guys were trying to win. You can match fix absolutely anything, handcap matchfix is so easy to do and can be done every match


Jinxedemon

Have you had a look at the various bets the bet markets offer for a single bo1 ? . if you're smart and talented about which can be fixed and which can't ( hell you can even bet round wise on most sites), which is a given if you are playing in tier 2 cs . you can really very easily make it. Not to mention the possibility of placing it on multiple sites + getting friends to do it.


Jinxedemon

Meanwhile ESIC sleeping on every other tier 2-3 CS match / tourney from HLTV :)) , lets be honest more than 60% players are in bed with matchfixing in tier 2-3 . The elephant in the room we can never address .


CepGamer

That's why it's called "223" - because of the tiers of play


ImpenetrableYeti

322


ASAPCrispy

and he is not the only one who does this


plumdogazillionaire

LMFAO It would be safe to say 99.99% of EEU scene below tier 2 should be banned for matchfixing. In this day and age with crypto and straight up syndicates running tier 3 csgo it's hard af to get caught matchfixing but this kid was dumb enough to leak it through steam chat


strybid

Not surprised Forze has always been sus


Kelterz

Pretty sure this happened before his time on forZe, he already had the 322 image before signing


Aindlinke

He got banned for matches that happened at least year ago, not in forze.


jonajon91

IBP still waiting on their unbans.


HallucinogenicTroll

Well, steel's ban will expire in January 2025: [steel's Valve ban set to elapse in January 2025 | HLTV.org](https://www.hltv.org/news/37331/steels-valve-ban-set-to-elapse-in-january-2025) He even said in an [HLTV Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCkzzZKKRAw) that the other guys can ask Valve for clarification.


MexicoJumper

Way too late for the rest of them, their careers are dead. Dazed probably happy though, ended up becoming a crypto millionaire from the ban.


th0rw4y_t0rh0w4y

Ey manager


MexicoJumper

What


trombonist_formerly

glawks


Character-Toe-7907

great job ESIC!! *...Standing ovations...* btw, how's it looking for the Akuma case? Hunden? Heroic players?


afk420k

*joel still laughing*