Viliam "villiG" Andrascik has admitted that he used cheats in the open pre-qualifier for DreamHack Cluj.

Earlier on Saturday, the Counter-Strike community was surprised by the news that nerdRage's Viliam "⁠villiG⁠" Andrascik had been banned on FACEIT after beint caught cheating during a DreamHack Cluj qualifying match against PiTER.

Shortly afterwards, nerdRage announced that they were removing villiG from their active roster with immediate effect and stressed that they remained committed to the Counter-Strike scene.

villiG has now issued a statement to HLTV.org in which he confirms that he purchased cheat software on Friday has he hoped that it would help his team to qualify for the major. However, he was not able to properly set it up before the qualifier, which triggered FACEIT's anti-cheating client.

"The truth is, last night I bought an aimbot for the dreamhack qualifier in order to qualify or rather maximise the chances of qualifying for the major," Andrascik told HLTV.org. "It was a really dumb move but a move I felt I had to make, as It was probably my last chance to go somewhere with cs and my team mate jOELZ has decided to not play the qualifier with us for no reason which put me under so much pressure to perform. I was getting really bored of playing the game 6 days a week and it was eating up too much time and controlling my life. http://puu.sh/k0PwV/5b66875c00.png "I can also explain why it was detected, because I set it up 1 hour before the qualifier and had almost 0 idea of what I was doing. Ironically, in the end I ended up playing much worse as I was too paranoid to frag or do anything weird. I was 6-4 on the whole of ct side on cache which is amazing in my opinion :D. "Regardless, I am sorry if I let anyone down, especially my team mates who deserve much better than being hated for my wrongdoing. If there is anyone you need to hate it's definately me and not them, because they are all amazing players. "I also wanna apologise to nerdRage and their sponsors, they are an amazing group of people. "Don't hate me too much, there are many others that are cheating in this qualifier :)."

Meanwhile, nerdRage have told HLTV.org that they have effectively parted ways with villiG, with more news about the organisation's CS:GO section due to come in the following weeks.