Interview with a former ESIC employee

A synopsis of yesterday’s podcast with a former ESIC employee (you can watch the full podcast on youtube):

Many teams have an unknown person in China who gives instructions for fake matches and then transfers money. Communication with them is often through managers, analysts, or coaches. There are a lot of teams like this.
A lot of teams play with radar and observer that they get from bookmakers moderators
Teams with radar tend to avoid maps such as de_nuke or de_vertigo because of the two-level minicards, which are difficult to navigate. Only birdfromsky was able to do it.
Woro2k is a member of a large number of “teams” with dubious reputation, which were banned from the bookmakers.
There is NO ONE pure Chinese team. All teams have either been involved in 322. Also China has an increased limit in bookmakers (x2 of EU) so it’s profitable there.
TYLOO, Lynn Vision, Fun Spark, D13 are all owned by the same person in China. He mixes it up and creates tournaments with dummy matches where he invites his teams himself
In Europe, Relog Media has a Monopoly on fake tournaments. European teams are already playing there with zero delay. There were moments when two teams with observer (one from CIS and one from EU) faced each other and the match turned into a clown show.
To make a tournament safe from streaming without delay – it is necessary to place 3 webcams on the player, so he could not place the phone with streaming anywhere
When Alexey worked at ESIC, he provided them with a lot of investigations with prufs, but they were not interested in them. (He can’t post them because they are already the property of ESIC and he was paid for them)
ESIC has very good lawyers who understand absolutely nothing about CS:GO and Cybersport. They do not know what is: Observer, stream without delay, minicard, etc.
A lot of bookmakers cooperate with ESIC and give them money to catch cheaters. In reality the ESIC does absolutely nothing (even if the case is obvious). When bookmakers ask ESIC for the search results, they just freeze them XD
To get rid of all this – it takes 2-3 months of work. Close all the holes, tie the bookies into one network, create a reputation system for the teams. It is not difficult.
There was a case when one of the banned coaches went to ESIC to find out when he would get his unfair ban removed, as he had a tournament starting in a week. The ESIC commissioner responded only after 2 months, informed him of his unbanning and allowed him to play in that tournament (which was over)
The salaries of ESIC employees start at $100,000 a year. That’s how they exist 4 years without doing anything.
ESIC representatives have absolutely no interest in cybersports and catching cheaters. Whenever Alexey offered to do something, the commissioners referred to a week’s FISHING and then an urgent trip to the UAE for a conference.
People who write about 322 in Twitch chat are not schizoids and fake matches and tournaments do exist
A lot of people are asking Alexei to leak the “Player Base” that are involved in fake matches. Even in the case of laying out this list – it does not prove anything. Proving a player’s involvement in a rigged match is very difficult. There is a whole process
Ramz1kBO$$ is the owner of a large number of rigged teams in KC. He leaked matches as a player, was an intermediary in leaking matches, and now he is in the business of passing dishonestly earned money.
Tir-1 players are not offered to leak a match, as they can raise a lot of hype, and in general they are not really interested in making money. There was already a case where the owner of Virtus.Pro the Chinese offered to throw the game, so he raised the information on all the news sites.
There was a story when the Trident Clan was brought in to improve the team’s credibility. Denis and his team had 4 young players, who were losing matches and were losing like a fool and didn’t understand what was going on and why it wasn’t working.
ESIC didn’t care about the AKUMA situation at all. In fact, AKUMA players did what everyone else does, but against teer-1 teams [Played with radar]. To prove their involvement in cheating, you have to reel off all their past teams and find a link that can turn them in.
At the EPIC CIS League RMR, in addition to AKUMA, GROND, Marlian and probably bankaPEPSI were involved in fake matches.
w0nderful with 100% probability involved in rigged matches. Alexey (as a representative of ESIC) interviewed Igor, and asked him about his salary when he played for TRASKO. Then he took information about his bank statement and the amount he received as salary was higher than he had previously voiced.
In order to discreetly lose a match, a team must lose all economic important rounds. It loses a round per economy (-3 rounds) After that it can take one round and lose the next to have a small loss bonus and drain a few more rounds. It’s like theater, and the players in it are actors.
To identify a fake match, you need to pay attention to the drawdowns at the bookmakers, and if you then observe clownish mouves from the player’s side, it’s most likely a fake match.

Alex’s base has about 300 players (DOTA + CS)

CPH Flames is a weird team that can win on the lan (most likely about the 2021 Squad) and then lose to everyone online, as if they intentionally lowered the sense and put fps_max 10.
There could very well be a fake match on RMR as well. An open qualification team gets approached by a person with an offer to throw a match with special conditions and earn a lot of money, as they have no chance to go to the major against strong teams (like G2, Cloud9, Astralis, etc.) and the teams agree after some thought.
Why is it that no one will do anything about it? Because no one wants it and no one is doing it. There’s not enough people who would come to Valve and start doing it themselves. (i.e. Alexey).
Alexei told this, as he was offended that he spent many months looking for cheaters in cybersport, and ESIC did not care about his work and they, so far, are not going to publish it.
Alexei himself refused to work for ESIC. He was offered to sit on the salary and do nothing. He was not satisfied with this option and he left on his own.
If he had been given the authority, the first thing he would have done would be to deal with players such as: w0nderful, Woro2k and the whole AKUMA.
Denmark used to be one of the trusted and incorruptible regions, but now it’s a hotbed of 322 matches (Like Sashi Esport)
There was suspicious activity and jumping odds at the Monte vs Outsiders match on RMR. There are also questions about players Woro2k, REDSTAR, joel and DemQQQ. BOROS probably wasn’t in that gang and that’s why they wanted to replace him with Fessor right away.
The Russian market 322 matches are covered by the Chechens.
Alexei noted that the probability of the error in accusing players is 0% for the Ukrainians and 10% for the Russians.
There is a critical vulnerability in CS:GO that gives an advantage in the game. However, Alexey didn’t have time to tell Valve about it, because he left ESIC and has no direct contacts with the CS developers.
EC Kyiv (old) does not have any questionable reputation from bookmakers, but their funding from Asia in the form of cryptocurrency creates questions.

List of players accused by a former ESIC employee of participating in fake matches (or playing on the radar)

Woro2k
birdfromsky
TYLOO
Lynn Vision
Ramz1kBO$$
tricky
glowiing
clax
Norwi
Psycho
Sergiz
DemQQ
SENSEi
j3kie
w0nderful
7oX1C
Perfecto (assumption and generally not accurate)
Hkta
OWNER
kr1vda
nat1ve
r1nkle
SasukeQO
NMV
faydett
FpSSS
t0rick
100PingGods (no specifics)
bankaPEPSI (not definite)
maga
keeN
5TRYKER
fitch
Hobbit (maybe)
jabbi (maybe he means CPH)
nicoodoz
roeJ
HooXi
Zyphon
joel
REDSTAR
V1c7oR
Dima
S0tF1k
FinigaN
degster (not exact)
RAiLWAY