Team Outlaws, Our side of the story.

Dear Community and Devs,



To our great disappointment we yesterday received word that one of the members of Team Outlaws, Kamikaze Sensei was accused of cheating with obvious amounts of evidence of him both using and selling 3rd party software. We are deeply sorry for all the people influenced by his actions and the influence it had on the way the tournaments played out. Other than that we are very sorry for studio wildcard and the damage this has done to the credibility of SOTF as an e-sport game.



We wish for you all to know that we as a team had our questions after the first tournament where he got quite a few kills. We decided to ask him as a team after the tournament if he had made use of any 3rd party programs, but he reassured us in a very convincing manner this was not the case, so we chose to believe him on his word. Because we all played so many hours together and there was no further indication he cheated we decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. This has sadly turned out to be a grave mistake on our part. Not only have we lost our credibility as a team and as players, after all these hours of playing together we have also lost someone who we thought of as a friend.



We would like to let you guys know that we are not at all sorry that Kamikaze got caught and got banned for it, and we are glad that this came into the light to benefit the community as a whole. In light of the events Kamikaze is of course removed from our team and has remained unreachable for further comment on his actions. We have not been able to get in contact with him as of the time the announcement went live.



Many of you might wonder how come we did not realize what was going on, this mainly has to do with our play style and team setup. When playing official matches we play with a team that has 2-3 builders, 2 tamers and one dedicated spotter. Kamikaze sensei had been our spotter/scout in both our tournament games as can been seen back on the stream. So the fact that he was feeding us with information was therefore not received as strange to us, because it was in fact his task in the team. Because of his team position he was often roaming around and this gave us very little insight into how he spotted people or where he had seen them. When viewing back the game footage certain things definitely stand out, but during the tournament one has very little time to think about this or to notice this in the first place.



We are really sad that we as a team all got permanently banned from all official servers and events in the future, even though we remained unaware of the situation until it was to late. We hope that after pleading our case to the devs and you guys as a community we will get a chance to redeem ourselves and show all of you we are actually a really good team with very dedicated players. We have sent screenshots to studio Wildcard of chat logs between team members that shows that we are not aware of his use of cheats. We put in many hours of practice before going into each final, forging our tactics which for example taught us that we are able to kill the spider, and survive on one of the more challenging locations of the map.



Please feel free to comment on our current situation, whether or not you think it is fair that the entire team gets banned due to the actions of only one of our members. If you have any questions you can just ask, we will do our best to answer them all.



We are very appreciative for the support we have gotten from a number of fellow finalists and players in the community. It means a lot to us, Thank you.



Again our sincerest apologies to all the players in the finals, the community and studio Wildcard.



Team Outlaws