"I'd put my mortgage on it that these players fixed" ESIC's Ian Smith | In The Crosshair

ESIC have been near silent for the last year - but finally - their silence has broken. Ian Smith the Commissioner of ESIC sits down with INSITE to talk about his extensive career and the role that his organisation plays in modern Counter-Strike and shares some of their cases that have gone undisclosed. Chapters 0:00 Intro 01:10 From Cricket to Esports 16:04 Regulating Doping 26:10 NA match-fixing scandal 30:10 Difficulty working with the FBI 34:15 Struggling to ban players 38:00 Steps to counteract match-fixing 43:15 Identifying match-fixing to banning players 49:17 Why has there been a lack of follow up about NA match-fixing scandal 52:13 Coach bug scandal 1:01:39 More coach bans to come. 1:06:27 ESIC dealing with smaller cases of cheating 1:12:15 Structure within ESIC changing over the next 6 months 1:13:34 Why has there been a lack of communication by ESIC? 1:17:40 Outro In The Crosshair is Insite's interview series, led by part-time caster, full-time Counter-Strike obsessive Freddie 'GrimyRannarr' Pritchard, with each episode putting a different notable personality in his proverbial crosshair. Follos us! Ian - https://twitter.com/BristolLawyer Freddie - https://twitter.com/GrimyRannarr INSITE - https://twitter.com/insite_cs Subscribe - YouTube - @insitecs Discord - https://discord.gg/cTfwURPMQC Spotify - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/insitecs Amazon - https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/77f988f1-9d5d-409b-88d1-defe3d2ccc4b/insite Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insite/id1692937853 Contact - [email protected] Graphics by https://twitter.com/novahdesign Edited by https://twitter.com/dicklecs #INSITE #InTheCrosshair #csgo