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Egor "Nightfall" Grigorenko, the carry player for BetBoom, was recently called out for smurfing by Janne "Gorgc" Stefanovski and Max "qojqva" Bröcker on stream. Despite Valve’s crackdown on smurf accounts, it has been alleged that Nightfall has been actively smurfing.
According to Dota2ProTracker, the pro player has five smurf accounts and has been allegedly playing on two of them. Unfortunately, it seems like Nightfall is not the only professional player actively playing on alternate Dota 2 accounts.
Nightfall Allegedly Played 27 Games on Smurf Account
BetBoom Team’s Nightfall has allegedly continued smurfing, disobeying Valve’s no smurfing policy. According to Dota2ProTracker Nightfall has five smurf accounts, out of which two are currently active.
Nightfall has reportedly played a combined twenty-seven games in the last eight days in these two smurf accounts. The website shows Nightfall’s second smurf account as the most active, with fourteen games in the past eight days. The next smurf account with a handful of games is his alleged fifth smurf account with thirteen games. It has become evident that he has only played three games on his main account in the past eight days.
However, it is unclear whether Nightfall himself used these alleged smurf accounts or if someone else is using them. All of the games on his main account and smurf #2 have been played on the European server while games on smurf #5 were on the North American server.
Nightfall was called out for smurfing by Gorgc and qojqva after they encountered his smurf during a game. The two streamers did not mince their words against the Russian carry. Gorgc called Nightfall a “piece of sh*t” while qojqva said, “I’m reporting this sh*t after.”
Although Nightfall has been receiving a lot of backlash from the community for smurfing, he is, unfortunately, not the only one. Dota2ProTracker also shows other pros like Artour "Arteezy" Babaev, Ivan "Pure" Moskalenko, and Dzmitry "Fishman" Palishchuk actively smurfing.
According to Gorgc, Valve usually dishes out these bans in waves, and by the next wave, these pros would most likely be just “warned” for their actions by the publisher.
As of now, Valve hasn’t taken any action against these pros who are smurfing. Notably, the blog post titled “Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota” began a war on smurfing in Dota 2. Ever since the blog was released Valve has targeted smurfs and has been actively permabanning smurf accounts or accounts engaged in other prohibited activities such as account sharing. Recently, it surprised such players with “Highly Toxic Lump of Coal” during the Frostivus event, perma-banning their accounts.
