A $ 250,000 Call of Duty: Warzone tournament was rocked last night by allegations of burglary, prompting better anti-cheat within the game.
The trio squads tournament, which featured some of the biggest names in Warzone, blew up in the penultimate game of the final day of the event after several high-profile contestants accused a Canadian player named Metzy of being used an aimbot, with one clip in particular. eyebrows raised.
The clip shows how Metzy quickly moves to a player jumping through a window. Metzy plays Warzone on a computer using a controller.
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Thomas “Tommey” Trewren, a professional Warzone player for the sports team 100 Thieves, was one of the leading contestants in the tournament who accused Metzy of fraud and went through a number of cuts during a live stream.
? Today’s 0K Twitch Rivals Warzone event was flooded with fraudulent accusations.
The tournament stood still before the final card as players asked for a restart due to suspected fraudsters in the private lobby. pic.twitter.com/XIm2GUpJKh
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The broadcast was halted for about an hour while the tournament officials investigated behind the scenes. During his stream, Metzy read aloud a message from a Twitch representative, who “determined that the game was unnatural beyond a reasonable doubt.” Go to the four hour and 11 minute mark in the VOD below:
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When the ban was imposed, Twitch then issued a tweet in which he said that Metzy had definitely cheated and robbed him and his team of the opportunity.
“We take the Twitch Rivals Player Conduct extremely seriously. We will continue to investigate any allegations of fraud,” Twitch said.
During the Twitch Rivals: Doritos Bowl ft Call of Duty Warzone Final, Metzy_B was definitely cheated. As a result, his team was removed from the event.
We take Twitch Rivals Player Conduct extremely seriously. We will continue to investigate any allegations of fraud.
– Twitch Rivals (@TwitchRivals) 22 January 2021
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The fifth and final card of the tournament was then played with one team less.
Metzy subsequently denied any wrongdoing. “I do not use an aimbot,” he said upstream. Metzy later tried to clear his name by displaying his task manager, his recent downloads, and his Google search history. Later, Tommey joined stream on Metzy and searched directly through his computer in an attempt to find evidence of hacks. At a remarkable moment during the stream, Metzy granted remote access to his computer to a stranger who sifted through his hard drive and downloaded files for further investigation.
Today, Tommey apologized for his initial accusation, apparently indicating that Metzy did not cheat. “I will hold my hands up and admit we were wrong,” Tommey said in a tweet. “I’m sorry I let many of you down. I no longer know what to say, but I accept and deserve anything that comes out of this.”
Understand the hatred I receive and deserve it. There just was not enough to give my opinion on it @METZY_B, from the stuff I saw, I believed something was off, but there was just not enough to go so far as to say he cheated.
– Tommey (@Tommey) 22 January 2021
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I will hold my hands up and admit that we were wrong. I’m sorry I let many of you down. I do not know what else to say, but I accept and deserve everything that comes from this.
– Tommey (@Tommey) 22 January 2021
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Tommey now offered his earnings from the tournament to Metzy as a sign of goodwill.
I did not kick him out of the tournament, I did not report him or do anything like that. After he was reported, I posted a clip from my chat. He is more than welcome to take my earnings out of this.
– Tommey (@Tommey) 22 January 2021
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Tommy’s backtrack questions not only Twitch’s decision to disqualify Metzy and his group from the Warzone tournament, but also the process of handling complaints. And then there’s the potential negative impact on Metzy’s competitive career in video games.
True or false, the allegations have raised a long-standing issue that has plagued Warzone since its launch in 2020: that the game has been riddled with hackers.
Activision came under fire for lack of communication on the issue of Warzone cheating, and the game’s alleged ineffective anti-cheat.
FaZe’s Nickmercs, which has 1.7 million followers on Twitter, said that without effective anti-cheat ‘authentic Warzone tournaments are simply no longer possible’.
Unfortunately, without anti-cheat, authentic Warzone tournaments are no longer possible. We learned a lot from those Gauntlets and I already told? y? everyone .. There is too much cheese & way too many rats. Bob & weave baby.
– FaZe Nickmercs (@NICKMERCS) 22 January 2021
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Prominent Call of Duty YouTuber Drift0r said: “Warzone cheating is completely out of hand”.
Warzone fraud is completely out of hand. There were people cheating in Twitch Rivals today. 2 of the 5 games I played tonight had cheaters.
I want to make content for this mode, but it’s hard to win games if the final circle is always aimbot hackers.
– Drift0r (@ Drift0r) 22 January 2021
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The Call of Duty community is appealing to Activision to provide an update on its Warzone anti-cheating efforts. In September 2020, Vice’s motherboard reported Activision banned about 20,000 fraudsters, including a streamer and a college soccer player, from Call of Duty: Warzone because they allegedly used a popular cheat.
A former Activision employee told Motherboard that these waves of bans occur relatively frequently. “It’s rare that a particular cheat will last long without being detected at some point,” they said. “It’s always a game of cat and mouse, people who actively use cheats need to understand that it’s likely that you’ll be banned at some point and that you should only blame yourself.”