Valve announce changes in VAC-ban for Majors
Players who have received a VAC ban for more than five years ago are now eligible to play in a Major.
For the first time since the introduction of CS:GO, Valve has changed its policy towards players with a VAC ban.
Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat software product developed by Valve.
The change was announced today via Twitter.
On their website, Valve explains the policy change.
- Up until today, players were ineligible to participate in Valve-sponsored events if they had ever received a VAC ban in CS:GO. These guidelines had not seen an update since the game was new and all CS:GO VAC bans were relatively recent. But VAC bans can now be more than 8 years old. So we’ve decided to update them.
Moving forward, a VAC ban will only disqualify a player from an event if it was either received less than 5 years prior or if it was received at any time after their first participation in a Valve-sponsored event (e.g., after participating in a qualifier for an RMR event). Note that VAC bans stay in place with all of their other effects; the only change is how they influence your eligibility to play in Valve-sponsored events.
One of the players, that is affected is the Brazilian player Vinicius "v$m" Moreira.
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