counter-strike-global-offensive – Duration of Bans in Counter Strike: Global Offensive

I believe they are forgiven after 7 total days, although I could be wrong. It makes sense to keep a log of bans on the competitive servers and have then eventually deleted. In my experiences (with teammates walking into my line of fire...repeatedly) I was lifted from the server's ban records and had little more grief.

UPDATE: More info found and posted below. Also this method of banishment applies to all forms of bans, including cheating, TK's, DC's and leaving early all are affected by the policy.

What happens if I abandon my match?

Updated: If you abandon a match then Classic Competitive will be unavailable for a period of time. The first abandon has a 30-minute cool down, the second is 2 hours, then 24 hours, and one week. If you haven’t abandoned for a week you would cool down by one level (for example, from 24 hours back to 2 hours).

Taken from here and reconfirmed in the community

Above information is for Official Valve Servers, Community servers are not a part of valve and contain their own rules. If you've come here looking how to reverse a ban on a surfing map server and the like, you are in the wrong place.

So, considering the discussion in the comments, and my opinion, possible causes of the FPS drop and screen tearing for the specific game in question, CS:GO, would be (in order of likeliness)

• Corrupt configuration files on CS:GO. (OP already reset them, discarded)
• CSGO or Source Engine update issues (No updates were released at the time of the incidents)
• Busted drivers. (OP already reinstalled them so, discarded)
• Broken GPU fan, so it throttles down to prevent damage. (Op checked them, so discarded)
• Dirty GPU contats. (OP already cleaned the card, so discarded)
• Tweaking fps_max value. (Already done, discarded).
• Nvidia GeForce Experience causing issues. (OP uninstalled it, so discarded)
• Steam Overlay causing issues. (Op disabled it, so discarded)
• Windows update messing with OS. (Op stated that no updates occurred before the incidents)
• Nvidia HD Audio causing issues. (OP uninstalled it, so discarded)
• Busted Video Card (By OP's comment this turned out to be the culprit)
• Busted RAM (Unlikely)

At the time of this answer we don't have specific information about performance in other games, OP specified that the screen tearing was occurring on Borderlands: The Pre-sequel as well, but we don't have specific performance data. On the other hand Furmark stress tests didn't crash the card, but the issue in the games persist.

Given that information the only option we have left is a somehow damaged Video Card, the solution would be to fill a RMA, as the card was recently bought. I suggest contacting with the manufacturer instead of Amazon or Nvidia. The manufacturer (if professional enough) would give you a tested card, guaranteed to work, while Amazon will give you another boxed one or a refund if you are a regular client. Nvidia will do nothing they only build the chipset. I've had a reasonably good experience with EVGA for example, not sure about other manufacturers.