ESL has taken action against Perseverance for violating tournament rules in the ESL Challenger League Season 48. The team has been disqualified and its entire CS2 roster has been banned for two months after it was discovered that they had lied to tournament administrators about attempting to reschedule a match.
On July 30, ESL issued a ruling stating that the team had submitted false evidence in an attempt to deceive the tournament administration and have an ESL Challenger League match rescheduled.
An investigation by Dust2.us revealed that the players of Perseverance conspired to deceive ESL officials by submitting fake evidence of power outages caused by bad weather in the location of one of their teammates, in order to postpone the match to a later date.
Cory ‘shutout’ Frymark, the player, forwarded screenshots of a storm in his location from the Apple Weather app and a text message he received from his power company warning of “a high risk of power outages”in his area at the time of the match to a tournament representative.
Despite the screenshots, ESL was able to uncover the scheme due to some evident flaws.
The report stated that the personal phone number of another player from Perseverance, Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Shah, was used to send the alleged alert. The alert, supposedly from the power company, also contained a misspelling of “experience”as “expierence.”
The screenshot of the text the “power company” sent the CS2 player.
During July 18, the weather data from the Delaware area, where Shutout is located, also revealed significantly milder conditions compared to what was shown in the screenshot sent to the ESL official.
The report stated that the scheme’s objective was to delay the July 18 game against Mythic in order for the team to replace Chance ‘xaler’ Palmer with Nelvin ‘nooz’ Gonzalez before the match. This plan was successfully carried out, as Perseverance released xaler and acquired nooz on July 24.
The CS2 roster of the Canadian esports organization was announced to have been dropped on July 30, with the organization stating that they do not support the team’s actions.
The players who have been banned have yet to make any statements regarding the situation on social media.
This event occurred only a few months following the ban of a North American CS2 player who was found guilty of stealing components from the computers owned by Jake ‘Stewie2K’ Yip and Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač during IEM Dallas.
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