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Last week, the Chinese League of Legends competitive scene was turned upside down by a (new) cheating case. We imagine that the LPL would have liked to do without this bad publicity, knowing that it is not the first time… After banishing about forty individuals, it was an isolated case. . However, the matter remained very serious, since the midlaner of LGD Gaming was accused of match fixing: he allegedly lost matches on purpose while communicating his intentions to a third party. Even if we did not have access to the file, we imagine that the goal was to make a small jackpot of tickets by betting on the defeat of his own team. As you can imagine, it’s not pretty pretty, especially when you know the stakes of the competition and the difficulties young players have in finding a place in an extremely competitive environment.
An investigation had been opened a few days ago and the investigators have shown lightning efficiency. There is no longer any need to use conditional and Chen”Jay“Bo was found guilty. He took an extremely heavy penalty. But in relation to the facts with which it is accused, we tend to say that it is deserved… especially since China wants to set examples to try to clean up its reputation as a sulphurous region in relation to online betting.
A very salty addition for the player
Jay began his career in 2018 and we had the opportunity to see him in the LPL in 2019. But we should not see him again in competition anytime soon… The commission in charge of the case found the player guilty and for having fixed matches, he was banned for life from competitions (professional and semi-professional) organized by Riot Gamewhere are you Tencent. The effects are immediate and the 22-year-old should therefore put an end to his career … Knowing that he will not be able to reorient himself on games like TFT Where Valorant.
The punishment goes even further than that since the player has also been banned from streaming League of Legends or creating content related to the game. Riot Games no longer wants to be associated with this player and no longer wants to offer him a platform to enrich it or highlight it. So it’s the end for Jay, who goes out the small door. His career will not be remembered and he never played the leading roles within the Chinese scene. However, it is better to remain relatively anonymous during one’s career than to become famous through a scandal and a cheating affair…
And the structure in all this?
In this kind of case, one can also wonder if the structure should not assume part of the responsibilities. In the past, players but also teams have been sanctioned (Rogue Warrior). But for this case, LGD Gaming was able to convince the investigators of his innocence. This historical structure showed cooperation and it was even the one who contacted the competent authorities at the start of the case. We imagine that she was not particularly happy to have a “impostor” in its ranks and to finish at the bottom of the classification. While this team has already played in the Worlds, we imagine that the leaders were already disgusted at the base of not playing in the LPL playoffs in Spring 2022.
LGD has in any case fire jay and reserves the right to sue him. The case is therefore perhaps not yet completely over… On the sporting side, the team will have to rebuild itself to try to bounce back in the LPL at the Summer Split. Ji”YeG” Xin-Yu is now the only midlaner in the squad at the moment and he could have another chance to express himself after losing his starting position earlier in the year. We will also have a little thought for the former player LEC Zhiqiang”shad0w” Zhao. The former jungler of MAD Lions had surely imagined a quieter career in China.
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On League of Legends, players are more or less talkative. In Europe, Jankos is known for not having his tongue in his pocket and his Chinese counterpart is the former world champion Doinb. The latter threw a stone into the pond concerning the Chinese presence at MSI this year.