Shocking News: The Mop (May Have) Cheated His Way To Win Our College Gaming Championship

Jack Mac12/18/2020 2:47 AM

I have blogged about The Mop 4 separate times. I thought he was the chosen one. The one that was promised. He was the cinderella story that we all wanted out of our first College Gaming Championship. The local news across Montana was lining up to cover him:

He went on to win the national championship last night:

Or so we thought? Throughout today, I heard whispers throughout the office. You know that feeling when you know something's going on? I had that and I knew it was about The Mop. I heard Devlin on the phone say "cheating." Could it be? The Mop? Cheated his way to a victory?

And then it became true:

Here is what happened....in our College Gaming Championship, the players don't actually play each other. They enter their own online game with other random players and then whoever has the most kills at the end wins (there are multiple rounds). You may be wondering if that is unfair. What if one team gets randomly put up against a lobby full of great players and the other gets lucky with a lobby full of awful players? Turns out that Call of Duty has already thought of this. Every game you play is against players of your skill quality. Call Of Duty tracks all of your games and increases or decreases your skill level based on performance.

The Mop cheated by hacking this skill-based system. He did a little thing called reverse boosting. It's common in the gaming world where you play a bunch of games outside of the tournament where you intentionally do poorly to lower the skill of players you will play against in the tournament. As Smitty said in the video, The Mop did this and admitted to it.

Why would he admit to such a heinous act? Turns out it technically wasn't against our tournament rules. Nothing in the College Gaming Championship rulebook said it was against the rules to reverse boost. Does it put an asterisk on his victory? Sure. You know who also has an asterisk? The entire 90s and early 2000s MLB. Does that make Barry Bonds any worse? Not in my mind. He still had to go out there and hit a billion home runs. Same with The Mop...he still had to go out there and kill a bunch of dudes via headshot. Guess when the MLB had their highest ratings? That's right when the dingers were going WILD. Guess when the College Gaming Championship had the highest ratings? When The Mop was playing.

Ultimately, The Mop doesn't give a fuck. He played by the rules. He won. As an "investigation" was going on, you know what he was doing? Interviewing with the local news in his mom's living room.

The Teflon Mop! He cannot be taken down! You can only try!

If any of the gaming nerds out there are mad about this, maybe they should've just been...better? We looked into The Mop's history on Call of Duty and he only did 10-15 games to "reverse boost" himself. Also, who knows....others in this tournament could've been doing the same damn thing! What he did wasn't some sophisticated algorithm that only 5 people have access to in the world. He did a simple reverse boost! I mean look at this guy: