The Esports Integrity Fee (ESIC) has imposed an interim suspension on Staff SENZA (also referred to as “Rosy”, following its acquisition by Senza) and its present rostered gamers, coaches, and staff employees.
The suspension comes amid an ESIC investigation into alleged breaches of its Anti-Corruption Code and Code of Conduct. In a press release, ESIC stated it was investigating Staff SENZA over the next:
Alleged use of prohibited outdoors data throughout competitors;
Potential betting-related misconduct related to matches involving the staff; and
Alleged account-sharing and id irregularities.
Staff SENZA have been suspended pending investigation. Picture Credit score: Brett Jordan/Unsplash
ESIC stated that throughout the investigation, “all present rostered gamers, coaches, and employees are ineligible to take part in ESIC Member Occasions.“
It seems this relates primarily to the members of Rosy, who’ve been changed since Senza acquired the staff.
Staff SENZA Suspends Gamers After Inner Investigation
Staff SENZA launched its personal investigation final month and suspended participant Kirsan “byek” Ivanov, over allegations of account sharing and dishonest.
The group stated, as byek had refused to touch upon the state of affairs, that they’d fined him round $30,000 and he was faraway from the roster.
Following the investigation, the staff introduced a completely new lineup at the beginning of this month. It seems from the ESIC assertion that this lineup may even be suspended, however the allegations centre across the earlier roster.
Customers on X highlighted suspicious gameplay by the staff when often known as Rosy.
Another clips in match vs ROSY, this time on Historical, I’ll put greatest 3 clipsThis is a tutorial on the right pathing for enter the B website 😂 pic.twitter.com/XP2YatVgc5
— Fisic0 (@cl_fisico) July 13, 2025
Fellow Russian Reinstated After Cooperating With ESIC
On the similar time, fellow Russian esports competitor Erkhan “gokushima” Bagynanov had his punishment diminished for cooperating with ESIC.
ESIC had banned gokushima for 2 years for breaching its code of conduct. Nonetheless, final week, the group introduced that the participant can be allowed to compete once more after offering “materials help to ESIC, together with data and corroboration that supported subsequent enforcement actions towards different individuals.”
An ESIC assertion famous the data supplied by gokushima led to five-year bans for Aleksandr “Ruler” Maximov, Dmitriy “propleh” Senigov, and Petr “timeagento” Markheev. As well as, the group issued a lifetime ban to Egor “zLy” Polyakov.
The assertion saying the suspension for Staff SENZA was launched on the identical day. Though there was no particular indication that the circumstances are related, the assertion associated to gokushima did observe that he supplied, “Different data presently being utilized by ESIC in one other ongoing investigation into match-fixing actions.”
