Recently, Garena the publisher of Free Fire announced the first-ever national-level tournament Free Fire City Open 2021 (FFCO) for the players around the region.
A total of 8 cities will be featured in the event, through which the players could register for the event. The cities are as follows -Ahemdabad, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Vishakhapatnam. FFOC has a massive prize pool of 60,00,000 INR.
Fozy Ajay and Mafia Bala violated the competitive ruling
Free Fire Esports India took their official Facebook page to announce the list of defaulter teams and players that got disqualified from the event. After, the top 3000 teams were shortlisted from the Free Fire City Open FFC Mode. Garena began with a more in-depth verification process according to the competitive ruling.
The investigation found that two players from Total Gaming Esports – TGFozyBhai and TGBala participated in the Free Fire City Open FFC Mode multiple times. Both the players were part of teams Total Gaming Delhi and FOMZYvai. As a result, both teams and players were disqualified from FFCO due to the violations of the Free Fire competitive ruling.
This news came as a shock for all the Indian Free Fire gaming community. As Total Gaming Esports has been one of the leading esports teams from India and was one of the major contenders for wining FFCO.
Besides this, the investigation also revealed that several teams submitted details of the players that are currently serving the ban from esports tournaments. Leading to their disqualification from the event.
More teams disqualified for different reasons
Besides the two teams getting disqualified from the event. LVL Amaterasu blocked the admins of the organizers during the verification process. Each player ought to verify the ownership of their accounts. Which couldn’t be done with LVL Amaterasu. Resulting in the team’s disqualification. Here is the list of teams that got disqualified due to the competitive ruling –
- PVS GAMING (Banned player in the team)
- Pvs Gaming (Banned player in the team)
- NO_MERCY… (Banned player in the team)
- TGB—ARMY (Banned player in the team)
- unstoppable???? (Banned player in the team)
- X-factor (Banned player in the team)
- FOMZYvai (Multiple signups)
- TG-Delhi. (Multiple signups)
- LVL-AMATERASU (Failure to verify account ownership)
The national finals are set to take place on Independence Day of India, 15th August 2021 where the top 12 teams will battle for a prize pool of ₹60,00,000 INR.
