In a UKCSGO.com exclusive, we can reveal that TLR have been caught potentially cheating during their Upper Bracket game against CAZ eSports. Due to this, TLR have been forced to forfeit their final map against CAZ, but are not disqualified from the tournament itself, they just moved to the lower bracket where they’ll face off against the winner of Infused/uFrag and Monumentalis/CeX.

The reason for this forfeit is due to reports of the players being in Twitch chat during the game. After the game was paused after the second map in their match against CAZ eSports it was widely believed the team had been thrown out of the tournament due to cheating. However, after lengthy discussions, it was decided that if they forfeit the game they could continue in the Lower Bracket.

The sixth member of their squad can have no access to technological equipment

Their remaining games will not be cast unless they get to the final

They’ll have an Admin watching the game behind them

These conditions are designed to hopefully stop any further shenanigans from occurring during the rest of the tournament. When the act was reported to the admins, the Tournament Head Admin, Jon “Vicious” Kelly went to check TLR’s PCs, discovering nothing. However, by the time he returned to his PC he discovered a Twitch account named “HS_csgo”, belonging to the TLR player, talking in chat. Upon the discovery of this the game was hauled and stream turned off so a full investigation of the VOD could be conducted. Checking the chat logs from the VOD it was clear that HS_csgo was typed in the Twitch chat during pauses. The team insisted they were just in the chat, not looking at economy and position information of their rivals.

As you can tell, some people have not been happy with the choice. With some TLR players disagreeing with the fact they were “sniping” and others saying they should have been disqualified outright, as it had been an action that was against the majority of all sense. Some have said this is the first time they have seen anything of the like occurring. TLR will next play in the Consolidation Final of insomnia56.