Valve Creates Conflict Of Interest Rule for Future Events
By Zac Cameron ·
The publisher is cracking down on any possible instances of collusion with their new rules.
As revealed in a recent video by Richard Lewis, a new rule has appeared in the ruleset for the upcoming qualifiers for the FACEIT London CS:GO Major. The Counter-Strike scene has long had the potential for conflict of interest to cause issues when it comes to major events, and it seems that Valve are set on preventing it from happening just in time for the FACEIT London Major.
The new rules, which can be found here, have added a subsection to the existing section 6 – “Other Rules”, which typically covered the usage of anti-cheat measures, Stand-ins, in-game names and avatars, and the like. Section 6.7 now reads “Teams and players should not have any financial interest in the success of any team that they are competing against. To participate in the 2018 Fall Major, players and teams are required to affirm that they have no business entanglement (including, but not limited to, shared management, shared ownership of entities, licensing, and loans) with any other participating team or its players. If teams or players have an agreement or business arrangement that may be of concern, then please reach out to the tournament officials for further discussion.”
This is in addition to the already existing section 6.6, which read “Any form of collusion or match-fixing in order to manipulate the results in this tournament will result in disqualification and potentially a permanent ban from FACEIT. To report any match-fixing allegations, please send us an email with evidence to tournaments@faceit.com.”
As raised in the video by Richard Lewis, there are quite a few instances of potential conflicts of interest in the CS:GO scene, which have only been exacerbated by the rise of the “player owned” model that has seen players owning shares in the teams that they play for, and the teams that they have previously played for. Whether this will mean some organisations will need to bow out of competing, or potentially sell off the conflicting shares, remains to be seen.
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