100 Thieves Warzone pro Rated unbanned hours after \u201cfalse\u201d shadowban Activision \/ 100 Thieves100 Thieves\u2019 Warzone streamer and former Call of Duty pro, Rated, got shadowbanned in the popular battle royale. After turning to Nadeshot and 100T for help, the issue was fixed \u2014 but not before he already missed out on a tournament and a full day\u2019s stream. Rhys \u2018Rated\u2019 Price is a former Call of Duty pro and a current Warzone competitor for 100 Thieves. Despite those connections to top-level Activision partners and the fact that he streams daily, the streamer was shocked to find out he was shadowbanned in Warzone. It\u2019s not clear exactly how shadowbans are decided on, but they are usually placed on players who have received numerous, albeit unverified reports of cheating. Those players then have to wait long queue times to get into lobbies filled with similarly reported opponents \u2014 an unsavory experience, to say the least. Having performed well enough in tournaments to get signed to 100T, Rated has since climbed up the list of Warzone\u2019s highest earners and earns monthly placement among the game\u2019s top players. He\u2019s good enough to get reported by salty casuals he\u2019s killed, but there should be more than enough proof he\u2019s not actually hacking. Apparently, Activision didn\u2019t see that proof until hours after mistakenly cutting him off from the game. nearly 4 hours without being able to get into a single lobby, who at the office has come to the conclusion an EX CDL PRO is cheating I need a name https:\/\/t.co\/E4ai7IqJ9D \u2014 Rhys Price (@Rated_COD) April 3, 2021 About five hours after realizing he was shadowbanned and taking to Twitter and 100T connections to get the situation sorted, Rated posted explaining that he was finally \u201cfree.\u201d Nonetheless, this ruined a full day\u2019s worth of streaming and the chance to participate in a tournament. IM FREE, WE’VE BEEN UNSHADOWBANNED THEY’VE UNLEASHED THE DRAGON \u2014 Rhys Price (@Rated_COD) April 4, 2021 What happened with Rated\u2019s shadowban While being shadowbanned is a good punishment for actual hackers, it can also mean that talented players can get unfairly punished simply for being especially good at the game. No one cares if a hacker is stuck waiting for a lobby to play against other hackers, but it can ruin a legitimate player\u2019s ability to stream on Twitch or participate in tournaments. Unfortunately had to cut today\u2019s stream short because I\u2019ve been falsely shadow banned & literally cannot get into a game, hopefully they fix this tonight so we can get back to business tomorrow it\u2019s very frustrating losing out on money\/tourneys because of this. \u2014 Rhys Price (@Rated_COD) April 3, 2021 Other streamers, like Rated\u2019s duo, Aydan \u2018Aydan\u2019 Conrad, have also been shadowbanned in the past. With a ton of footage available online and a massive audience (over 600,000 followers on Twitter), Aydan\u2019s ban was fixed within a day or so. Read more: When is NVIDIA DLSS coming to Warzone? – But Rated wasn\u2019t content just waiting around, instead calling on his boss, 100T CEO, Matthew \u2018Nadeshoot\u2019 Haag for help. @Nadeshot Dad I’m going to need you to make a call and get someone to fix this \u2014 Rhys Price (@Rated_COD) April 3, 2021 Rated streams nonstop and has countless peers and former coworkers with Activision connections that can vouch for him. His shadowban did get fixed quickly, and it\u2019s unknown if a call from Nadeshot helped speed things up. A former CoD pro himself and now the founder of an org with its own CDL team, Haag has the clout to make some waves at Activision\u2019s offices. While Rated\u2019s situation did eventually get fixed, this situation remains yet another example of the Warzone bans situation existing in chaotic territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
100 Thieves Warzone pro Rated unbanned hours after \u201cfalse\u201d shadowban Activision \/ 100 Thieves100 Thieves\u2019 Warzone streamer and former Call of Duty pro, Rated, got shadowbanned in the popular battle royale. After turning to Nadeshot and 100T for help, the issue was fixed \u2014 but not before he already missed out on a tournament and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}