In an interview with Yahoo Esports, Riot Games esports co-director Whalen “Magus” Rozelle discussed the need for third-party oversight in League of Legends esports. Notably, he stated that he’d love to see it happen early next year.

Interestingly, Rozelle brought up the recent ruling surrounding the removal of Renegades from the LCS unprompted.

“One of the things we’ve learned this split and since the Renegades/TDK ruling and onward is that, look, we believe in the ruling, we believe in the policies that we have and the processes that we have,” he said. “But we also think that this is not the ideal situation. We can evolve, as well.”

Rozelle then continued to explain some of the difficulties that surround the implementation of outside oversight into the current LCS system.

“How can we bring in a third party to help validate or arbitrate? We don’t know exactly the system yet, but we do want to do that as early as 2017. We need to figure out exactly how that’s going to work and what those specifics may be. It’s a long, expensive, drawn-out process that’s going to be distracting for a lot of people. So maybe we only bring it in with the really extreme rulings that are the result in a team getting kicked out or a player getting suspended for a really long time. But we are looking into how we can do that.”

The promise of a third-party arbitration system is one that should be exciting for most fans of League of Legends esports; more oversight over Riot’s rulings will hopefully yield fairer results. The question remains, though, as to how much power Riot will be willing to give up to those third-party groups. It’s safe to assume that Riot will retain final say over rulings in the LCS leagues, but will they be more open about their methods of investigation going forward? Time will tell.

Check out the full interview below:

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