Team Vitality CSGO fined $10,000 for stream-sniping at BLAST Premier Team VitalityThe Esports Integrity Commission have fined Team Vitality $10,000 \u201cin response to stream-sniping breach of the ESIC Code,\u201d the commission confirmed on January 23. [jwplayer f7GYaDHg] What happened? During their match against Team Liquid at the BLAST Premier Global Final, viewers spotted a screen behind the Vitality players which appeared to display the live broadcast of the match. This is strictly against tournament rules, as teams may be able to gain an advantage by seeing the opposing team\u2019s point of view \u2013 even with a delay on the broadcast. Although ESIC did not find any \u201cmalicious intent\u201d from Vitality, their zero-tolerance approach \u201cmandates accountability from the organisation for the breach.\u201d ESIC fines Vitality In their statement, ESIC says it \u201creceived and assessed VOD footage and player camera footage and found that this breach occurred in [the match against Team Liquid], as well as having occurred in map 2 of Team Vitality\u2019s game against Complexity.\u201d ESIC\u2019s review \u201cdoes not suggest that the players were information derived from the stream or that they gained any advantage in their matches as a result of the code violation.\u201d They confirm that Team Vitality has accepted responsibility for the breach. ESIC issues $10,000 fine to team Vitality in response to stream-sniping breach of the ESIC Code. While there was no malicious intention detected by ESIC in its examination of evidence, ESIC\u2019s zero tolerance approach mandates accountability from the organisation for the breach. pic.twitter.com\/Gs7Kwut0le \u2014 ESIC (@ESIC_Official) January 23, 2021 BLAST\u2019s commissioner Andrew Haworth said that they immediately told Vitality to turn off the stream and referred the incident to ESIC and assisted in the investigation. Richard Lewis, in a reaction for Dexerto, argued that Team Vitality should have been disqualified for the breach, to maintain competitive integrity. Team Vitality still move on ahead of Team Liquid, who drop to the lower bracket. Vitality will face Astralis in the winner\u2019s final, while Team Liquid take on NaVi for a spot in the loser\u2019s final. You can keep up with all the action at the BLAST Premier Global Finals with our coverage hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team Vitality CSGO fined $10,000 for stream-sniping at BLAST Premier Team VitalityThe Esports Integrity Commission have fined Team Vitality $10,000 \u201cin response to stream-sniping breach of the ESIC Code,\u201d the commission confirmed on January 23. [jwplayer f7GYaDHg] What happened? During their match against Team Liquid at the BLAST Premier Global Final, viewers spotted a screen […]<\/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-39162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39162","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=39162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}