I was competitive (not professional, but I played with, against, and around pros) in FPS in the early days of competitive console shooters. Cheating was so ramp

I was competitive (not professional, but I played with, against, and around pros) in FPS in the early days of competitive console shooters. Cheating was so rampant that people over a certain ranking were automatically considered cheaters. I would say the top 5 percent of ranked players were cheaters in some games and it was not subtle. You knew immediately who was cheating, but there usually wasn’t much you could do because there wasn’t usually any kind of reporting function or if it exsisted it was limited and not very effective.