Less than a month after a round of permanent bans were handed out to cheating Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) players for fixing professional tournament matches, another team has become embroiled in the same controversy.

French CS:GO team Epsilon has also been accused of fixing tournament matches in order to earn money or items from gambling on the games. The accusations came to light after pro-player Robin “GMX” Stahmer was recently removed from Epsilon following conflicts with the team.

Stahmer posted a cryptic message to Twitter showing an image of Wile E. Coyote holding a barrel of TNT with the message “I drop it, or not :D?” Soon after, Stahmer told French website Vakram that Epsilon was also guilty of intentionally throwing matches.

“The Epsilon staff was not aware of what I’m about to say,” Stahmer said. “In last September, we deliberately lost our ESEA match against OverGaming in order to win skins for ourselves and for friends of us. All of my team mates and some of their friends were aware of this.”

Valve Corporation, the developer of CS:GO, takes cheating very seriously in its games, and the company launched an investigation into whether Stahmer’s claims are true. A short time later, Epsilon players Joey “Fxy0” Schlosser and Kevin “Uzi” Verne were released from the team, and Schlosser posted to Facebook that he had been banned from Counter Strike matches for the next year.

“Hard punishment ofc (of course), but i can understand, i have act like a kid and now i have to pay,” Schlosser wrote.

“As of today, fxy0 and Uzzziii have been released from Epsilon eSports,” Epsilon wrote yesterday. “The latest elements and statements we have received clearly condemn the player in the matchfixing accusation. We would like to thank Valve for keeping us informed during the entire process.”

Only one original team member, Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom, remains on the Epsilon CS:GO team. Stahmer claimed that Benrlitom was innocent of the match fixing scandal and not aware of what the other players did.

Epsilon promised to release news of its plans for the future of the CS:GO team soon.

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