{"id":12331,"date":"2021-02-04T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/valorant-s-no1-europe-player-banned-for-a-year-due-to-cheating"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:38:22","slug":"valorant-s-no1-europe-player-banned-for-a-year-due-to-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/valorant-s-no1-europe-player-banned-for-a-year-due-to-cheating","title":{"rendered":"Valorant&#8217;s #1 ranked EU player banned for year due to cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheaters never prosper and there&#8217;s no better example than now former professional Valorant player, Yasin &#8220;Nisay&#8221; G&ouml;k, who was banned for an entire year from competing in any tournaments after Riot confirmed suspicious of him using hacks.<\/p>\n<p>Nisay found out just this past 2nd February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/valorant-no-1-europe-player-reportedly-banned-for-cheating\">that his account was de-ranked<\/a> from Radiant back to Immortal, with cheating allegations surfacing, it seemed this was just an initial measure while the developers figured out if they needed to issue a harsher punishment.<\/p>\n<p>From Nisay&#8217;s perspective, however, it seems the decision to only temporarily ban him from all competition is a direct response to &#8220;community pressure,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\/show\/n_1sriusl\">claiming in a Twitlonger<\/a> that if they had found concrete evidence, the ban would have been permanent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/i0_lF_IjIX_wgNN_S5bVPWY8XVjtruk28K9R9CZ8yzs\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL0hhY2tlcl9kZXRlY3RlZF9WYWxvcmFudF9iYW4uanBn\" alt=\"valorant nisay cheating\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(Image: Riot Games)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, de-ranking an account before banning it is not a common procedure, regardless of how high up in the ladder one is.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this investigation, Besiktas Esports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjkesports\/status\/1357395470818152448?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has decided to cut ties with Nisay<\/a> effective immediately, with more information regarding the team&#8217;s future in the Valorant scene soon to be revealed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/team-vitality-announces-valorant-roster\">Team Vitality announces full Valorant roster<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, it seems cheating at the highest level of Valorant is often too common, with a recent instance of a scrim involving Team Dignitas being cancelled due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/valorant-player-banned-for-hacking-during-match-against-dignitas\">Vanguard anti-cheat system detecting a hacker midmatch<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheaters never prosper and there&#8217;s no better example than now former professional Valorant player, Yasin &#8220;Nisay&#8221; G&ouml;k, who was banned for an entire year from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1973,"featured_media":12332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valorant","genre-fps","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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