The Chinese region found its first three winners of TI8 open qualifiers. Invictus Gaming Vitality will have another chance in round two.

Keen Gaming, Team Serenity and CDEC Gaming are the ones to advance in the closed regional qualifiers. They will be joining Invictus Gaming main team, the only squad from the region who was eligible for an invite to the closed qualifiers. IG hopped to make it with both their squads into the final battle for the TI8 tickets, however iG.Vitality had to deal with a weird admin decision earlier today and were forced to forfeit their winners series against Keen Gaming. Dropped in the decider BO3 series with CDEC Gaming, which took place immediately after the controversial decision, they’ve lost that one as well and will have to regroup for the second wave of opens.

While the five players were gathering the game lobby for the last series of the day, iG.Vitality’s manager took on Weibo to explain how it was possible for his team to not know the rule is still in play although the bug targeted by the said rule didn’t exist in the game anymore:

“So they posted the new rules (regarding the Tornado bug) in the group chat and asked if all the participating team agree. At that time some teams were still in the game so they didn’t reply in time, but the administrator took that as a Yes anyway… What’s more interesting is that I heard this BUG has already been fixed… So IG.V got forfeited because of a fixed bug? That’s brilliant… I don’t have my PC with me for now, can anyone tell me if the bug has been fixed?”

The Wildwing Ripper’s Tornado bug was fixed last night by Valve and the players assumed the rule shouldn’t be in play anymore so in their second game against Keen Gaming, at the 1:32 minute mark, Su “super” Peng who was playing Chen used the Tornado in the lane, close to the enemy Mirana. The game was instantly paused by the admin and iG.V was given a deff loss for violating the rule.

“We have no intention to abuse any bug in-game whatsoever and we really respect the rules. But we can’t accept that we were forfeited even though that no bug has occurred in the game. Also this bug was fixed this morning right?” posted iG.Vitality’s mid laner Yang “InJuly” Xiaodong on Weibo.

At the same time, the team carry gave a few insights of what happened as well.

We were informed before the tournament that we are allowed to use Wildkin to push lanes, but not intentionally abuse the “bug”. Shortly after the tournament started our coach who is in the groupchat was doing the ban/pick missed the second rule that was added — Meracle (@Meracleeeeee) June 15, 2018

The situation caught other pro players and game personality eyes as well, and it became the main topic on twitter for a good couple of hours.

uh oh, LoDAS oN THE CASE — Ioannis Loucas (@Foggeddota) June 15, 2018

This IG.V DQ drama is so utterly ridiculous. — Ben Steenhuisen (@followNoxville) June 15, 2018

Ben “Noxville” Steenhuisen was able to retrieve the entire chat between the team and the admin from in-game when the match was paused. The conversation took place in Chinese and we were able to translate the parts who are related to the admin’s decision

Anyone here able to translate? (Chinese to English). It's the text-chat of the IGV/Keen game. Don't wanna trust Google translate with this one.https://t.co/4JZlS6xlLW — Ben Steenhuisen (@followNoxville) June 15, 2018

[Chat] @dogf1ghts: glhf

[Chat] mayday: glhf

[Chat] TheRightMoment: gl

[Chat] GOD/dog: ..

[Chat] GOD/dog: you can’t use tornado

[Chat] AAA: I’m just pushing the lane

[Chat] GOD/dog: …

[Chat] GOD/dog: no, you can’t

[Chat] @dogf1ghts: the rule says it’s allowed as long as it’s not near enemy heroes

[Chat] GOD/dog: 。/。

[Chat] 宇宙幼稚员: wait

[Chat] Falling U: so it’s not allowed to use it to push the lane?

[Chat] @dogf1ghts: I’m not going to cast tornado near you.

[Chat] @dogf1ghts: just don’t stand inside the tornado

[Chat] GOD/dog: …

[Chat] Eve: alright I’ll go jungle then

[Chat] GOD/dog: we checked with the admin in our match against lfy, it’s not allowed

[Chat] GOD/dog: any team that uses tornado will be forfeited

[Chat] Falling U: ?

After this part, the players went on chatting irrelevant stuff to the matter, while they waited for the admin to lift the pause and give a final decision. At some point, Keen’s Mirana suggested Super to move away with the tornado, un-pause and just resume the game as the bug was not even existing anymore.

[Chat] Falling U: just cancel the tornado and continue the game

[Chat] Falling U: stop wasting time

[Chat] Falling U: it’s not like he had lost control to Mirana

[Chat] Falling U: he’s fine

[Chat] Falling U: GO ?

[Chat] 给你整的明明白白的: what’s happening

[Chat] Falling U: no idea

[Chat] Falling U: I heard we’ll get forfeited?

[Chat] Falling U: what’s going on?

[Chat] mayday: anyone wants to be my friend?

[Chat] mayday: I don’t have any friends

[Chat] 宇宙幼稚员: IG.V get forfeited for using Wildwing Ripper’s Tornado , kg 2:0 ig.v

[Chat] Falling U: ?

[Chat] @dogf1ghts: ?

[Chat] Emo: ?

[Chat] Falling U: Mirana didn’t get affected by the bug

[Chat] Falling U: he’s fine, can’t you see?

[Chat] 宇宙幼稚员: the decision is final, get ready for your next match

[Chat] mayday: why am I getting dq’d for a fixed bug

iG.Vitality will have another shot at making it into the regional qualifiers starting tomorrow, when the second leg of opens will kick off. Besides iG.V, there are also LFY, EHOME, Newbee.Young, FTD, Team Max and Eclipse, who are all going to play in in the second wave.

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