The Dark Side of Competitive VALORANT

Summary

Highlights

• Young, vulnerable VALORANT players are being targeted to throw matches for large sums of money 💰
• Encrypted communication and cryptocurrency transactions are used to cover trails 🕵️‍♂️
• Gambling on match outcomes could potentially destroy competitive VALORANT 🎲
• Community involvement is crucial to combat this extensive problem 💪
• Whistleblowers are critical in unveiling the match-fixing chaos 📢

Key Takeaways

• Underground gambling rings are corrupting tier 2 VALORANT 🕵️‍♀️
• Young players are lured with life-changing money 💸
• Encrypted platforms and cryptocurrency hide illegal operations 🔍
• Match-fixing schemes could kill the competitive scene ☠️
• Community urged to scrutinize and report shady activities 🛡️

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: The Corruption in Tier 2 VALORANT Scene The Tier 2 VALORANT scene is plagued with corruption, primarily driven by underground gambling rings. These rings prey on young, inexperienced, and desperate players, offering substantial sums of money, often tens of thousands of dollars, to deliberately lose matches. Players as young as 16 to 18 years old are targeted, while the organizers of these schemes make significant profits, potentially in the hundreds of thousands, over time.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Investigation Begins In this chapter titled 'Investigation Begins,' the narrator unveils the onset of a major scandal threatening the world of competitive gaming in Valorant, specifically focusing on a tier 2 level controversy. The narrator starts with investigating two individuals which leads to the discovery of a potentially extensive issue that could drastically impact the landscape of the game. To provide context, the narrator explains the hierarchy in professional competitive Valorant, differentiating between tier 1 (VCT) and tier 2.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Understanding VALORANT Tiers The chapter discusses the structure of VALORANT's competitive tiers, focusing on the different regions including Pacific, EMEA (Europe), and VCT Americas (NA, Latam, Brazil). It highlights the various pathways to reach the VCT, including the possibility of climbing from tier 2 challengers and even from the Premiere mode within the game. The narrative emphasizes the dynamic and accessible nature of the competitive system, illustrating how players can progress through grinding and qualification games.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Entering Tier 2 Entering Tier 2 focuses on the transition into the second tier of competitive play with the ultimate goal of reaching the ascension tournament. This tournament is crucial as it offers a chance to ascend to the VCT, which is a significant opportunity within the region of Americas. However, it's a highly competitive process with only one team per year being able to make it, covering not just North America but also extending to Latam and Brazil, emphasizing the interconnected nature of challenger leagues.
• 03:00 - 05:00: How The Investigation Unfolded The chapter titled 'How The Investigation Unfolded' provides insights into the structure of the Ascension tournament, involving two teams from each tier meeting in the tournament. The focus then shifts back to the investigation and discusses two individuals, with a particular emphasis on a person named Bray, who is a key figure in the unfolding events.
• 05:00 - 09:00: Bray's Involvement in Match Fixing The chapter discusses Bray's involvement in match fixing, particularly highlighting his actions on social media. Bray is identified as a key figure reaching out to others in the scene, as evidenced by his Twitter activity. Before deleting incriminating evidence, his follow list provided insights into his connections within the tier 2 scene, many of whom followed him back. The chapter underscores the effort to erase traces of these activities, although it suggests that some awareness of the situation had begun to spread before the evidence disappeared.
• 09:00 - 10:00: Upcoming Games and Bribery In this chapter, the narrator discusses their investigation into match-fixing in the world of gaming. They mention that Bray has been reaching out to players to fix matches. The narrator highlights the help received from Teague, a player for Landor, and Practto from Burger Boys, who have been instrumental in the investigation. They express hopes that the community will support these players, and detail how they are working with them to craft conversations and gather evidence against Bray.
• 10:00 - 14:30: Suspicious Game Strategies Bray initiated a conversation with Prato by flaunting bets placed by the Burger Boys against Blue Otter, totaling three $10,000 bets. Bray jovially thanked Prato for his support, which Prato reciprocated in a playful manner, implying it was a one-time backing. Bray continued the conversation by asking if BTO had Discord, suggesting they add each other as twin contacts for easy communication.
• 14:30 - 18:00: Connection to Crypto Groups In this chapter, the narrative revolves around young individuals who are venturing into the world of cryptocurrencies through group connections. Using platforms like Discord, they communicate about financial deals and gaming opportunities, highlighting the possibility of earning significant sums even without a traditional salary. The passage exemplifies the informal yet highly potential-driven environment of digital currencies and online gaming, with mentions of specific events and timelines in competitive gaming circuits.
• 18:00 - 28:00: Suspicious Match Review The chapter 'Suspicious Match Review' discusses unethical practices in the sports world where players are allegedly paid by external parties to underperform in games. The transcript details a conversation where a player is offered a payment of 20k, split into pre-game and post-game installments, to deliberately play poorly in a close match. There's a mention of using 'streamer accounts' across multiple sportsbooks to place significant bets on these games. The chapter highlights the challenges and moral dilemmas players face when approached with such offers, and the possibility of manipulating game outcomes for gambling profits.
• 28:00 - 32:00: Implications of Match Fixing The chapter explores the intricacies of match fixing in esports, emphasizing how streamer accounts on betting sites play a pivotal role. It delves into the strategies employed by these players to execute and disguise match fixing during games, such as intentionally losing but making it appear as an unlucky performance. This subtle manipulation is often unnoticed by the general audience, showcasing the deceptive nature of the practice. Discussions highlight the nuances of appearing to lose legitimately without attracting suspicion.
• 32:00 - 36:00: Call to Action In the chapter titled 'Call to Action,' the discussion revolves around strategic betting in esports. It highlights how players can manipulate game outcomes, such as losing an eco round, to influence betting odds and make a profit. There's a focus on the importance of locking in strategies when the odds are favorable. Additionally, the dialogue touches on unexpected results in recent splits and the financial gains some individuals are making from betting in this context. Bray is a key figure in the discussion, emphasizing the importance of discussing numbers and strategies when the game odds are released.
• 36:00 - 38:00: Conclusion and Call for Community Support The chapter discusses the involvement of Prosperity Esports in a situation termed as 'Burger Boys' incident. The narrative transitions into a discussion on financial dealings, highlighting a scenario where a person named Bray is prepared to send 20 grand to another individual, Teague, indicating ongoing interactions and financial readiness in the esports landscape. The chapter subtly underscores the active engagement and networking within the competitive gaming community, particularly emphasizing the dynamic environment of esports and the interrelations among its participants.

The Dark Side of Competitive VALORANT Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 The tier 2 valerant scene has been corrupted, rotten to the core. Underground gambling rings are targeting vulnerable, inexperienced, desperate players to throw matches and to cheat. They're offering sometimes literal children, you know, 16year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds, lifechanging money, tens of thousands of dollars for a single game, just to throw a single game. While these people are also profiting hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on how long this has gone on for or how far
• 00:30 - 01:00 it truly extends, it's likely to be millions by this point. This is the This is literally the kind of scandal that could kill competitive gaming in Valerant. It started when I investigated two people. Let's zoom out for a quick second. For those of you who don't follow professional competitive Valerant, you might be wondering what even is tier 2 Valorant. We'll start with tier one, right? This is VCT, the professional leagues. And we've got a few of those, right? We have VCT China,
• 01:00 - 01:30 Pacific, EMEA for Europe. We have VCT Americas, which encompasses, you know, all of NA, Latam, and Brazil. Now, tier 2 is challengers, and it is possible to make it into VCT from tier 2. I mean, it's possible to even do it from Premiere within the game. You and your friends could, you know, grind through Premiere, end up in a qualification game for challengers. I mean, this has literally happened multiple times in the last year. It's it's an amazing system
• 01:30 - 02:00 for bringing up players. Once you're in tier 2, the goal is to make the ascension tournament. And just like the name suggests, the whole purpose is to ascend up into VCT. However, it's only one team per year in the entire region of Americas, not even just North America. So, we're talking challenger leagues that are running simultaneously in North America, Latam and Brazil. From
• 02:00 - 02:30 that, two teams from each of those will meet into the Ascension tournament. So, zooming in, you know, you can see tier one, tier two, the teams and the players in tier 2 and their DMs. Let's get back to the investigation and those two people. This This is my good old friend Bray, aka one of one Bray, aka Bray on
• 02:30 - 03:00 Chain. Uh, he is the guy that's reaching out to everyone. And this right here, this is what his Twitter looked like. Well, at least for last week before we deleted a lot of the incriminating evidence. He follows pretty much everyone in the tier 2 scene. Uh you can only see about 50 people deep. You can even see, you know, several that I found that were following back before people started realizing that I was on to this whole thing. These days, you're not going to see any of that, right? It's pretty much all wiped clean. Thanks to
• 03:00 - 03:30 some very amazing people that reached out to me, though. Behind the scenes, we actually have evidence of Bray reaching out to at least four different players to fix matches. So, Teague, who currently plays for Landor, and Practto, who's on Burger Boys, have actually helped me quite a bit in this investigation, and they deserve all the praise in the world for doing that. I was I'm really hoping the community takes care of these, too. I'm working with them actively to, you know, craft conversations in their DMs, and these are how our conversations with Bray went. So here you can see this is how
• 03:30 - 04:00 Bray opened up the conversation with Prato, right? Showing and flaunting these Burger Boys bets against Blue Otter. Drops all three of the 10 grand bets for a 2 for burger boys to beat Blue Otter and says thank you Practto. Love you. And then Practto says jokingly back, I got you, bro. This time only though. I This is BTO joking completely by the way up top. And then that's when Bray takes over and says, yo, Bto, you got Discord? Add me, twin, I'm always
• 04:00 - 04:30 here. Just saying. You can make a mill at 19. Yo, Teague, let's make 100K each in your next game. What's your Discord? I got 20K for you. Imagine you're one of these young kids. You don't have a salary. And this this gem enters from there. He'll actually take it over to Discord where you can see Bray starts off. Sup G Landor have any games coming up? Maybe challenge is kind of dead at the moment with playoffs starting soon. So, we don't have any VCL matches till July. Split three, July 4. Right. What I
• 04:30 - 05:00 do is pay challenger players. For example, I'll send a bet slip real quick. Hold on. So, when you have a close game, for example, you're playing a good team, I'll pay you 20k to underperform. 10 before the game and 10 after the game. If the odds are good, I can get you 30 for a game. I don't want to get cut for playing poorly since I did [ __ ] last split, but is there any way to do it and win? And Bray says, "We have streamer accounts on multiple sports books. So that's how we can bet six figures plus on challenger games." And that's the
• 05:00 - 05:30 secret sauce right there. And that's a big takeaway is these streamer accounts on the betting sites are how these guys are capable of even dropping bets this big on challenger games. And Ray says, "Nah, lol." To take to Teague's message, but if it's like a close game 50/50 and you're playing a good team, it wouldn't look crazy if you had an unlucky game. You feel me? or just to get D one tapped on their eco round is Yeah, I get what you mean. Like subtle [ __ ] that makes a difference in the round, but not to most watching it. Yeah. Yeah, you know what I
• 05:30 - 06:00 mean. Can bet maps too. So if you play bad for one map or I just said throw an eco round accidentally on map one so you could just [ __ ] the bet one map and still still win and make money. And Bray says yes, we should lock in for real. We will speak more about numbers and [ __ ] about maps when odds come out for your games. Everything makes sense now. There was some crazy upsets this split. [ __ ] were getting their bags. And Bray goes, "Yeah, bro. [ __ ] like
• 06:00 - 06:30 Prosperity Esports in Burger Boys and shit." Bam. And just like that, two of them found. Thank you so much, Bray. Bray on May 14th to Teique. It's ready for you when you want it. This guy literally put Teague's wallet and 20 grand ready to send to Teague. And this is what he's constantly enticing you, right? He's not leaving these these leads dead. And you can see, yeah, I understand. I work with a few Valerant players at the moment. And this is on
• 06:30 - 07:00 May 1st. I hid the team for privacy reasons, but let me know if you want to run up a [ __ ] bag together. And he flaunts this right here bet. Holy [ __ ] The payout for this $230,18810. This guy placed a bet not on the series but on map two when a team was winning five to3. That's how you read this. So he's going to get 1.72
• 07:00 - 07:30 times what this number is, which is what he staked up. and he's betting at a time of the series where it was one to zero the second map and the score was five to three and you can see do you know anyone else that would be interested I'll cut you in profit obviously I mean it doesn't even have to be that the specific person's doing you just have to refer a friend you get a signing bonus everything is anonymous and you will
• 07:30 - 08:00 make minimum five figures per game please delete messages whenever you want to be driving a Lambo you know the guy to go to. And then he hits him up again on the 19th. I am recording this on the 21st. This guy is still messaging people. And this is regarding the playoffs of North American challengers even though he knows I know. He knows I know. He literally has a clip talking about me to my my players. He's playing ranked to this day on right game
• 08:00 - 08:30 servers. Yo Paint, how do you feel about the current stage of Let's end our misery. I think honestly it's it's it's in a really bad state. John Gar thinks the same thing, but I think I can understand people's reasonings behind what they do because it was already in a bad state beforehand. Not really helping the community, but he's offering
• 08:30 - 09:00 $50,000 for this game. $40,000 guaranteed. $40,000 to lose map one. And I'm going to bet Burger Boyy's money line for 20k. Just for fun. Just for fun though. Just for funsies. When down one zero and he does this to change the odds, right? Those live odds. You can bet live in the game. That's how sinister this really is. Let me know ASAP. And Practto
• 09:00 - 09:30 responds shortly after. I'm good. Thanks for the offer, though. And you can see as the conversation conversation progresses here, if the players get a little finicky, they get worried, Brady literally tells them, "Delete all these messages. You don't need to you don't need to keep this here. Let's move our messages to Telegram. No one's going to catch us there." This is the message that you'll see a lot. Everything's going on is crazy right now. Let's move combos to Telegram. So, he's moving everything to Telegram. And this is May 16th, just days after Riot started their
• 09:30 - 10:00 investigation. And this is what I was fearful of. The second these guys know that you're on to them, everything is gone. Nothing is left. No proof of anything. And if you didn't record it, you're too late. And these people are a little bit scared, right? If I get caught doing this, I'm going to lose my livelihood. You know, I could lose all of this time I sunk in. So you're worried about getting leaked? just DM me on Telegram, this encrypted peer-to-peer chat messaging program
• 10:00 - 10:30 where, you know, we can talk there about throwing this game in cryptocurrency and how untraceable it could be. You know, it is very difficult to catch this. So, just because these just because the Discord messages are empty doesn't mean anything to me truthfully. I mean, I've seen it back in the eye by power days where, you know, the players denied it for months and months and months and, you know, dragged the community through the mud. And it wasn't until a leaked test text message from an ex-girlfriend
• 10:30 - 11:00 where it all came crumbling down. It's it's hard to believe that a lot of these people just had conversations die out when I see how this guy's treated convos with both pract going keep asking proddding. That's going to bring us into our next part. That's how the conversation goes. But truthfully, people like Bray are also connected to crypto groups. And those groups are connected and run by people like this guy, Cooker Flips. And he is the founder of Pastel Alpha, which is a crypto trading group where they
• 11:00 - 11:30 give people suggestions on like what cryptocurrencies to buy. In my experience, I've been in crypto for quite a while. These types of groups lose you money because the people running the groups are the first to buy crypto. And if you buy first and you dump on the guy that buys second, well, that guy's stuck holding your bag and then needs to get someone to buy at a higher price than he bought in. So the people that often start these groups have a lot of purchasing power. They'll buy heavy into the crypto ahead of time
• 11:30 - 12:00 at very low cost. And then when you come into the group and get the suggestion, they're looking for the chart to bump up. They can then kind of slightly sell off onto you and then you're left holding the bag. I don't really have insight into their their crypto group, but I do know that this guy has made some serious bets on these challenger games. Some serious bets on Burger Boys of all teams. Wow, that is surprising. And what do you know? They're actually playing Blue Otter. That's that's the
• 12:00 - 12:30 team that Fair plays for. So, wow. This is so coincidental. And what do you know? He put 30 grand on this game. Holy moly. and also a 2030 grand. Must have felt really confident about that one. So, looking through what's left of some of the stuff on Cooker's profile, you can see a little bit of how this guy operates, right? What's going to happen here and what you're going to notice is he actually has some legitimate bets.
• 12:30 - 13:00 And what that's all about is truthfully, he's just washing the money. Think Breaking Bad Walter Wyatt, the you know, the car wash, right? This guy's trying to take this illegitimate money that is only coming in from Challenger games and make it look like he's also making money on other things. Because if you only made millions of dollars on challenger games and you didn't also, you know, lose some on coin flippy VCT games that you're just kind of guessing on, well,
• 13:00 - 13:30 then it would look really weird. I speculate that he's kind of washing some of this money, but you can see his profit margins have just gone insane in some of he's just giving money away all of a sudden on Twitter. You know, everyone's getting giveaways and this is an expense for him because he's building his brand actually. So, with free money that he's getting from challenger games, he did bet here on prosperity and we do know a thing or two about prosperity according to my boy Bray. So, that's interesting. They beat our team. you
• 13:30 - 14:00 might notice that he has some notable followers such as Josh RT. And when I saw this, I couldn't believe it, right? I was like, why is Josh following this guy? And so I did indeed get Josh in a call. And I am pretty happy to say I I I'm fairly confident Josh RT is actually very unlucky in this whole thing, right? They basically reached out and they tried to give him free access to the crypto group. They say it's a very expensive service and they use him as
• 14:00 - 14:30 almost kind of like an advertising method. So right here you can see him, you know, basically flaunting his open DMs on the screen, the stream live for everyone to see. What rank am I in? Val, I'm ass. I think I'm like silver or bronze. I don't I don't play Val. Like seriously, I I don't have time to play, you know, I don't have time to put uh any effort into these games anymore.
• 14:30 - 15:00 Like, no point. No point. No point. I mean, silver, bronze, doesn't really [ __ ] matter. This guy is just a savant when it comes to picking NA challenger games. Coin flippy wins, too, on the underdogs. He loves the underdogs. It's like that IQ Belurve. This guy's so far in the left, he's like on the right side with the geniuses. I'm stuck in the middle. I'm getting cooked out here. Why are they betting tens of thousands of dollars on tier 2 Valerant matches when you're bronze and silver? Y
• 15:00 - 15:30 Why? You don't understand the game and you don't even have time to play. Well, I think we know why. Valerant used to have a lot of money in its peak. at its peak around like 2020, you know, early quarantine days to 2022, there were so many orgs. And to show that, you can actually go to the subreddit. These are some of the orgs that we've lost since franchising. That is a lot of logos. I am literally
• 15:30 - 16:00 getting nerd chills looking at this. These are teams that I co-streamed, I casted when I was a caster, orgs that paid serious salaries and have great backing. As you go on, there's just less and less paying opportunities in this space. And what that does is it creates an absolute vacuum of what these guys just sunk in thousands of hours to get paid for. You learned how to be a pro gamer in Valerant and now there's no
• 16:00 - 16:30 money in the scene. And you might miss out on a lot of opportunities in those years that you were doing that. You might have put a relationship on hold. You might have put school on hold. You might have put a important job on hold. You took huge risks thinking that the scene would be what it was because why wouldn't it at least look somewhat like that? Especially with VCT coming around the corner, right? I mean, VCT's only been around for like 2 years. But the presence of VCT and how all those
• 16:30 - 17:00 challenger orgs were trying to get to VCT once they realized the difficulty in challengers of making it, the actual likelihood of that one team that ascends per region and just the likelihood of your challenger team doing that. Holy, it's rough. Obviously, at this tier 2 level, a feeder league, it's a it's a pillar that's required in any kind of sport, right? Think of like collegiate basketball, collegiate football, anything like that. In traditional
• 17:00 - 17:30 sports, they all have these type of circuits to feed up into the pro league where people are taken care of in the lower leagues. That is no longer the case in Valerant and it's created this vacuum. The veterans that got used to that money are now desperate. Right? You've created a lifestyle around expecting that kind of income. You might be locked into some kind of apartment lease. You might be living a lifestyle with a partner that you can no longer
• 17:30 - 18:00 live at all because you can't even get paid period. And the young inexperienced talent, the pro the pros who haven't really learned their lesson. They're the ones being targeted the most. People like Brad now have you by the balls though. If if you throw that one game, if you listen to him, you are then on the hook. I don't know what he's going to ask you to do in the future, but to think that blackmail isn't an option for these guys is very naive. If they're going to run a criminal ring in cryptocurrency on Telegram and make
• 18:00 - 18:30 hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they could go to prison for, you know, why would they not ask you to cheat in a game? They don't care about the game. Cooker doesn't even play the game. He doesn't have time. He says it doesn't make sense. Bray, I at least he plays the game a good bit, right? if you're lucky enough to find him in real rank matches. Look at his tracker. We can go back to let's see performance right here. And you can see about when I don't know, maybe Bray got some aim training
• 18:30 - 19:00 or something. Look, look at this win percentage jump up from mid30s down here. EP episode 7, act one. This guy came back, got a 75% win rate. Bro, almost tripled his headshot percentage. I mean, if this was my win percentage on Neon, I think I might main Neon, but you do you, Bray. You're doing great out there. But what happens when the odds and the payouts on betting sites are on the other end and now you have to win? One of you might just cheat. And that's how we come to our boy fair. And here we have May
• 19:00 - 19:30 13th, just two days before, if you remember, when Bray said things are getting weird and we got to move to Telegram. You might be wondering, how did the guy that reported fair for cheating end up with the statement for fair cheating? And that's a good question, maybe for another day. But, you know, it obviously got back to Bray. And you could see right here, I mean, it's just a request to send in information. And Riot, earmarked several
• 19:30 - 20:00 of the rounds that we will now look at. Buckle up. This is where things get a little bit fun. I'm sure a common question is going to be how did I stumble into this? Truthfully, it all started with that loss against Blue Water. I I don't know. It didn't sit well with me when I signed off the co-stream. So, I went back that night and I rewatched the VODs. I have rarely in my career, I can't even remember times where I've got out of a game and I thought the other team was
• 20:00 - 20:30 cheating in some kind of way. I believe it to be a a loser mentality to and it will hinder growth in any kind of competitive sport. So I try not to cope and use these things as excuses and honestly I don't think I ever have in my whole career. But this match was different. I was very confident. The coaches were very confident coming into this match. And I'm looking at this and I just couldn't believe it all. Like this team caught so many timings and they beat our team who came into this
• 20:30 - 21:00 match very very prepared. Uh honestly super prepared for a lot of the stuff fair ended up doing even but he just caught immaculate timings across the map. Took space in ways that I've never seen anyone take space while using zero utility. So that's when I decided, okay, I have to dive into this, you know, blue otter game against Burger Boys. What I'm about to show you is bizarre. Now, what you're going to notice here is Bob over
• 21:00 - 21:30 here at Dish. Send it. Absolutely send it. I don't know if I've seen anyone do this. She runs it down and drones from this aggressive spot. The stealth drone on Tea. Now, this drone is seen by everyone. You know, it sees the cipher. It sees people in the deep lines. And so, you would think that Bob's solo dish and no one around to push would just respect that and let it
• 21:30 - 22:00 go. No, not at all. Bob sends it. The gun isn't even out when you look at Bob through the wall and on your screen. That's fair. I just watched this one round and I couldn't even believe it. I mean, this looks absurd. Absurd. And so again, my at this point I'm pretty interested. It keeps getting crazier. Round six. Again, they're just sending it. They're just
• 22:00 - 22:30 sending it. What? Knife out. Like what? What? You're playing against a breach Teao Neon. I mean, this is insane. Why are they not counterutiling is what I'm thinking. So, they're just sitting here. I mean, Bob hits some miraculous shots, I'm not going to lie, to get those two kills. But then you keep watching and you can see even though there's a neural theft, even though three people were spotted or I'm sorry, two extra people were
• 22:30 - 23:00 spotted. Dish, they end up getting that kill on Ziku in into them. But if you watch Brimstone, watch Zoe Stole running with knife out right now. So they get the spike running knife out. The gun isn't even out now. That is crazy. That's crazy. I I I'm just baffled at this point. I cannot believe what I'm seeing. And this
• 23:00 - 23:30 is when I started to realize I don't even think this is a oneperson thing anymore. Bob in a main. I'm I'm not even sure what Bob's doing here truthfully. Like maybe changing the angle of her jiggle, but there's no support and they're playing a neon that could run her down. And I mean, watch how this plays out. I mean, so she chickles out wide, immediately gets stunned, peaks out, dies. This guy peaks out, dies. And you know, the round's
• 23:30 - 24:00 literally just over. This alt is just crazy to me. I There's no way that this feels like a good idea. And then the next part of the play is even more wild. So he goes for the neon, which obviously is just going to run away and live. Even though the neon had one HP, he boombots through the smoke to give away his spot. Now look at where these other two players are here. Do you think those players can trade? Do you think those players can do anything? Of course not.
• 24:00 - 24:30 Now, this is the guy that was insta- killing everyone on my team. It doesn't even look like the same person right now. This looks like the same person took horse tranquilizers. Then we get to round 18. I mean, things are getting a little close. So, it would be kind of crazy if they won this round and got to 99 because they do have to win two to zero. So, we are in crunch time right now. We must lose. But, we have some good util in this comp. So, what are we going to do? Well, we can't make it too
• 24:30 - 25:00 obvious. We're going to satchel in. We're going to plant immediately. We're going to fake killing the cipher. Spike goes down. Now, this is where things get absolutely insane. Uh, now they have three power alts here. Zeke the breach decided it would be an incredible idea to run out of main right here and just shoot his classic and
• 25:00 - 25:30 die. Fair plants and honestly has a decent idea for what would be called like a zoning alt in pro play. I actually don't feel like fairs play in this particular scenario is horrible uh at the pro level. You know, pulling the alt out to stop the instaf flood, giving some time on the post for your teammates to reposition. Also, not a bad alt to shoot. If practto wasn't full HP, this is a kill. So, hits practto very low.
• 25:30 - 26:00 Now, you might be wondering, how do they lose this post plant with all of this utility? How do they do it? It's It's almost like you can't even diffuse the spike if these guys just layer their utility properly. So, let's see. Here we go. We have the brim molly landing. Oh, that'll that'll shave off quite a bit of time. The boombot comes out. That makes
• 26:00 - 26:30 him, you know, aware that no one's coming from this side so he can watch the other side. It's pretty normal. It's pretty normal. You have Bob playing deep with tail. Okay, we have double alt still. It's kind of crazy. The tap comes in. The tail happens and see now ignoring arcade. Okay. Gets killed in the side of the head. Now they immediately brimalt
• 26:30 - 27:00 without waiting for the next tab. I mean, you can even see where the tail is right there. Yeah. If this happened in a vacuum, I would be inclined to believe that it was an accident. And if also it happened to a team that, you know, hasn't had players playing challengers for multiple seasons now, I would think, okay, maybe that's an accident. But again, we have to just keep seeing it. You know, fair dies tower. These three are taking the sight. Both of the alts have been wasted. So, what are we going to
• 27:00 - 27:30 do? Well, we still have missiles. So, holy [ __ ] It's actually great. See what's happening over here. Bob just sitting there. Stun out. Somehow misses the stun here. Gets run down. Dies. The brim is literally just sprinting over here. Completely out of the play. And that that person dies too. 10 to eight. It felt like an
• 27:30 - 28:00 unlossable round actually. Let's see what happens on the very following round. We did see that that neon had an OP. I think we all saw that, right? And I impro player typically watching people as they run around at the end of the round, you know? So, you definitely want to use some util, especially when you have all this util in this comp. So, let's see what they do. It's a good time for your IGL to take a a nice jump spot. Oh. Oh, well, there goes our smokes. What are we going to cook up now? You can see they missile out mean. It's
• 28:00 - 28:30 actually so fun to watch. They vice alt because yeah, like why not? Let's waste all of our alts on rounds that we can't win. So you can see Bonnie running out of the sight. They take the sight. Zeke taps the spike, not plant. There's no util blocking, by the way. I I just want people to realize that. One more look. He's going to tap the spike. Not plant safe. Watch Bob's aim.
• 28:30 - 29:00 Tap tap tap. I'm just going to sit in the open. Tap tap tap. I'll miss a little bit. Top t top t top. Seed goes back to plant. Get spam. Now let's watch fair in this oneon two. Huh. Getting spammed a little. Let me just jiggle a little bit more. Run around. Oh, spam. Spam that. Oh, okay. Let's just hit him with the unreal a rush, you know. Let's just hit him with it. This is a work of art, quite frankly. So, they teo drone main. They see this op. The neon dodges the stun, gets a
• 29:00 - 29:30 shot. Fair misses. They run up. Now look at all of this util. Does this look like a good idea to go through this? They have no dish control. They literally have nothing. They're their Teao missiles in front of them. Bob is between them. They've stimmed. This brim is about to molly the other side of the smoke. They don't care. Let's watch. You might be wondering, do they actually get get out of this? So, they stun the
• 29:30 - 30:00 crossmokes and Bob decides, ah, hit a timing. Let's go, huh? Unfucking real. Let's watch Haven just to see cuz we could do a sidebyside with Haven, right? Fair played Haven against both teams. So, let's just see some what he what he did against uh Burger Boys here first real quick. What What are they cooking? So, you have that stall smoke that everyone always throws on a
• 30:00 - 30:30 So, this stall smoke actually allows people to flood in and play the wall and it really opens things up for the defense. That's why you see people throw this smoke instead of, you know, a flat smoke anywhere in this this rectangle I just drew. SOA aka Practto peaks short and gets that kill on Fireball. All right, let's see how far enters this. So far knows Practto went down short. Okay, Farah's cooking. Let's see what he's cooking. Fair gets the kill back site.
• 30:30 - 31:00 Not a bad play. Not a bad play. Keep in mind we we remember that guy did kill our teammate short and uh grab a gun. So surely we're going to 32 on the smoke or maybe wait for it to fade. Let's see. One, two. Huh, that's an idea. But maybe it's just a flute. Let's see what's what Bob's cooking. Let's see what she's cooking. Fly quest red superstar played so well against us. You know, secondary
• 31:00 - 31:30 dualist rotating all over. Always at the hits. Let's see the same. Oh, maybe if we slow it down a little bit, it'll be better. Let's check it out. You got this, Bob. Oh. I would say maybe she ran out of mouse pad, but it looks like she doesn't even have a mouse pad. On to the next round. Uh, check out this insane B- rush. Now, this is of course off of barrier. We're going to run B. Now, what do you think
• 31:30 - 32:00 the top priority would be? You know, Jet has the spike. H, maybe you want to smoke the links. You know, use some of that breach util. Maybe you could do the updraft dash onto top sight. I actually saw Pair do that in his collegiate game. Maybe he could ask for a smoke top sight and updraft dash on it. Any kind of info util like the Teao drone back sight stun. Let's see. Pops dash. We got to break that cam for sure. You got to break that cam. So,
• 32:00 - 32:30 but you got to miss it first. You got to get tagged. You got to go tap. Look around and try to dash out. But oh, you missed another dash. Dang, dude. That's crazy. That's crazy. So, he misses the dash, dies with the spike. Everyone literally just dies in the smoke, man. That was a pretty good hit. Let's just see how he enters B one more time, cuz against us, he doesn't clear left or right. So, damn, this cam. This
• 32:30 - 33:00 cam. Holy. It's It's [ __ ] him up. Oh my god. Yes, he did indeed. As the duelist enter B. Look back at the cam. Ignore C link. Ignore back sight. Ignore everything and just died in the back. What? What's their a hit look like? So, here we go. We're going to run it down. I like this energy. I like this pace.
• 33:00 - 33:30 This is good. Is a Oh, wait. Did they breach all? Oh, no. They don't got a breach, actually. So, all good. Let's just keep sending it. Choose that. Let's just, you know, cloud burst one way spawnm high default. Mm- All right. Now, let's see. You know, we do know that guy's on short, chat. Remember the jet did break that shield.
• 33:30 - 34:00 Let's Let's do a good job clearing that. Okay, let's see what happens here. Here we go. Oh, close left. Close left. Didn't expect that. It's only on the pistol round of the second half, so it's not really that important of a round. You know, pistols, bonuses, alt rounds. Oh, break that. Break. Let's check and see if they're there. Oh, that's that's that's unlucky. That's a bit of a wide jigging, though. Jesus Christ, man. It's insane that this is
• 34:00 - 34:30 from one series that had $30,000 bet on it to be a two. Let's go to the next round. We got the breach teao in a no alt util setup alone on C. This doesn't even really make much sense truthfully. The the Omen is playing solo garage. We can see him and fair is playing close B and Fireball. Wait a second. It's 114 Fireball. Where are your trips? Where's the cam? What the
• 34:30 - 35:00 hell? Wait, we bought. We did buy. Let's put our cipher solo a cipher save for next though. So, let's see what fireball's cooking here. Let's get some info real quick with that cam. So, now they know the ciphers on short. Fireball walks away. Let's take a nice little info peak on long here with that sheriff. You know, it's only a five on four. You know, this could go either way. So, I think we should try to get the numbers a
• 35:00 - 35:30 little higher. Oh, caught caught. C got me. Got me, bro. Okay, fireball down. Oh, wait. Wait a second. Bob, no. No, we still could have won the round. It's still Watch Bob. This is an attack smoke that clouds out front B. Now, in the pro level, this is kind of scary because And you can even see there's a ping. There's a defensive ping on the left side of the
• 35:30 - 36:00 smoke right there. And so they're aware because you can lurk through either side of this smoke, especially when the other team knows your cipher's dead. So let's see how Bob approaches this smoke. Let's check Let's check it out. Wait, wait, wait. Bob, is your gun out? Oh, no. It wasn't out, actually. Huh. But someone pinged it. I'm sure you could literally just watch all the rounds. I just kind of cherrypicked, cherry picked. I mean, honestly, we're
• 36:00 - 36:30 [ __ ] full on cherries at this point. So, I'm comparing their match histories and I'm and you can see what I've done here is I've highlighted the odds, the map pick. This is Bob, the Fly Quest Red player on Blue Otter. This is her match history leading up to the match against us on the 6th. You can actually see she lost in game changers to the Shopify gold team the day before. And the day before that she played a different match and lost. And the day before that she played three matches and won all three
• 36:30 - 37:00 four matches. Then you have this game, the game that had the $30,000 bet on it. And here you have fair's profile and you can also see, you know, he played the match against us and then he played a collegiate land that he lost to a team called Cumberland Phoenix and that was days before our game. And then he played another game the day before. And I'm just thinking in my head, how is this possible? Our our team is playing so well in scrims. We're in per we're in
• 37:00 - 37:30 amazing form. Now, let's look at what their haven looked like against us. One week later with zero practice. Let's just switch our comp though cuz you know we don't have much time to practice. So, let's just switch it up. Fair. Fair is going B. Maybe he has PTSD about that cam. So Spaz TPS could be a fake TP, could be a real TP, but also there's only one player that that he can account for right now, and it's this cipher. Technically, the breach could have fault
• 37:30 - 38:00 lined from a link right there or in a site. Now, this is a very important round, by the way. I I just want to point that out. They are running a double duelist comp. They're in a five on four. Bob as the secondary duelist is OP Seong. So there's three players left in the center of the map right now. None of them are getting info and they really don't know where we are right now. So, let's take a look at this pathing. So, Spaz TPS in. And you can see Fair
• 38:00 - 38:30 was already walking into this site. Fair dips his feet in. He's worried about Cique for a second. Doesn't look left. Doesn't look right. doesn't worry about the deep sea link off angle that every probe seems like they play where it's literally in this spot that he's standing in. He's walking in. Oh, he cracked open the round. Time to pop the shield. Time to actually use util now. I mean, these guys are just going to walk around the entire map all
• 38:30 - 39:00 spoiler alert. Let's go into round five. This is only something you would do if like you really knew. These guys don't even time well coming out of the smoke. These angles don't even support each other as they come through the smoke. There could be someone top sight. There could be someone logs. There could be some be someone back plat on plat in this corner in garage. Maybe even just in the open. Honestly, close smoke. Could be top box next. There could be like a million spots this guy could die. Watch this in the overview.
• 39:00 - 39:30 But it's okay cuz no one's here this time. Keep an eye on Zeke's recon dart. Keep an eye on fair's utility. And also, let's take a look at him through this wall over here on the left right now. We'll see. We'll see him. He's a fast dude. Here he is. Wait, is that his knife? Wait a second. What? This guy is ISO running it down. No shield. This SOA didn't dart. This SOA is not even
• 39:30 - 40:00 peaking. Just peaked. And the SOA's grabbing the orb. So meanwhile, we're camming from B. We're we're lurk smoking C, missing the C push. We're high lowing for this right now and holding the garage push. Off of you can see their setup actually makes sense. Like from spawn, you know, the cipher and iso branch off to like garage and see, there's like no one A.
• 40:00 - 40:30 But as our team moves towards A, their whole team also moves towards A. There's massive holes across their entire map. Slide kill by Omari paint. And watch where again, think about the util and how many people just what I would call showed presence at this a site. Like four people. So, you would think, All right, maybe we should make like a
• 40:30 - 41:00 little bit of an aggro play as a team. Let's see. Let's watch Zeke. And wait, I'll back off. You got this. You got this, fair, but you got you're the ISO, so you got shield and stuff. So, he's literally just going to dry peak long as this one is happening. You know, he doesn't account for three players right now. He's jiggling. He crosses and we're out of a lobby. This guy literally just saw a fourman take and he's trying to grab this orb.
• 41:00 - 41:30 I don't get it. Look at the crosshair placement. Now he knows we're in garage. These guys do not have info. We just broke this cam peaking aggressively. So keep that in mind when he's about to peak this. This is the sloppiest peak I have ever. So he could have died from like three angles right there. He ignores all of it. Is wide swinging with his crosshair into the wall. Gets this
• 41:30 - 42:00 kill. Gets that second and just sends knife out. Sends it through. Unreal. And this one, he actually doesn't clear this spot. Honestly, I was shocked. I was shocked he didn't get this kill. But again, I don't think you can go 10 and zero. That's truthfully how I feel about this right now. Let's see what Fair's cooking here. So, we throw this clouded
• 42:00 - 42:30 out smoke onto a that is our smoke and the way will be making her way up tree. Let's see how far reacts to this. So, fair ignores that smoke. They ping the smoke saying, "Hey, they smoke this." Honestly, the way could have dove into that even. You know, we lost vision of this for a long time. Bear is also clearing a main in. All right. There's a long time that just passed. You can see we these guys could have gone into that smoke. So, surely
• 42:30 - 43:00 you're going to do the thing where you turn your head and you look parallel into the smoke. Every pro does that, right? Let's see. Nope. Not into the smoke, but surely on the way out. Surely on the way out. No, he just walks straight through the smoke. Not worried about a cat lurk. Not worried about anything. Kills our spike in the back. Doesn't pop dash. Doesn't pop dash. Doesn't cloud burst the catwall in a one way. Like not
• 43:00 - 43:30 worried about the lurk. This guy's no name. He now knows two by heaven, but he doesn't know where Pancakes is yet. So you can see Zoe gets the kill. Good kill by Zoe. And there you go. Muny gets this kill. Fair holding the corner. Again, no util used.
• 43:30 - 44:00 There's that dash. All right. All right. So, this whole time he could have died in the side of the head to a cat lurk, but he popped dash now. So, let's see. Maybe an info dash. Oh, we missed it though. He missed the info dash. That's crazy. So, he dies. He dies there. We end up losing this round. Very next round. Here comes Fair coming up. Cat. Omen. Blide cuts through dart. It's a
• 44:00 - 44:30 pretty common take honestly. We should have been a bit more prepared than this. I'm actually surprised he doesn't react immediately given how quick he was in all these other rounds. kind of ignores that guy for a split second. Immediately kills him. Crosser placement perfect for second, third, fourth, fifth, though. Why clear anything? What are we looking at?
• 44:30 - 45:00 Let's go to next half because pistol round's super important. Let's see. a lot of questions about what Okay, let's clear one. Okay, taking away the point of entry that I would be
• 45:00 - 45:30 curious to see how much blue can work through. What? Guys, hold I'm holding this. I'm I'm holding this, guys. all this. So they fake cat to pull this guy off. That's a pretty good play. We killed him. Holy [ __ ] Now the thing to look at here is the timing of everything. So watch paint. He's going to walk away. They ping the wall. I don't know
• 45:30 - 46:00 why. No one's made annoyed right there. one. So you can see Paint is walking away here, I think. All right, let's cross this now with this classic ahead of any bait, by the way. Ahead of any bait. There's not even a reason to really cross this actually, but but it's just a huge risk. And see, we have a main picks up the cat angle from deep in sight. Surely doesn't catch another timing. So seeing
• 46:00 - 46:30 they're trying to make some room. Fair. You got us, right? Make some room. So, yeah. I mean, this is literally absolutely perfect utility given where BCJ is. And you can see it causes Muny to move a little bit. Spasgos plays the door. He's playing safe. He's going to smoke be And now he hits his timing to lurk right onto the wall. Oh, let's just stop right here.
• 46:30 - 47:00 So he stops here in between our players and ends up timing my because Muny ends up spraying the smoke thinking they're deep cat. He goes into this smoke while getting paranoid. Grabs the gun knife out of course runs back dashes into the middle of the open even though the paranoid came from you know switch side could be a main because that's where Spazwell is early round. They have no imm control. He dashes into middle of the open.
• 47:00 - 47:30 Not worried about anything. Okay, now we get a little interesting. Eight to seven. Oo, let's check the econ real quick. Is this a big round? Their econ would be low. They would be broke if they lost this one. Our alts would be there if we won this one. It was actually a very big round. Let's go back and look at how he clears some of these B main angles that, you know, are just so common in pro play. I'm drawing attention here to the fact that the SOA isn't there and the cipher does not
• 47:30 - 48:00 camp. He doesn't wait for the cage. He just sloppy peaks this ankle. There could be a dozen different ankles that kill him. Watch his crosshair. He is not worried about this entire right side off ankle. He doesn't even look. They're droning through mid. They can the wall. Our knife is about to land.
• 48:00 - 48:30 All right. Wow, that's going to double scan them. So that cam's not going to work. We have two here. They know a KO just knife double scanned. They're making a lot of noise mid. So see how this plays out. So So he walks out of B main. looking sidewalk all by himself. There's no one helping him. He crosses. He's immediately focused on stairs. That's the only thing he's looking at. He's not worried about any of these
• 48:30 - 49:00 close angles right now. He's only looking stairs. He quickly clears over by logs. He's back to looking stairs. Not worried about the spawn peak. Insane. Insane. Here we go. The exec to close us out. Let's see how good of an exec this is. It's a team effort. Holy [ __ ] This paranoia is going to go crazy. This paranoia is going to go
• 49:00 - 49:30 crazy. This paranoia actually is going to catch both of our B players. And guess what? We actually get to see fair use the cloud burst. Hell yeah. Thought I wouldn't give you one before we end. Oh, he's going to close us out with one. Check this [ __ ] out. So, a perfect paranoia cuts through sight, gets both of our players. BCJ is sitting alt out. Man, what would really suck is to be paranoid so you can't hear, you can't see. You have utility out and the jet
• 49:30 - 50:00 who has no support [ __ ] cuz Zeke reconing and droning from this bot. No, that shit's that shit's obvious. We got a pop. So he's actually just going to shock our trips, our deep trips. So he's going to shock those real quick. And then you can see fair cloud burst up top. This actually kind of nice play, you know, when you know where everyone is, I guess. Fireball gauges the ground. He
• 50:00 - 50:30 cloud burst the top. Updraft dashes over BCJ's head. I mean, keep in mind they're both hit by this paranoia. They have no sound. They don't know what's happening. So he's he's in between them and his first play right now isn't to turn around to get that kill. You know what his first play is? Time to use his second cloud burst. Let's one way cloud burst this [ __ ] Holy [ __ ] man. And that might be how
• 50:30 - 51:00 that's how I realized that I think Blue Otter might have thrown the first game and maybe had some assistance in the second game. And again, it is important to note the betting. I don't I don't know even know how to get access to this info cuz I I don't bet on games, but it was 4.8 8 to one before the series and we won the first map which was their
• 51:00 - 51:30 pick. They had zero practice all week and this guy just caught all of those timings. So that's how we didn't make playoffs. So we don't know how Farah is cheating, but these are insane coincidences, right? Right after he threw a game. To say it's not happening with all this evidence would literally be insane. And I I'm not going to lie, I do have theories, but I'll leave that for another day. There are multiple
• 51:30 - 52:00 teams that I have a reason to believe are also match fixing within Tier 2. Bray himself has confirmed in DMs that Prosperity and Burger Boys are among the teams that are involved. There are other teams that I believe are working with him, too. I think Sad Esports is one of them. I mean, some of the matches that I went over that aren't in this video are crazy. And then you have TSM and Ambrosia on a bet for 134 grand. Everything about that match says something weird is going on, including the fact that they're people in that
• 52:00 - 52:30 server that mutually follow back Bray and Cooker. And quite frankly, I think it's unlikely that they're going to be betting, you know, 134 grand on a match that they don't know the outcome of while betting 30 grand on one they do know the outcome of. Now, I'm not I don't know if all of these players are guilty or on the inn, but what I do know is that as a team, something weird happened, right? And that is proven by my conversation with someone like Practto or Teague, right? These players
• 52:30 - 53:00 are singled out. So, it doesn't even need to be a whole team that's involved here. And that's something to keep in mind. These players could be getting paid to intentionally underperform if the odds are right. I don't know. They could be getting paid to do otherwise based on fair, right? I I don't know. It sucks to even think this. I have these examples where, you know, Bray literally I say this I say this and I've been
• 53:00 - 53:30 keeping an eye on this guy. So, I even told Kane right on the 15th right here. The day that they said they have to move everything to Telegram, I said, "You better document it all." There are real world impacts and repercussions though from this match fixing. and cheating. And I mean, that's ultimately why I'm here. You know, Shopify Rebellion Black were the split one champions. That's the team that I general managed for. We were set to continue that success in split 2. The points slot is very important. There's two slots that move up to this ascension tournament. And that's the
• 53:30 - 54:00 only goal of your challengers to ascend to VCT. One of the slots is the point total. So, by getting cheated out of playoffs, our point total now is completely messed up. We go from point leaders by winning split one to now maybe I don't even know how it's going to end up after split two playoffs. And it just sucks to be in a situation where you're in a do or die scenario for split 3. You must win split 3 with all of this [ __ ] also going on. That's the world I'm living in. I guess the team's future is
• 54:00 - 54:30 now jeopardized. Innocent players all across tier 2 are potentially losing their jobs and livelihood and facing career setbacks. There's not that many jobs to go around. And another thing in addition to this is players that probably aren't deserving look incredible because an entire game might be staged. So how can you know if a 30 frag performance is even real? None of the reputable organizations, salary paying organizations want to be associated with a competitive scene riddled with match fixing and cheating.
• 54:30 - 55:00 I mean, I personally received tons of messages, Chinese VCT orcs asking me if certain players are match fixing. And truthfully, I can't even tell them because I know how many people Bray reached out to. I know that there's no money here. I watch these games and it looks pretty damning, but I'm not going to call out people that I'm not certain of yet. And again, this is why I need the community to help me out here. I
• 55:00 - 55:30 know there's so many smart people out there in the community, coaches, analysts, IGL's that can look through these games and draw awareness to some of the weird stuff that's happening. They can flag some shady behavior in the scene. And I don't know, maybe we can get tips on more ways that this is happening because it's not just these two. Well, there's other people also sending messages to these players. And unfortunately, I didn't even find out about those guys until it was too late. Since the news broke, shuffle.com
• 55:30 - 56:00 suspended tier 2 Valerant petting. But as you can see, it's back. And even when it was suspended, Bray continued contacting players, but deleted everything off of his Twitter in the meantime. So, it's very hard to for like people to come into this and track what has been going on. Riot knows about these issues, and I've been communicating with them directly going all the way back to the morning of May 7th. But as a multi-billion dollar corporation, they probably are going to
• 56:00 - 56:30 look in their best interest for their bottom line, and they're going to move a lot slower in their investigation than I would like. Now, crypto and Telegram make this incredibly hard to trace. And that's part of the reason why I think you need to move fast in things like this, because once people know you're on to them, it becomes exponentially harder to catch this. So, more than ever, I honestly think we need a replay system so we can catch individual players that are cheating or doing weird things. You
• 56:30 - 57:00 have overview shots of scenarios. And thankfully, you know, Anna Donlin announced that's coming out in September. But man, if we had it now, it would be incredible for something like this. We need better anti-cheat software. Vanguard needs to be updated and punishments absolutely need to be given to the players that undermine the integrity of this game. There's a lot of suspicious stuff that I haven't been able to include in this video. A lot of stuff has come to me after I sent out
• 57:00 - 57:30 that Twitter video, and I'm very thankful for the people in the community that took that risk to send it to me. Even the people that, you know, don't want this shared, I have respected those wishes, and there's a lot that's happening behind the scenes regarding that stuff. Thank you so much to everyone that's worked with me, Teague Pract. And like I said, what you see in this video isn't everything. This is the top of the rabbit hole. We're going to need to zoom out and see the root cause, but that's for another