Banned ex-COD pro who was banned for hacking is trying to make a comeback ActivisionA former Call of Duty pro who was banned during the Call of Duty Championship, caught in a ban wave targeting hackers, is attempting to make a comeback \u2014 and has apparently been approved to compete by tournament organizers. In July 2023, Team Orbit was disqualified from the Challengers Champs after player Bryan \u2018Jimbo\u2019 Sabman was hit with a ban mid-event amid a huge ban wave from Activision that targeted hackers and those using cheating software. It was the first time someone competing in the upper echelons of COD esports had been caught cheating and left question marks over his teammates and to what extent Jimbo had been cheating during online matches and tournaments. While Jimbo initially put out a tweet \u2014 which has since been deleted, along with all other tweets on the account he got rid of \u2014 saying that it was a mistake and there was \u201cno reason\u201d for his ban, he did not respond to Dexerto\u2019s request for comment at the time and the ban was never revoked. While Jimbo then went dark and didn\u2019t show up again in the Call of Duty scene for several months, it appears he\u2019s attempting to make his comeback, and Challengers administrators FACEIT are reportedly letting it happen. Jimbo, under the pseudonym Jimbolah, has signed up for the April 20 NA Challengers Cup alongside teammates Prospect, Archives, and TayBTC, and according to Challengers news platform The Rotation, they \u201cwon\u2019t be playing\u201d but have been given approval by FACEIT. Shortly after it was announced that Jimbo and his team were trying to compete in the Challengers Cup, FaceIT admins confirmed that Jimbo was NOT eligible to play and would not be participating. Ban evasion is a punishable offense by Activision and if Jimbo does play again, it seems unlikely that he\u2019ll be allowed to simply continue as normal. If he does compete, opponents and viewers will question the legitimacy of his gameplay, and it may raise some awkward questions for his teammates too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Banned ex-COD pro who was banned for hacking is trying to make a comeback ActivisionA former Call of Duty pro who was banned during the Call of Duty Championship, caught in a ban wave targeting hackers, is attempting to make a comeback \u2014 and has apparently been approved to compete by tournament organizers. In July […]<\/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-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","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=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}