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Quoted from Monkeh

Survey completed, love the idea but do have concerns with the match fixing thing.

Limit’s are all well and good, however what’s stopping each member of a random top team, let’s say power gaming for instance, bettting up to the limit on losing, plus all their friends, and all their e-friends, and their families, and the friends of their families, and their dogs….you get the idea.

The limit on the betting would have to be AT LEAST a sixth of the winnings in TF2, otherwise the temptation will be there for the team members to group together to lose a cap here and there.

Are we talking about 10/20 pence/cent betting here?

Limits are all relative to prizes on offer, and there are other ways to monitor it. Just like in football, bookmakers have very complex ways of monitoring unusual betting patterns. If suddenly £100,000 gets bet on a match that would normally have £1,000 bet on in alarm bells ring :)

Quoted from kaidus

I have no basis for this assumption other than common sense, but I really, really do not think match fixing would be a problem for tf2…

Sounds like e-sports in general, not just TF2.