A pro player complained that someone was competing in a tournament under his nickname

Professional Counter-Strike 2 player Mark "stesso" Sørensen reported that someone had been competing in the CCT 2026 Challengers Europe Series 2 tournament using his profile. The esports player explained that he had not played the game for the past three months.

Sørensen noticed the situation during the match between home and NEW VISION. PARIVISION Academy won the match, while home were later disqualified from the tournament. The player using the nickname stesso reportedly hid his Steam profile information after the situation became public. However, users discovered that he had previously used the nicknames Aspera and Inv1ncible.

A FACEIT employee commented that the player had changed his nickname on the platform and described the incident as one of the strangest cases they could remember. At the time of publication, the user was reportedly using the nickname 1nv1nc11, with Denmark listed as his country on the platform.

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Following the incident, HLTV.org for unknown reasons changed the nationalities of stesso’s teammates Alex "awdy" Sandulov and Ilya "j1nada" Popov, replacing their Serbian flags with Russian ones.