Leaked recording captures discussion of CSGO ESEA Premier match fixing ESEAOn April 2, North American Counter-Strike news site Dust2.us published an audio recording that captures three ESEA Premier players engaged in discussion to fix the outcome of two matches. The recording has been released after it was publicly revealed by the Commissioner of the Esports Integrity Commission, Ian Smith, that the FBI were also conducting their own investigation into North American CS:GO match fixing. The audio, recorded in October 2020, features three players from the organisation Rebirth, Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano, Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak, and Carson \u201cnosraC\u201d O\u2019Reilly, openly discussing how to subvert the outcome of two of their matches in the ESEA Premier League. The two matches discussed were against Incognito and Russian Canadians. The former was postponed two times before it was resolved and the latter resulted in a forfeit. Sources over the course of Dexerto\u2019s own investigation confirmed that these decisions surrounding these matches were taken after the players became aware of the possibility of the recording existing and wanted to ensure no-one was monitoring activity around those matches. Update, April 3: ESEA has now announced a suspension for all players from Team Rebirth from \u201call competitions until the investigation is concluded.\u201d The players suspended are: Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano – Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak – Carson \u201cnosraC\u201d O\u2019Reilly – Alex \u201cvek\u201d Voynov – David \u201cJ0LZ\u201d Jolin – The recording also incriminates two of the Russian Canadian players, Alex \u201cvek\u201d Voynov and David \u201cJ0LZ\u201d Jolin, as having agreed to participate in the scheme. On the recording, Tropiano states that Voynov, the team\u2019s in-game leader, has agreed to use \u201con radar\u201d to ensure the outcome of the match. \u201cOn radar\u201d refers to a popular method match-fixers use of streaming their game via programs such as Discord to their opponents. This enables teams to have an advantage if they wish to win or to make their losing appear more natural with calculated \u201cmisreads\u201d obfuscating the rigged nature of the game. Tropiano states that in exchange for their cooperation he will share profits from a couple of Bitcoin betting sites. Over the course of our own investigation, Dexerto interviewed Voynov about the allegations and he denied them categorically. He also released a vague Twitlonger in February where he called any suggestion he was involved as \u201cconjecture.\u201d An archive of that statement can be found here: https:\/\/archive.is\/vr9Zu Dexerto also interviewed Jolin and he denied having made any agreement with Tropiano. The full transcript of the recording is as follows: Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: No it\u2019d be sus if you played Incognito like the full game, but if you joined at half, it\u2019d look real. Or not even at half, in the middle of the game while it\u2019s going, you just join, \u201cmy internet\u2019s back\u201d, we get shrek out of the server and it looks normal. Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: I\u2019m not doing it bro. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: As long as shrek [Spenser \u201cShrek\u201d Adams] plays like four or five rounds, it\u2019s gonna look good. Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: and the fact that you didn\u2019t even say anything about the Russian Canadians game, that\u2019s even more fucked, but\u2026 Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: What? Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: What do you mean what? You didn\u2019t say anything about it. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: What do you mean? Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak Okay, now you\u2019re just acting dumb. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: No, I\u2019m serious, what are you talking about? Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: What do you mean? I was just talking yesterday about winning a match so we can play Mythic in playoffs, you didn\u2019t say anything. Now today you just come into the TeamSpeak and you\u2019re like, \u201cyeah, we\u2019re just gonna lose the game.\u201d Like what? *scoffs* what do you mean? Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: We\u2019ve been planning to lose this game for the last five days; it makes the most sense out of every game in MDL. They need this win, we don\u2019t need the win, and with their IGL on radar and you off the server, it looks guaranteed real. Carson \u201cnosraC\u201d O\u2019Reilly: I don\u2019t know if vek will agree to radar. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: He does, he agrees to radar. On the condition that I\u2019m letting him use two Bitcoin sites, and I\u2019m going to share profit from those two sites. And J0LZ is okay with it too. And they\u2019re not- I told them there\u2019s no way you tell battery or Saturn, it needs to look like a legit tryhard game. Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: Alright, whatever. But I\u2019m not setting up the Incognito game, I told you. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: I know, I don\u2019t think you should, you should join in while shrek is playing, like three rounds in. Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: No *laughs* Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: No, the main thing is that if it shows six people on HLTV, it\u2019ll look so good. Kevin \u201c4pack\u201d Przypasniak: Well, you can set it up or something, I dunno. Sebastian \u201cretchy\u201d Tropiano: I\u2019m going to restart for [ESEA Pro] client, hold on. The recording was sent to ESEA admins shortly after it was captured and it was then passed on to ESIC who already had an investigation underway. This recording corroborated other evidence that had already been unearthed by ESIC\u2019s investigation. Months later, and with other lines of inquiry now being pursued, the release of the recording has been cleared. Dexerto will be bringing you a much more in-depth report into the match-fixing in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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