Riot bans two Valorant players over heated teabagging dispute

pcgamer.com:

Two Valorant players have been temporarily suspended from participating in Riot-sanctioned events following a heated incident last month over teabagging people in games.

Riot has ruled(opens in new tab) that Dawn «Dawn» Park is banned from «any association or affiliation with a team in a Riot-sanctioned competition» for three months, while Vivian «Risorah» Dela Cruz has received a nine-month ban (thanks Eurogamer(opens in new tab)).

The situation kicked off in late June on the Galorants Discord—a community set up to elevate women and non-binary Valorant players—after a member (referred to as Player A in Riot's ruling) posted a message equating teabagging someone in-game to sexual assault. It sparked a fiery debate on the Discord server with both Dawn and Risorah becoming involved, before moderators went ahead and closed down the entire server for a week.

A competitive ruling has been issued against Dawn “Dawn” Park and Vivian “Risorah” Dela Cruz. Read the full ruling:July 25, 2022

The topic ended up spilling over to Twitter, with figures like streamer Charlie «Cr1tikal» White and Jake Lucky throwing their hat in the ring. During this time, Riot's ruling says «the discussion evolved into an argument spanning multiple Twitter posts. Dawn's responses included a vulgar and targeted remark» towards the unnamed player.

The ruling goes on to say how «Risorah created multiple Twitter posts specifically targeted at Player A, in which Risorah pasted Galorants Discord conversations between themselves and Player A. Risorah proceeded to post a video they edited, in which they amplified and personally added a vulgar commentary around Player A. On June 28, Risorah directly tagged and targeted Player A as the subject of a vulgar post.»