Former Counter-Strike 2 professional player Ilya “Ganginho” Chernichenko has suggested that Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov may have been involved in match-fixing activities alongside the team MAJESTY. This accusation was highlighted in a clip shared by the YouTube channel “CS2 SHORTS RAIZA.”
Ganginho’s conclusion is based on the fact that all members of the MAJESTY roster, except for w0nderful, received bans on the same day. Ganginho speculates that w0nderful might have “snitched” on his teammates to the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) to escape punishment himself.
Ganginho quoted: “The roster of nat1ve, THRONE, w0nderful, DarkS1DE, j3kie – everyone except w0nderful got banned. The investigation happened on one day, and suddenly they all got bans. [Question: ‘But they didn’t start throwing matches later, did they?’] Well, we don’t know how it works. I just know for sure there’s a thing, if you cooperate, you get a one-year ban, ESIC wrote this to me directly. It’s clear you could negotiate to avoid a ban altogether.”
Later in the same broadcast, it was revealed that ESIC initially contacted Daniil “nat1ve” Bakin and offered him cooperation. According to Bakin, w0nderful was also implicated in the violations, but nat1ve chose not to disclose this information to the commission.