ESPN have confirmed that Riot Games has given the Golden State Warriors, Cloud9 and Team Liquid one year to resolve a dispute between the ownership of the three teams, reportedly a conflict of interest, according to a Wednesday report from SportsBusiness Journal.

The Warriors’ GSW Esports LLC, a sister group of the greater GSW Sports Ventures LLC, were awarded a spot in the North American League of Legends Championship Series last October.

That corporation has several owners who also own stakes in Team Liquid and Cloud9, which were also accepted into the league, which is a breach of Riot’s multi-team ownership rules.

The subsection of the Riot’s multi-team ownership rules states that…..

“No team owner or team manager or affiliate of an owner may own or control, directly or indirectly, or have a direct (e.g., ownership) or indirect (e.g., a contractual arrangement) financial interest, or be an employee or contractor of, more than one League of Legends team in a professional esports league,” the North American LCS rulebook states. “Any buyback provision, right of first purchase, or similar interest in a team shall be treated as a controlling interest in such team for the purposes of enforcing ownership restrictions.”

Among those with conflicts is: Peter Guber, the Warriors co-managing and assistant GM Kirk Lacob — who are both a part of Liquid’s parent company, aXiomatic —Warriors and Cloud9 minority owner Chamath Palihapitiya.

Kirk Lacob did a quick talk with = ESPN on Tuesday discussing why he invested in aXiomatic to experience esports for the first time, but will soon look to dissolve his stake in the upcoming months.

“Peter approached me and said, ‘Look, I’m investing in Team Liquid with this new thing aXiomatic and I’d love to have you join.’

I said sure and I saw that as an opportunity to get a foot in the door,” Lacob told ESPN.

“I will obviously be removing myself from aXiomatic and Team Liquid. I’m obviously not an important piece of what they’re doing, but I still need to remove myself to make sure things are on the up-and-up.”

LOL pro Player suspended for 20 months for domestic violence

On any given livestream one can always come across the strange and bizarre and this can definitely be said for LOL pro gamer, Li “Vasilii” Wei Jun.

Back in October, he livestreamed alleged domestic abuse against his then-girlfriend.

The Chinese team Newbie immediately terminated his contract and the League Championship Series launched an immediate investigation.

Today, the organisation suspended Vasilii from professional games for 20 months, which begins in January 2018 at the start of the next competitive season.

Riot took the opportunity to modify its rules

They now allow for far harsher punishment for potential future cases of domestic abuse. This is double what Riot usually enforces as the maximum sentence for ‘Ongoing Misconduct’ in its Global Penalty Index.

In its ruling, the studio stated Vasilii’s ‘particularly egregious’ behaviour justified extending the punishment:

“Whereas making these threats toward another professional player on stage might warrant a 10 month suspension, physical intimidation and threats of domestic abuse should be punished much more harshly. Additionally, Vasilii has been punished for violent tendencies before – in an incident last year he showed physical aggression onstage, smashing a keyboard and physically intimidating a camera operator during a match.”

It is seriously hard to believe that one could be as stupid as to livestream himself abusing his girlfriend. No one can ever condone domestic violence to post it all over the internet, is absolutely absurd.

Riot had to take a zero tolerance approach to Mr. Jun.

No modern organisation could every look at turning a blind eye to this sort of thing. It brings the organisation, game and sport into complete disrepute.

Any punish Mr. Jun got had to be severe.