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Chinese Taipei Disqualified from HGG Singapore Advances

by - 6 years ago

Blizzard Esports has just announced that the Chinese Taipei Hearthstone Global Games team has been disqualified for violating the rule against stream sniping in their game versus Singapore. Accordingly, Singapore will be advancing to the next stage in their stead. This is a huge shock about the competitive integrity of the event, but it is encouraging to see that Blizzard is taking active steps to police this type of misconduct. Congratulations to Singapore for moving on! Remember that you can check out the final stages of HGG at Blizzcon, and that HGG Cheer is continuing through the end of the event.

The official statement on the disqualification decision is short and only gives a few details, but you can find it here:

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment (Blue Tracker / Official Post)

All administrative decisions related to tournaments governed by Blizzard’s official Hearthstone rules can be found here.

HGG Playoffs – Oct. 2018
The Chinese Taipei Hearthstone Global Games (HGG) team has been disqualified from the Hearthstone Global Games competition.
Following the Chinese Taipei vs. Singapore match, the Chinese Taipei team uploaded a video of their gameplay. Upon review of the video, and after reviewing in-person statements from the players, the Hearthstone Esports team has determined that members of the Chinese Taipei team used the delayed tournament broadcast to aid them in a decision during the game. This behavior is prohibited in our tournament rules under section 7.11a. Specifically, players are prohibited from “[s]tream sniping, or any general attempt by a player to spectate his or her own match or get information from another person spectating the match.”
Based on the timing of this disqualification, the Singapore HGG team will advance in place of the Chinese Taipei team to the playoff stage of the Hearthstone Global Games at BlizzCon.

 

 


Nicholas Weiss

Is a lawyer by day and a cardslinger by night. He's decent at both. He's been playing Hearthstone since open beta and writing about it for a few years now.


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