Matchfixing attempt in Counter-Strike 2 during Parken Challenger

10 March 2026

Online betting on esports as an industry is predicted to be one of the fastest growing markets inside the betting world over the coming years. Despite that, there are still many countries around the world it is not legal to bet on international esports and plenty of providers who have not yet enabled online esports betting on their respective platforms.
Slow adoption is unlikely to slow down the popularity of online esports betting though, and the recent Counter-Strike 2 Parken Challenger Championship #2 showed exactly why. A member of Danish organization Avanti Esports was approached online by an unknown individual with an unexpected offer. A user under the name of “mRJanson” offered Oliver “BlocH” Eriksen $ 10.000 to lose five matches, but the player refused the offer. Instead, he posted the conversation with the supposed matchfixer online for everyone to see.

Offer to lose

At the moment of writing, not much more is known about the situation than what the previously mentioned player “BlocH” published online recently. Apparently, the supposed matchfixer “mRJanson” found his contact details via Steam, where “BlocH” had his own channel as well. He starts out by verifying that he is actually chatting with “BlocH” and then offers $ 10.000 almost immediately. The Danish player initially does not understand what the offer is about, until “mRJanson” tells him that Avanti Esports needs to lose five matches at the Parken Challenger Championship #2 in exchange for the money.

“BlocH” follows the offer up by explicitly confirming if he is being asked to participate in matchfixing. “Generally speaking, yes, but in this case it is unavoidable and you will earn good money. I can also offer pre-payment”, is the answer. We are not entirely sure what this message means, but it is clear that “mRJanson” wants Avanti Esports to lose five matches in a row (against AM Gaming, Apogee Esports, FOKUS, KOLESIE and Team Voca).

Avanti rejects offer…

As soon as it becomes one hundred percent clear that the offer is for matchfixing, “BlocH” cuts “mRJanson” off and tells him that he is not interested. He then proceeded to take screenshots of the entire conversation and posted them online for the entire Counter-Strike community to see. This resulted in lots of kudos from community members who claimed that the Counter-Strike universe has been plagued by matchfixers for years now.
“Yeah no thank you”, the Danish player wrote in answer to the matchfixing offer, “I would rather play and try to win. GL [good luck] with your betting though. I hope you lose all your money!”

…or did they?!

The story does not end there, though, because Avanti Esports went on to do exactly what “BlocH” was asked to do by “mRJanson”, namely losing all five of the mentioned matches.
FOKUS v Avanti Esports: 13 – 4
AM Gaming v Avanti Esports: 13 – 2
Avanti Esports v Apogee Esports : 7 – 13
Avanti Esports v Team Voca : 2 – 13
Avanti Esports v KOLESIE : 4 – 13
We do not think that Avanti accepted the bribe and disclosed the online correspondence as part of a bigger plan, as this could easily be a realistic run of results as well, but we do admit that it looks strange. The wider Counter-Strike community seems to be on the same wavelength, as discussions about the matchfixing story at Parken Challenger Championship #2 are heating up as we speak.