![]() The spokesman added: “Cheating in a professional competition is one of the least sportsmanlike behaviors that a pro player can exhibit. “This will be for a minimum of three years to a maximum of a lifetime starting on the date of completion of an official league investigation.” “In the future, players found to have been banned in-game due to the use of unauthorized programs during professional esports competitions will be banned from competitive play. “Per the results of our investigation, all players will be banned from all official standings from the NPL Online Qualifiers Round 3 which took between December 15 and 16, 2018. The PUBG Global Championship has a $2 million grand prize. “The investigation revealed conclusive evidence the players were all detected using an unauthorized third party software during public matches and the NPL Online Qualifiers earlier in December. ![]() “Our team has taken the time to ensure that a proper investigation was conducted regarding these permanent in-game bans. He wrote online: “Innocent people are waiting for an explanation from the gods about the cheaters that are still registered for contender qualifiers.”Ī spokesman for PUBG Esports said: “Through a global investigation of currently active competitive players, we discovered that ten players have received in-game bans due to the usage of an unauthorized program. Özgür Develi, a competitive PUBG player with his team Snglesports, said that many teams are still waiting for an explanation on the “cheaters.” The game will now launch “comprehensive background check on all their accounts” before players can enter future competitions. Other affected teams must now replace suspended players if they look to stand a chance of being allowed to continue in the competition.Įarlier this week, 10 more professionals were caught and suspended, along with two others who kept quiet on the cheats. Players included in the December scandal include Christian Narvaez, Liam Tran, Tyler Sti and Mark Formaro. The PUBG hack allowed the cheaters to see their competitors’ location. The cheating system was described by competition organizers as severely damaging the integrity of the game, which is one of the world’s most competitive electronic sports. The 16 professionals were suspended from the game for three years after experts discovered their “unauthorized programs use.” PUBG began a massive wave of bans related to the cheats booting over regular 30,000 players off their servers before Christmas. Moderators scanned their files for a specific address after a tipoff, searched for a particular phrase to the trigger, and discovered a match. The hack allowed players to view their opponent’s location on a separate screen to the one they played on. The data would be moved to a game server, where it was unpacked and fed into a separate program allowing cheats to watch it from their phone.įour professionals were caught in December, alongside 10 last week - and a two more who refused to give up the cheats. Previous hacking attempts used methods such as “wall hacks,” “aimbots” and “extra-sensory perception” - which were easily detectable by moderators.īut the banned gamers used a virtual private network, or VPN, to anonymously read packets of opponents’ data without detection. The game is a “death match” where a hundred players fight in a battle royale, where teams fight to remain alive. ![]() PUBG is a battle royale similar to “Fortnite.” SWNS Teams of four from across the world compete in the competition to become the “world’s greatest” - and win a cool $2 million. Investigators received allegations of cheating in December after the high-level players were spotted reading data during the Global Championship qualifiers. PUBG, an online multiplayer battle royale shooter, is the second-best selling PC game of all time, with an estimated 24 million copies sold worldwide. The cheaters were playing “PlayerUnknown’s Battleground” (PUBG) with a “radar hack” so they could watch enemy players during the online competition. One of the world’s biggest e-sports competitions has been thrown into chaos after more than a dozen professional gamers were caught cheating in a bid to win the top prize of $2 million.
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