“Last weekend, VCS 2024 Spring BTC had to postpone a number of matches to investigate the teams participating in VCS. Therefore, all matches will be postponed from Monday, March 18, 2024,” the VCS League of Legends.
According to Riot Games's notice, all the remaining matches of the VCS 2024 group stage will be canceled. The results of the matches on Thursday, March 14 will not be counted.
The VCS 2024 Spring Final round will also be delayed until the next notice. The rankings of the group stage will calculate according to the results until the end of the 7th week (March 10) and this ranking also used to decide the teams to participate in the final round.
“BTC understands this is really a difficult decision when this happens halfway through the tournament, but we are committed to always uphold the transparency of VCS and absolutely do not tolerate any action that affects fairness in competition,” Riot Games emphasized.
“We understand the influence that this notice brings and is very grateful to the sympathy and understanding of the audience in this difficult period. Please sincerely thank you for your companionship and support for the tournament. Continue to follow the official channels to update the latest information.”
Before the delayed tournament, 4 teams won tickets to the Play-off including Team Secret, Esports, Team Whales and Vikings Esports. Accordingly, the remaining two play-offs will be a competition between 3 teams of Cerberus, MBE and Team Flash. In addition, Rainbow Warriors is the team that has determined to promote the VCS 2024 summer promotion, when arranging the table with 12 losses.
In the last VCS 2023 season, the organizers of the tournament suspended SBTC Esports and cancel the results for serious violations of regulations and charter. Accordingly, SBTC Esports is no longer allowed to participate in any activity related to the future VCS tournament, applied from participating, owning the team to transfer of the competition.
In addition, 5 players including “Nper” Dinh Tuan, Do “DNK” Ngoc Khai, Nguyen “Penguin” Dang Khoa, Le “Dia1” Phu Quy, Le “Vinboiz” Tran Quang Vinh have also been banned from playing on the entire Riot tournament system within 36 months since the VCS 2023 sunset.
