Some lost their Dota 2 professional careers by being even slightly involved in match-fixing scandals. There are over 20 players with a lifetime ban from Valve and a few others with temporary bans from different tournament organizers, yet the power of example doesn’t seem to work for everyone.

Today, in the secondary division of Dota2 Professional League Season 5, two teams did their best to throw the game. Usually, in case of a match-fixing, one team does its best to lose but today’s situation could be deemed absolutely hilarious if it wasn’t in a professional game. Both Ulrica and Rock.Y were having a competition of who fails in the more spectacular way and who feeds the most. Their weird behavior was noticed by all the commentators casting the series and infuriated Haitao, one of the most famous Chinese casters. Right after the series concluded Haitao made a lengthy Weibo post which translates as follows:

“Today at Dota Professional League I’ve witnessed THE MOST DISGUSTING match I’ve ever watched throughout my entire Dota 2 caster career. Rock.Y and Ulrica’s match-up was a total farce and there was clearly match fixing going on between those two teams. I don’t know which players were involved and I don’t have the evidence that proved they placed f10k bet on the opposing team yet. But if you will watch the match replay( match Id 3802426172) , I guarantee you’ll be just as angry as I’m.

Okay so 15 minutes in, the score was 7:4, Puck, who just used all his abilities to clear the creeps wave, jumped into Luna who was farming a stack of Ancients. Luna then cast her ult despite having 6 ancient creeps around, Puck got hit by two beams and was really low on health, but Luna somehow just gave up the kill and let puck walk away. Puck was like wtf why didn’t you take me so he jumped into the creep wave between dire tier 1 and tier2, threw all the spells to the creeps and eventually got killed by Luna. 16 minutes in, Disruptor tried to 1 v 1 Elder Titan in the Radiant jungle, Disruptor missed the Kinetic Field – Static Storm combo but the Elder Titan just tried so hard to die as he walked back to the Static Storm even when the Field was gone. Elder Titan was really low but then Disruptor started to run away, and the ET just wouldn’t let Disruptor go, he began to chase Disruptor, finally, after canceling his auto attack several times, Disruptor took the kill reluctantly. BUT!! Disruptor also wanted to die so hard that he then walked towards enemy Terrorblade, expecting to get killed by an auto attack or reflection, but Terrorblade just didn’t care, he didn’t want the kill and started running back. However, Disruptor was unwilling to give up just yet, he walked into the tower range, took another hit, ran towards TB’s illusion and finally managed to get himself killed. At this time the competition of throwing had entered a white hot stage, Dire felt they were behind in this competition so they grouped up and started to siege mid high ground despite Dragon Knight’s ult was still on cool down. Puck with little HP walked into Dire heroes and died without casting any abilities; Tusk got himself killed by Radiant tier 3 tower from full health. Tiny kept auto attacking enemy heroes till he died and refused to use Avalanche or Shadow Blade. Disruptor and Chen just rushed into enemy heroes and fed like two confused basketball players who don’t understand which side they are on…..They died and fed in the most ridiculous ways possible and it really blows my mind. I can barely control my anger as I’m writing this…

It’s such a shame and disgrace that it happens and these teams are playing at DPL, at Dota2 Professional League. I, Lingxiang Zhou, ID: Esports海涛, want to real-name report Rock.Y and ULrica for match-fixing. I hope Perfect World and DPL administration would step in, investigate into this affair thoroughly and give an explanation to the community.”

Haitao also linked a highlight video with most of the moments he mentions in his post. The video is on a Chinese platform and can be found here. Dotatvru have also put together a video with both games of the series with English commentary.

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In the meantime, a few screenshots from a private conversation with RockY’s midlaner Meteor surfaced on the internet

A: What?

Meteor: They were diving the towers and feeding.

A: So you didn’t….?

Meteor: No, not us

Meteor: We saw them feeding

Meteor: So we guessed they were match-fixing

Meteor: I don’t want them to win their bet.

There is also a screenshot of an alleged conversation with a player from Ulrica, a conversation that’s 100% incriminatory.

A: So did you screw them? Or they screwed you?

B: We got Screwed

B: They lied to us.

B: How can someone be that dishonest

B: We lost approximately 100K [editor note: most probably 100K RMB/~16,000 USD]

A: …

A: Rock.Y are indeed a bunch of assholes

Mars Media, the DPL organizers did respond to all the messages they received and by the end of the day it seems that both teams got disqualified from the tournament. However, a more detailed answer is expected to come from them as soon as the investigation is over. Right after the two teams were reported for match-fixing, MDL posted on both twitter and weibo to let the community know that an investigation is already undergoing.

-#DPSL# We’ve received a massive amount of reports on the match played by ROCK.Y and Ulrica today. We’re investigating this match thoroughly. A further announcement will be made later.