HCS 2021: Sentinels’ player “Royal2” has been suspended- Following the NA Kickoff Qualifier 12-1 tournament on December 1-2, 2021, a number of players raised allegations that Sentinels had forced the game to select a server resulting in abnormally high ping for players in the game lobby. After investigation, Administration found Royal2 guilty of cheating in the game. They suspended the player till 28th January 2022, Sentinels have to find a new player for the series. Here is everything about the HALO Championship Series 2021: NA Competitive ruling.
The administration team of HALO Championship Series aka HCS 2021 announced,
” We have determined that the only plausible explanation for Royal 2’s telemetry data pattern referred to above is that there was a direct modification of files giving Royal 2 an unfair competitive advantage during play. This violates the Official Rules, specifically Section VII.C(2) Hacking and Section VII.C(4) Network Abuse.”
//🚨Snip3down explains on stream the ‘cheating accusations’ brought towards Royal2 & SEN
According to him, Royal2 has been “Geofiltering” which forces a certain server. He explains in depth here- pic.twitter.com/TTt8CAR8VC
— HCS Intel (@INTELHCSHalo) December 11, 2021
HCS 2021: Sentinels’ player “Royal2” has been suspended until January 28, 2022 for cheating
Alligations: A number of players raised allegations that Sentinels had forced the game to select a server resulting in abnormally high ping for players in the game lobby. One of these accusations was directed towards Royal 2 from Sentinels. These allegations were accompanied by reviews of Sentinels players’ Twitch streams which categorized the perceived changes and abnormalities in player pings directly in the game client. There were also significant lobby connection issues during the tournament which led to the 4+ hour delay of the tournament. On December 3, 2021, HCS 2021 Administration made the decision to immediately undertake a formal investigation to better understand the causes of lobby connection issues experienced during the 4+ hour delay to the NA Kickoff Qualifier Day 2 and to more closely examine these allegations of server manipulation.
Investigation: To investigate, the development team extensively reviewed server logs from all matches, both matchmaking and custom games, that Royal 2 played in Halo Infinite since November 15, 2021. We found that from November 26, 2021, the day before NA Open Series 11-27 on November 27, 2021 through the last match of the NA Kickoff Qualifier 12-1 on December 3, 2021, all US servers but 1 server in the United States (westus2) were missing from the server ping list, thus forcing all of Royal 2’s matches onto that server and creating an abnormally high ping for players in the affected matches.
Penalties:
- Nullification of Sentinels’ placement for the NA Open Series 11-27 and NA Kickoff Qualifier 12-1 event. This includes:
- Removal of HCS 4v4 Points (3,660 total) for all members of the Sentinels team.
- Forfeiture of the 1st place Pool Play position for the HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021 awarded in the NA Kickoff Qualifier 12-1.
- Effective immediately, suspension of Royal 2 from HCS Competition until January 28, 2022.
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