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Neoprod said:
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He used their PC and peripherals and the game stats \ demos are all on the Faceit website...what's the "soon" about?

Also this oke they're saying is NA's saviour = Mongolian :ROFL:
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He played on their computer and peripherals, but I am unsure whether it is the same as his. Maybe they gave him time to prep in advance. It isn't easy to switch your mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

Otherwise, I think he is legit. He needs training, and he does some weird nade things like I do, but it works to his advantage.

Also, he is FACEIT 10, but with a high elo. He is good against players around ~2500, but he is at 4500. The moment he played against +3000 players, he didn't look that impressive. He did play well in the FPL match, but it was also all over the place. His competition made his team look good.

All in all, he is young and has potential. He is a Mongolian Russian, so he is more likely to end up in the European competitive circuit. The competition there is historically strong. His grind to tier 1 will be tough.

At this stage, he isn't a Donk. Donk played it tough and hard. Calling him the next Donk is reaching.

Maybe FACEIT did an in game behavioural analysis.
 
Lol, I listened to Thorin talk about cheats (not in the video above). He is both right and wrong at the same time, and not in a good way, but knows nothing about how cheats work, internally or externally (incl. hardware). I am quite sure that there was poor monitoring at the old LAN events. Today, it is almost impossible to cheat at a competitive LAN unless it is poorly managed and the player is playing on their own hardware. There have been pro players that have been caught cheating at a LAN. Competitive online games are dubious, and tier 2 and 3 can't be trusted. Fair play is broken.

Now with external (incl. hardware), cheats, with vision assist. Good luck. Neural networking has levelled-up cheating. There are more expansive cheats that maps the map, all done externally, that is overlaid, and with that the game is your oyster. I mean, it changes your game into a tutorial.

This entire situation isn't helped by peripheral makers that are pushing scripting on their hardware into gaming.

nocries isn't even the issue. He may have or may not have cheated, but there are more questionable players on FACEIT, and on Valve's own Premier ladder.
 
According to FACEIT, nocries are legit.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1973811514403615217


FACEIT Integrity Review: Nocries

This post shares the results of FACEIT’s integrity review into nocries, who recently reached Rank #1 on the FACEIT North American Elo ranking. The review was initiated following inquiries from the community and high-tier esports organizations regarding his relatively new profile and sudden rise to the top of the ranking. To ensure FACEIT’s competitive integrity policies are upheld, our review was conducted across three phases:

1) Initial Review​

Across August–September 2025, our Integrity staff assessed the account for multi-accounting, smurfing, or win-trading. No issues were found, and there are no historical FACEIT bans or integrity sanctions on the account. The Anti-Cheat client did not detect suspicious activity.

2) Background Check​

On 16th September 2025, a formal video interview was conducted with nocries to address and resolve specific inquiries regarding his account profile and history. This process was used to verify aspects of his background that had become subjects of public speculation, including his use of a new Steam account and IP variances we detected by our team. He cooperated throughout this process.

  • FACEIT Account History: We confirmed one FACEIT account created on 29th January 2022. No evidence of active multi‑accounting, smurfing, or win‑trading was found on FACEIT.
  • Identity Verification: Government ID (Russian passport) matched prior FACEIT verification records, confirmed online and in person. He has a Buryatia background with Mongolian heritage, which explains the Mongolian flag on his FACEIT profile. Languages: Russian, English, and some Buryat (corroborated during interviews).
  • Steam History: We verified that his current Steam account was created in 2021 and shows 5,878 hours of Counter-Strike play. He reports long‑term Counter‑Strike play on older Steam accounts totalling an additional ~10,000 hours, including periods of shared accounts with friends and family in his early teens.
  • IP Variance & VPN usage: Our logs showed IP changes and periodic VPN use. These align with his student relocation to the United States and other documented travel.
  • Activity Gaps: The player stated he played VALORANT from 2020 to 2022, reaching Radiant rank in Europe. His FACEIT account was created in Jan 2022, followed by a verified activity gap (Sept 2024–May 2025) tied to relocation. He started playing in the North American FACEIT queue from June 2025 after building his own PC. These timestamps align with IP and location changes in our records.
  • His Elo rise in NA: Previously peaked at 2,974 Elo in Europe (Dec 2022, CS:GO) while queuing from Russia at roughly ~120 ms latency. Since moving to North America, typical match latency has been ~18 ms (Chicago) and ~40 ms (Dallas) based on our data.

3) Supervised Gameplay on LAN​

On 17th September, we invited him to FACEIT New York HQ for supervised play to address questions that data alone could not resolve. From 23rd–25th September 2025, he played nine matches on hardware provided and secured by FACEIT Anti-Cheat Team. Under these controlled conditions, his impact and core mechanics fell within the same performance band as his recent online matches against comparable opposition. Normal session-to-session statistical variance was present as expected in a small sample. During the visit, he re-attained Rank #1 in North America and top-fragged in his first-ever FPL match.

FPL Invite​

The review found no breach of FACEIT’s competitive integrity policies. During the supervised sessions at our New York office, he received his first‑ever FPL invite on a trial basis, which we have now converted into an indefinite invite so he can continue competing in a higher‑skilled environment. In the interview he said his dream is to join a professional team and compete at LAN events, and we look forward to seeing where his journey leads and wish him the best.

What’s next​

To ensure transparency and consistency for similar cases in the future, we plan to introduce a new validation protocol for high-ranked players participating in matchmaking, leagues and official tournaments on FACEIT. This protocol will be communicated soon, along with our upcoming Anti‑Cheat update.
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FACEIT knows when it sees talent and how to call good luck.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511021728696262665

Congratulations to Joel Holmlund for winning the March edition of EU FPL!

After finishing second in February, when it was only his first month in the league. The 17-year-old Swedish talent achieves to win the March edition of FPL.

Good luck in FPL Joel !
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See,

www.hltv.org

joel handed lifetime ban by ESIC

The Swedish former professional player was found to have used cheats and subsequently threatened to blackmail ESIC.
www.hltv.org www.hltv.org

joel handed lifetime ban by ESIC​


The Swedish former professional player was found to have used cheats and subsequently threatened to blackmail ESIC.

The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has announced it has issued a lifetime ban to former Monte and GODSENT member Joel "⁠joel⁠" Holmlund over "multiple and serious breaches" of its code of conduct and anti-corruption code.

"ESIC has determined that Mr. Holmlund engaged in deliberate cheating and subsequent attempted intimidation of ESIC in connection with its enforcement processes," a statement issued by the esports watchdog read.

The 20-year-old has been away from the competitive scene since August 2024, when he was banned by the Akros anti-cheat upon joining the server for BC.Game's CCT Season 2 Europe Series 7 against B8.

...

A repeat offender​

This is not the first time that joel has been embroiled in controversy. Once touted as one of Sweden's most promising talents, he was provisionally suspended by ESIC in September 2023 while the esports watchdog investigated claims that he had engaged in corrupt behavior earlier that year while playing for GODSENT.

According to ESIC, joel placed bets on matches in which he was playing, including two bets against his own team, in addition to 17 bets on various matches. Still, ESIC's findings concluded there was "no compelling or conclusive evidence" that the player had engaged in match-fixing.
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Good luck Joel.
 
I do think this kid is legit, but I don't think he is always legit.

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Much noise is being made about his talent, and deservedly so, since he is NA #1. Him being a phenom shouldn't be rushed into the media. Competitive esports have been here way too many times, promising individuals turned into bans. I don't think he is a prodigy, but he is good enough not to be ignored.

Recently, nocries said that he doesn't warm up and doesn't use aim trainers. It is an odd statement, but there are tier 1 pros, according to themselves, who believe that the best warmup is getting straight into competition.

Mongolians are good CS players; I mean, where are The MongolZ ranked at the moment? Though nocries is a Mongolian, he was raised in Russia.

I hope the kid succeeds and is now wholly legitimate. Competitive esports are churning out scandal upon scandal.

All that said, as much as the CS community likes to dump on Loba, he has been right more times than being wrong :ROFL:
 
I made some big changes to my CS2. First, I have adopted Raw Accel, downloadable below:

github.com

GitHub - RawAccelOfficial/rawaccel: kernel mode mouse accel

kernel mode mouse accel. Contribute to RawAccelOfficial/rawaccel development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

No, don't use any website other than the GitHub link. Explainer below:


There are other tutorials, and I know many players are using it in other games as well, and in aim trainers. The once hated mouse acceleration is so back. BTW, some pro players also use Raw Accel.

optimum also use Raw Accel:


My only issue with Raw Accel is that I am switching games, and it doesn't gel with all my values. Either I am going to keep going with it or stick to the good old ways.

I also have no idea why some are saying that it is like aim assist? Since, uhm, laser mice, does this natively, though not tuneable, and might also make a comeback. Since we have scripting now in keyboards, I am surprised not to see something like Raw Accel not introduced into the peripheral suites?

Second change, I moved to 1440x1080. Yikes! It is so much better in CS2. Need a capable GPU though.
 
Hmmm. Just got kicked. I guess Valve don't like Raw Accel. I only wish that they said what is causing kicks like this?

I didn't even get a cooldown. Weird.

So, it seems that Raw Accel is making my AMDGPU drivers crash. I don't know why this is happening yet. When the GPU drivers crash, the game seems to kick you.
 
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