Flashpoint reverse CSGO VAC ruling to allow reformed cheaters to play DreamHack \/ FEL \/ FlashpointA much-requested change into the CS:GO professional ruleset is coming, in one league at least, as Flashpoint (formerly known as B-Site) will be allowing players with VAC bans before 2018 to participate in their events. After initially announcing that all VAC-banned players would not be eligible to play in their events, FACEIT has backflipped and allowed reformed cheaters and match-fixers to play in their upcoming Flashpoint League. They become the third tournament organizer to revoke permanent suspensions on VAC bans, after ESL and DreamHack did so back in 2017. Flashpoint announced the changes on February 5 after \u201creviewing [their] rules around VAC-banned players for the Open Qualifiers.\u201d Under section 5.1 of the Flashpoint rules detailing Anti-cheat, \u201cany player with a VAC ban prior to February 5, 2018 is allowed to participate in the competition.\u201d It follows a similar line to ESL\u2019s two-year rulings for VAC bans, although for Flashpoint, it\u2019s a hard cutoff for now. We’ve reviewed our rules around VAC banned players for the Open Qualifiers. Players can see this rule change on the Open Qualifier page at https:\/\/t.co\/sHvI5ZCEzU \u2014 Flashpoint (@Flashpoint) February 5, 2020 The ruling will mean that some of the game\u2019s most talented players will be given a second chance for cheating years, and for some, even decades ago. The ruling will allow players like North American veteran Josh \u2018steel\u2019 Nissan, who was caught up in the 2014 iBP matchfixing scandal, his former teammate Braxton \u2018swag\u2019 Pierce, and Finnish prodigy Elias \u2018Jamppi\u2019 Olkkonen to participate in the upcoming event. Steel, now with Chaos Esports Club, revealed he has been given an invite to the North American Open Qualifiers for the Flashpoint League as a result. \u201cSee you in B-site, B for not_Banned,\u201d he said. Got an invite to the @FLASHPOINT closed qualifier. See you in B site. B for not_Banned! @ChaosEC Just majors only now. And dEadLEAGUE. 5 yrs \u2014 steel (@JoshNissan) February 5, 2020 Swag\u2019s Swole Patrol will also have a chance of qualifying for the event, after filling out their roster with Sebastian \u2018seb\u2019 Bucki and Skyler \u2018Relyks\u2019 Weaver, both formerly of Team Singularity. While VAC-banned players are still banned from participating in BLAST events and Valve-sponsored majors, the move is a step forward for some of the game\u2019s youngest stars who made mistakes before they could go pro. It\u2019s unclear as to whether VAC-banned players will be able to participate in the league after qualifying, with the rule change currently only applying to that side of the event. Two teams will join the likes of Dignitas, MIBR, and Cloud9 in the 12-team league from these qualifiers, which start on February 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Flashpoint reverse CSGO VAC ruling to allow reformed cheaters to play DreamHack \/ FEL \/ FlashpointA much-requested change into the CS:GO professional ruleset is coming, in one league at least, as Flashpoint (formerly known as B-Site) will be allowing players with VAC bans before 2018 to participate in their events. After initially announcing that all […]<\/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-38278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38278","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=38278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}