Riot Games has indefinitely banned LGD Gaming’s mid laner Chen “Jay” Bo from all League of Legends competitions including the ongoing LPL, for involvement in match fixing in the Chinese league.
The ban comes after the allegations surfaced online following some leaked screenshots of chat between Jay and an unknown party. The screenshots show texts about Jay being asked to throw a match against Top Esports in order to fix bets. The texts also showed a clear effort to negotiate financial compensation by Jay for intentionally losing a fight around the Rift Herald.
Since the screenshots surfaced online, both LGD and Riot Games stepped in to investigate and suspended Jay until the investigation was over.
After the allegations were found to be true, Jay was handed an indefinite ban from playing on any Riot Games associated events or league.
This essentially means a death sentence to Jay’s professional career in League Of Legends, as almost every big payout event or league is associated with Riot Games.
The ban comes mere days after the leaked text messages surfaced and LGD announced it had launched an internal investigation into Jay’s actions.
The news of the ban was first shared via LPL’s Weibo channel, which also stated that Jay’s ban is applied not only to competing professionally in League of Legends, but also includes being able to stream League Of Legends.
This essentially stops him from generating any form of revenue from the game publicly via streaming or competing.
Riot Games takes allegations of match-fixing very seriously given the massive value of its esports leagues, and Jay was clearly in violation of Riot’s competitive integrity requirements.
