iBUYPOWER - NetcodeGuide.net Match-Fixing

MetalLobster

MetalLobster

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Original article: http://www.dailydot.com/esports/match-fixing-counter-strike-ibuypower-netcode-guides/

“The day of this match I had placed a bet on iBUYPOWER. I brought up the bet while talking to Casey Foster, he then voice-called me on Steam Friends and told me to change my bet. He made it very clear the match was going to be thrown. I didn't want to get involved with any of it but I changed my bet, as I thought would be logical at the time while also sharing this information with a friend whom I assumed to have bet the same.

I was wrong for a few different reasons; however, I regret first and foremost not contacting league officials and telling them what was going to happen. I didn't have all the details and didn't know any specifics as I was not the one engineering any of this. Also, given my past immaturity at the time, I wasn't sure if anyone would believe me.

Once I found out my conversation with my so called friend was sent to Richard Lewis, I was ready to just tell him my entire story but I first consulted Casey Foster, who controlled my earnings for my partnership with Netcode Guides (a joint venture by him and then iBUYPOWER Team Captain, Sam “DaZeD” Marine), about it.

He advised this would be a huge blow to the North American competitive CS:GO scene and cause iBUYPOWER to lose their sponsor, asking me to not say anything at all. The NA scene was fragile at the time, and in my eyes I was between a rock and a very hard place with the partnership I had with Netcode Guides, as it was my sole source of income for playing the game I love.

So I denied everything, I stayed quiet, and at the end of the day I took the heat of the crosshairs when this first surfaced months back through an article very similar to this one. I know I wasn't the only person to have known, but I was definitely in a position to do what was right and come forward with this information and I didn't because I was scared. I'm sorry. I've never been involved with any type of match fixing and I never will be, neither would any of us at Cloud9.”

- Khan, C9
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MetalLobster said:
Valve has stepped in: http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2015/01/11261/
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up-n-atom said:
http://www.dailydot.com/esports/counter-strike-match-fixing/

Even more is being unraveled. It's a shame that the ring leader is a Torontonian.
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thewhaleman

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IBP has always been loosely surrounded in shit, you can almost say that about the entire NA scene. The only part that kills me is the whole "neither would any of us at Cloud9", releasing this article after adding shahzam to your team then saying that...


CsgoLounge needs to man up and ban all players/teams that are tied to this scandal. Leagues need to start enforcing bans as well for this kind of activity. Teams shouldn't be allowed to bet while their in leagues.. ect, ect. Structure is needed for this type of shit.
 
MetalLobster

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CSGOLounge is basically an unregulated, glorified betting ground. What do you expect? I don't think they are or can do anything, considering some of the events that happened before.

:rip: IBP and Netcode
 
zackychuu

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This was the match that caused me to quit betting...
Lost over $4 which was quite a big deal for me early on.

I watched it while it was being played and it was such a stupid and obvious throw even to the viewers.
I called throw half way through the game and all my friends kept saying was how iBP are just having a bad day.
I knew it was bullshit.
 
MetalLobster

MetalLobster

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chaosrealm93 said:
what's the tl;dr?
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Team throws match, tells some guy to bet against his own team, he joins another team and spills the beans to the reporter.

zackychuu said:
This was the match that caused me to quit betting...
Lost over $4 which was quite a big deal for me early on.

I watched it while it was being played and it was such a stupid and obvious throw even to the viewers.
I called throw half way through the game and all my friends kept saying was how iBP are just having a bad day.
I knew it was bullshit.
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That doesn't surprise me that people saw something going on. During the Brood War scandal, some fans suspected something fishy was going on too.
 
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up-n-atom

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The entire pro scene is akin to a boys club. Once in, which is very seldom, you're hard pressed to be ousted. Every once in awhile things get a shuffle but all is back to normal in short time. It's perfect conditions for corruption as there is very little outsider presence and everyone knows their place. Their biggest fear is that secrets like this get revealed and that's when the club uniformly outcasts a single entity and continue on with their schemes as if nothing happened. It will never be managed as long as they keep on with a barrier to entry in years or decades (if possible).
 
everyth1ng

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zackychuu said:
$4...
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MetalLobster

MetalLobster

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up-n-atom said:
The entire pro scene is akin to a boys club. Once in, which is very seldom, you're hard pressed to be ousted. Every once in awhile things get a shuffle but all is back to normal in short time. It's perfect conditions for corruption as there is very little outsider presence and everyone knows their place. Their biggest fear is that secrets like this get revealed and that's when the club uniformly outcasts a single entity and continue on with their schemes as if nothing happened. It will never be managed as long as they keep on with a barrier to entry in years or decades (if possible).
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I agree. Unless there is a KeSPA for the pro-scene outside SC, players, teams, event organizers and other affiliates with rotten eggs will get away with garbage behaviour.
 
☭Balthamous☭

☭Balthamous☭

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Honestly this happens in everything where there is money involved, annoying but true.
However the level to which match fixing and hacking in the CSGO pro circuits is either rising substantially or we've been blind for ages .
 
thewhaleman

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:D Fuck yeah valve. It's a shame north america esports will take a hit from this, but glad that this was taken serious on at least one side.
 
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