Update 19:00 :Rand "Rand" Kadir, who played in one of the two matches in question, has released a Twitlonger in which he distances himself from the rest of the team and vows that he hasn't "made one cent of profit from these games."
Elisa Esports has announced that it has disqualified schadE halt from the Elisa Invitational Fall Contenders event. The tournament's organizers stated that they have been alerted by a third party about suspicious behavior taking place in schadE halt's matches against PROSPECTS and yodagus, indicating that the match outcomes were manipulated by the German-Ukrainian-Polish mixture. The organizers have further stated that they have passed the information along to Finnish authorities and to other tournament organizers and the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC). Former HellRaisers player smike played for schadE halt in the "suspicious" matches Elisa Esports have not shared more details about how the results were allegedly fixed or in what way the team was supposed to benefit. schadE halt lost the former match 1-2 and won the latter 2-1, losing their map picks of Inferno and Overpass by huge margins, 16-2 and 16-1, respectively. The team used the same four players in both matches: former TTC members Daniel "KrowNii" Michel and Thomas "powerYY" Becker, ex-HellRaisers and pro100 player Sergey "smike" Sklyarenko, and Gabriel "gab" Jaroszuk. Rand played in the first match before he was replaced by Bogdan "Bodik" Nastych in the second. The lineup later also played in the SteelSeries NOVA Cup DACH Fall, placing third-fourth there following a win over ALTERNATE aTTaX and losses to Sangal and Sprout.  Sangal #52  Robin 'ScrunK' Röpke Kornél 'kory' Szedlár Love 'phzy' Smidebrant Can 'kyuubii' Ali Caner 'soulfly' Kesici  Bogdan 'Bodik' Nastych Age: 17 Team: schadE halt Rating 1.0: 0.73 Maps played: 15 KPR: 0.55 DPR: 0.78 Rand 'Rand' Kadir Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.82 Maps played: 9 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.73  Gabriel 'gab' Jaroszuk Age: 22 Team: schadE halt Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 96 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.74  Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko Age: 24 Team: schadE halt Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 496 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.70  Sprout #21  Ismail 'refrezh' Ali Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss Victor 'Staehr' Staehr Laurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Daniel 'KrowNii' Michel Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 127 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.73  Thomas 'powerYY' Becker Age: 22 Team: schadE halt Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 125 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.72  schadE halt #90  Rand 'Rand' Kadir Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenko Thomas 'powerYY' Becker Daniel 'KrowNii' Michel Gabriel 'gab' Jaroszuk Bogdan 'Bodik' Nastych  ALTERNATE aTTaX  Paul 'PerX' von Erdmannsdorff Michalis 'awzek' Napoloni Patrick 'pdy' Merken Max 'PANIX' Hangebruch Lukas 'FreeZe' Hegmann  pro100    PROSPECTS #125   Alexander 'AlekS' Andersson Gustav 'FRANSSON' Fransson Olle 'spooke' Grundström Johan 'hype' Engblom Jonatan 'bobeksde' Persson  HellRaisers   yodagus #202  Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen Mads 'hugilago' Hauge Alexander 'redzy' Johansson Albin 'abbelol' Jupiter Thomas 'LUMSEN' Søhus Larsen  TTC  Sead 'Djury' Jahovic Mateusz 'MTZ' Malikowski Samy 'Tionix' von Gehlen Brajan 'DGL' Lemecha |