Cloud9 CS:GO Player ALEX About Valve’s Decision On Coaches: “I’m Not A Fan”

Alex McMeekin, known as “ALEX,” is a 25-year-old British CS:GO player who has been playing for Cloud9 since September 2020. Before that, he had been representing Team Vitality for a year.

Last year, it has been revealed that some of the coaches have been using an exploit that gives you an unfair advantage during the live matches, and ESIC gave a temporary ban for these coaches.

However, Valve released a new update two days ago and announced that they decided to remove all the coaching processes during the online matches on Valve-sponsored events alongside announcing the future of the ESIC banned coaches.

Following this decision, most of the community disagreed with Valve and claimed that this is not a great solution for the competitive Counter-Strike, and ALEX is also criticized Valve’s decision by sharing a new post on Twitter.

In the post, ALEX pointed out that this is a lazy solution from Valve and said that he is not a fan of these changes. Additionally, he mentioned that they could have found better solutions if they wanted to take a time and spoke with the tournament organizators.

Here is what ALEX said:

“Banning all coaches just seems like a lazy solution, in online tournaments it’s become pretty hard to do anything since there’s an admin on teamspeak recording, POV recordings, the anti-cheat monitors all of your pc, and some events even have the coach screen sharing, not a fan.

I’m sure if they’d taken time to speak to the main TO’s in our scene they could’ve found a better solution, that’s all I’m trying to say.”

You can check out the post below.

I’m sure if they’d taken time to speak to the main TO’s in our scene they could’ve found a better solution, that’s all I’m trying to say

— C9.Colossus ALEX (@CSGOALEX) January 28, 2021