The Esports Integrity Commission released yesterday a statement regarding stream sniping and the heavy number of reported incidents. ESIC explains in the statement that there will be a zero-tolerance from this date on, but how every incident prior to this date not will be pursued.
This has meant that the renowned esports referee and former head referee at ESL, Michal Slowinski had gone to Twitter, criticising both tournament organizers and ESIC. The freelance referee cannot understand why teams and players avoid punishment when there according to him, is clear evidence of cheating.
Super disappointed TOs and ESIC decided not to punish those caught stream sniping.
How does one get away with what's essentially cheating? How is it fair on those who played fair and potentially lost money, ranking points or even their jobs?! https://t.co/U0RNSfd0GP
— Michal Slowinski (@michau9_) December 2, 2020
Slowinski continues by giving an example from back in April 2020 where a player was punished for joining the match stream on Twitch, which is a complete resemblance of the incident with MIBR the other day where the Brazilians had a monitor streaming their match.
Ever wondered what the punishment would be if the teams in question were not in the top30? Well, here is an incident from February 2020 which was actually punished by ESIC:https://t.co/4woFMMo1Oh https://t.co/z7HbSN9BOU
— Michal Slowinski (@michau9_) December 2, 2020
MIBR incident in Flashpoint 2.
Read more – “ESIC: Stream sniping has been taking place on an alarmingly regular basis”
https://pley.gg/news/esic-stream-sniping-has-been-taking-place-alarmingly-regular-basis/
