{"id":388656,"date":"2026-05-06T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/?p=388656"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:08:28","slug":"fake-roster-in-a-match-on-hltv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/fake-roster-in-a-match-on-hltv","title":{"rendered":"Fake Roster in a Match on HLTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strangest stories in recent European online CS has erupted. After the match between home and NEW VISION, it emerged that the home lineup listed on HLTV may have had nothing to do with the people actually sitting on the server, and the result of the match was ultimately overturned due to the use of an ineligible starting roster.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A strange online match<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The main shock here is that the story went far beyond the usual \u201cweird online match.\u201d One of the players whose nickname appeared in home\u2019s lineup on HLTV publicly stated that his profile was used without his involvement and that he had not played at all for three months. After that, the case quickly turned from a local scandal into a serious question about identity substitution, roster integrity, and control over the tournament ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"article__content grid-cards-col xl-w-100\">\n    <h3>read more<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"grid-1 gap-12 mb-12 load-parent xl-w-100\">\n        <div class=\"type3 y-red-dif hover-card card-more\">\n        <a class=\"type3__left up-to-card hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/cs2-fans-dream-team-vs-vitality\">\n        <div class=\"bg-bottom-abs-short\"> <\/div>\n        <picture class=\"picture object-fit-cover\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picture__img object-fit-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/55172321719_875880fb79_h-2-5.webp\" alt=\"Reddit Discussion: CS2 Fans Try to Build an \u201cAnti-Vitality\u201d Super Team\">\n        <\/picture>\n    <\/a>\n        <div class=\"type3__right main-structure p-20\">\n        <div class=\"type3__top\">\n            <a class=\"type3__title title-24 hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/cs2-fans-dream-team-vs-vitality\">Reddit Discussion: CS2 Fans Try to Build an \u201cAnti-Vitality\u201d Super Team<\/a>\n            <a class=\"go-arrow hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/cs2-fans-dream-team-vs-vitality\">\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__left go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__center go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__right go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a><\/div>\n        <div class=\"type3__bottom blue-labels mt-auto\">\n            <div class=\"blue-label disabled\">May 05<\/div>\n            <a class=\"blue-label\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\">News<\/a>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>HLTV listed one roster, but one of the \u201cplayers\u201d said it was not him<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The loudest moment of the entire case was the public post from stesso. He wrote directly that someone unknown was using his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stessoCS\/status\/2051724082698137900?s=20\">HLTV profile<\/a>, while he himself had not played for several months and was asking for help because \u201cthere is an impostor on the server.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That automatically destroyed trust in the entire match. Because if even one of the listed players is publicly saying he was not there, then this is no longer about an administrative mistake, but about possible identity substitution right in an official tournament game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_388657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388657\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-388657\" src=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-05_22-41-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-05_22-41-25.jpg 960w, https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-05_22-41-25-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-05_22-41-25-768x438.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-388657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Player statistics for the match \/\/ taken from HLTV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>HLTV have already overturned the original match result<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On the match page itself, HLTV explicitly states that the original 1:2 result in favor of NEW VISION was invalidated. The reason is also written without euphemisms: team home used an ineligible starting roster. After that, the match was marked as a default 0:1.<\/p>\n<p>So at this point, there is not only a wave of posts on social media, but also a concrete status change of the match on the biggest CS statistics platform. And that is probably the main official marker showing that the story really did turn out to be serious.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>home\u2019s lineup on the match page now looks like the center of the whole scam<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On HLTV, home\u2019s lineup for the match was listed as stesso, wasian, sacred, awdy, and j1nada. It was around these nicknames that the entire scandal exploded once statements started appearing saying that the real people behind those profiles either had not played in a long time or had nothing to do with what was happening in that BO3.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, in the public discussion on the match page itself, there were also claims that some of those profiles had allegedly shown different flags from the ones under which the real players were competing. But that should be treated specifically as public suspicions and user comments, not as a confirmed official conclusion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_388658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388658\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-388658\" src=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-06_09-51-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-06_09-51-31.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-06_09-51-31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-06_09-51-31-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-06_09-51-31-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-388658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Copyright by Valve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Suspicions around anti-cheat also surfaced around the match<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Another disturbing layer of the story is the reports about possible anti-cheat issues during the game itself. In one of the circulated chat screenshots, after a player asked whether this was \u201canticheat problems,\u201d an administrator allegedly replied: \u201c99% sure it is.\u201d This looks very bad, but it is important to stress that the authenticity of this screenshot and its full context have not been independently confirmed by any official statement from the tournament operator.<\/p>\n<p>So it is only correct to speak about this episode as one more suspicious detail that added fuel to the fire. On its own, this fragment does not prove a separate violation, but it does show very well how toxic the entire match already looked while it was still being played.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>This is no longer just \u201cweird online CS,\u201d but a blow to trust in the scene<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The ugliest thing about this story is not even the specific score or the overturned match itself. The ugliest part is that the case strikes at the basic trust in online tournaments: who is actually sitting behind the account, who is playing under a specific tag, and how player verification is even carried out before a match.<\/p>\n<p>When a CCT-level match reaches a point where one of the \u201cparticipants\u201d directly says he was not there, and the result is then annulled due to an ineligible roster, that is no longer a curiosity. It is a reputational hole for the entire system that is supposed to guarantee at least basic identity verification of the people on the server.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"article__content grid-cards-col xl-w-100\">\n    <h3>read more<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"grid-1 gap-12 mb-12 load-parent xl-w-100\">\n        <div class=\"type3 y-red-dif hover-card card-more\">\n        <a class=\"type3__left up-to-card hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/olofmeister-own-cs2-team-not-coaching\">\n        <div class=\"bg-bottom-abs-short\"> <\/div>\n        <picture class=\"picture object-fit-cover\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picture__img object-fit-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Olofmeister_@_PGL_Major_Stockholm_2021.webp\" alt=\"olofmeister not interested in coaching \u2014 CS legend considers launching his own organization\">\n        <\/picture>\n    <\/a>\n        <div class=\"type3__right main-structure p-20\">\n        <div class=\"type3__top\">\n            <a class=\"type3__title title-24 hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/olofmeister-own-cs2-team-not-coaching\">olofmeister not interested in coaching \u2014 CS legend considers launching his own organization<\/a>\n            <a class=\"go-arrow hover-el\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/olofmeister-own-cs2-team-not-coaching\">\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__left go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__center go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"go-arrow__right go-arrow__part\">\n                    <svg class=\"icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n                        <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/wp-content\/themes\/skinclub-v3\/assets\/images\/sprites\/main.stack.svg?v=1777938069#image-blue-arrow\"><\/use>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a><\/div>\n        <div class=\"type3__bottom blue-labels mt-auto\">\n            <div class=\"blue-label disabled\">May 05<\/div>\n            <a class=\"blue-label\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\">News<\/a>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>A public statement from one of the players<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The story of home vs NEW VISION has already entered that category of online scandals people remember for a long time. We have a public statement from one of the \u201cplayers\u201d saying his profile was used without him, we have a result overturned because of an ineligible starting roster, and we have a whole trail of suspicions around who was actually sitting on the server.<\/p>\n<p>The most accurate way to frame this case right now is this: the match has already been officially recognized as problematic, but the full scale of the scheme still seems to be only beginning to come to light. And that is exactly why this story looks not like a one-off failure, but like yet another reminder of how fragile the integrity of online CS can be when control starts to crack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strangest stories in recent European online CS has erupted. After the match between home and NEW VISION, it emerged that the home lineup listed on HLTV may have had nothing to do with the people actually sitting on the server, and the result of the match was ultimately overturned due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":388659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fake Roster in a Match on HLTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A major scandal erupted in a CCT match between home and NEW VISION: the result was overturned due to an ineligible starting roster, while the players whose nicknames were listed on HLTV claimed they had not played at all.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/fake-roster-in-a-match-on-hltv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fake Roster in a Match on HLTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A major scandal erupted in a CCT match between home and NEW VISION: the result was overturned due to an ineligible starting roster, while the players whose nicknames were listed on HLTV claimed they had not played at all.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/fake-roster-in-a-match-on-hltv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CS2 &amp; 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