Astini spoke out about the fight against cheaters and match-fixers
Former Team Nemesis coach Filipe “Astini” Astini Ribeiro spoke out on his X page about cheaters and match-fixers in the professional Dota 2 scene.
On the fight against cheaters and match-fixers
I reported the instances of cheating that I discovered. Eventually, these people will be banned. But the most important thing is for Valve to develop some kind of anti-cheat system for Dota 2. Most of those who use third-party programs are involved in match-fixing. They’ll fall one by one. The mafia is crumbling; PlayTime was just the icing on the cake.
Stop being fooled. The South American scene needs Peruvian players, but I’ve already realized that the local culture is such that when they start to stand out, they stop playing honestly, share accounts, and fix matches, as if they’ll go unpunished for the rest of their lives.
And then you reach the top, and you get caught. If you’re a young guy just starting out in Dota 2 today, don’t fall for what others say. Stay clean, or punishment will come. Maybe not in an open qualifier, but when you make it to the Esports World Cup or The International.
For some reason, certain clowns laugh when I talk about something like this. I’ll be the one laughing when your idol gets banned.
On the latest player bans
Imagine you’re Wits. You’ve come to play at the EWC, and bam: you find out your mid laner is under investigation and won’t be playing in the tournament. Two years of your career, ruined by someone who was working against you from within your own team.
Luckily, he was exposed, and at the next tournament—without that saboteur holding the team back—you become the champion! Wits got lucky—after two years, they finally got rid of the dead weight. How many other honest players have had their careers cut short because of those who played dirty?
We should be glad when someone gets banned. One career may have ended, but it destroyed dozens of dreams for truly talented esports players as they struggled through that injustice. We need a whole bunch more of these players banned to ensure a healthy competitive environment for the rest.
Anyone who regrets this ban or criticizes those conducting the investigation is on the side of evil—and today, good has triumphed.
Earlier, esports coach Raulino “OldR” Alves spoke out about the ban on LGD Gaming mid-laner Santiago Gustavo “TaiLung” Olivosa Agüero: “This culture needs to be stopped. There’s nothing more to say. The decision made by LGD and PGL was the right one and a bold one.”
Photo by Filipe “Astini” Astini Ribeiro.
