BetBoom player disqualified from Dota 2 Bali Major after watching Twitch stream during match Image via BetBoomDota 2\u2019s Bali Major is engulfed in drama after BetBoom\u2019s Offlaner Pure was caught watching a Twitch stream during his team\u2019s match against Tundra Esports. On July 5, 2023, there was an official match between BetBoom and Tundra Esports in the upper bracket quarter-finals of Dota 2\u2019s Bali Major. During that series, Tundra called a pause to report an issue to the tournament officials. While the match was paused, BetBoom\u2019s Offlaner Ivan \u2018Pure\u2019 Moskalenko alt-tabbed his game and switched to the Twitch stream of Aleksandr \u2018Nix\u2019 Levin momentarily. This is against the DPC rules, which state that \u201cplayers are prohibited from watching any broadcasts while they are currently competing in an official match.\u201d The rulebook also states that only Steam, Dota 2, and Teamspeak can be open during a LAN event game. Pure disqualified from Bali Major after incident Pure\u2019s actions had some serious consequences as BetBoom\u2019s 2-0 victory against Tundra was overturned, the tournament officials announced on July 6\u2019s pre-show. The Russian team now faces elimination from the Bali Major as it is playing in the lower bracket. The loss may also end up costing BetBoom a spot at The International 2023. With the victory against Tundra, the team was already qualified for the showpiece event based on DPC points. Shortly before the match against Azure Ray began, Bali Major host Neal \u2018Tsunami\u2019 Khandheria announced that Pure had been \u201cdisqualified, not just from the series, but for the rest of the event\u201d. With Roman \u2018Resolut1on\u2019 Fomynok, a two-time TI finalist, filling in, BetBoom lost to Azure Ray 2-1 and are out of the Bali Major in 9th-12th place. They can still earn an invite to TI, depending on the results of Quest Esports and Team Aster, the only two other teams who can qualify for the event based on DPC points. BetBoom respond to disqualification In a statement posted on VK, BetBoom acknowledged that Pure violated the tournament\u2019s rules but insisted that \u201cthere was no malicious intent\u201d from the player. \u201cWe would like to stress that the incident could not have had a serious impact on the almost two-hour match \u2013 it happened in the ninth minute,\u201d BetBoom noted. The Russian organization added that it does not agree with the severity of the punishment. It has submitted an official request to Valve, which, it hopes, will analyze the case with \u201cdue care and provide an objective solution.\u201d Bali Major organizers IO Esports highlighted the punishment for cheating in a statement posted to Twitter. According to the event\u2019s rule 5.2.3, in case of a cheating incident, the player in question \u201cwill be disqualified, forfeit his prize money, and be banned from all competitions for a duration of normally 5 years.\u201d The rule also states that the duration of the ban can be lower, \u201cif significant mitigating factors are in play, but also higher, if there are aggravating circumstances.\u201d This is not the first time that Pure has found himself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. In April 2022, he was caught drawing the pro-Russian war symbol \u2018Z\u2019 on the minimap during a Beyond the Summit match against Mind Games. His team, Outsiders, was disqualified from the tournament, and he was dropped by the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BetBoom player disqualified from Dota 2 Bali Major after watching Twitch stream during match Image via BetBoomDota 2\u2019s Bali Major is engulfed in drama after BetBoom\u2019s Offlaner Pure was caught watching a Twitch stream during his team\u2019s match against Tundra Esports. On July 5, 2023, there was an official match between BetBoom and Tundra Esports […]<\/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-42376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376","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=42376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}