With this season came one of the most peculiar teams - pro-Gaming, a team who literally came from no-where and destroyed almost every one of their opposing teams.
From their second match in the league - against SK Gaming's German team, a lot of speculation was brought against them as to whether they were a 'legitimate' team or not. Literally thousands of players and spectators began spreading rumours that the pro-Gaming team did actually cheat.
In Playday 4 of the league's season, the German powerhouse mousesports came victim to the dangerously abnormal team of pro-Gaming. The mousesports team were absolutely slaughtered by pro-Gaming, losing by a score of 24:06. By this time it had become almost crystal clear that something rather 'weird' was going on with the pro-Gaming team.
During the season pro-Gaming had only ever lost two matches - one against OCRANA (which was on LAN), and another against mTw (which was won very barley by mTw - online).
Now - seven weeks on, and numerous hours thoroughly analysing demos, they have eventually been caught out by the ESL. The player Eduard "eddy" Schmidt was eventually caught cheating after a demo of him was analyzed by the ESL admin team.
With this cheater caught come the consequences to him and his team. The ESL have removed the pro-Gaming team from season 7 of the EPS, they will also not be allowed to participate in season 8. The player himself - Eduard "eddy" Schmidt has also been given a two year ban from the ESL.
This really shows how strict online leagues are when it comes to cheaters. We wish every other team the best of luck in the rest of the season, and may the best team win!
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