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Former Epsilon and ex-ESC players banned

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ESL put out an announcement today confirming the bans of multiple players, including those from Epsilon, es-ESC and WinneR who were involved in match fixing.

ESL announced today the banning of multiple players from ESL One Katowice and future tournaments, stating: "Epsilon eSports, former ESC Gaming as well as WinneR all have players on their teams who were found to be involved in match fixing, and are therefore not allowed to take part in next week’s qualifier in Katowice."

A last chance qualifier will be held to replace WinneR, who had qualified for the offline qualifier before being barred from participating in the event.

Valve, in a statement to ESL and posted on their blog, stated:

After gathering information from players and reviewing historical activity of accounts, we will be directing our CS:GO event partners to not allow the following individuals to participate in any capacity in Valve-sponsored events:

France Kevin “Uzzziii” Vernel
France Joey “fxy0” Schlosser
France Robin “GMX” Stahmer
France Morgan “B1GGY” Madour
Poland Damian “DiAMon” Zarski
Poland Michal “bCK” Lis
Poland Jakub “kub” Pamula 
Poland Mateusz “matty” Kolodziejczyk
Poland Michal “michi” Majkowski
Poland Karol “rallen” Rodowicz
Poland Mikolaj “mouz” Karolewski
Poland Grzegorz “SZPERO” Dziamalek
Poland Pawel “innocent” Mocek
Poland Jacek “minise” Jeziak

The restrictions are indefinite, and will not be re-evaluated before 2016.
Additionally, the following players are not eligible to participate in ESL One Katowice as we continue our investigation:

Germany Robin “r0bs3n” Stephan
Turkey Tahsin “tahsiN” Sarikaya
Turkey Koray “xall” Yaman
Turkey Ammar “am0” Cakmak
Germany Antonin “TONI” Bernhardt

Professional players, teams, and anyone involved in the production of CS:GO events, should under no circumstances gamble on CS:GO matches, associate with high volume CS:GO gamblers, or deliver information to others that might influence their CS:GO bets.