Alessandro 'stermy' Avallone and Kevin 'Strenx' Baeza are claiming that Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski, who lost to strenx earlier and Anton 'Cooller' Singov, who is currently 1-0 down to stermy, are throwing the games to avoid matching up with Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson and Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky in the knockout stages.

Cooller vs. stermy is currently at 1-0 to stermy after a bizarre dm13 encounter which saw both players essentially screwing around and making questionable decisions. After the map the issue was raised and the game was paused, with the admins meeting up to discuss the problem immediately. stermy was refusing to play until a resolution was found.

The claims fells on deaf ears though, and after a number of solutions were cooked up including a coin toss on who finishes first and second, Cooller and stermy decided to just continue on. The game is still currently paused but should get underway soon.

Strenx is set to face rapha tomorrow after dispatching of av3k 2-0 earlier in the tournament. It was a game that many expected av3k to win despite strenx's impressive BEAT IT campaign, but strenx made light work of an overly aggressive av3k, especially on Aerowalk. Had av3k won that game he would have topped the group and faced rapha instead of strenx, but now he's paired up with arguably an easier fixture in k1llsen.

av3k said that the concept of throwing maps isn't cheating, but didn't claim that he lost on purpose. He is adamant that cheating can only be referred to when bringing up wallhacks etc.