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EXPOSING VCL MENA (Once Again)

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Breezly

EXPOSING VCL MENA (Once Again)

Yesterday, Sunday, March 16th, at 20:00 CET, we were supposed to watch Team GB vs. VoidWalkers in Challengers League 2025 MENA Resilience: North Africa & Levant Split 1 - Group Stage: Week 2.

Instead, VoidWalkers were given a 26-0 round win, and we didn’t get to see a single round played. So what really happened?

On the stream VOD, all we got was a vague message:

"Team has run out of tech pause."

But after speaking with team members, here’s the real story:

Nationality Issues & Admin Incompetence

When Team GB submitted their roster, there was no option to select Palestine as a nationality. Instead, their team manager had to manually add a note explaining the situation.

One of their players, who lived most of his life in Palestine and qualifies as an LTR for MENA under Riot’s own rulebook, was forced to relocate to Turkey due to war.

However, VCL MENA admins denied him the right to play.

Unreasonable Demands & No Proper Solution

The admins' response?

  • "Find a sub in 15 minutes."

  • The sub needed to download Tournament Realm in that time, which was impossible due to limited internet speeds.
  • No other accommodations were made.

Then, admins suddenly changed their stance, saying:

"The player can play next gameweek, but not this one."

Which makes zero sense.

And yet, just two hours after that, the team received a final message:

  • The player was officially banned from the league.

No communication. No transparency. Just a sudden ban.

Where’s Riot?

The team has tried contacting Riot, but (unsurprisingly) nothing has been done.

At this point, the best-case scenario would be a rematch—but knowing how TOs handle these situations, we all know that’s unlikely.

The Valorant T2 scene has been a mess for years, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

If you’ve read this far, I urge you to help spread this. This team has spent months grinding, only to be robbed of their chance due to poor tournament management.

They deserve better.

#2
Cryptic88
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what happen to original post?

#4
Breezly
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back up

#3
Warlordwibz
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aaa

#5
SomeOne__val
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Did original post get taken down by admins?

#7
TMosura
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Someone double posted on an alt.

#9
Breezly
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it was me dw

#6
theiceman
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Yeah situation is messed up and they only play 3 games
They can't afford to lose that game

#10
Breezly
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really hurts me how demotivating it must be for them, sadly theres no actions being taken

#8
Cryptic88
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the fact that riot has done nothing about this and has even ignored the team makes me feel more disappointed than I already am in them

#13
Breezly
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Riot sadly has been sleeping on anything other than new skins for years

#11
SleepingSnorlax
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The admin must be so shit towards the player I feel bad for him

#12
Breezly
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Turns out that under Riot's rules, what they did was illegal. We could be seeing something deeper than a vlr thread here

#14
rapiDtheLad
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This is so fucked holy shit

#15
Breezly
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Valorant T2 in a nutshell

#16
Boketto
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bump

#18
Breezly
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much appreciated

#17
Moon999
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feels like riot laid off everyone except the skin artists, incredibly unprofessional coming from riot, and also fuck them admins

#20
Breezly
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Happily Riot always has our back with a new overpriced bundle!

#19
logistics101
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Bump , I hope Riot takes action. This is just so f'ed for the them .

#22
Breezly
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much appreciated <3

#21
H3ENnZ
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Bump

#37
Breezly
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much appreciated

#23
gambusia1302
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bump

#38
Breezly
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much appreciated

#24
vctscrims
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bump + i posted on twitter

#30
Breezly
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much appreciated, also had shared on mine in hopes of reaching more ppl <3

#25
NotSanity
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Tournament Organisers even in EU & NA has also been beyond cooked this challengers, unsure why something has changed.

#32
Breezly
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Sadly it hasnt been for this challengers season only, weve been seeing tons of unacceptable stuff from multiple TOs around the world for years aand hardly any action is taken

#26
wykes
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bump
actually disgusting stuff from the TO.

#40
Breezly
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much appreciated, if only this was the only bad thing TOs have done...

#27
danii1
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Bump

#43
Breezly
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much appreciated

#28
Moon999
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bump

#44
Breezly
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much appreciated

#29
delighted
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bump

#46
Breezly
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much appreciated

#31
egann
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bump

#33
TM06Nick
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how do we get this trending on not VLR. somewhere significant

#35
Breezly
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posted it on my own twitter account (@notunkedly) and @vctscrims also helped out even tho its not really his content, which I appreciate a lot, mostly just thru sharing it

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Tsikhamani
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Some streamer should speak about it on his stream and then post if on X, so that it will reach riot and leo.
Someone like Tarik or tenz should speak about this, maybe they will help

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Breezly
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I get what you mean by that but I hardly doubt any of those bigger names would want to talk about the current situation of vcl mena in their streams because its simply not their main topic.

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aexbigb0t
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+bump

#41
SnorlaxEnjoyer
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MENA has been horrific for management
The mistreatment of Pakistani playersby both the SA and MENA boards has been horrible too

#42
Tsikhamani
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Just wanted to know how SA harmed Pakistan??

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Yistyy
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Fuck those bums. I hope the team gets compensated somehow, because this is disgraceful.

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