ESIC issued sanctions against 37 coaches in September 2020 for abusing a bug in CS:GO’s spectator mode, known as the spectator bug.
A historical investigation examined 99,650 video demos and revealed three variants of the spectator bug: the static spectator bug, the third-person spectator bug, and the free roam bug.
Further investigation found an additional 97 players who used these variants. ESIC will issue charges against these players who were not initially charged in the 2020 investigation.
47 participants who used the static variant and three participants who used the free roam variant have been suspended from play while awaiting further investigation.
Players who used the free roam variant may face a 24-month ban, while the penalty for static variant users will be determined by ESIC’s sanctions matrix.
The third-person variant, though less serious as it only lasted for one round and was accidental, was still considered a breach of the ESIC code of conduct by the 47 participants who continued to take advantage of the bug.
Users of the third-person variant could potentially receive a 30-day ban per occurrence of the bug once the investigation is resolved.
However, the 47 participants using the third-person variant were not provisionally suspended during the ongoing investigations as ESIC deemed this variant to pose a relatively low risk to competitive integrity.
