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Professional players play online on independent platform servers hosted by leagues such as ESEA or Faceit, which have proprietary anti-cheat programs. [24] Linus "b0bbzki" Lundqvist was the first known professional player to be banned in Global Offensive. Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian was one of the highest-profile players to be issued a VAC ban.
FACEIT is an esports platform founded in London in 2012. [1] The company has administered leagues for games such as Counter-Strike 2 , League of Legends , Rocket League , Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege , Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 .
Bug exploits are typically executed by players, but one of the most significant bug abuse scandals in esports was the Counter-Strike coaching bug scandal. In August 2020, ESL banned three coaches who had taken advantage of a bug that allowed them to see parts of the map they should not have had access to during matches. [14]
Websites can be blocked for obtaining child pornography, materials advocating drug abuse and drug production, items on the Federal List of Extremist Materials, [1] [2] violations of data retention and surveillance laws [citation needed] or about fake information of war or invasion of Ukraine.
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
ESL Gaming GmbH (formerly known as Electronic Sports League) is a German esports organizer and production company that produces video game competitions worldwide. ESL was the world's largest esports company in 2015, [1] and the oldest that is still operational. [2]
[1] [2] [3] There are no parental consent exceptions to the ban. [1] The ban is expected to apply to Facebook , Instagram , Reddit , Snapchat , TikTok and X (formerly known as Twitter) while services used for health care and education such as Messenger Kids , WhatsApp , YouTube , Kids Helpline and Google Classroom are expected to be exempt.
This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increase in digital piracy , limiting business opportunities and violating rights.