On Aug. 21 last year, one of America’s top teams, iBUYPOWER, played what should have been an easy match against NetcodeGuides.com. But rather than stomping past the competition, they were trounced 16-4. The game, part of the CEVO Professional Season 5, was typified by lackadaisical play and strange behavior on iBUYPOWER’s part: going for knife kills in strange situations, laughing as they lost.
Now, the Daily Dot has been provided with new corroborating details from multiple sources that strongly indicate the game was fixed and that multiple, unusual bets were placed just prior to the match by a player with strong connections to the players on both sides—wagers that garnered more than $10,000 in earnings. The revelations come amid a terrible winter for professional Counter-Strike, after a number of top players and teams have been implicated in match-fixing and cheating scandals.
These new revelations couldn’t come at a worse time for the former iBUYPOWER players. The four players, including Sam „Dazed“ Marine, have been in talks with several top organizations about potentially joining them, with Evil Geniuses as the front-runners.
Quelle: http://www.dailydot.com/esports/match-fixing-counter-strike-ibuypower-netcode-guides/