New Evidence Of Match Fixing In Semi-Professional Counter-Strike

Although many are confident that, in the aftermath of the life time bans issued to the former iBUYPOWER Counter-Strike players, match-fixing has been stamped out at the highest level of professional play, it is suspected that it continues in semi-professional matches.
While we continue to be vigilant about this, with the advent of esports cash betting and so many small tournaments finding their way on to the sites that provide it, match fixing seems to be flourishing again. A little over two weeks ago we were provided with information that pointed to match fixing across several small tournaments and we interviewed a match-fixer who claimed to have earned $20,000 in two months from arranging fixed matches for a betting ring.

The matter was first brought to our attention when Stefan “ioswitch” Heesters, the owner of the small esports organisation Team Paria, contacted us. His team was due to play in the sixth season of the King of Nordic online cup where they would be representing Iceland in a game against Finland . Twenty four hours before the match Heesters was contacted on Steam by Karim “tropica” El Amrani, an administrator of a private Facebook group called “CSGO EU Pracc,” that contains many semi-professional players. The reasons for contacting him were very direct. “I assume you guys aren’t making that much money out of Paria? as you are the manager” he said. “The prize pool for KoN is $250 or $500 i believe and im 90% sure your team wont make it to the final or win the whole thing anyways. Your team might win against Finland because that lineup isn’t really good so if you and your team wants to make a bit of extra money, you can throw that match against Finland.” El Amrani then proceeded to break down the odds. Heesters wanted no part in a throw and immediately reached out to UK journalist Dom Sacco, who then referred him to us.

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