ESL Overturns HEROIC Win, TeSeS Apologizes For Snap Tap Usage

Valve recently strongly opposed automation scripts and third-party apps, such as Razer's Snap Tap and Wooting's SOCD, in competitive Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) esports events, and tournament organizers such as BLAST and ESL followed. The rule was already active at ESL Pro League Season 20.

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At ESL Pro League Season 20's opening matchups in Group A, we saw HEROIC take on NIP in a best-of-three series. HEROIC won the first map, Ancient, with a score of 13-10, but then, the win was overturned swiftly by ESL, as per an announcement on Twitter (X).

To HEROIC's credit, the team took the loss in stride and even joked that we'll see the "first ever 3-0 in a BO3 incoming." HEROIC did, however, go on to win Nuke 13-7 before NIP closed out the series with a 13-6 win on Vertigo. Yes, HEROIC would have gone on to face NAVI in the upper bracket of Group A at ESL Pro League Season 20 if not for the forced loss due to the use of Snap Tap.

It turns out the player who used Snap Tap was Danish entry fragger René "TeSeS" Madsen, who posted an apology on X, noting that he didn't even realize it was active again and that it was not intentional in any way:

F#$king embarrassing and amateur from me… I turned it off ages ago when it was banned from Valve. I didn’t notice it during the game or anything and obviously didn’t do it on purpose.  I let the boys down and I’m devastated about it… Sry

HEROIC will now face Lynn Vision in the mid-bracket of Group A at ESL Pro League Season 20. Despite the loss against NIP, the squad did show an increased level of form, which is great news for their fans.

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