TOP-5 "DIRTIEST" CHEATERS IN PRO DOTA
What's inside
Lower-ranked eSports teams and players formerly had limited access to finance, which usually compelled them to employ illegal methods to increase their revenues. Throughout the history of eSports, there have been several accusations of match-fixing as well as various wallhack and aimbot scandals, much as in traditional sports.
The games that cheaters exploit span a variety of game genres, including first-person shooters like Overwatch and CSGO and strategic games like Dota 2. GOSU.AI portal provided statistics on cheaters by roles and ranks. It is based on 33 million matches in patch 7.22h. Frequently, mid-lane and pos-4 players abuse cheats. Team Cyber-sport.io prepared our craft TOP-5 esports athletes that have been detected cheating.
How do Pros cheat in Dota?
BTS 5 EU quals: VP vs. Ad Finem
Grand Final, on the second map of rivalry Virtus.pro vs. Ad Finem, VP player ALOHADANCE had connection issues and VP lost the first match. However, on the next map, he reconnected, but it turned out to be another player under ALOHA's profile, namely No[o]ne. This allowed VP to win and get to Summit, but after the cheating was revealed, VP admitted their guilt and withdrew from the tournament.
TI 2018 SA quals: Thunder Awaken vs. SG
Player Juan Atun Ochoa from Thunder Predator was blamed and kicked from the tournament. The reason was using scripts and macros, namely Razer Synapse 3, while playing on Meepo and Huskar. In 2018, analyst Ben Noxville Steenhuizen stated that he found several players who used scripts during the qualifiers for The International 2018. However, no one marked the other players except Noxville.
TI 2022 CN quals: Team Knights vs. Team IG
DPC CN 2023 Tour 1: Division I, team Knights was accused of using maphack in games against PSG.LGD and Invictus Gaming. Perfect World, the tournament organizers, collected evidence and handed it over to Valve for investigation. Members of the Dota subreddit analyzed their matches, the percentage of ward destruction in Knights was an order of magnitude higher than the opponents, and they did atypical actions. At the moment, the Knights occupy the first place in the qualification.
DPC SEA 2023 Div II: Spawn vs. Flow
MamangDaya showed on his stream his game with SPAWN Team against Team Flow. In this game, Mercury from Team Flow, playing as Batrider, quickly kills the invisible enemy. Moreover, his mouse moves along the trajectory of Timbersaw's movement and sometimes freezes abruptly, as if using Alt + Tab to open the software.
DPC 2023 and account sharing
PGL, together with Valve, banned 10 players due to account sharing. Paradise, Keintseru, SuperNova, Illusion, Lilskrip, Koma, Chambl, Limtless, [T]SA, deihra will no longer be able to participate in official tournaments.
In general, cheating is not the biggest problem on the pro scene. The much bigger problem is match-fixing or players who specifically ruin the game, as the people say 322. This name came from the player Solo. He bet against his team 100 dollars and won 322.
One of the biggest match-fixing scandals was during the Asian division of StarLadder Season 10. The correspondence of Michael Vallejos, the creator of a large Dota community on Facebook, was shown on Reddit. Vallejos told a friend that the Mineski and MSI Evolution players would hold a fixed match.
He paid the teams $900 each for this because MSI captain Patrick JyC Pascua needed that amount. Vallejos also paid three Mineski players $400 for losing a match against Team Immunity. At first, they denied everything, but players and Vallejos bet on opponents in disputed matches. As a result, e-sportsmen admitted their guilt. Valve considered the evidence sufficient and banned all MSI players and three from Mineski.
Summary
From my point of view, nowadays, the chance that there can be cheaters in the first division is minimal because the players risk their careers. They will be blocked entirely in all tournaments and expelled from the team. And their salary is much more profitable than a one-time victory in the tournament.
Of course, it is possible that some anonymous teams could abuse cheats. But about the second division, my opinions differ because there is much less control. Even if the community learns about cheaters there, it will not cause a big resonance, and everyone is already used to at least 322 games in the 2nd division. What do you think? Is it possible to cheat on the pro scene of Dota? Share your experience with Cyber-sport.io. Subscribe and follow the latest eSports news!
