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:
Kevin “Uzzziii” Vernel
Joey “fxy0” Schlosser
Robin “GMX” Stahmer
Morgan “B1GGY” Madour
Damian “DiAMon” Zarski
Michal “bCK” Lis
Jakub “kub” Pamula
Mateusz “matty” Kolodziejczyk
Michal “michi” Majkowski
Karol “rallen” Rodowicz
Mikolaj “mouz” Karolewski
Grzegorz “SZPERO” Dziamalek
Pawel “innocent” Mocek
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:
Robin “r0bs3n” Stephan
Tahsin “tahsiN” Sarikaya
Koray “xall” Yaman
Ammar “am0” Cakmak
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.”
