And some of you thought iBuyPower were unlucky to be banned from Majors.
Match fixing is illegal. Like, really illegal. We didn't think this would need to be said, but in esports it seems to not be seen as the crime that it is. When you hack in CSGO, you sell out your fellow competitors for money. When you match fix, you sell out every spectator, every TO and every competitor.
Thankfully, ESIC are aware of that, and their investigation into MDL match fixers now involves the FBI, which means there could be some federal charges for anyone involved. That means prison time isn't a completely out-of-the-question possibility.
A lot of the players involved have now moved onto a 'different game' and seemed to genuinely believe they'd get away with it, with Riot - sorry, another game publisher - unlikely to punish some of the first adopters of their game as not to ruin a budding scene. That, now, seems far more unlikely.
Stop fixing matches, you bloody idiots. We don't say that for nothing - hell, even Ian Smith of the ESIC called you that.
But yeah, Free Brax and all that. Nothing to see here.
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