FaZe Clan has withdrawn from their ESL Professional League Season 22 match towards G2 because of ESL rule restrictions!
Just some hours earlier than their opening match, FaZe Clan introduced that they might forfeit their sequence towards G2. The choice reportedly stemmed from inside disagreements with ESL and uncertainty concerning which gamers had been eligible to compete within the match.
Neither the match organizer nor FaZe have issued an official assertion concerning the scenario. Nonetheless, shortly after the announcement, reviews emerged that rain had been reinstated to the energetic roster rather than jcobbb.
The withdrawal got here after FaZe determined to exchange Håvard “rain” Nygaard with Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken, which resulted within the workforce now not assembly the required Valve Regional Standings (VRS) core roster guidelines.
FaZe’s Withdrawal Motive: VRS Core Violation
July seventh VRS Roster:
🇩🇰 Denmark – karrigan🇸🇰 Slovakia – frozen🇺🇦 Ukraine – s1mple🇺🇸 USA – EliGE🇳🇴 Norway – rain
Present Energetic Roster:
🇩🇰 Denmark – karrigan🇸🇰 Slovakia – frozen🇱🇻 Latvia – broky🇵🇱 Poland – jcobbb🇨🇦 Canada – Twistzz
Related ESL Guidelines:
📜 ESL Professional Tour CS Normal Guidelines, Part 2.28:
“Groups invited by way of the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) should retain a minimum of three of the 5 core gamers listed on the roster on the time of the invitation.”
📜 ESL Professional Tour CS Roster Restrictions, Part 2.4:
“When a participant first enters a qualifier, they need to keep the vast majority of that lineup till the principle occasion concludes — masking all qualifiers and phases.This rule prevents organizations from overhauling unsuccessful rosters in an try and re-enter the occasion.”
This restriction additionally applies to instantly invited groups, whose roster on the time of the invitation is taken into account their “core roster.” Subsequently, even invited groups are handled as if they’d participated by way of qualifiers.
