How do you spot a cheat? How do you look at a match and say with certainty that it’s been fixed, that the results could not have been the outcome of a fair competition? How does a player watch a match between, say, the mediocre Russian Dota 2 organizations Fantastic Five and Team Bad English and determine that the play style of the losing team wasn’t just bad or unlucky but in fact the result of that gambling buzzword, famed of boxing rings and horse races: match fixing?
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