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T1 suspends coach dd8

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February 1, 2022

T1 T1 Korea Unranked stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) has released a statement concerning the team's forced forfeit against TSM TSM North America Unranked seven Johann Hernandez gMd Anthony Guimond sym Tyler Porter tdawgg Travis Regan XXiF Damion Cook in North America's first Challengers qualifier. In response, the organization has suspended head coach David "dd8" Denis ahead of the upcoming second qualifier.

T1

@T1

Official statement regarding #VALORANT.

T1 met TSM in the lower bracket of NA's first Challengers qualifier just days prior. After Map 1 victory and 8-4 lead on Map 2 for T1, the match was paused and eventually cancelled. Shortly after, Riot released a statement affirming allegations made by TSM after Map 1, stating that dd8 had provided instructions to T1 players while the match was in progress. As a result, T1 was forced to forfeit the match in its entirety, just two rounds away from potential qualification.

dd8 will now be suspended from the organization ahead of this weekend's qualifier. The last four slots to the group stage of Challengers 1 remain up for grabs in a field of weakened competition, as Version1 Version1 Inactive , XSET XSET Inactive , The Guard The Guard Inactive JonahP Jonah Pulice trent Trent Cairns neT Michael Bernet valyn Jacob Batio tex Ian Botsch , and NRG Esports NRG Esports North America Unranked FiNESSE Pujan Mehta s0m Sam Oh Verno Andrew Maust mada Adam Pampuch Ethan Ethan Arnold qualified in the previous week.

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zerosh1ma

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deserved

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bandwagondestroyer

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arturo_fdez

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at least u tried xd

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InXtiNct

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what does a dot mean though, im still clueless

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FightWasTaken

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they try to ratio the poster I think

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Hasbulla

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he tried to ratio the poster but then after seeing it fail, he edited it to a dot.

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wxngster

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good

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Help sewer

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omw my way to help sewer!

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is this a coverup or did they fire cause coach was stupid enough to type in all chat?

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org reputation prolly (also not fire its suspend)

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nematoma

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yea i mistyped that mb

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You can't mistype suspend to fire-

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you know what he means bro stfu

#39

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probably just something for the public. they ain't suspending him for real in practices lol.

#44

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coverup for what? everyone knows he violated the communication rules. but it is a deserved suspension.

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MoonshineRB

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from help sewers to help me find a new job

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Unfortunately, he will be back on Group Stage if T1 qualifies.

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Kobel

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Suspended "for this qualifier"

Are they implying after the quali they might just say "screw that, let's get him back into lineup"? Lol

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probably cuz it says suspend not kick/fire

#13

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are people going to pretend his violation is career ending now? he just type not ingame call like g2's coach

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Kobel

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Yup as there's absolutely nothing in between "suspension for one qualifier" and "career ending violation". Dude.

I'm just paying attention to the specific wording in the source post. Time will tell what T1 will do long term, but the incident will be a strain on their reputation, especially if coach goes back to work as usual. The players' involvement is obviously a separate subject.

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bruhhhhh
get good

#11

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dd9 will be a better Coach

#14

redlight

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Respectable by T1, because they took action. Other orgs would perhaps defend or ignore the situation.

I hope this doesn't boom the team morale come qualifier 2.

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ninz

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The morale of the team who participated in cheating with no issue?

I think they're fine...

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Damn, I remember the 100t stuff, still dont know what happened clearly with valo and their ex coach

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Hater

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To be fair, Valorant has a number of incidents of teams with Coaches in the calls or even main calling for teams in the past. From recent examples like G2 in the challengers qualifier or to historical examples like Ascent in masters 1 2021. Coaches in the calls aint a new thing in Valorant. Is the suspension warranted yes probably, is it going to be a long term measure, I doubt. T1 have a lot invested in David Dennis and the system he has built around this team so it's unlikely his gone

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The difference is coaches were allowed to call at first. The fact they are not now imo is a change in a good direction, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for IGLs. Most CS:GO event organizers made the same move in the past.
It isn't as serious of a violation as f.e. using external cheating software or streamsniping, but now it is a violation nonetheless and should be treated as such.

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It wasn't that they were allowed to call, but there was no rule for it. So every admin had no idea, and some allowed, some didn't. This is the reason why even Acend's case was pretty yikes, but then u realize the admin told them that the couch could call, so it's not insanely bad.

I mean it has to be regarded as a violation, not sure how they will enforce this due to this being set as the precedent now.

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bro if the admin said that they could call they are literally allowed to call

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Jawa

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"T1 takes pride in fostering a culture of integrity in both our players and coaches"

proceeds to hire a known match fixer and then coach abuse

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Just bring back T1 to Korea. NA T1 is bad tbh

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I understand Riot's punishment.
I don't understand T1's punishment. Why punishing the coach while they left the players, analyst, etc. unpunished if they all knew what they were doing?

This is just a sad intent to try to save your org's reputation while throwing your coach's reputation to the mud

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Ofc he's a scapegoat here, but it's not like they're gonna skip on the most important qualifier of the next few months.

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No, if you don't want to skip the next quali, then don't punish JUST your coach. That is stupid and morally debatable, in my opinion. Riot's punishment is more than enough. If you really want to punish anyone, punish everyone involved

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What do you think would be the accurate action if they don't want to straight out just replace the entire lineup? Financial fine for everyone involved?

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hypocrital

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LETS FUCKING GOO

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G2?

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Deserved, the reflection off that baldy egg head was too bright

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cheater gets replaced by stunner, the other cheater kekw

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idk why people are supporting t1 here using a logic that other teams must be cheating too, all cheaters definitely deserve to be punished. That said, I'd like to know the extent of the situation. Was he constantly typing in team chat during the whole match, or was this just one slip up ' help sewer". If it was the former, the whole team including players should be suspended because they are complicit in the cheating. If latter, than just suspending him is fine. Its hard to judge if this punishment is good without knowing how bad the cheating was.

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^^
I wasn't sure either, but no one really knows. I guess it is what it is. We can't really do anything about it because we really don't know anything. Unlucky really.

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"in light of recent events, we're going to give our coach a 5 day paid vacation to reflect on his actions"

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good decision, now get a good coach

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unexpected

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1head ascend fan take

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SCAPEGOAT

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lol

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HELP SEWER!

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just go back to Korea val scene, what a ungrateful organization

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hunden

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Yikeees

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it's quite funny, they're talking like it's kind of a big thing, but the challengers qualifier isn't a LAN tourney. how do you think this punishment gonna work effectively

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Lol

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Bitsu

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Ofc the org didn't know ...

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Yikes cant win without cheating. Steel didnt learn.

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lol

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