Recently, the Halo Championship Series (HCS), an e-sports event of the "Halo" series, suspended Sentinels player Royal2 for 45 days after investigation.
According to the HCS administration, evidence gathered was that Royal2 deliberately bypassed Halo Infinite's server screening process during the match, causing the opponent to have an unusually high ping value, which delayed the game by more than four hours.
In addition to the ban, points earned by the player's team since the start of the season will also be deducted.
The HCS statement also showed that after the match, several professional teams filed charges against the Sentinels team. They speculate that the Sentinels team somehow manually selected a server, putting their opponents at a higher latency and disadvantage.
According to reports, the server of each game of HCS was originally determined by the automatic matching of the game, and the player had no right to intervene. The game detects each player's ping value and matches it to the most appropriate server, but Royal2 intervenes manually in the process.
Prior to the cheating incident, Royal2 had won two world championships.