Valve sanctions banned CS:GO coaches, resets RMR points

Four months after 37 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coaches were banned by the Esports Coalition Integrity Commission for exploiting the infamous coaching bug in online games, Valve has revealed it's now sanctioning those found at fault.

In an update posted to the official CS:GO blog, Valve has ruled that those found exploiting the bug will be banned from attending Majors in the future. Valve uses a scaling table to show how this will be put into effect, but in short, coaches found to have two ESIC demerit points will be banned from one Major, coaches with three demerits will be banned from two Majors, and so on and so forth to six demerit points. It's currently unknown which coaches are set to miss out just yet though, but those with six points will be barred from all future Majors.

In addition to the sanctions, Valve has also made some pretty big changes to the way coaches can communicate with their players during online Regional Major Ranking matches. Now, coaching staff will no longer be able to work with players during qualifying matches. This means coaches won't be allowed in the same room as players or on the same server. They also won't be allowed to communicate with their players at all during the course of the match.

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