{"id":542,"date":"2025-01-24T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:00:42","slug":"ibuypower-officially-unbanned-from-valve-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/ibuypower-officially-unbanned-from-valve-events\/","title":{"rendered":"iBUYPOWER officially Unbanned from Valve Events!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valve has officially lifted its lifetime ban on the iBUYPOWER players involved in the infamous 2014 match-fixing scandal. This decision comes nearly a decade after the controversy, where the team was found guilty of intentionally losing a match against NetcodeGuides.com in exchange for skins, which were valuable in the <a href=\"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/csgo-trading\">CS:GO trading<\/a> community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valve\u2019s decision marks the conclusion of the 10-year ban imposed on Sam &#8220;DaZeD&#8221; Marine, Braxton &#8220;swag&#8221; Pierce, Keven &#8220;AZK&#8221; Larivi\u00e8re, and Joshua &#8220;steel&#8221; Nissan for their involvement in the 2014 match-fixing scandal. While the players are no longer banned, the case remains a defining moment in esports history, sparking discussions about ethics and the consequences of such actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has officially lifted its lifetime ban on the iBUYPOWER players involved in the infamous 2014 match-fixing scandal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,34,33,31,32],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cs2","tag-cs2","tag-cs2-trading","tag-cs2-unban","tag-ibuypower","tag-ibuypower-unban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinraters.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}