by Emememem on Feb-18-16 11:49

League of Legends Japan League, namely LPL released a statement on 15th this month that the players from Dragonfly Gaming (hereinafter referred to as DFG) and ScarZ were exposed to have rule-breaking operations. After the large-scale investigation, other teams are found to have the similar situations. In order to sort out these problems, the tournament will be postponed for one week and on the other hand, KINGDOM received a lifetime ban for exposing the issue before the official statement, stirring huge waves among netizens.

In the recent LJL issue, the players from DFG and ScarZ are found connect to the game from NA area, leading to the suspicion of using marksman. The players involved are banned for two matches since the behavior is hard to be proved. However, after the large-scale investigation, over ten teams are found connect from overseas servers besides the two teams above. They use VPN tools to pretend connecting from Japanese IP, hence the clauses related to VPN and how to sort out it if VPN is used are added to the rule.

On the other hand, KINGDOM’s revealing the issue before the official statement and refusing to cancel the article are regarded as leaks, hence it’s given lifetime bans. But the statement stirred huge waves among Japanese netizens.

The article on KINGDOM’s official website shows the manager of KINGDOM found the coach of DFG have abnormal interactions on unregistered foreign players. He reported the finding with collected evidences to the organizer. The organizer confirmed the report immediately and decided to give DFG a ban of lifetime but the investigation showed many teams have connected from overseas servers or used VPN. Maybe too many teams being involved makes the attitude of the organizer start to change.*

The new punishments out of large-scale investigation is to reset the qualifiers and the bans for DFG and ScarZ are canceled due to lack of evidences. Both teams will receive warnings in oral form.

Knowing the final decision, the manager of KINGDOM says it’s not acceptable hence he reveal the issue and how he negotiate with the organizer. He says at the same time they’re ready to be expelled from the league. After the official statement, the manager announces to stop all the activities and dissolve the team.

The process and final decision are questioned by Japanese players. They ask “Why teams that have confirmed to have rule-breaking behaviors are not banned?”, “Why the informer is punished while the rule breakers are fine?” and “Does it mean the organizer care more about whether these teams obey them instead of the fairness of the tournament?”, showing distrusts to the organizer.

*Note: The Japanese server of League of Legends is still under testing and LJL CS applies online pattern. So the situation now is LJL works on NA server. Considering the possible differences in connecting conditions, the organizer requires all the teams and players connect from Japanese IP from the very beginning.



