ABOUT ME

Before we start, i would like to write a few words about myself.I am a 19 years old Counter-Strike enthusiast and player. I played Counter-Strike 1.6 for 5,6 years before CS:GO came out, and started playing CS:GO in 2013 due to many players from "balkan" area sticking with 1.6, refusing to let the game die. I have over 4000 hours in this game which i spent mostly playing PUGS, deathmatch and watching demos. (actually watching demos, not saying it to make myself look "better"). I do ocasinally play some online cups/leagues but still never had a serious team, even though i had couple of "offers" to "proove" myself (just wasn't interested in tryharding then). This is my steam account, i am providing this information because people who talk about this subject (people who defend pros), mostly hide their info due to having a very small ammount of hours spent playing the game: http://steamcommunity.com/id/bckocro/

CHEATING - BASICS

Cheating is present in basicly every single sport/game/competition. Some people like to pretend that cheating is impossible on highest level but then i always like to remind them of Lance Armstrong who was a professional road racing cyclist who had won "Tour de France" seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, before he was banned as a result of long-term doping.Only a fool would believe people wouldn't keep trying to "cheat their way to the top" in CS:GO.

CHEATING IN CSGO

Before we start talking about CS:GO, i would like to remind you that cheating WAS present on PRO level on previous versions of Counter-Strike, here we have an HLTV article with "Top 10 players caught cheating", both online and on LAN, even though there were many more: http://www.hltv.org/news/4408-top-10-players-caught-cheating Now we come to the current problem - CHEATING IN CSGO.I believe that the main problem with CS:GO is the community, Valve and players/organisations mostly makes money off viewers who are willing to "invest" more money in this game, aka buying skins, stickers/autographs, merchandise etc.It's logical and well prooven that Valve cares about those people much more than they care about PLAYERS who have a strong passion in the game and actually want to compete in it on a higher level (most updates bring us new things where Valve makes the profit and the focus is much weaker on actually "fixing" the game / making it a better experience for competitive players).Those "casual players" in most cases have small ammount of hours and never played against better players so they believe that professionals are some kind of robot-like GODS who don't make mistakes and are much more superior than other people who might have same time put in the game but don't play on their level. I believe a large part of those people actually AREN'T so sure that some pro's are not cheating but they choose to create this illusion that everyting is perfect just so they don't feel "bad" for watching and supporting a "broken" game.[INDENT]WHAT ARE CHEATS & CHEATING ON LAN[/INDENT]Here i am going to provide you with all the videos where it's explained what actually are aimlocks, how the work and how easy it is to cheat on LAN.People claim that it's impossible to put your cheat "inside" your mouse/keyboard without admins noticing it, but if that's 100% true then why did ESEA announce the release of their hardrware through which the pro players will have to plug in their peripherals?Explanation of what aimlocks are and how they work.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHa8js95sw8[/YOUTUBE]LAN cheats #1[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzcWaClWeaU[/YOUTUBE]LAN cheats #2[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMaAZEyH8[/YOUTUBE][INDENT]THE CLIPS[/INDENT]One of the main problems with these clips is also "the community". People tend to overreact and "mark" every single time someone's crosshair goes over enemy model through wall so we have this "image" that people who say "pro's cheat" are "noobs".There is a obvious difference between an "accident" and AIMLOCK.Now i would like to talk about how it all started.Ever singe CS:GO came out, cheating was present on all levels, and i am going to show you one of most obvious cheating clips in CSGO, it's of course, our (not so much) favourite swedish AWPer - Jesper "JW" Wecksell, who was caught cheating back in 2012. Funny fact: HE NEVER GOT BANNED.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8haSl9iG0[/YOUTUBE]Also, there was an incident that happened during twitch stream where Jesper accidentaly showed people his "cheat order", this is not made up, there is an official HLTV post about it: http://www.hltv.org/news/9547-wrtt-out-esc-to-face Now we are 2 years later, we have seen some cheating incidents in meantime but one player really started "sticking out".I'm talking, of course, about Robin "Flusha" Rönnquist.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCK5zuW7bSQ [/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_rUvnuOWBc[/YOUTUBE]His aimlocks were what actually started the "conversations" about cheating, showing us that it's possible even on higher levels of CSGO.Now you might say "hey dude, you are not a pro, only silver accuse people of cheating" but then you obviously haven't seen the interviews and clips where other professionals talked about flusha and generally cheating on the pro scene:Shox talking about flusha, saying there's no chance he's not cheating.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbVRcf0qIr4[/YOUTUBE]Krystal and fel1x interviewed by Richard Lewis.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zs0sidFnE[/YOUTUBE]Whole Na'Vi team talking about flusha and cheating on pro scene.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RKyKF5Vwo[/YOUTUBE]Some time later, the talk about cheating on pro scene suddenly "VANISHED".There are 2 obvious reason for that first is that organisations forbid people to discuss this subject publicly because it would hurt the "image" of tournament organisers even though we still have professionals who publicly speak about cheating, for example Zeus who often tweets about the problem: https://twitter.com/ZeusCS_GO/status/810623903576027136 Second reason for lack of cheating discussion is that many of those people who complained about flusha, realised Valve isn't doing anything about it so they decided to try it themselves, one of those people is of course french superstar "Richard "shox" Papillon.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMYSDbhxq5w[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTI_AQqiq5o[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9aBrcB6vg[/YOUTUBE]Of course there are many more pros with obvious aimlocks, i'm gonna post few of my "favourite" clips from some player, notice how people aka fanboys dislike the videos with Shoxie, Byali and other "likeable" players but most of them agree that people like "Subroza" are completely blatant.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYllUMj87d8[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qG4ibZPjBE[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qlia9x4yKM[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj2DEAT6KP0[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txX6Eu61FZE[/YOUTUBE]Here i'm also going to provide you with links of professional analysts talking about the cheating problem, just to let you know that many (professional) people realise what's going on.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WOtxv8RhNs[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sIK-JU0R0Q[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2opVb4Egqg[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01njtKxbKPY[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCv7PFL8Gw[/YOUTUBE]I would say it's pretty obvious how "robotic" and inhuman these situations are, and by saying you are 100% sure professionals aren't cheating after watching these means either you have less than 1000 hours of CS:GO or you are just a delusional person, lying more to yourself than other people.[INDENT]SOLUTION[/INDENT]I don't want to go in too much detail on this subject, this blog was only to help people realise that we have a problem, next step would be prevention of cheating and banning the players who are/have cheated.Since it's obvious that handcams wouldn't work, the only logical solution to prevent cheating (if you ask me) would be to install keylogger on the computers and track what buttons were pressed in certain "fishy" situations.[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWIzOYBi88[/YOUTUBE]

CONCLUSION

Some pros were already banned (i didn't want to include info about that because i believe everyone knows about KQLY, EMILIO, SF etc.).I'm only asking you to use your brain when you think about this - aimlocks happen only to certain people, and they happen(ed) pretty often to those people, there is not a single aimlock from 80% of pro players, yet people who had 1 fishy situation, happen to have many more.Also, think about flusha for a second, why did he have so much blatant aimlocks, but when people started talking about it, he went silent and you can't find nothing even remotely suspicious in his newer demos, did he change his playstyle of locking onto enemies through walls and smokes?Anyway, looks like players realised how blatant it was so they "took it easy" and stopped cheating so much but still i think that it's sad that players who were (are) obviously cheating, never got their deserved "punishment".If you have any questions feel free to leave them in this blog or contact me on my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BCkoCSGO There's no tl;dr because i believe every person that loves this game should read the whole blog (and the clips) before he wants to discuss this topic.