{"id":81777,"date":"2020-09-11T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/?p=81777"},"modified":"2020-09-11T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:28:03","slug":"csgo-ence-suspends-head-coach-slaava-rasanen-for-coaching-bug-exploit-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/csgo-ence-suspends-head-coach-slaava-rasanen-for-coaching-bug-exploit-in-2017-81777\/","title":{"rendered":"CS:GO &#8211; ENCE Suspends Head Coach Slaava R\u00e4s\u00e4nen For Coaching Bug Exploit In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can guarantee that this is still the tip of the iceberg as the fallout continues to tumble from a spectator bug that <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/csgo-multiple-coaches-have-been-caught-cheating-bans-levied-towards-mibr-heroic-80294\/\">allowed coaches to gain advantageous views<\/a> of maps in progress, giving them the ability to inform their team where the enemy team was.<\/p>\n<p>In a title such as\u00a0<em>Counter-Strike<\/em>, which is high-stakes chess mixed in with hairy aim-duels and a mild plethora of explosions, gaining unfair intelligence of the enemy positions is considered to be &#8216;cheating&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This all seems pointless to point out, but many are still struggling with why <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/csgo-esic-exponentially-open-inquiry-into-25000-matches-for-coach-spectating-bug-80660\/\">ESIC has launched a full-scale investigation encompassing 25,000 matches<\/a> in total and handing out massive penalties for anyone proven to have used the bug.<\/p>\n<p>ENCE is the latest team to appear to be affected, at least publically, for now.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement publically released today, ENCE has suspended Slaava &#8216;Twista&#8217; R\u00e4s\u00e4nen for taking part of the bug (and using it to feed information to the team) way back in 2017; ESIC wasn&#8217;t kidding when they announced that anyone who used the bug will eventually be found out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As of today, we have suspended our CS:GO Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwistaCSGO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TwistaCSGO<\/a>. This week he has notified us of a coaching bug incident back in 2017. After consulting ESIC to investigate the matter, we have decided to suspend him from his duties until further notice.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUKbTXkawN\">https:\/\/t.co\/MUKbTXkawN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ENCE (@ENCE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ENCE\/status\/1304357455913193477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that this suspension does not come from ESIC, however; this is ENCE taking the initiative to <a href=\"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/csgo-furia-coach-guerri-publicly-releases-video-showing-coach-bug-from-2019-80502\/\">suspend the coach<\/a> that they similarly noticed has done a &#8216;stellar job&#8217; in coaching the team over the years.<\/p>\n<p>They also note that they take competitive integrity extremely seriously, and have thus suspended &#8216;Twista&#8217; from his duties &#8216;until further notice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of clarity, ESIC did not discover the exploit used: &#8216;Twista&#8217; himself came to the organization of ENCE and confirmed he used it in 2017; ENCE then took this information to ESIC that stated that &#8216;Twista&#8217; can continue his work as head coach until the investigation has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>ENCE has taken this suspension of R\u00e4s\u00e4nen entirely on themselves, as a note of their competitive integrity in spite of how well &#8216;Twista&#8217; has done as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the bans and suspensions that have already been handed out, with their length of time up to two years, it&#8217;s likely that Slaava R\u00e4s\u00e4nen will rejoin the roster, and his time for coaching has come to an untimely end; ESIC may be lighter with the punishment, but this is ultimately speculation until ESIC make their decisions and findings public in October.<\/p>\n<p>ENCE concluded their statement with informing the public that they will not comment further on the suspensions of R\u00e4s\u00e4nen until ESIC makes their findings public knowledge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can guarantee that this is still the tip of the iceberg as the fallout continues to tumble from a spectator bug that allowed coaches to gain advantageous views of maps in progress, giving them the ability to inform their team where the enemy team was. In a title such as\u00a0Counter-Strike, which is high-stakes chess mixed in with hairy aim-duels and a mild plethora of explosions, gaining unfair intelligence of the enemy positions is considered to be &#8216;cheating&#8217;. This all seems pointless to point out, but many are still struggling with why ESIC has launched a full-scale investigation encompassing 25,000&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":69193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[6598,6984,196],"class_list":["post-81777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports","tag-counter-strike","tag-ence","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happygamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}