If you were a cheater, and you got caught, what would you do?

It’s a difficult question to answer because most of us wouldn’t actually cheat. For the majority, cheating in nearly any aspect of life is completely alien, a thought that wouldn’t enter our mind, and if it did, we wouldn’t act on it.

Obviously we’ve all got every gun on GTA San Andreas, and who hasn’t pocketed some pick ‘n’ mix here and there, but we wouldn’t steal a car. Or pirate a film, of course.

coughs.

The correct answer, apparently, to the hypothetical posed at the start of this stream of consciousness was to blackmail the people in charge of your punishment. Just double down.

Swedish player joel, who first placed bets against his own team, went on to use cheats and then apparently threatened ESIC with false allegations, which is not just bloody stupid. It’s career suicide.

Mind you, so is cheating. You might as well go down fighting.

Perhaps this is why Valve were so keen to ban the iBUYPOWER players for matchfixing the first time around. This is what happens when you let people get away with breaking rules and flaunting the lines.

He wasn’t just cheating a little bit, either. He used Asdfware EFI bootkit (no, we’ve never heard of it) which included aimbot and wallhack features, and he even admitted to that. ESIC delayed issuing the statement to let him find another job, and he thanked them by attempting to blackmail them.

With false allegations…

If you learn a lesson from this, it should be ‘don’t cheat’. It could be ‘don’t let people break rules and get away with it’, too. But for us, the most important lesson to learn is this:

If you’re going to try and blackmail someone, make sure you have some f–cking leverage, you idiot.

He’s been banned for life. Good riddance.