During OpTic India's elimination match against Revolution, the admin team discovered that Nikhil "⁠forsaken⁠" Kumawat was using a cheating software, resulting in his team's dismissal from the tournament.

OpTic India lost their first match at eXTREMESLAND, 16-6 to FrostFire, and were due to play the BO3 elimination game against Cong "⁠crazyguy⁠" Anh Ngo's Revolution today.

OpTic India won the first map, Inferno, 16-7, and the second map was half-way done when a long pause ensued. Afterwards, the eXTREMESLAND 2018 Asia Finals admin teams announced that forsaken was using cheats in the match.

OpTic India have been dominant locally, recently winning the ESL India Premiership (Credit: ESL India)

With that, OpTic India has been disqualified from the tournament, giving Revolution the win, with forsaken being sent "home on the next flight", according to CSGO2ASIA.

Representatives of CSGO2ASIA, who were on-site when the incident happened, shone more light on the situation. The article explains that the "B5 platform anti-cheat" was triggered after suspicious activity, which prompted the admins to inspect forsaken's PC. After alt-tabbing, the admin spotted a suspicious program running in the background, which forsaken quickly closed and deleted. The admin team recovered the file but wasn't able to get the program back up-and-running, however, visual observation combined with the anti-cheat trigger was deemed enough by eXTREMESLAND admins for a disqualification to be warranted.

As of now, no further comments have been made by OpTic India, the tournament organizer or forsaken personally.