5 Of The Biggest Scandals In E-Sports History

[@kamage]

underrated youtuber, good quality and deserves more easily. dont give up bc with videos like these u can rly get your channel going in the future.

[@SenorDonut.]

Thank you buddy, appreciate the kind words! Hopefully you enjoy the next videos in the works :)

[@fakeMeLTaN]

kqly definitely deserves a spot here

[@SenorDonut.]

Thanks buddy, will include this in a future video. And thanks for checking out the vid :)

[@HeroGetsu]

Dang I didn’t know about these cheaters SMH it’s unfortunate but that’s what comes with playing online competitive games

[@SenorDonut.]

Hey Hero, good to see you back here bud! It is indeed, but hopefully you enjoyed the vid :)

[@andreasthiemke9520]

Cool idea for a video. I would just like to know why you chose forsaken cheating and not the ibuypower matchfixing scandal. I would say the latter was a bigger deal given we had 4(?) players getting banned for life essentially

[@SenorDonut.]

Hey buddy, thanks very much! That's a great idea for a future vid, I actually didn't come across that one when I was researching, but will defo include that in the next one. Hope you enjoy the upcoming vids :)

[@savagex1322]

Word.exe was way bigger than the ibuypower scandal

[@andreasthiemke9520]

@@savagex1322 I think that is recency bias talking The indian pro scene isn't really that big and optic india was ranked 120th at their peak. but ibp was one of, if not the biggest team from NA at the time, and got caught doing something quite serious. Matchfixing can lead to criminal charges, but in this case lead us to lose top cs players and exciting talent like swag. So I would argue that the ibp scandal was worse both in scale and outcome

[@misfitxo]

@@savagex1322word.exe was funny, but ibuypower was a way bigger deal

[@savagex1322]

@@andreasthiemke9520 Its not recency bias. Don't get me wrong, the ibp scandal was mega. What made Forsaken's cheating scandal even bigger was not the names involved (maybe a little cause of optic and the incident literally killing the Indian pro cs scene) but the nature of the way he chose to do it. Word.exe literally became a staple meme in esports recognizable and used across different games.