Nobody likes a cheater, whether it be people gaming online competitions to win a prize or athletes smuggling in bags of urine so that they can hide the fact that they’ve got more steroids inside of them than an early 1990s WWF performer (The wrestler, not the panda). Cheaters in video games are the worst of the lot, people who make regular use of all manner of exploits and hacks to ensure that they remain the top dog in any online competition.
At the very top of that totem pole of excrement, cheaters in esports stand out as the very worst that the industry has to offer. In the esports scene, the pressure to achieve victory in a massively competitive industry can often lead to players engaging in risky behaviour to clutch that all-important match and the kudos that it brings with it.
Take OpTic India player Nikhil “Forsaken” Kumawat, who was busted over the weekend after his hand was caught in the Counter-Strike cookie jar. Busted mid-match, Kumawat was caught using an aimbot program to earn kills when his team faced off against Vietnamese team Revolution at the Extremeland Zowie Asia tournament in Shanghai.
Clearly noticing that something was not right during the match, officials pounced on Kumawat’s PC, catching the challenger as he was attempting to delete the file from his PC:
The exact moment when admins at #eXTREMESLAND2018 caught forsaken and he attempted to delete the hack pic.twitter.com/rZG7aYBdbD
— CSGO2ASIA (@CSGO2ASIA) October 19, 2018
more pics of @OpTicIndia at #eXTREMESLAND2018 when forsaken was caught cheating pic.twitter.com/SD6EvDWUvc
— 辛味。 (@liuxinwei0102) October 19, 2018
The fallout was not pretty. Kumawat was of course dumped from the team immediately, but the damage had already been done. According to Dotesports, OpTic India was booted from the event, while parent body OpTic Gaming drew a zero tolerance policy and dropped the entire team right then and there. As for Kumawat, it looks like his days as CS: GO player are well and truly over, as after a six-month ban in 2017 after he was caught cheating, officials are looking to give him a lifetime ban from the esport.
Remember kids, winners don’t do drugs or aimbot hacks. Stay in school.
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Last Updated: October 22, 2018
Kromas
October 22, 2018 at 11:19
Good Good.
Geoffrey Tim
October 22, 2018 at 11:34
Look at his teammate..looking at him with disdain.
“Bruhhh….”
Raptor Rants
October 22, 2018 at 12:36
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HvR
October 22, 2018 at 13:03
“Bruhhhh …. you rename aimbot buttnorp and make the icon a directory …. bloody noob”
Viper_ZA
October 22, 2018 at 11:36
Good, cheats just ruin gaming for everyone. Bring the hammer down HARD!
Saul
October 22, 2018 at 11:37
Those cricket memes were brutal.
Admiral Chief
October 22, 2018 at 11:42
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For the Emperor!
October 22, 2018 at 11:42
The guy was already caught cheating in the past? A lifetime ban could be seen as fair! Dropping the rest of the team? Yeah that might be a bit harsh on them. Unless they knew and did nothing…
Admiral Chief
October 22, 2018 at 11:44
Yeah man, seems kinda harsh
Pariah
October 22, 2018 at 12:07
It seems a little far fetched that they knew nothing at all, and without any way to prove that the only prudent course of action would be to terminate the whole team. At least the team mates aren’t getting bans, that would be too harsh.
Admiral Chief
October 22, 2018 at 11:45
Using MS Word to hack. 733t $k1llz
CrAiGiSh
October 22, 2018 at 12:23
A shame that the rest of the team has to now pay the consequence of one moron.
Magoo
October 22, 2018 at 12:52
Kry vir jou.
HvR
October 22, 2018 at 13:04
He could use the Indian cricketer defense: “The South African made me do it and the devil made him do it”