Arkosh Gaming punished for handling three players outside of North America in DPC

Arkosh Gaming was fined for playing with three players outside of North America (NA) in the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) NA 2021-22 Tour 1: Division 1. Valve rules state that three out of five players in one Teams must enter the competition from the region in which they are playing. According to ESL, the organizer of the NA DPC, Arkosh Gaming has used three players outside of North America in two of the four series they have competed in so far and has therefore been penalized with two extra chances. The organizer also mentioned that Arkosh Gaming was given a level 1 (30 seconds) penalty against Black N Yellow and Quincy Crew.

Capitalist clarifies the situation after ESL punishes Arkosh Gaming for violating DPC rules

ESL fined Arkosh Gaming for two of the four series at the DPC NA 2021-22 in which they violated the rules.

Follow Valve rule, “In a Regional League, a team can play with sub in 4 out of 7 games,” As a result, Arkosh Gaming still has two substitutions out of four. The team still has three more series to go.

These are the five current players of Arkosh Gaming.

• Brian”BSJ“Canavan (Pale Horse)

• Kyle”Kyle“Freedman (Defeat Oracle)

• Jaron”monkey-forever“Clinton (Monkey)

• Jason”Newsham“Newsham (Crow)

• Andrew”Jenkins“Jenkins (Gremlo)

BSJ, Kyle and Jenkins are said to be three non-North American players. BSJ, who joined Team Liquid as a streamer in June 2021, has spent a significant amount of time at the organization’s premises in the Netherlands. Kyle has been living in Ukraine for a long time after receiving his residence permit earlier this year. Jenkins served as commentator/analyst for DPC at DreamHack’s European facility.

In one Posts on Reddit on this matter, Austin”Capitalist“Walsh announced that the team has started recruiting 3 players from NA and all 5 players will be in NA in 2022. According to him, the rule violation was not an intentional act, but an incident. monitor.

“There is no question here, Arkosh already has 3 players in North America, and will have more in North America soon. This is just an oversight, not intentionally breaking the rules. Obviously, this rule was made in the spirit of preventing players from raiding a “weaker” region to get Majors and TIs, not to force people from that region to work internationally. . But the rules need to be enforced as they are written, and Arkosh has no problem with that. “

Arkosh Gaming, with likely all five players from North America, will play the next series in DPC against TOOBASED on January 5, 2022. The team has won one of four games so far.

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