ex-ESC's Paweł "innocent" Mocek commented on Valve's decision to ban all of their players from all Valve-affiliated tournaments, stating that his team was banned "without any proof".

Moments ago ESL announced that the entirety of ex-ESC has been banned from any Valve-sponsored tournaments, as well as ESL itself, following a match-fixing scandal a part of the team was involved in as ALSEN.



"Banned without any proof," says ex-ESC's innocent

Paweł "⁠innocent⁠" Mocek decided to give us a thorough statement on the matter, where the Polish player says that the team was banned with no proof:

"Today all my team got banned from Valve majors. What is weird we seriously, never, ever fixed a match. You can investigate all of our matches and you will find nothing. Only reason might be ALSEN drama, but its not correct because we are all banned, and only 2 of our players went for big bet there, i bet something like 15$ before we even knew that something might be happening, szpero and minise didnt bet at all. ESL also dont know anything about it." Mocek told HLTV.org "The only one "proof" that we have got is 'valve was checking steam chat logs' – when people are asking us 'will you win?' we always say 'NO, THROWING' because its stupid question and you never know an answer for that. Is it seriously the reason of ban for the biggest events? When we created our team we told to ourselves 'we will never fix a match, dont even ask for it, its not going to happen'. Today we are banned without any proofs, its pretty interesting, that I asked CSGOLongue admin to show us some proof about match-fixing and said that they really have no idea what this is about, that we are clean. It is a really big hit for us as a team and personal, we are extremely sad and dont know what to do with our lives as we all quit schools and jobs after having this magnificent chance to grow up and focus on CS few days ago. I think that we seriously should have at least an e-mail with proofs, that we were caught on this and this match, but we didnt. PLUS when we found about about matchfixing couple of days ago I instantly reported this to csgolongue to be fair and make the game better. We are really looking forward for any explanation what is the reason of our bans, but I can assure you, that our team is innocent. More information soon, I hope."

The news came as a big hit to the Polish scene, whose ex-ESC were banned "indefinitely", while those bans will not be re-evaluated before 2016, meaning they will be in place for at least ten months.