Following an investigation carried out by Riot Video games, the corporate has dominated as we speak that G2 founder and former owner Carlos Rodríguez “engaged in exercise detrimental to the very best curiosity of the League and Riot Video games,” and has been suspended till Nov. 13, 2022.
This ruling is in response to the now notorious tweet of Carlos sharing a video of himself and others celebrating with controversial determine Andrew Tate. Because of Tate’s extraordinarily misogynistic views, Carlos’ tweet was met with a lot backlash from the general public and was made worse by his preliminary combative response wherein he mentioned his friendships couldn’t be “policed” and that he may “get together with whoever the fuck I would like.” G2 finally put out an apologetic assertion earlier than Carlos finally stepped down as G2’s CEO and parted methods with the group.
This habits from Carlos, based on Riot, was in direct violation of Article 9.2.5 of the LEC Official Guidelines, which says that members of a crew “could not give, make, problem, authorise or endorse any assertion or motion having, or designed to have, an impact prejudicial or detrimental to the very best curiosity of the League, Riot Video games or its associates, or League of Legends, as decided within the sole and absolute discretion of the League.”
The incident additionally reportedly cost G2 a partnered VALORANT spot within the upcoming VCT 2023 season within the Americas league. G2 was in talks with the entire XSET roster and workers earlier than Riot reversed course on partnering with the group within the wake of the movies being posted.
Along with being suspended retroactively for eight weeks ranging from Sept. 18, 2022, Carlos is required to finish sensitivity coaching and government coaching earlier than he can return to Riot’s ecosystem sooner or later, and this should be accomplished with proof of such offered to Riot inside 120 days (roughly by Feb. 11, 2023). This coaching should be offered by an unbiased third-party that’s unaffiliated with G2, Riot, or Carlos himself.
Carlos may in principle return to the Riot esports ecosystem as early as the start of 2023 with any group.
