>>383There are several other instances in the past of match fixing for ez skins that were caught but had little punishment dealt by anyone, certainly not Valve, but the game was smaller then. Now that the game is the second most played game on Steam you end up with a lot more pressure from the community for Valve to bring down the hammer on match fixing, which is often the #1 cause of competitive scenes in other games being killed off.
Do you really think it is OK for a major team like iBUYPOWER to throw matches so they can win several thousand dollars in skins? If this were commonplace it would mean no one would take the competitive scene seriously, and would damage the popularity of the game.