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You can extract the chip's serial number in software trivially. In Windows, from a commandline:
wmic cpu get pricessoridI'm positive you can do the same with some Linux command, and failing that certainly with basically every vaguely modern benchmarking tool. Same deal with hard drives and probably also video cards. My BIOS/UEFI even enumerates all my connected hard drive serial numbers on screen if I interrupt its graphical boot screen.
Given that the anti-cheat schemes these competitive games are literal rootkits, I don't think gathering the user's hardware serial numbers in order to attempt identify them is much of a stretch.
You at least could in the past, I haven't had to do it in a while. Seems like the command would just be "dmidecode", with grep if you're looking to automate it