What would due process to re-open (or open, if the original case was never properly submitted) the 2019 case look like? I know that Brian said they already have a lot of cases open right now, but surely you can't just sweep it under the rug, and be like "welp, it happened a long time ago + ratio + cope", given the response from the community?

P.S. I know that you're not an active AC admin anymore, quintosh, and might not have an answer to this question, but given how so many admins and ex-admins came in full force in this thread, you obviously care enough to see this case get resolved.

I can accept that my source might not remember things correctly, and I'm not naive enough to believe they are conclusively acting in good faith, however, this part:

directly contradicts what Brian said:

If the text exchanges regarding Odin's case happened in a private channel of an etf2l discord the data wipeout that affected the website couldn't have possibly affected that discord channel, correct?

So if that's the case you can easily go back and check why Odin was not banned for the badwater demo. Seeing as how the end decision was to let him off the cook there's no reason to hide those exchanges right now, is there? (Regardless of who voted for/against banning him).

You're right, I should have phrased it differently. What I meant to say was: disgruntled AC members may let their biases impact their work, which alludes to what I said in my original post about being baffled how only one out of however many AC admins were operating back then was against Odin's ban.

I don't doubt that, he has insider knowledge.

"Someone who believes wholeheartedly that Odin is a cheater, watched lots of his demos and tried their hardest to get him banned" is a better description than "someone leading the investigation", I guess.

It doesn't and they were not a trial admin. The very fact that you acknowledge there are/have been disgruntled AC members is disconcerting though.

I think you're missing the point here. The fact that he even went as far as to try out this exploit goes to show he's willing to break rules to gain an unfair advantage. It may not be a bannable offense in the eyes of admins because it happened in a scrim but that action speaks volumes in the court of public opinion.

It was also public knowledge that he was manipulating interp settings the way Odin does, and considering the fact his ban is still listed as "Using banned game modifications" you can understand why a lot of people including myself might come to the wrong conclusion what exactly he was banned for considering how vague that description is.

It's not second hand info, it comes straight from the mouth of the person leading Odin's investigation back then, and I'm not sure why you would even deny that. I can respect you trying to protect your fellow AC admins, but you don't have to - noone is attacking you here, and it seems like a wrong hill to die on. I appreciate the effort you're putting into trying to catch cheaters, and I'm sure the rest of the community does as well, but there's no need to lie here.

Interesting, this clip has been circulating for a couple of weeks now, nobody seems to have mentioned this, not even Icewind knew about this.

Are there any other exploits that could be used in comp that still haven't been fixed?

Which still falls firmly under the interp manipulation category, and if I understand the rules correctly is prohibited on ETF2L. Which also reminds me about another Odin clip with a strange amount of inputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEqtbSo_LUc

Right, so a couple of people messaged me asking to post the evidence that myself and other prem players have been collecting, because apparently a lot of people in this community are still either blissfully unaware about the fact that Odin has been hacking for years or they are so far down the pit of "he's just an extremely talented gamer with 100ms reaction time who lives on red bull and coffee every day" (actual quote from his 4house teammate btw, what's up buko) that they simply can't see clearly past the glaze.

I won't be posting everything, I'll just give a couple of my personal favorites:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1BDE9c2Mw

According to Icewind who owns demos.tf and works a lot with different scripts (both legal and banned), he has never seen anything like this, ever. So whatever Odin is using here to be able to eat two chocolate bars in a row may be a homegrown script that he cooked up himself.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scv60GtGW7M

This is just one example out of hundreds, possibly thousands, exactly like this, where he straight up just kills people who are already behind the wall. Every single player who's ever played against Odin has experienced this regularly, so the argument that this is some lag compensation scenario is moot, because not a single prem or invite heavy has been able to replicate this even once, let alone on a consistent basis. I guess Odin is just the best heavy in existence in addition to being a Demoknight god, right?

This may very well be the kind of interp manipulation that got him his current one-month ban.
Which, by the way, is an ironically short ban period, considering that the last time someone got banned for interp exploiting was Jas_H, and the length of his ban was one year. Go figure.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44lxIj1h5Q

This is a 90ms reaction time when he locks into the soldier. You can check it yourself if you don't believe me. Extremely talented gamer btw.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fCutmzoL-4

The commentary speaks for itself.

By the way, none of the clips above come even remotely close to this entire goldmine of a pov:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEpEWvTbtnQ

Here are some highlights:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxQMonSu7JYd6iDoQPRn2NMotUfJ2Vmqyh?si=13dxHntE-pL0AwzE
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxHA4LiXW76K__8MrNa1GYMnfm454l_2YP?si=VRVd278FIBaQzqy5
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxI7aEOI2wfrwQnGZOAnrZCoZQLWZ1eeJJ?si=8KL0begLihw6lKVr
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMyzkz7dROO8dxaQOAkBLX3QmyTpGZKSa?si=_ivueID8dEdfSCvn
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxxQwHNE0BvF99g-tM8YK6b-QuJEGKN_TW?si=c7YLfRBeTcBvEgAT

This is a mirror of his pov demo from highlander season 19 pre-season cup match that he uploaded himself to ETF2L upon request back in 2019. This is a straight up Aimbot, and according to an AC admin, who worked this case back then and shall remain nameless, every AC admin voted in favor of banning Odin except one, and they need a unanimous decision to ban someone. I don't feel like spreading conspiracy theories, because I do believe in the integrity of the Anti-Cheat team, but this particular decision is just baffling.

The worst part is that because of ETF2L data wipeout this demo file has been lost. We tried several ways to find it, but to no avail. At least this youtube mirror still exists.

agree that you should extend the sign-up deadline for an extra week, maybe even two.

otherwise, cu@

Works perfectly, thank you!

Don't know why but this extension just randomly stopped working for me and re-installing it doesn't seem to help. It stopped working on both browsers I'm using (Brave & Firefox).

Hey, add again, please <3

Re-add please, gonna be streaming again.

I bought my current PC (Ryzen 5, GTX 1660) last November, never had a single issue with fps until earlier this month. Now suddenly I have drops from 200-250 down to 70-80 in messy fights whether it's a 15v15 pub or 9v9 hl.

I've tried Comanglia, mastercomfig, uninstalling my custom HUD - nothing helps. I hadn't installed any new software prior to when fps drops started, and I already removed the w10 update that had been installed a day before. So my only guess is that it has something to with the new effects added in the latest tf2 update.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue post-Halloween update?

edit: I also have the latest drivers installed on my graphics card.

"they also play in these leagues and therefore its a conflict of interest"
None of the current AC admins would play in prem this season, apart from thaZu who is a sub for Athenaeum.

"I have been asking other admins to review my previous demos"
jbird and comanglia do not count, they are not ETF2L admins. The Anti-Cheat team made a unanimous decision that you cheated in at least one of the demos sent to them. And you have no way of knowing which games exactly you were convicted for (actually, no, sorry, you do - it's the ones you cheated in).

"Feels like a grudge to me"
Saying that and not elaborating is ridiculous. Who is that person holding a grudge against you? Who exactly on the AC team hates you so much that they are willing to risk their position and a reputation just to get back at you? Is that person(s) really that powerful that they can also convince every other AC admin you should be banned?
You're trying to stir this conversation into a "there's a conspiracy against me" territory, but the simple truth is: there is no conspiracy. There is no grudge. Nobody is out there to get you. A lot of people seem to forget that admins are people who don't really get paid for their work and do it because they love TF2, so if you want to suggest that every one of them is somehow corrupt you better have serious proof, mate.

Debating the validity of AC team decisions means undermining all the work that's been done in the past several years to catch cheaters and it's a really dangerous ground to thread on. There's nothing wrong with questioning the authority, only the thing is - this current AC team has so far given no indication we should doubt their integrity or professionalism.

Your integrity, however, is definitely in doubt, considering how much you seem to enjoy hanging with and around known cheaters as well as your previous ban for not uploading demos twice on ETF2L and the fact that since your current ban you've already been caught lying several times, most notably by saying "I've never cheated in any FPS games before" on porky's stream when in fact you had been caught using hacks in Call of Duty before. You also said on one of your streams something along the lines of: "I was never banned on RGL or UGC", but you were banned from RGL last year for using exploits (and apparently didn't upload demos there either if the disciplinary history is to be believed).

So even if somehow all AC admins made a terrible mistake or they really do have some mega bias against you, why would anyone ever believe your word over theirs?

Hey, the new link is https://www.twitch.tv/clarktf, I'm going to be streaming again, it would be nice if you could add to the list again.