Dallas Fuel's OGE suspended for account boosting

March 22, 2018

The Overwatch League today announced that OGE, fresh main tank acquisition for the Dallas Fuel, will be suspended for four matches for account-boosting. His suspension is in effect as of March 22nd.

The boosting, defined as "an individual being paid to increase another user's skill rating", is alleged to have occurred during the summer of 2017, while OGE was a member of Foxes and CONBOX.

The suspension is the latest in a series of disciplinary actions for the Fuel, including a stage suspension in mid-January for xQc as well as fines and suspensions earlier this month for both xQc and Taimou, after which xQc and the Fuel parted ways.

This is the second account-boosting punishment issued to an Overwatch League player this season. The other, levied on sado of the Philadelphia Fusion, was a 30 match suspension to begin the season.

The Dallas Fuel has not released a statement regarding the punishment.

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Xanoush

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Main Tank position for Fuel is cursed

saltyazn

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I totally agreed with you and I think Fuel just has really bad luck with their main tank players

Pixelfish

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Lol

Hater

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Whats this, dallas is still falling the fuck apart. Whats new here

karzahni14

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OGE keeping in the spirit of DF tanks

Hudsen

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#FreeCocco

BenTylerOW

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Suspended just 4 match for account boosting wtf

wentaway

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Have to agree with the wtf, considering how strict the league has been with "minor" (so to speak) infractions, this sounds fishy.

Don't get me wrong, better for DF so cool, but still...

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Frozello

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I would think this case is, because of SADO ban happened before the season and Blizzard likely wanted to send a message, what happens to future account boosters who might want to participate in pro tournament.

OGE case on the other hand is little different as 18 games (or 20 as he wont be in USA until Stage 3) has been already played so technically he was not even able to play first half of the season. So you could see this ban is 22 games (or 24, if ban begins after stage 2). I mean imagine Philly would have signed SADO midseason (where he would already have missed 20 games). when only 20 games left. You can't expect midseason signings to get banned 30 games, when there's not even 30 games left.

We can only guess, if there's two different level of account boosting in these cases.

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Ammo

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Without more details, the discrepancy between the 4 games OGE got and the 30 games sado got for account boosting probably has to do with sado being a repeat offender (he had been suspended by APEX before for boosting), and/or the severity and type of offenses (for example, whether they were paid for boosting or were boosting a friend's account, and whether it was one account or multiple accounts)

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Triangleman

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Not to mention sado effectively ran a whole boosting organization, while OGE was just a member. Still a bit fishy though.

alexdelarge

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SoWhat it is i guess :D

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Drex

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How does OGE get a 4 game ban and the chinese guy get a 30 game ban for the for breaking the same rule?

Blizzard rule book...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-PtEJEaqY

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Ricci

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SADO is also Korean.

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trashplayer

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according to reddit sherlocks SADO was the head of the boosting company.

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Ammo

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nigtherig

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if dallas ask you to be main tank say no

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megumino2

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mainwhile no one bats an eye at cocco

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Blue

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but does the suspension start immediately or when he arrives in LA?

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twerp

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"His suspension is in effect as of March 22nd."

#20

verb

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"We need a player in the main tank role that we can rely on to not get banned"

gets banned before he even enters the country

#22

baguette

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There is a rumor that Jeff Kaplan will play main tank in dallas fuel. Oh wait he just got banned.