You can listen to it via Apple Podcasts or RSS, or just listen to this week's episode by hitting the play button below. If you're a fan of video games, check out Transition, Gadgets 360's gaming podcast. Update, October 20, 2018: story updated to include Optic India's roster changes and ESL India's position on the matter. Be it the likes of bigger companies like Nodwin failing to pay its vendors, Ucypher blocking every Tekken 7 video on YouTube in a ham-fisted attempt to protect its reality show, or the travesty that was the Indian selection process for the Asian Games, there seems to be little to cheer about for e-sports fans in India. This comes at a time when Indian e-sports doesn't seem to have evolved as fast as it audience has. This was led by Ali Saba, Optic Gaming Scouting Director, with support from Prashant 'Aequitas' Prabhakar and the SoStronk team. According to a prepared statement from the company in May, it partnered with two local Indian e-sports companies, AFK Gaming and SoStronk to discover the necessary talent for its Indian squad.Īs per the selection process highlighted by Optic, candidates would "undergo an extensive evaluation based on psychometric and theoretical tests in addition to role-based and in-game analysis". Optic set up shop in India earlier in the year with an announcement to put together an all-Indian Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. Allegedly, Kumawat has a history of cheating and was called out for it a couple of years back. Furthermore, the official ESL India Twitter account has stated its looking into Optic India's Fall Season title and its subsequent spot on the ESL Pro League Asia. A tweet from Optic India also confirms that it has parted ways with the rest of its roster too. Needless to say, Kumawat has been released from Optic India. However Kumawat's behaviour as witnessed by the event organisers and his PC being flagged by the anti-cheat system was enough to disqualify Optic India. This prompted a deeper investigation that threw up the retrieved program which would not run. The Counter-Strike match fixing scandal was a match fixing scandal involving two professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams, iBUYPOWER and NetCodeGuides, which resulted in the banning of 4 North American players by Valve after an expository article by esports journalist Richard Lewis. Kumawat reportedly closed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and hurriedly deleted a program running the background. According to reports, it seems that suspicious activity from his PC was flagged by the event's anti-cheat platform prompting administrators to investigate. Optic India's Nikhil 'Forsaken' Kumawat was discovered to have an unauthorised program on his PC during the team's match against Revolution in the Group C elimination match of the $100,000 tournament. After that, this information on the patterns was used to train a machine-learning model to predict cheating based on patterns and features in the game data.One of the largest e-sports organisations in the world, Optic Gaming has had its Indian Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team disqualified for cheating from the Extremesland 2018 Asia Finals. This monitoring of data traffic was used to identify patterns that indicate cheating, the release explains. They also analyzed features like the number of incoming and outgoing packets, their size, the time they were transmitted, their direction and the number of packets in a burst (i.e. While studying the game data, which travels in small packets or bundles of information, researchers looked at the different sizes of data packets. The researchers also set up a server dedicated for the project so the students’ activity would not disrupt other online players, according to a press release. For the study, 20 students from the university downloaded Counter-Strike and three software cheats: an aimbot, which automatically targets an opponent, a speed hack, which allows the player to move faster, and a wallhack, which makes walls transparent so that players can easily see their opponents.
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