K23 suspend Solaar amid coaching bug abuse allegations

2-9-2020 17:12

The Kazakhstani coach was suspended indefinitely after being accused of exploiting the coaching bug for an entire match in Malta Vibes Cup 8.

The K23 organization stated that it has begun looking into the situation and vouched to help any tournament organizer with information that could aid with the investigation.

Aset "⁠Solaar⁠" Sembiyev's case was brought to the public's attention by freelance referee Michal Slowinski, who posted a video on Twitter from K23's match against FATE in Eden Arena Malta Vibes Cup 8, in which the 33-year-old apparently exploits the bug that made it possible to view any location on the map in real time.

Solaar faces allegations of abusing the coaching bug

This case follows several others brought to light by Slowinski and Steve Dudenhoeffer over the course of the last week. On Monday, Ricardo "⁠dead⁠" Sinigaglia, Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen, and Aleksandr "⁠zoneR⁠" Bogatiryev received bans in ESL's and DreamHack's competitions for six to 24 months after using the exploit in ESL One: Road to Rio or DreamHack Masters Spring.

The Brazilian and Danish coaches have been suspended from MIBR and HEROIC, respectively, while zoneR has been removed from Hard Legion altogether. Meanwhile, the Russian side also faces allegations regarding their assistant coach, Erik "⁠AKIMOV⁠" Akimov, who was accused of abusing the bug as well in Eden Arena: Malta Vibes Cup 3.

The organizers of the tournament in question, Eden Esports, have yet to comment on the situation.

so sad

2020-09-02 17:12

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Allegations?

2020-09-02 17:15

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bug abuse and still lose to tier 3 team?

2020-09-02 17:22

No official TO has issued bans yet, but michau has reported on the evidence. I guess Solaar admitted to the org that he used it, and they suspended him from the team before the inevitable ESIC-suspension hits.

2020-09-02 17:27

That michau9 guy is a fucking bitch, solve issues like a man instead of snitching on people, pussio.

2020-09-03 18:14

expected

Ahhahaah

so many cheaters...sad

what is it with tarnishing legendary tags?

2020-09-02 17:13

Legendary?

2020-09-02 18:48

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Wouldnt call them legendary but they had their runs in 1.6 top finishes at world cyber games and WEG i remember watching them back in the day and they were a decent tier 2 team that could sometimes beat top teams tho i watched them during their decline

2020-09-02 19:18

wait for it

2020-09-02 19:39

in cs 1.6 they were one of the top teams tho

2020-09-02 21:38

Ah sh*t here we go again

Good. Should also suspend the player that Solaar gave info to.

Expected

BAN NAHUY YEBKA

2020-09-02 17:14

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omegaLUL

2020-09-02 18:44

ye ofc only coach, player where not aware of it

Almost all teams use a bug.

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im surprised big didnt use it

2020-09-02 17:23

BIG BESTEST TEAM THEY DONT NEED TO USE SHITTY BUG

2020-09-02 17:35

Nt BUG fan

2020-09-02 17:50

BEST CLAN*

2020-09-02 18:09

almost? u mean 4 for now?

2020-09-02 20:35

lul

This bullshit will kill CSGO

Yeah i agree

not at risky of dying yet, but for sure valve needs to step in

2020-09-02 17:39

it has been fixed in last update...

2020-09-02 20:37

WHO

why are there so many mistakes in tagging teams in official posts lately

n1 cares trash team anyway

k, so obv in the video

rebranded to K23 for THIS

2020-09-02 17:16

ALLEGATIONS????? NANI????? ITS ON CAMERA IDIOTS????

yeye and players here didnt know anything as well? hahahahahahahhaa no wonder they just play in nutella cups

XD I guess they won't be hltv top 30 soon.. without bug

2020-09-02 17:17

This is the result of what they kicked kreaz aka krimz brother

kreaz was bad lol

2020-09-02 17:24

who will be next coach?

2020-09-02 17:18

Get players involved too, no way whole match gets played this way and the team itself don't know about it.

2020-09-02 17:19

who tf is K23???????????????????????

syman gaming have rebranded a few weeks ago to K23

2020-09-02 19:02

newfag detected

2020-09-02 19:05

0/8 men

2020-09-02 19:57

who

This will destroy Cs Go as we know it

another one bites the dust

2020-09-02 17:26

onaigudness this really goes to show the integrity of loord. legendary cs personality, can i get a woohoo for loord

valorant time

2020-09-02 17:28

This situation becomes really tragic. How even Valve let a mistake like that happen?

naahhh just ban the whole team. K23/Syman known as matchfixers

Dropping like flies.

2020-09-02 17:33

Maybe you will fix damn game instead of banning coaches🤦🏼‍♀️valve stupid fuckers soon every one will move to Valorant if you treat people like that

valve didn't make a comment/action regarding this yet

2020-09-02 17:40

Not surprised, valve is mess

2020-09-02 18:00

Valve didnt ban anyone though It was esl

2020-09-02 18:27

Remember that K23 player Mou wanted to have their match against Hard Legion overturned as a win against them bc they used it Thats ironic lol twitter.com/moucsgo/status/1300538199744..

2020-09-02 17:45

Of all the people on syman mou is the only one I would say wasn't in on it. I’m not saying they kept it as a secret from him or something, that’s a big claim to make, but I simply refuse to believe this guy actually took part in cheating. Maybe the coach never told the players what he was doing

2020-09-02 17:59

Yes could be, still quite ironic, but i agree. Don't think he'd have posted sth like this if he knew their coach was doing the same bc it would at the end come back and haunt him

2020-09-02 18:11

Another one bites de_dust

Expected from such a shady org like k23(Syman)

2020-09-02 17:54

Having mou as flagship tells everything about their relevance tho.

2020-09-02 18:02

Ramz1k all over again, shady ass org

lmao

2020-09-02 18:04

expected as 322

2020-09-02 18:07

And still didn’t ban players for matchfixing

2020-09-02 18:16

Prob all those coaches used the bug lmao

2020-09-02 18:18

Refunds for mald bettors on these games?

2020-09-02 18:20

stop banning coaches -.- whole csgo scene cheater or ex-cheater. like: s1mple - excheater, and abusing smoke bug in fpl game(alt+tab=no smoke) jammpi- ex(?)cheater flusha- cheating in major skadoodle- cheating is major legija-excheater znajder- excheater dosia,mou,adren - account sharing robiin-cheater snax,byali-cheater etc etc etc......... COUNTER STRIKE HAVE LOTS OF CHEATER stop abusing coaches.

2020-09-02 18:23

proof of: snax, byali, flusha or gtfo

2020-09-02 19:11

Who did gambit share account with

2020-09-02 23:31

cis dogs blatantly abusing bugs, what a surprise. ussr mentality to win no matter what still stays. especially with those kz dogs aka russian buttlickers and matchfixers

2020-09-02 18:37

>ussr mentality >static.hltv.org/images/bigflags/30x20/LT..

2020-09-02 18:42

You could say... ...K23 lost a vital aset 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 YEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

2020-09-02 19:34

So many coaches used that bug...fking fix thatvsh1t instead of banning only "under the light" coaches.it was part of game glitch not that they used some outside software.Broken game and banning people from events facepalm .