World record and hacking in $100,000 Warzone tournament?

Call of Duty: Warzone players DiazBiffle and Evan “SuperEvan” Moore competed in a 2v2 tournament for $100,000 as they and their opponents together broke the quad world record for kills in Caldera. At the same time, there were hacking allegations against a player named Shifty, which sent the community into an uproar as some believe him guilty and others do not.

World record set with 135 kills

The 2v2 tournament in Warzone had $100,000 at stake and there was plenty of excitement in the event. Warzone’s 2v2 tournaments have a simple format: two duos cued as a quad and whichever team can get the most kills wins. When Biffle and SuperEvan faced off against Hisoka and Shifty during the $100,000 Caldera Challenge qualifier, the group had a pretty big lobby.

They took advantage of that, as all four scored more than 30 kills en route to a quad world record. In the end, the group had 135 kills, which is 132 more than the second-place team overall. In total, Evan and Biffle scored 68 kills. Their opposing duo, Shifty and Hisoka, finished with 67 kills. During the tournament, the group showed their best form and this performance also means a world record.

Hacking accusations against Shifty

The tournament was the second qualifying round for the Caldera Challenge $100K, and in the end, Biffle and Evan took 1st place on the day, while Shifty and Hisoka finished in 3rd place. However, there were problems with Shifty: he was accused of hacking.

Most notably, former Call of Duty League pro and ROKKR streamer Rasim “Blazt” Ogresevic accused the player of cheating. On Tuesday, March 8, these accusations reached a public climax when Blazt was joined by a number of other pros who also claimed that Shifty cheated during the Qualifier.

Community debates Shifty’s guilt or innocence

Right now, fans and players are wildly debating because there is a clip where you can allegedly see Shifty cheating right now. In the 7-second clip of Blazt, you can see Shifty’s crosshairs suddenly lock onto an enemy from a great distance, whereupon he beams the enemy with pinpoint accuracy. Blazt reacts very violently to this and wonders how this can be possible for Shifty to work with a controller – and achieve such results.

Shifty didn’t win the event, but he did finish third and had the highest K/D score of the tournament at 13.32. As a result, many people accused him of cheating. Still others, however, were not so convinced that he had really cheated and argued for Shifty’s innocence. Top Warzone pro, Thomas ‘Tommey’ Trewren, was one of several people who argued that the clip was not definitive proof.

As Tommey explained, this clip was not suspicious because “frames were skipped, which means that OBS left out a few frames.” He also pointed out that the Cluster Strike on Shify’s minimap also teleported – proving that the lock-on moment looked so strange because of a streaming issue. So far, it has not been confirmed whether Shifty cheated or not.