The European pro from Modern Warfare Tom ‘Tommey’ Trewen challenged a tournament opponent to show his screen during a shared round of Call of Duty: Warzone to expose him as a cheater. He actually shows his hacks but says, “It was just a joke.”
What was going on? Call of Duty and its hackers – there have been so many stories and videos about this. The latest story: European pro Tom ‘Tommey’ Trewen suspected a tournament opponent of cheating after some of his viewers alerted him.
The pro then watched a bit of the streamer’s gameplay, contacted him, and challenged him to stream his screen with his face cam during a match in CoD: Warzone. The player in question is Twitch streamer “mingostylegaming.”
So, the two met for a shared round of Battle Royale. The discussions in the voice chat were heated, and the mood was tense. When the match started, one could actually briefly see one of the infamous cheat windows on “Mingo’s” screen, where the cheat settings are adjusted to the player’s preferences.
When Tommey caught wind of this, he immediately ended the match and confronted the alleged cheater. The latter claimed he was just messing around and briefly showed a photo that looked like the cheat interface. However, the pro didn’t accept that, and they couldn’t stop hurling insults at each other.
Streamer defends his cheat window with a joke
What did it look like? Since this all happened on-stream, you can check it out again.
The first clip shows the start of the shared match and images from the Mingo stream. At the moment when the drop plane breaks through the clouds at the match start, one briefly sees a window that looks exactly like the usual cheat programs:
The second clip then shows the end of the match, again from Mingo’s perspective. Tommy accuses the streamer of cheating, and he just replies, “I was just having fun, that was just a picture.” But Tommy doesn’t believe that: “We got him, we got him,” he is sure.
In a third clip, Tommy wants to prove that the shown window is not just a picture. Mingo showed the “fake cheat window,” and Tommy notices that the dimensions of the image do not match the window shown during the stream at all. For him, it is clear that these are cheats:
Was there a penalty for the cheater? Mingo’s Twitch channel is still accessible, and it is unclear whether the player was banned from Call of Duty. However, the tournament on which Tommy and Mingo played has already banned the streamer based on the evidence presented.
Cheater sightings in the free-to-play Warzone are frequent, and some streamers accidentally reveal their sneaky tricks live:
- Streamer caught cheating live on Twitch – he doesn’t even realize it
- Streamer brags about his skill, then gets caught cheating.
It becomes particularly nasty when hackers have it out for you. The German streamer “TarKoffeL” released a critique video on the use of cheats in the Warzone and was subsequently tracked by a hacker group for several months. Eventually, they also lost interest, and the streamer was able to close the topic with a well-placed headshot.
What do you think of the incident with mingostylegaming – cheat or joke?
