Fighting Fraud And Match Fixing In Esports - Daniel Kozelko writes for LawInSport

In May 2021 EPIC Esports Events, in association with the Russian eSports Federation (RESF), organised and ran the EPIC CIS League Spring 2021[1]. The event has given rise to a lot of cheating allegations against team Akuma[2], who had a surprisingly successful run in the competition. The case is instructive for a number of reasons:

1. it demonstrates the importance of anti-cheating mechanisms in professional esports;
2. it illustrates the current patchwork nature of regulation in the field; and
3. it indicates how the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) continues to mature and succeed as a regulator.

In this article for LawInSport, Daniel Kozelko examines:

• Facts of the competition
• Role of the ESIC in investigating the case
• Whether the incident could have been prevented

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