Match throwing is morally wrong and everyone should know that.

Valve had no rules against match throwing and yes it is still so horribly wrong they 100% deserve a ban but I don't think they deserve lifetime bans. They had no idea that this would ruin their careers and now after playing CS for their whole lives they are done! They can't do anything else in the pro scene. Cheaters (which break set rules) get unbanned after a year or two where iBP will never get unbanned!

If you think that ex-iBP should be unbanned please sign this petition

I also want to give Cloud 9's usage of Adderall some weight. Once their usage was revealed by Semphis, the topic gained publicity and doping controls were introduced. It's important to mention that players that were to use it after the controls were put in place were to be punished, however, Cloud 9 was not given any punishment purely because of there being no reason for them to be.

Now, if we look at IBP's situation and how all of this can tie in. Although skins may be purchased using money, up until recently with the introduction of sites which you can sell skins for real money, there was no real way to make actual money from selling skins on the Steam Market. Yes you could buy games but that is different to actual physical cash. Therefore, throwing the match for skins technically does not win them money directly. Also, the players were banned after receiving skins, but had they not received skins and just thrown the match to help out NetcodeGuides qualify, their motivation being Dazed co-owns the site, was everything fine? If the problem was them throwing the match then surely them receiving skins should not be the sole evidence that should determine banning, meaning Skadoodle should also be banned. Now to summarise this argument, although throwing was Vavle's main argument as oppose to gaining skins from throwing, they don't ban Skadoodle because he didn't receive skins. This shows inconsistency because if someone was to assist and have knowledge of a robbery but not act to stop it then they too will face some punishment.