clowN and Devour Banned from CEVO on CompLexity Gaming

clowN and Devour Banned from CEVO: Posted by: JetBlk on January 25th, 2009

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In a recent development, during the CEVO Alienware Winter Frag Fest, Yazan "clowN" Ammari and Sam "devour" Chamma were banned for cheating by CEVO. Both players have been playing for the OptX team in the CEVO competition since the CGS went under. They were banned after the match with KBS in the event finals. I contacted clowN to get his side of the story.

I would like to come clear about everything, YES, Devour and I did cheat simple as that. The back story is what I wanted to explain to everyone, and I appreciate Jason giving me the chance to do so here. I’ve been a long time professional gamer for a while now, and I have never really cheated before besides unlocking all the songs on rockband2. Recently my team and I decided to compete in this Alien ware tournament hosted by CEVO. As the tournament went along it was met with a couple complications, well I should say a ton of complications. After a long 12 hour day of sitting on my computer dying from boredom and being exhausted beyond belief we finally got to the finals. In the finals we were put up against KBS a team that truly in my eyes didn’t deserve to be there, as they weren’t one of the top two teams in this tourney (they beat sxp due to a technicality of crouch peeking…stupid, which had us waiting around for about 1 hour).

The match began late in the evening around 11:00pst, with 3 of our 5 players being in the central and Eastern Time zones. Finally the match begins, As soon as we go live we quickly get the first round, and then KBS answers right back with a round of their own. After the two rounds have been completed the server crashes, now when a server crashes within the first 3 rounds of a match what is the most rational and logical thing to do, especially since its only 1-1, restart the match. Instead CEVO and IGames officials decide to abide by the rules that are not even remotely fair nor should they even be effective this early in the match of, resulting in the same score, new lo3 with only $5,000. How are we expected to hold CT side train with no awps? Yes an awp is affordable but will result in no grenades, armor, and kit. After about 1 hour of straight arguing our defense they allow us an extra 2,500. I didn’t agree to this in the beginning but as they were giving us no choice we decided to play with that rule set against our will (yes we threatened to forfeit and all that, but they called the bluff).

After the score became 5-2 in favor of KBS the server crashed about 7 times in a row, after we would keep re-lo3ing. Someone was obviously packeting the server whether it is someone from KBS or just someone who hates CS:S. We tried a brand new server, with random tagged names, and no one signed into steam friends and still was packeted. We showed up at the agreed time the next morning and decided we would try our luck today (Sunday). After everyone in #prosource (an invite channel of high caliber players from cal-I to cevo-p) basically explained to me that we have no chance, and how bad KBS cheats, and after experiencing it first hand on the first 7 rounds we played on train we realized that for us to be cheated out of 5 brand new computers that we knew they did not deserve, and everyone who knows glockateer and company(KBS) can agree with me when I say that I was sick of getting cheated. Especially after the long 15 hour day we had the night before, with all the arguing and complications with the servers, I talked to my teammates and we came to the decision that devour and I would try hacks for our FIRST time, no we did not cheat in the past.

We didn’t really try to hide the fact I had cheats, it was more of a statement to KBS and CEVO, I blatantly “amsged” on mIRC for cheats. After our train match when we came back and won we decided to take off the cheats for nuke, since our nuke was a lot stronger for us. As we reconnect to the server and get ready to lo3 Glockateer and a couple others disconnect for about 10 minutes, and reconnect. Yes, hmmm what can they have been doing. So we win the first CT half 10-2. As the next half rolls around Glockateer or in-game used “megatron” became a one man killing machine, winning every clutch, killing every person, and stopping any chance we had at winning or even tying the half. As CEVO checks the cmn logs for the match, after our dispute they found devour and I were cheating and had us banned.

Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, would I do it again? Yes, I would have found better cheats, because I am not sorry for what I did. I was basically fighting fire with fire, I know they were cheating and they know they were cheating, that’s the bottom line. In result we are banned for the next year in CEVO, and I am pretty sure all CEVO events. We will be competing LEGIT in ESEA, and any other leagues we decide to enter. As for Sam and I personally we will be attending ETS in Montreal, Canada March 20-23rd. Enter the tourney I mean we can’t cheat on LAN so you’re pretty much set for a winning prize right? =D

Keep it locked to compLexityGaming.com as this story develops.

Links: OptX CEVO Page

Comments

#1 on 01/26/09 at 12:04 AM

eCurb

Shocking!

#2 on 01/26/09 at 12:04 AM

RixaN

Yup

#3 on 01/26/09 at 12:06 AM - Last Edited: 01/26/09 12:07 AM

haticK

Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, would I do it again? Yes, I would have found better cheats

you're my hero

#4 on 01/26/09 at 12:06 AM

JetBlk

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Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, would I do it again? Yes, I would have found better cheats/span>

you're my hero

LOL hatick hahahaha

#5 on 01/26/09 at 12:07 AM

MrCool

That sucks =[

#6 on 01/26/09 at 12:07 AM

deLay

lol <3 clowN

#7 on 01/26/09 at 12:07 AM

coL-s|soX

Interesting, people cheating in a game is so totally retarded. Karma is a bitch and it will come back around to team KTS.

#8 on 01/26/09 at 12:08 AM

men1kmati-

LoL.

#9 on 01/26/09 at 12:17 AM

c0k3

wows, freaking cheaters.

#10 on 01/26/09 at 12:18 AM

analyze

dw I will use my heat vision on their new computers, how's that for karma?!

#11 on 01/26/09 at 12:22 AM

phreaK

good. im glad they did it. after seeing Glockateer pull off the biggest BS prefire on de_season On Volcano, i have always questioned him. sam and yaz proved a good point. look at that xploD kid and how blatant he is.

#12 on 01/26/09 at 12:27 AM

p0s

I once remember when cheating was looked down on, not praised.

Solid work lake.

#13 on 01/26/09 at 12:29 AM

AJLarson

i dont think cheating was the right solution, but bold statement, KBS is a joke anyways...

#14 on 01/26/09 at 12:31 AM - Last Edited: 01/26/09 12:35 AM

? Nobody is praising or judging.. just posting the news and giving him a chance to speak his peace. For the record we also tried to contact you (check your Gotfrag inbox) but couldn't find you on IRC. I think our news crew did a good job on the story.

#15 on 01/26/09 at 12:34 AM

moe

listen bottom line is sam and yaz are 2 of the best players to ever play the game. the way igames handled this left us in such bad shape i doubt i will ever play in cevo again. i wanna say to yaz and sam im proud of u guys and fuck cevo. and what clown forgot to mention was that cmn didnt catch shit clown linked the cevo admins to the cheats after the match to show cevo that he got away with it. this proves that cmn is a joke. and so is cevo if a team like kbs whos never won a dollar on lan can win brand new alienware comps online. something isnt right

#16 on 01/26/09 at 12:35 AM

phreaK

ROFL in 5 minutes, the story went from 558 views to 1400. haha

#17 on 01/26/09 at 12:35 AM

gta95

Sucks that these guys got cheated out of the tournament by fighting for what was right. If the whole pro source community thinks KBS cheats, why wouldn't CEVO investigate? I mean come on, these guys are getting free computers by allegedly cheating in a videogame!!!!! That should be investigated immediately. This combined with the ghosting incident makes me want to stay away from CEVO with myself and the teams I may play with

#18 on 01/26/09 at 12:41 AM

blue

I once remember when cheating was looked down on, not praised.

Solid work lake.-p0s
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tru dat, anyways, wtf is with everyone supporting clown and devour?
i knew clown hacked b4 this.
since when was it cool to hack against hackers, either your legit or your shit. how do you prove a point to a hacker by hacking against them? stupidest thing i have ever heard. wouldnt you want to try and beat them legit. everyone get off clowns dick, u know what he did was wrong, everyone will get caught sooner or later, all he did was fuck himself over
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#19 on 01/26/09 at 12:43 AM

SmokyTheClown

dumb, cheating is retarded regardless of the circumstance

#20 on 01/26/09 at 12:44 AM - Last Edited: 01/26/09 1:28 AM

Jake

Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, would I do it again? Yes, I would have found better cheats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiBAL8wEyPo

That video is not legit... such BS :\

#21 on 01/26/09 at 12:46 AM

AuS|wilsonIFL

As the ex-leader of TeamAUS an infamous "cheating" team I must say that you should get the same treatment that every other cheater gets... exile. Having fought for our rep for TeamAUS and having people say it doesn't matter if you cheated on purpose or not which we did against delusional your rep should be blasted as well. We cheated in our CAL playoffs because CAL was a joke and we were going to go to CEVO only. We made a statement by cheating blatantly against deL but the arms that receive you as heros are the same ones that destroy us. You remind me or an NBA player or Actor that commits a crime but gets a different penalty then a regular old Joe citizen. Regardless of the elaborate story as to why you cheated, your in the wrong and you team should exile you and you will ALWAYS be known as a cheater from this day forth. Hope it was worth it.

#22 on 01/26/09 at 12:47 AM

phreaK

http://www.gotfrag.com/css/forums/thread/386228/?cpage=1#comment_8941346

#18 READ #35 pl0x

the point is that CEVO doesnt catch the people who actually cheat, they just blow it off. in other words, CEVO is bullshit. i hate cheaters, but something like this that is done to prove a point is fully supported by me. yes thats hypocritical, but if you watch the CSS scene like i have for the past couple months, then you would understand.

#23 on 01/26/09 at 12:47 AM

cevo is becoming worse than cal.. this is ridiculous!

#24 on 01/26/09 at 12:50 AM

bender-

Sucks that these guys got cheated out of the tournament by fighting for what was right. If the whole pro source community thinks KBS cheats, why wouldn't CEVO investigate? I mean come on, these guys are getting free computers by allegedly cheating in a videogame!!!!! That should be investigated immediately. This combined with the ghosting incident makes me want to stay away from CEVO with myself and the teams I may play with

KBS haven't been to one LAN...EVER! They are a bunch of kids who 'got good' all of the sudden. CEVO won't look at demos. They only look at CMN (which is a horrible ACS to begin with), and only if it shows the person in question has cheats running, then they will ban.

#25 on 01/26/09 at 12:50 AM

CaliJared

Ask Moe about the time we beat KBS 4v5.