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ESL's new rules and regulations in their upcoming CS:GO league aim to cut down cheaters both online and at LANs.
In an announcement on on the organization's website, ESL revealed new rules that would be put into place in their upcoming CS:GO Pro League, which will launch on the 10th, namely that players that are VAC banned will be banned from the ESL league for two years from the date of their VAC ban. In addition, top players will have to provide mandatory POV demos for tournaments, so that all actions from any player can be reviewed for signs of cheating.
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One part of the cooperation and change in our policies is that players with a VAC ban will be given a cheating ban on ESL for two years. The date when the player was banned by VAC will be the start date of the two years cheating ban on ESL. This is a step we are going to roll out over time for everyone on ESL as we get verified information, but we have already started handing out cheating-related bans to notable persons where we have verified information available.
Another change which will be implemented for our higher leagues is that players in those leagues and tournaments have to upload their POV demos after each match from now on. Before, players were only required to record demos and upload them on request, but with this change we want to allow the community watch any action from any player via the recorded POV demos.”
Additional anti-cheat measures at offline events were also hinted at, but to avoid reducing the effectiveness of said measures, the organization declined to offer specifics.
The post also offered a more in-depth explanation of ESL's decision to bar mousesports from competing in the CS:GO Pro League and not Titan and Epsilon, a decision that was criticized by many in the community.
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About mousesports: mousesports stand-in smn played in the German ESL Pro Series, and the ESL Anti-Cheat team has confirmed that he had been cheating during the group stage. As a consequence and in compliance with the tournament rules, a cheating ban has been given. smn’s cheating ban from the German ESL Pro Series has lead to the disqualification of mousesports from the ESL Pro League. When it comes to cheating, we do not measure what kind of impact a single player had on a match - we just apply our no-tolerance anti-cheat policy, which leads to an immediate disqualification for the team. In accordance with our tournament rules, mousesports was not able to participate in any other qualification for the ESL Pro League after their winning of the German qualification - even if smn had been convicted before the last European qualification was over or the team had withdrawn from the German qualification. About Titan and Epsilon: The Titan and Epsilon case is quite different from the disqualification of mousesports. While mousesports actively played with and used a cheater in the qualification, Titan and Epsilon were invited to the League. Neither of them had to play for the invite and never played in any qualification matches and therefore our disqualification rule for cheating does not apply in this case. While we could have dropped the invitation, we still think that, even without the now-banned players, both teams have lots of potential and deserve an invite to the League.”
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Source: ESL
