Sccc claims that matchfixing is everywhere in esports

Former Dota 2 pro player Song “Sccc” Chun has spoken on a recent stream about match-fixing in the local scene. The 27-year-old Chinese pro who last played for EHOME claims that many players are involved in cheating such as match-fixing, but did not name names or the level of competition.

Sccc claims that “powerful people” are behind the match-fixing scenes and that the pros who work closely with them have nothing to fear even if they’re not playing at the right level.

“Even if these players play badly and have a bad attitude at the same time, as long as they follow the instructions of some powerful people, as long as they have a good relationship with these people. Then they have nothing to fear at all.”

Young players are at the mercy of corrupt people

Young and new players in particular are often confronted with dishonest managers who only think about making money and are willing to throw a rookie under the bus to make a profit. Once they get someone to join their scams, they know they can get more from such players. Sccc also says that people who don’t believe in match-fixing are naive, and that he feels sorry that match-fixing is so widespread.

Sccc hasn’t played since the beginning of last year. The player has been working as a streamer, analyst and caster in the Chinese scene for almost two years. In his stream, he confirmed that he has no plans to go back to being a gamer.

Cheating and Matchfixing in Esports

It is currently not possible to prove whether Sccc’s claims are true or not, but there have always been scandals in esports that nobody saw coming, such as the masses of CS:GO coaches who had all used the viewer bugs and were banned in rows when the scandal broke. O the recent case that nobody expected — the 10 players including Koma from Virtus.pro were involved in a Dota 2 account-sharing scandal.

Match-fixing is one of the most difficult scams to prove because it is also possible to simply agree to win or lose a match offline. Of course, match-fixing does come to light from time to time, but only if there is solid evidence of it, such as screenshots of conversations.

There is certainly still a lot that we, the viewers, do not know and it may well be that more will come to the public in the future. After all, there is a lot of money in esports and it is well-known that money attracts scammers and other corrupt people.

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