Fanpage of ESC UEL Club (University of Economics – Law) suddenly reopened and made an announcement with “colors” of VCS to quell the wave of public criticism.
Student-level drama between two ESC (Electronic Sports) clubs belonging to two schools UEL and HUTECH has not shown signs of stopping. After a post from the fan page of the HUTECH student community, about the school’s League of Legends team being “unreasonably” permanently banned from the tournament – Icarus League Championship (ILC) hosted by ESC UEL Club, The student community that loves League of Legends has created a strong wave of outrage. The incident continued to escalate when an article by Mr. Hoang Phuc Thong – Founder and manager of BTS’s predecessor team Percent eSports appeared, the post affirms that player Nghiem Truong Phu is not a member of BTS at all. Legally the Percent eSports team. In the article, this person also mentioned that the purpose of the post is to support the QD Gaming team of HUTECH University to regain justice.
Before the combo with high damage from many sides, ESC UEL Club decided to reopen the fanpage with a feedback message to calm public opinion. The main point of this announcement lies in two points:
– Deny all evidence from QD Gaming and former owner Percent eSports as “valid”. The announcement cited the reason that player Nghiem Truong Phu’s level was enough to practice for a long time at Percent eSports – A strong team of VCSB that later appeared at VCS. Therefore, the presence of this player in the student-level tournament will cause an imbalance, affecting the interests of the participating teams.
– In the process of handling denunciations related to player Nghiem Truong Phu, QD Gaming side intentionally revealed messages to unrelated people. This person then released messages and emails of BTC and used vulgar language, insulting the prestige and honor of the BTC in particular, as well as the UEL school in general.
Based on the above two points, the ESC UEL Club and the ILC tournament organizers have announced: The decision to permanently ban the QD Gaming team from the tournament system organized by the ESC UEL Club is reasonable. and it is FINAL DECISION. According to Game4V’s assessment, this announcement from the ESC UEL club in terms of arguments, citing the way of reference is quite professional in the style of VCS, especially in the way of closing the announcement with “final decision”. However, logically, this announcement is quite “equivalent” when it denies the evidence and verification of the people involved in the story, especially denying the verified opinion of the Percent eSports team’s own owner about the validity the legitimacy of the mid laner – Nghiem Truong Phu.
From a tournament media perspective, we can somewhat “sympathize” with the ESC UEL club when the decision to sanction was given earlier by them. The recall of a decision is almost unprecedented in eSports tournaments, unless there is a huge incident affecting the entire tournament or there is an intervention from the authorities. Because simply before issuing the first sanction announcement, all work from investigation, evidence collection or even risk factors on the media crisis has been carefully considered.
We can understand that the ESC UEL Club fully accepts the mixed opinions pouring in on them after the first announcement, because running the tournament consists of many people, not just one decision maker. Although the decision or handling this time of the ESC UEL Club is very bad, Game4V assesses the worst point is probably the fact that a member of the BTC team contacted and then “died word of mouth” with a representative of QD Gaming (HUTECH) through Facebook messages. This is an inexperienced action, combined with a big ego, away from the collective interests, it was the “superior” sayings of the “conversation” that made the HUTECH representative decide to put the matter on the fanpage. , since then the media crisis named ESC UEL has been “accepted”. Game4V would like to quote a passage from the meeting for readers to self-assess the professionalism of BTC members on the UEL side: “I don’t need to watch it, and I don’t care either.” – ESC UEL club member said this sentence in the context that HUTECH is presenting evidence against them, as well as the validity of player Nghiem Truong Phu. We wonder, if “don’t need to see, don’t care” evidence from the participating team, what will the organizers care about? Championship? If it was the championship, they would have succeeded in eliminating the championship candidate team like QD Gaming…
Currently, below the post of ESC UEL Club, it still receives a lot of criticism from the student community who loves eSports.
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