With only an hour or so until their Group B opening game, TyLoo have been disqualified from the Asia Minor due to it being uncovered that Quanqing 'qz' Wu had a previous Valve Anti-Cheat ban on his record.

A recent post on the Global Offensive subreddit hearkened back to an earlier HLTV.org forum post in 2014 that saw a user uncover that TyLoo's Quanqing "⁠qz⁠" Wu had been VAC banned only a day after the MSI Beat It! finals in China in 2013 (qz was playing for Chinese team nFace at the time).

qz then tried to hide the fact by renaming his old Steam profile to several Korean aliases, but a further parsing of old demos from the community saw [pqz]'s in-game name link back to the profile in question, providing quite compelling evidence of a direct link.

The reminder on Reddit caught the attention of ESL employees who conducted an internal investigation and have now announced that qz is ineligible to play in current and future Valve events. ESL also confirmed that Valve were made aware and corroborated the evidence.



It was found out that qz received a VAC Ban in 2013

As a result of the disqualification, the winner of the Renegades vs. Eat You Alive match will move on the play TheMongolz in an automatic Group B winners' match and a decider match will be played afterwards.

In addition, qz has apparently been banned from any future ESL Pro competitions, i.e. IEM, ESL One, or the Pro League. TyLoo will be allowed to take part in these leagues as long as they do not use qz as their fifth.

TyLoo are disqualified from #IEM Taipei due to one of the players being found ineligible to play in any current and future Valve events.

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