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Hello everyone, It’s time I broke my silence on this entire Predator League SG saga. There will be two things I will be addressing: 1. My Grand Final suspension 2. The entire disqualification and administration issue First and foremost, I’d like to take responsibility for the mistake I made. I was dishonest to the administrative team originally, but there was a reason why. I was caught watching a stream from @dokajc AFTER my match had ended. My intention was to see how the game was going so we could start our upper final game ASAP as my teammates had to go for SYEL. I did not want them to have to rush back and forth to play two tournaments. I was accused of piloting/coaching for demotivated esports. This was something I couldn’t dispute on the spot because I was already on my way overseas to a trip with friends. Fortunately, after @screwyvl got home, he realised he had the VOD, which showed that I did not communicate with either of them throughout their games. This cleared their team and myself of any wrongdoing IN GAME. However, when originally questioned by the administrative team, I made a mistake. I was dishonest, and told them that I was not watching Dokaj’s stream at any point of the tournament. However, as we were both going on the trip together, we were looking at hotel rooms. I did this solely to protect demotivated esports. Yes, they are my friends, but I also recognised the fact that they had put in a lot of effort to be able to secure a top 3 placing at the LAN. Admitting from the start that I had watched a stream of the game, (not punishable in the rulebook), might have caused them to be disqualified, which they were regardless. To @dokajc @luciduuv @synxvlrt @screwyvl @rusthegoat (slush), I’m proud of you guys for accomplishing what you had, and it was a series of unfortunate events that led to this. I’m grateful neither of you blamed me for what I did, and even all tried to help me appeal my suspension wherever you guys could. Thank you. Now, for the spicy stuff. I’m sure many of you have experienced some form of unfairness from the administrative team, and that’s what I’m going to be talking about. Firstly, I’d like to bring up two cases. Both cases involve the admin “Nuggets” As shown in the first screenshot, a conversation between Nuggets and ilwo, the coach of Lost Your Mind, the team that had just lost to demotivated esports. Nuggets is a friend of ilwo. Nuggets is not educated enough about the tournament rulebook and instead of seeking assistance from the Tournament Organisers, consulted the coach of the team that had just lost. I believe that it was not ilwo’s intention and she was just giving her answer from an objective stance, but there is an obvious conflict of interest. I’m not even going to get started on what Nuggets, someone who is supposed to be impartial, had called Dokaj in his conversation. Please take a look for yourselves. In addition, demotivated esports was told by the TO after submitting the evidence that there was some wiggle room originally, if they submitted ~ 11pm on the day itself, but the fact that they submitted the evidence too late was what resulted in their ruling having no review. However, screwy actually submitted his VODs, but was ignored by guess who, nuggets! They were still online, apparent from the fact Kitten Esports were disqualified at 12am. This tournament had a lot of gray areas. What to me was too much was the fact you could accuse any and every team of a wrongdoing and so long as they didn’t have the VOD, they would be considered guilty. I’ve never had a system ever where you were considered guilty until proven innocent. A lot of the accusations hurled around had no evidence to back it up. A lot of question marks were in place, and everything was about what COULD and what MIGHT have happened. There was no concrete evidence for any of their rulings. As a community, we should speak up against bad administration. Impartiality is a must.