Earlier on Saturday, the Counter-Strike community was surprised by the news that nerdRage's Viliam "villiG" Andrascik had been banned on FACEIT after beint caught cheating during a DreamHack Cluj qualifying match against PiTER.

Shortly afterwards, nerdRage announced that they were removing Andrascik from their active roster with immediate effect and stressed that they remained committed to the Counter-Strike scene.

Andrascik has now issued a statement to HLTV.org in which he confirms that he purchased cheat software on Friday has he hoped that it would help his team to qualify for the major. However, he was not able to properly set it up before the qualifier, which triggered FACEIT's anti-cheating client.

"The truth is, last night I bought an aimbot for the dreamhack qualifier in order to qualify or rather maximise the chances of qualifying for the major," Andrascik told HLTV.org.

"It was a really dumb move but a move I felt I had to make, as It was probably my last chance to go somewhere with cs and my team mate jOELZ has decided to not play the qualifier with us for no reason which put me under so much pressure to perform. I was getting really bored of playing the game 6 days a week and it was eating up too much time and controlling my life.

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"I can also explain why it was detected, because I set it up 1 hour before the qualifier and had almost 0 idea of what I was doing. Ironically, in the end I ended up playing much worse as I was too paranoid to frag or do anything weird. I was 6-4 on the whole of ct side on cache which is amazing in my opinion :D.

"Regardless, I am sorry if I let anyone down, especially my team mates who deserve much better than being hated for my wrongdoing. If there is anyone you need to hate it's definately me and not them, because they are all amazing players.

"I also wanna apologise to nerdRage and their sponsors, they are an amazing group of people.

"Don't hate me too much, there are many others that are cheating in this qualifier :)."

Meanwhile, nerdRage have told HLTV.org that they have effectively parted ways with Andrascik, with more news about the organisation's CS:GO section due to come in the following weeks.

Source : http://www.hltv.org/news/15863-villig-admits-to-cheating

He became a kind of urban myth since his first appearances in early 2013, Julien "AREA" Dubois has been VAC banned this thursday. This last has been known on CS:GO with Buykey where he shown an outstanding aim which has been much debated especially after the release of his movie “HS Story” which includes his greatest rounds during praccs against some of the best teams in the world. His level led to an offer from former LDLC, which he refused, claiming a lack of motivation. That fed suspicions about him.

Source : http://www.vakarm.net/breve/read/AREA-banni-par-VAC/783

Steam bans can now be handed down from game developers themselves, it has emerged. Previously bans could only come from Valve itself, but now those making the games can ask those running Steam to kick someone out, with Valve enforcing those wishes.
As posted over on the Steam Community : "In order to ensure the best possible online multiplayer experience, Valve allows developers to implement their own systems that detect and permanently ban any disruptive players, such as those using cheats."
Devs inform Valve, Valve bans the account, the banned party is to direct their complaints straight to the developer rather than Valve, as "the game developer is solely responsible for the decision to apply a game ban. Valve only enforces the game ban as instructed by the game developer."
It would feel a bit like passing the buck were it not for the fact that Steam has thousands of games on it - that's way too many for one company to police by itself. Hopefully this won't lead to a ton of rash or incorrect bans, and hopefully it will mean games with dysfunctional, cheat-ridden multiplayer modes will be more likely to see a cleansing.

Source : http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-bans-now-come-direct-from-developers/