CDL Challengers forces amateur team to play match against cheaters FaZe TestyAn amateur Call of Duty team was apparently forced to play a recent CDL Challengers Cup match against a team that just had a player get caught cheating the round prior. You never want to run into cheaters while playing CoD, be it in Team Deathmatch or Warzone, but being forced to play against a team that\u2019s already been caught doing so is on a whole other level. Apparently, this is just what happened to Challengers Cup team Hope Esports, based on a post from player Chris Abbott, who tweeted images of a conversation with a Gamebattles tournament administrator, confirming that situation. \u201cThe kids we\u2019re supposed to play in our next round just got banned for cheating 10 minutes ago!\u201d he wrote. hahahahah the kids we’re supposed to play in our next round just got banned for cheating 10 minutes ago!!!! CoD Gods tried to give me the bracket of death today SHEESH pic.twitter.com\/xwczMPw1Hy \u2014 Chris (@ChrisRadial) December 12, 2020 Since the other team had a member that had literally just been caught breaking the rules, Abbott asked if his team could be given a free win. Instead, the admin simply replied that the match would be going ahead as scheduled. \u201cSo, we have been informed that they can finish this tournament, but he will be banned from the site after this,\u201d the admin replied. \u201cSo you\u2019re good to go.\u201d One wouldn\u2019t exactly call being forced to play against confirmed cheaters, \u201cgood to go,\u201d and Abbott felt the same way, tweeting that conversation as well saying he \u201crefused\u201d to play against cheating teams back to back. The good news is that Team Hope managed to win both matches on December 12, even if they were forced into a game they felt they shouldn\u2019t have played. BROOOO WHATTTTTT I REFUSE TO PLAY BACK TO BACK CHEATERS WHATTTTT https:\/\/t.co\/KtZZkUGuax pic.twitter.com\/RlrSp90PKV \u2014 Chris (@ChrisRadial) December 12, 2020 Based on communications with Abbott, the two teams were letstrythisagain and FF, the latter being the team that Hope was forced to play second, even after having been exposed. A good number of CoD players and fans replied to Abbott agreeing with him that the situation was pretty ridiculous, including Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Alec \u201cArcitys\u201d Sanderson, but it also sparked a larger conversation about the need for an anti-cheat in Black Ops Cold War. So he\u2019s banned but can finish the tourney LMAOOOO https:\/\/t.co\/0bt3pOs02m \u2014 alec (@Arcitys) December 12, 2020 This is just another instance of what\u2019s been a very turbulent start to the CDL Challengers season, particularly when it comes to the uber-sensitive topic of cheaters and hackers. In the first Challengers Cup, which was held December 5-6, numerous players who appeared to be using third-party software were exposed, leading to a massive outcry from CDL pros about the need for better moderation at the amateur level. Read More: When is Black Ops Cold War Season 1? – They\u2019re not alone; the player-base has been calling out for Activision to create their own anti-cheat system \u2014 in the same vein of Valorant\u2019s Vanguard \u2014 in order to deal with the hackers that have plagued both multiplayer and Warzone ever since its release. The best we\u2019ve got so far is that the publisher has said they\u2019re working on an anti-cheat software, but when it will be released and how it will operate remain to be seen, and until it does come out, these kinds of issues and problems will just keep popping up in the Call of Duty competitive scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CDL Challengers forces amateur team to play match against cheaters FaZe TestyAn amateur Call of Duty team was apparently forced to play a recent CDL Challengers Cup match against a team that just had a player get caught cheating the round prior. You never want to run into cheaters while playing CoD, be it in […]<\/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-24368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368","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=24368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}