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Cheating reproach in Counter Strike league before court negotiated in the electronic sport happens it as in the correct life: Beside innumerable honest participants there are also again and again black sheep, which try, to improve achievements and results with help of bad means. Which the cycle racing knows and in the football already times "the hand of God" is called as Blutdoping, the so-called Cheat is with it-haven-learns. Who in such a way manipulates for instance the play diagram on a Client computer that he can see in a tactical Shooter by walls or through obstacles (barrier-chop), slams clearly more opponent off than the competition. Announcement likes is also as macros brought in Aimbots, which make it possible to set the pointer of mouse automatically on opening a goal and fire shots. Still if the duel slogan "who applied faster pulls in the wild west, in former times", would have even the maddest gun hero shoots today no more chance against a Aimbot.

Because this already shoots before it to a duel comes. Of course are such slights-of-hand long well-known and by the operators of the ever more popularly becoming match leagues for computer players are not also tolerated. If a player pray-reprimands nevertheless, he is excluded from the play enterprise. This had to experience at the beginning of of December also a member of the Counter Strike team "coldgame EAS", that at the electronics of sport League (ESL), operated by the Cologne company Turtle Entertainment, participates and before the ascent into the ESL pro Series (EPS), which stood for it haven federal league and national king class. Turtle Entertainment accuses to the player "XektoR" of coldgame in the play against "QPool CounterStrike" on 22 November 2007 a Aimbot as well as a barrier chopping/FR to have used and closed the 17-Jaehrigen because of Cheating for two years. But the proof situation is difficult. Because the fraud reproaches are based not on the evaluations of the official anti- Cheat Tools "Aequitas" of the electronics of sport League, but on the evaluation of individual spielszenen (so-called demos) by ESL administrators. Over the ESL Tool Aequitas can be selected with each start of Counter Strike play-relevant configuration files and compared with check totals. Aequitas provides besides in irregular distances Screenshots of the Client screens, over which then possible Cheats could be proven such as Wallhacks.

The ESL appoints itself however to the fact that the questionable scenes are meaningful enough. The coldgame team again interprets the spielszenen completely differently (exact team arrangements, good tactics, opponent was before to see) and switched the German on it haven federation (LG1), after protests remained with the ESL without success. With the LG1 the contact was arranged for the team to an attorney, who submitted Cologne request for issuing a provisional order with the district court against the two-yearly barrier of "XektoR". One allowed to the request, so the strategy of the plaintiffs, could ascend "coldgame EAS" at least into the EPS and play there up to final clarifying of the case. For the team it concerns thereby also much money: Into the pros Series paid prize moneys lie in the six-digit range. Since also a conciliation discussion between representatives of the electronics of sport League and "coldgame EAS" remained without result before the first day of the hearing on Thursday of yesterday in Cologne, now the law must decide whether the interpretation of spielszenen in a computer game is sufficient, in order to express long barriers because of alleged Cheatens. Whether the judges will be easily able, the logic of statements like "Aimbot employment with two Headshot Kills in the Pistol Round, because at the hit box was shot further" to follow is however questionably. For the ESL a defeat in the procedure would have consequences handing meanwhile far.

Because this would not only give cause to different players, who became closed likewise on the basis of demo sighting because of Cheatens, to hit the legal way - it would past be also with the frequently criticized check politics according to kind of property gentleman. In the past apart from wrong decisions also serious offences against the own Regularien were accused to the so-called anti- Cheat team of ESL. So for instance the right to a second independent examination is to have been refused to closed players by demos