CS GO Pro Receives 5 Year Ban from all Tournaments Skip to content Click here to check out the GameByte Shop great games, consoles and more! He was nearly given a life time ban... CS GO Pro Receives 5 Year Ban from all Tournaments 21 March 202025 October 2018 by Will Pell A player that goes by the name forsaken’ was banned from competitive CS:GO after cheating in the $100,000 competition he was taking part in. At the time he was playing for the OpTic India line-up for the popular shooter game. He has since been dropped from the team after receiving his ban. Credit: OpTic IndiaADVERT ADVERT A team called the Esports Intergrity Coalition hit Nikhul Kumawat with the 5 year ban from “all esports related activity for or with any ESIC member organisation” after his actions came to light. The ESIC said this about the situation: Whilst a substantial amount of the evidence has been available publicly for a few days and there have been many calls for a quick decision and a lifetime ban, we have taken our time to ensure a proper procedure has been followed in accordance with the Code of Conduct to which Kumawat was subject during the Premiership. He was entitled and remains entitled to due process and natural justice. Consequently, we have tried to contact him to offer him a reasonable time to consider the evidence and take the opportunity to plead guilty and accept a proposed sanction or plead not guilty and defend himself before our independent Disciplinary Panel. He has not responded to our attempts to contact him. This isn’t the first time that Kumawat had been in trouble with the ESIC and could have faced a lifetime ban from esports. However they determined that this time was not related to his previous offence so they hit him with a 5 year ban instead. ADVERT ADVERT We take down Team Slaughter Rage Army 2-0. We have been crowned as the champions of the @ESL_India Premiership Fall Season LAN! We would like to thank you all for your support!#OpTicIndia #Greenwall pic.twitter.com/VZENy18OYu - OpTic India (@OpTicIndia) October 14, 2018 OpTic India won the tournament that the player got caught cheating in. Many fans of the game are also saying that the OpTic team should give the trophy back to the tournament runners. Just because you had a hacker on your team. Give the cup back - Farzaan Hussain (@FarzaanHussain2) October 19, 2018 The team was also only put together four months ago by OpTic in a ‘world first’ move by the organisation. After all this has happened OpTic India put out this tweet about the situation.ADVERT ADVERT pic.twitter.com/i1qRRgUHmO - OpTic India (@OpTicIndia) October 19, 2018 Do you think 5 years was long enough or do you think the cheater should have been banned for life? TweetShareSharePin Follow us on @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play @GameByte @gamebyte GameByte GameByte GameByte Noobs Play External Links Policy GameByte Staff About GameByte Advertise with us Careers Ambassador Program Contact Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Manage Cookies Preferences Submit Your Content FragHero Sporf 9 to 5 Life Social Chain Social Chain Agency