Cloud9's H0bbit, who is currently competing in the PGL Major Antwerp 2022, has just been implicated in a seven-year-old CSGO match-fixing scandal.
Cloud9's H0bbit's name has just been implicated in a match-fixing scandal that also involves his ex-teammates Rustam ‘5TRYK#R’ Älımqūlov, Bektiyar ‘fitch’ Baqytov, Magzhan ‘fANTASTIKA’ Temirbolat, and Adlet ‘keeN’ Nyrseytov. These match-fixing incidents purportedly happened back in 2015, under the team name PARTY, while the team tried to win through qualifiers and find a way into CSGO Minors and Majors.
The bombshell came, as Dexerto reports, when 5TRYK#R had a moment of clarity. The ex-player currently faces a debilitating sickness which could prove fatal. This led him to come to terms with his previous actions. According to him, if worse comes to worst, he'd like to not leave any secrets behind. And thus, he made a series of tweets detailing how his ragtag crew of Kazhakstani players hedged bets against themselves to commit spot-fixing to earn a little more money. The team, which as previously established had Cloud9's H0bbit at the time, didn't have the backing of a larger organization, and hence, the players were not earning any income from playing. Instead, the game plan was to compete until they get noticed and hopefully picked up by another organization. Lacking any source of income, the team decided to throw their pistol rounds in the group stage of the Starladder Regional Minor Championship closed qualifier, all the time betting for the opposing team as winners for those rounds, eventually netting each one around $5,000. Due to the disadvantage the team gave themselves, they'd eventually lose.
However, the players ended up not earning any money from their hedged bets at all. As 5TRYK#R would recall: “We did not earn anything from the match because Fitch told other people [outside the team] and so the bets were cancelled,” 5TRYK#R explained. “We also had our team and clan tag banned by the bookmaker.” Infighting would eventually occur due to the teammates' disagreements regarding when or whether to hedge bets, which would lead to the team never playing with each other again.
Right now, CSGO authorities have not yet made any actions or reprimands to H0bbit, the only remaining player in that roster that is actively competing at the current Major. What this news might entail Cloud9 and H0bbit in particular have not yet been made clear yet. Undoubtedly, Valve and PPGL will launch their own investigations, with the results possibly resolving not until after this week's Playoffs matches.
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