Specifically, the player took advantage of the Bug side of the keyd stars on the Jonathan Guard “Jhow” Gloria. In Area A, the Breeze map, he set the camera (skill E) of CYPHER in the hidden corner. It was the corner of the members of Acend that could not be discovered, thereby helping Jhow to collect large amounts of information about the opponent's position to his teammates.
Earlier, Keyd Stars was the team that took the lead 1-0 on the Ice Box map. Entering the bind map, Acend destroyed Brazil's representative with the result of 13-3, thereby equalizing the score 1-1. In Battle 3 at the Breeze map, Keyd Stars continued to win. However, due to the act of taking advantage of Jhow's Bug, Riot Games loses the Keyd Stars and Acend as the final winning team with a score of 2-1.
In Group A, Acend is the team going to the Thang branch to face the Envy team. Meanwhile, Keyd Stars fell down and had to enter the key match with the X10 Crit. On Twitter, the wave of opposition to Riot Games's decision has flourished. Earlier, Michael “Dap” Gulino of Sentinels also took advantage of Bug CYPHER on the Breeze map like Jhow but was not punished.
Even Valorant fans in Brazil also created the hashtag #justiceforKeyd to reclaim the justice for Keyd Stars. Currently, the hashtag above has reached the top 5 global trends of Twitter. The individual player Olavo “Heat” Marcelo also expressed his disappointment, and revealed that he and his teammates did not even have the right to comment on the sanction.
Under great pressure from the Valorant community, Acend's representative Aleksander “Zeek” Zygmunt had to speak up. Specifically, Zeek said that Acend was not proud to win the keyd Stars. On the other hand, Zeek was not satisfied because the referees did not make a decision right in the match, thereby creating an unnecessary incident at Valorant Champions.
