ESL has disqualified Perseverance from the ESL Challenger League Season 48 and banned its entire CS2 roster for two months for lying to tournament administrators about trying to reschedule a match.
ESLissued the rulingon July 30, stating that the team “submitted false evidence to mislead the tournament administration in an effort to have an ESL Challenger League match rescheduled.”
According toan investigation by Dust2.us, the Perseverance players schemed to mislead ESL officials by providing false evidence of weather-related power issues in the area of one of Perseverance’s players to move the match to a later date.
The player, Cory ‘shutout’ Frymark, sent screenshots of a storm in his area from the Apple Weather app and a text supposedly sent from his power company saying there was “a high risk of power outages” in his area during the time of the match to a tournament official.
The screenshots, however, had some obvious flaws that led ESL to see through the scheme.
According to the report, the phone number used to send the alleged alert was the personal number of another Perseverance player, Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Shah. The alert from the supposed power company also misspelled experience as “expierence.”
Weather data from the Delaware area, where shutout is located, during July 18 alsoshow much milder conditionsthan purported in the screenshot sent to the ESL official.
According to the report, the scheme’s goal was to push the July 18 matchup against Mythic back so the team could replace Chance ‘xaler’ Palmer with Nelvin ‘nooz’ Gonzalez in time for the game. Perseverancedropped xaler and signed noozon July 24.
The Canadian esports organizationannouncedon July 30 that it has dropped its CS2 roster and that it does “not condone the actions the team has done or taken.”
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The banned players have not commented on the situation on social media.
This incident comes just months after a North American CS2 player wasbanned for stealing partsof computers belonging to Jake ‘Stewie2K’ Yip and Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač at IEM Dallas.
Declan McLaughlin was a Gaming & Esports Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in Valorant and League of Legends. He has bylines at Upcomer and Inven Global.
