PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Team Loses Tournament Due To Exploited Glitch

Cheating is a constant and consistent problem that video gamers and video game developers have to deal with on a daily basis. Depending on what games they play of course. You mainly find cheaters on multiplayer games where everyone wants to be the top player or top team. So, when it comes to esports tournaments featuring these games, there a lot of rules in place to preventing cheating and exploits from occurring. One PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds team member though didn’t follow that rule, and it cost the team $12,000.

This occurred to team OpTic Gaming, and more specifically to player Ian “Bahawaka” Crowe. Crowe used a known glitch within the game to see through a wall within a match. The supervisors of the team rewatched the matches and noticed Crowe doing this, and thus revoked their then second-place finish and dropped them down to fifth place after invoking certain math via disqualifications. Because of this, team OpTic Gaming went from earning $12,000 to $0.

Naturally, after all this occurred, Crowe himself released a statement about what happened:

“We were playing with ear buds and noise cancelling headphones on top. This leads to poor nose quality. I hopped the corner to get as close as physically possible to their car rotation to track its movement. If you watched the match live or are familiar with the terrain, there’s no benefit to having vision of that hill during that scenario.”

The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds community is a bit split on what to think. Some feel that though the exploit was used, it didn’t deter from the gameplay of the team. What’s more, if it was only used in one match, that means they won the rest on their own. On the flip side, one player did a demo and showed how hard it was to “accidentally” trigger this exploit, so intent was “clear.”

Either way, let this be a lesson, don’t try and trick the game in a tournament, or it will literally cost you, and possibly your team.