Indian Champion CS:GO Player Banned For Five Years For Cheating At Two E-Sports Events

Nikhil Kumawat, the champion of the former champion CS:GO Team OpTic has been banned for five years. He was caught cheating multiple times and when he was contacted for a reply, he never answered officially.

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It was in last week at Extremesland Asia finals, that for the first time Nikhil Kumawat was caught cheating. Before that he was also found guilty of using cheats at  ESL India Premiership tournament which happened earlier this month.

Esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) has imposed a ban of five years on Nikhil Kumawat from all esports related activities for or with any ESIC member organisation. ESIC announced this after having collected a compelling amount of proof that the player was indeed responsible for cheating.

ESIC further said:

Whilst a substantial amount of the evidence has been available publicly for a few days and there have been many calls for a quick decision and a lifetime ban, we have taken our time to ensure a proper procedure has been followed in accordance with the Code of Conduct to which Kumawat was subject during the Premiership

Since he offended on repeated counts, he was initially facing a potential ban for life time. Later on, ESIC decided to impose a five year ban instead of life time. ESIC commissioner Ian Smith said: “There is no place in esports for cheats like Kumawat and, at a personal level, I hope we never see him back in CS:GO or any other game again”.

ESIC announced the ban sentence after trying to make contact with Nikhil Kumawat, but he never responded. Later on, the player released apology statement at AFK Gaming. In the statement he said his team mates had nothing to do with the cheats and he was solely responsible for the act.

Team OpTic later in disbanded its CS:GO team after Nikhil Kumawat was banned for five years. Even so, ESIC confirmed that there were no cheats found in the SSDs of OpTic India Players’s.

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