Top Counter-strike gamers were purged from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive after they were discovered to be cheating.

Titan’s Hovik “KQLY” Tovmassian and Epsilon’s Gordon “SF” Giry were banned, just hours before their teams were set to fly out to DreamHack Winter in Sweden, forcing both the tournament to drop the teams and the teams to drop the players. Now there is all sorts of fallout and head scratching about how the game can be plagued with so much cheating. Right now, it looks like there is more cheating going on than a French bike race.

Counterstrike has been so easy to hack for years. There are wall hacks where an assailant can shot people through a wall. Hacks can let you see player outlines (like in spectator mode) or grenade paths. Then there are Aimbots and triggerbots, auto-assisted aim on consoles, which can be configured to either snap to a target, or otherwise improve accuracy. Triggerbots fire as soon as the crosshair moves over a target, “improving” reaction times in corner ambushes.

All up it makes the game pretty pointless for those who don’t want to cheat.