The Valorant community witnessed fresh controversy after Riot Games issued a competitive ruling against the female pro team EQ Cerise on October 9.
The official statement revealed that Riot's Anti-Cheat team had positively identified the use of a third-party tool from a player of EQ Cerise during the VCT Game Changers Open Qualifier.
Following their initial investigation, Riot Games disqualified EQ Cerise from the tournament and declared that Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) Red will be moving ahead.
On October 11, Esports personality Jake "JakeSucky" Lucky shared the controversy on Twitter. He stated that a player named "dsylexic" was accused of cheating.
He also shared an excerpt from EQ Cerise member Jenni "nabiichuVAL" TwitLonger:
NabiichuVAL stated that the "real" reason why dsylexic got banned was because they queued up with someone who was using third-party cheating software:
She claimed that the alleged cheater admitted to employing cheats in Valorant to dsylexic:
The TwitLonger section concluded with nabiichuVAL stating that a player named antiRIVER was the one who cheated:
Dsylexic took to Twitter to reveal that they "owned cheating software" and were previously banned for using it. However, they claimed that they did not use a third-party application on the tournament client against CLG Red:
The discussion thread on Twitter gained traction and several members of the gaming community joined the discussion. Here's what they had to say:
On October 10, dsylexic shared a 359-word long TwitLonger post titled "forgiveness." He admitted to faking a non-binary identity and apologized to his teammates and the esports community, while asserting that he did not cheat in the Valorant tournament.
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