Warzone pros Symfuhny, TeeP & Jukeyz consider tourney boycotts until anti-cheat arrives YouTube, @Symfuhny \/ Twitter, @TylerTeePIn light of ongoing struggles with hackers in Call of Duty: Warzone, some of the world\u2019s best players \u2014 including Symfuhny, TeePee and Jukeyz \u2014 are considering tournament boycotts until Activision delivers a working anti-cheat. Competitive integrity requires a fair playing field and that, especially among higher-skill lobbies, has not been the case in Activision\u2019s battle royale. Despite numerous high-volume ban waves, Verdansk remains beset by cheaters using everything from wall hacks to aimbots. For high-profile streamers, who also have the ever-looming nuisance of stream snipers to contend with, this situation can prove an infinitely frustrating one. Past playing casual matches, the frustration compounds when a cheater\u2019s interference derails a chance at playing for money. This has become the case for three of Warzone\u2019s most renowned competitors, Mason \u2018Symfuhny\u2019 Lanier, Tyler \u2018TeeP\u2019 Polchow and Liam \u2018Jukeyz\u2019 James. All three sit in the top 15 among earners from Verdansk\u2019s tournaments and seem to consider the relentless presence of cheaters as a principal reason why they\u2019re no longer committed to competing in tourneys. Symfuhny talking about his break from competitive Warzone “”there’s no point in me playing tournaments. The amount of stress involved in the tournaments when there’s just cheaters left and right, and you never really have any idea.. it’s just not worth it”” pic.twitter.com\/kvkXmaafts \u2014 Wicked Good Gaming (@WickedGoodGames) January 26, 2021 Symfuhny, one of the most successful Warzone streamers around, grew so disincentivized with the game that he began dipping into variety content. In December and January, he skipped tournaments, opting to play games like Rust instead, to the point that he couldn\u2019t retain a spot in our top 7 players for the month. Having opted out of yet another big-bucks tournament (the $25K Code Red event), Sym explains precisely why he is \u201ctaking a break\u201d from competing: \u201cThe amount of stress involved in the tournaments when there\u2019s just cheaters left and right \u2026 it\u2019s just not worth it.\u201d Jukeyz, a Warzone star despite playing in tournaments with rough ping from across the pond, did play in the $25K event \u2014 but then suggested he may no longer accept invites. Chalk the tournament we shouldn’t be even playing for such money with the state this game is in with hackers & stream snipers in fact chalk all the tournaments until something is done about it \u2014 Li (@Jukeyz) January 28, 2021 Citing a Warzone state of affairs derailed by cheating and stream snipers, the mechanically gifted competitor proffered that the community should \u201cchalk all the tournament until something is done about it.\u201d And, lastly, while TeeP also competed in the tournament \u2014 he cryptically suggested that it might be his last. In response, DougIsRaw explained why his teammate likely felt that way. Not only gassing this tweet but putting some light on it This game is in a terrible spot and No1 seems to be doing anything about it. People like Sym aren\u2019t even competing today because of the atrocity that happens. Let\u2019s run it today Teep https:\/\/t.co\/6NytdS8VKD \u2014 Doug (@DougisRaw) January 28, 2021 Hoping to add \u201csome light\u201d to TeeP\u2019s cryptic statement, Doug referenced Sym\u2019s decision not to compete and claimed that Warzone \u201cis in a terrible spot and no one seems to be doing anything about it.\u201d With the last major ban wave against cheaters coming months ago at the end of September 2020, it\u2019s clear that Verdansk\u2019s finest are growing increasingly frustrated with the issues impacting their battlefield. It remains to be seen how quickly, or effectively, Activision intends on addressing these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone pros Symfuhny, TeeP & Jukeyz consider tourney boycotts until anti-cheat arrives YouTube, @Symfuhny \/ Twitter, @TylerTeePIn light of ongoing struggles with hackers in Call of Duty: Warzone, some of the world\u2019s best players \u2014 including Symfuhny, TeePee and Jukeyz \u2014 are considering tournament boycotts until Activision delivers a working anti-cheat. Competitive integrity requires a […]<\/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-34227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227","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=34227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}