On March 8, the 2nd qualifying round for the “Caldera Challenge” tournament in Call of Duty: Warzone took place. There is a total of $100,000 (about €90,000) at stake. However, there are allegations of hacking in the tournament, and a player’s clip is at the center of the discussion.
What’s going on?
- Call of Duty: Warzone regularly hosts tournaments with respectable prize pools
- The qualifying rounds for the “Caldera Challenge” are currently ongoing – a duo tournament in kill race format, where 24 teams can qualify
- With $100,000 at stake, the tournament is overshadowed by discussions about whether a pro player is hacking or not
Caldera Challenges – Hacker in Qualifying?
Specifically, it involves the player “Shifty”. Together with his duo partner, he reached third place in the second qualifying round, and both received $2,500 for it.
However, a gameplay clip from the tournament has sparked accusations that something might not be quite right.
The fourth place player, “Blazt”, posted the clip on Twitter and wrote: “How the hell is this supposed to be a human with a controller?”.
Particularly, this moment is highlighted, where the player’s aim seems to snap to the opponent. This “snap to the opponent” is actually typical for an aimbot.
However, there are discussions under the clip about whether it is actually hacking. It is also suspected that there may be an issue with the transmission from the streaming program “OBS”.
It is argued that such clips are nearly ubiquitous among all major Warzone streamers. However, the larger and more popular streamers often avoid hacking accusations simply because they are more popular.
Even Blazt’s duo partner, MuTeX, previously faced cheating allegations and set up 5 cameras to prove his innocence.
Unfortunately, there are always accusations that even in the pro tournaments of Warzone, cheating is occurring. Whether players are actually cheating or not is often difficult to determine.
This is also a general problem with the Free2Play Warzone. This uncertainty about whether someone is cheating or not leads to a lot of frustration and anger among players. The new anti-cheat RICOCHET has somewhat alleviated the problem, but unfortunately not completely solved it.
What do you think about the clip? Do you see a hacker or just a technical error? Please feel free to leave us your opinion in the comments.
