Call Of Duty: Warzone's anti-cheat measures are under fire again after a player was accused of cheating and ejected from a $250,000 trio tournament.

Last night's Twitch Rivals: Doritos Bowl ft. Call of Duty Warzone final stream was abruptly halted after Canadian player Metzy_B was accused of using aimbot in the series finale. The alleged moment was filmed on-stream by fellow competitor Thomas "Tommey" Trewren (via Dextero), who analyzed the clip to explain how Metzy's sights "locked on" the moment he entered his opponent's view.

After only an hour of downtime, Twitch Rivals declared that Metzy had indeed cheated and eliminated him and teammates kyrptic_j0ker and Unifyz from the tournament. In a statement to the broadcaster and Metzy himself, Twitch claimed that the gameplay footage was "unnatural beyond a reasonable doubt."

This decision may have been premature, given the short duration of the footage and its unstable quality. Having seen the clip in question numerous times, it is difficult for me to judge one way or the other; PC Gamer emailed Twitch about the process for identifying the offending cheaters and subsequently removing them from the event. No response was received.

After these competitors were removed, Twitch Rivals opted to continue to the final round of the tournament with one less team, giving competitors, even those in last place, a share of the $1,200 pot, but Metzy and his team got nothing

"I'm a chipmaker," Metzy said.

Metzy, who claimed he did not use cheats, tried to clear his name by examining his computer files in the stream with Tommey. After several fights over a suspiciously empty hard drive, he eventually granted Tommey unprecedented access to his rig via remote access, giving the self-proclaimed investigator free rein to search for evidence. By the end of the stream, he had found almost nothing.

After this search, the tide began to turn against Metzie. In the wake of the accusations against Metzie, Tommy publicly apologized and said that he believed "something had gone wrong" but simply did not have enough evidence to make the call.

The uproar has raised major issues for various parties. The players themselves and the potential for social media to turn a minor suspicion or allegation into a blowout, the fact that Twitch Rivals appears to have acted hastily and without due diligence, and the COD community itself, with the alleged cheat allegations Warzone's cheat situation The last point is that the COD community itself saw the suspected cheat allegations as compelling evidence that Warzone's cheat situation was spiraling out of control.

On the last point, cheating would be a problem for Warzone even if it were not the case here. High-level players have already found ways to hack into bot matches, while Warzone, in Morgan Park's view, is far behind when it comes to effective anti-cheating. With such allegations swirling, the mood in the Call Of Duty community has become increasingly grim.

"Warzone cheats are completely out of hand," YouTuber Drift0r tweeted yesterday. 'I saw someone cheating on Twitch Rivals today. There were cheaters on 2 of the 5 games I played tonight.

In regards to this situation, Tommey subsequently offered Metzy a share of the tournament prize pool as a consolation prize for the withdrawn accusations; PCG has contacted Metzy but has not heard back at the time of publication. We also contacted Tommey, but he declined to comment further on the situation.