About a week ago, word broke about a number of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players and teams being involved in match rigging at CEVO Professional Season 5. Well, despite their cries of being "innocent," Valve's own investigation said otherwise.

Yesterday, Valve announced that a number of players involved in the match fixing will no longer be permitted to participate in any Valve sponsored events in the future.
We can confirm, by investigating the historical activity of relevant accounts, that a substantial number of high valued items won from that match by Duc “cud” Pham were transferred ( via Derek “dboorn” Boorn ) to iBUYPOWER players and NetCodeGuides founder, Casey Foster.

All together, the information we have collected and received makes us uncomfortable continuing any involvement with these individuals. Therefore we will be directing our CS:GO event partners to not allow any of the following individuals’ participation in any capacity in Valve-sponsored events:

Duc “cud” Pham
Derek “dboorn” Boorn
Casey Foster
Sam “Dazed” Marine
Braxton “swag” Pierce
Keven “AZK” Larivière
Joshua “Steel” Nissan

Professional players, their managers, and teams’ organization staff, 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.

Interestingly, after this news came out from Valve, "cud" took to speaking with tenac1ty, a moderator of the "only reputation-based CS:GO trading group." The short of it is, cud tried to bribe tenac1ty to try to get his ban lifted. tenac1ty was having none of it and cud came off looking like an even bigger jerk.


MLG apparently missed the multiple memos on what happened. Right around the time that Valve released their statement, MLG announced that they have partnered with Torqued, the team that Joshua "Steel" Nissan and Derek "dboorn" Boorn plays for. Not only are these players banned from Valve sponsored events, the ESEA also banned them.


Whoops! Valve finished their statement with the following.
In 2014 we witnessed the explosive growth of CS:GO as a competitive eSport, and 2015 has already started strong. But as CS:GO grows, it’s important to consider the substantial impact an individual professional Counter-Strike player has on the health and stability of their sport. Performing before an audience of millions of fans, they are ambassadors for their game – the strength of professional Counter-Strike comes from the integrity of its players and teams.