Popular twitch streamer, former CDL pro and current Minnesota ROKKR Warzone “pro”, Rasim ‘Blazt’ Ogresevic has recently been in the spotlight for drawing attention to a fellow “pro” who he believes is cheating in tournaments. While it is common knowledge that Warzone cheating is rampant, among pros it is often dismissed or denied.
On Feb 17 Ogresevic tweeted a clip of a player named ‘Shifty’, accusing him of cheating in Warzone tournaments, also adding that people will defend him. While the belief that some of the supposed pros who are frequently invited to these, huge pay out, sponsored tournaments are cheating is not new, especially within the “hacker hunter” community, having a fellow pro call them out is.
Several Warzone professional players have been called out by content creators whose aim is to draw attention to suspicious gameplay over the last 2 years or so. This kind of content creation seemed to blossom with the emergence of BadBoyBeaman and his videos regarding high profile Warzone players who were consistently winning huge sums of money in tournaments, that unlike previous FPS games’ tournaments, were held online.
The COVID 19 pandemic and more importantly the rules and restrictions surrounding socialising in most countries meant allowing players to play for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the comfort of their own homes, using their own setups, with no real way of vetting them for any malicious programmes or devices such as cheating software or controller manipulating hardware, like the Cronus Pro or Max.
While there have been several people found to be cheating in high profile tournaments, it is notable that this has only occurred when the cheating has been so blatant that it could quite easily be considered “rage hacking” (cheating with no regard for hiding the fact).
When ‘Blazt’ called out ‘Shifty’ originally, he was met with contrasting replies from fellow content creators and competitive players. While some seemed to support his assessment that the player in question was cheating, others were not convinced.
Catching cheaters is not something that is always easy, cheats for FPS games have become so intricate that they are as good as undetectable to the naked eye when they are set up properly. Most people won’t know if they have been killed by a cheater and most won’t recognise it when they are watching someone employing aimbot with perfectly tweaked aim smoothness, FOV and aim speed settings. They will, as many prominent content creators have done in the past, recognise it as aim assist (a feature built into the game to assist controller players with fine adjustments).
“I AM PLAYING THIS FOR $15,000. HOW ON EARTH IS THIS HUMAN ON A CONTROLLER??????”
During the Boom TV $15,000 tournament on March 8th, Blazt and teammate Mutex were paired in the Losers Finals against ShiftyTV and HisokaT42. They had already secured qualification to the $50,000 finals, but the qualifier had a prize pool of $15,000 with a higher prize for 3rd place than 4th (understandably).
Having not held back in his condemnation of ‘Shifty’ previously, it is no surprise that ‘Blazt’ was open and forthcoming with hackusations this time around. When he discovered who they would be playing in the Losers Finals, he tweeted this:
After losing the game against ‘Shifty’ and ‘Hisoka’, Blazt once again did not hold back, he tweeted a clip that shows ‘Shifty’ getting what seems to be very similar to an aimbot snap.
It is certainly a breath of fresh air to see a prominent warzone player drawing attention to cheating within competitive warzone and while it is easy to focus solely on this one incident or one player, it begs the question. If ‘Shifty’ is cheating and is still invited to such high-profile tournaments with only a very small handful of fellow “pros” calling him out, are others who display similar gameplay cheating? And if they are, why is nobody talking about it?
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