In the MOBA DOTA 2 (Steam), the tournament “Bali Major” is currently taking place: It once again revolves around the Russian player “Pure” (19) and a careless mistake. He was disqualified and his team lost by decision. Whether this was all justified is being passionately discussed by the community.
How did the player lose the match?
- On July 5, there was a match between BetBoom and the 2022 World Champions Tundra Esports in the quarter-finals of the Bali Major.
- The Tundra team requested a pause to report a problem.
- During the pause, BetBoom’s offlaner, the 19-year-old Pure, tabbed out of DOTA 2 and switched to a Twitch stream of the streamer Nix (via twitter). However, this is prohibited – even though it had no impact on the ongoing match.
Team wins 2-0 – But loses match afterward
What were the consequences? Pure’s team had actually won the match 2-0. But due to Pure’s mistake that was noticed later, this victory was revoked and the game was considered lost. Additionally, Pure was disqualified for the remainder of the tournament.
This is the disqualification:
The defeat and disqualification had severe consequences:
- The team, which was already qualified, now had to go into the “Lower Bracket”, where they played with a substitute against the team “Azure Ray” and got eliminated from the tournament.
- Furthermore, they are no longer guaranteed a spot at the massive tournament “The International 2023”, which every team wants to attend. Because the prize money is enormous. In 2022, each player won $8.5 million in prize money. With the victory against Tundra Express, the qualification would have been certain.
- Tundra Express, on the other hand, progressed despite the defeat and is now even in the Upper Bracket final.
Here you can see how Pure tabs out for a few seconds – he was “reported” for this mistake:
Pro player makes a stupid mistake during a pause for the 2nd time
What is ironic about the case?
“Pure” is the professional who has had really bad luck before.
In May 2022, Pure apparently got bored during a game pause and did something very foolish. He painted a “Z” absentmindedly on the map: This was seen as a symbol of support for the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
He was disqualified 14 months ago and kicked out of his last team because he couldn’t just sit still in front of the PC during a pause.
“This is not a gray area – He cheated”
What is the discussion about? The players from BetBoom reacted quite aggressively. One of the players wrote to the next opponents, Azure Ray, in the chat: “Why did you guys force the admins to disqualify Pure? Were you scared to play against our full team?”
The professional player Quinn Calahan saw no other option here. He wrote: “If you have a stream open, whether with malicious intent or not, then you are cheating. This is not a gray area. It’s not complicated. He cheated and the punishment was appropriate.”
On reddit, however, a thread was created blaming Valve: It should simply be impossible to open the internet browser during a major tournament. Then, such problems wouldn’t occur at all.
This “don’t look at the stream, or you’ll be in trouble” rule applies in many games. The rule is meant to prevent players from gaining information that gives them an advantage.
At the Fortnite World Cup 2019, it was particularly bitter because there were monitors hanging everywhere in the hall. You definitely weren’t allowed to look at them:
Fortnite removes 14-year-old from World Cup match – This is what he did wrong
