ESIC lifts CSGO coach HUNDEN\u2019s ban DreamhackThe Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has announced that it has lifted the ban imposed on CS:GO coach Nicolai \u2018HUNDEN\u2019 Petersen, who is free to participate in member events again. The decision followed an in-person meeting between the two parties to discuss the two-year ban with which HUNDEN was slapped in 2021 over a breach of ESIC\u2019s integrity program. Despite \u201cdisagreements on certain matters\u201d, ESIC said, the two parties \u201crecognised the importance of integrity to the thriving Esports industry.\u201d It was agreed that HUNDEN will undertake \u201crelevant training\u201d, while ESIC will \u201creview its policies and procedures to ensure they are consistent with good industry practice and fit for purpose\u201d. \u201cThe parties will make no further comment on this matter,\u201d ESIC noted. HUNDEN was slapped with a two-year ban on August 27 2021 after ESIC learned that the coach had leaked sensitive information to a competitor ahead of IEM Cologne without the knowledge of his then-team, Heroic. The name of the team was not revealed, but HUNDEN was at the time linked with a move to Astralis as Danny \u2018zonic\u2019 S\u00f8rensen was entering the final six months of his contract with the organisation. A forensic investigation determined that the recipient did not access the material shared by HUNDEN. Still, ESIC determined that by merely leaking the information, HUNDEN had created threats \u201cto the integrity of an ESIC member event\u201d and \u201cto the reputation of an ESIC member\u201d, and had \u201cthreatened harm to the reputation and competitive integrity of esports, and ESIC\u2019s member ESL\u201d. Before that ban, HUNDEN had served an eight-month suspension in another case, related to the use of the spectator bug. That ban, reduced from ten to eight months for his assistance with the investigation, expired in April 2021. What now for HUNDEN? With his ban now removed, HUNDEN is expected to return to coaching immediately. And he might finally join Astralis, who are looking for a new head coach after parting ways with Martin \u2018trace\u2019 Heldt in October. In August 2022, Dexerto Editor-at-Large Richard Lewis revealed that HUNDEN had \u201ca working relationship\u201d with Astralis during his ban. The Danish organization told Dexerto that the coach interacted with the team on a regular basis to create content for strategic partner Aim Lab. At the time, Astralis also noted that they would jump at the chance to work with HUNDEN in a more direct capacity once his ban expired. \u201cShould we have the need, we would not have any second thoughts about offering him a position as an analyst or the like,\u201d Astralis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ESIC lifts CSGO coach HUNDEN\u2019s ban DreamhackThe Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has announced that it has lifted the ban imposed on CS:GO coach Nicolai \u2018HUNDEN\u2019 Petersen, who is free to participate in member events again. The decision followed an in-person meeting between the two parties to discuss the two-year ban with which HUNDEN was slapped […]<\/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-38108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38108","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=38108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}