eSports League Wants to Inspect Homes to Catch Cheaters

Professional Counter-Strike has a serious cheating problem. Pro players are being banned all over the world due to cheating, as well as teams that are involved in match fixing which is considered a form of cheating by most people. Match fixing is a way in which the outcome of the game is already decided by the teams in order to obtain large sums of money through the bets that are placed.

People are getting VAC-banned on a weekly basis. Steam is mostly remaining silent on their tactics in terms of figuring out who is cheating (which is great so that cheaters cannot find a loop-hole).

One professional league in eSports, widely known as FACEIT, has a very unique rule in the rule-book (of which only contenders receive) that states the following:

"All players may be subject to visits from FACEIT admins to inspect their computers for cheats and/or observe them playing an official match. Inspections may happen at random and may not necessarily suggest a suspicion of cheating. To be clear, what we're saying is that we may turn up at your house. Yes, we're serious."

Professional athletes are also subject to similar rules; they must provide their whereabouts to testing organizations so that they can be found at any time for testing in-case they are using drugs to improve their performance. If you consider eSports a sport, and the players as Athletes then it is not really a ludicrous rule to add.

Cheating is pathetic and I cannot understand why people would do it. Some people say that they cannot stop playing a game, so they cheat, so they get banned and thus cannot play the game. Others are simply bored and want to see how long they can go cheating without being banned and finally some do it because they like to see people whine at how low their morals are; to cheat in something where sportsmanship is key to enjoyment.

I don't think cheaters should be given any quarter, they ruin the enjoyment of other people's game time; whilst solely the cheater benefits. What enjoyment is there in winning without an ounce of effort? Some of the most accomplished sportsman seek a challenge to improve themselves in their area of expertise.