Shoryuken has recently revealed that major tournament organizers of the fighting game community have agreed to a standardized rule punishing cases of player collusion. This resolves a major problem that has plagued the community in tournaments, where players agree with each other to drop matches so that one of them can go on to finish tournaments.
Often, collusion happens in the FGC without malice, as people in the community are very close to each other and will often enter into these agreements as friends. Of course, the practice is unethical, and hurts the community's integrity.
Basically, everyone is now going to use EVO's rules against player collusion, which automatically disqualifies all the players involved from the tournament. Consequently, they forfeit any prizes and titles they would have earned in said tournament.
The tournament organizers who have agreed to adopt these rules are as follows:
- Evolution Championship Series (Includes all Road to Evo events)
- Big E Gaming Events (Northeast Championships, Summer Jam, and Winter Brawl)
- Canada Cup Gaming (Canada Cup, April Duels)
- Community Effort Orlando
- Civil War
- East Coast Throwdown
- The Fall Classic
- Final Round
- Level|Up Events (SoCal Regionals, Wednesday Night Fights, and The Runback)
- MTLSF Events
- Northwest Majors
- Shadowloo Showdown
- NorCal Regionals
- Toronto Top Tiers (TORYUKEN, Canadian East Coast Championships)
- Treta Championship
- Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament
- Armshouse
We do support this move by the community towards transparency and hope the rule isn't put to the test too severely in upcoming tournaments, as hopefully players will simply decide not to even try.
Image screencapped from EVO Moments 2013 video.
Source: Shoryuken
