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#Arrow Gaming Scandal
A year later another Match-Fixing scandal took place that ended with way worse consequences. In October 2014 South East Asia’s Synergy League, the heavily favorite Arrow Gaming lost against Australian team Can’t Say Wisp (CSW), following the event DOTA2 Lounge started an investigation on the match. The investigation revealed several bets placed by individuals associated with the team, leading Arrow Gaming to be disqualified from the tournament. Further investigation proved that the bets were placed from the accounts of the girlfriend of DDZ and Lance, resulting these two players receiving a lifetime ban from the event. Arrow Gaming protested for the player’s innocence and provided chat logs and statements regarding the situation, however, the logs were proved manipulated and the statements false. As a result, Synergy League extended the ban to Arrow Gaming’s entire organization. As a result of this controversy, Arrow Gaming’s lineup and all the players were removed from the Summit’s qualifier. Soon after the incident, DDZ took Facebook to publicly apologize on behalf of the players. Let’s take a look at what he has to say,
“The purpose of writing this is to clarify about the 322 incident.
But firstly, we, the 5 members of Arrow Gaming as well as XiaoTing and Hishiko (DDZ and Lance’s girlfriends), would like to sincerely apologize to the organizers, Synergy League and BeyondTheSummit, and to our fans as well as the Dota 2 community for all the trouble we have caused.
Firstly, we want to admit that the 322 by DDZ and Lance is true, and we are very sorry for this mistake. We considered doing it in the first place because we were desperate for money. We live in the city, and being underpaid, things are just very tough and harsh on us sometimes. We are very very sorry for this action and we should have never done it.
We were very afraid and lost, and didn’t know what to do and how to react. And thus, we approached our management for help and we were advised to cover up for the sake of our reputation. We knew this was wrong but we felt extremely pressured to follow whatever our manager Jaren Gan, said, as we are working for him.
The statement, as well as the ‘evidence’ provided, that was made in DDZ’s name, was not written by him, but by Jaren for damage control. We know this is wrong and it made things even worse by covering up a mistake with lies. We should not have let it happen.
We are also sorry for not confessing earlier, and also very sorry for letting all our fans and the Dota 2 community down. We are deeply sorry for not following our hearts and just doing what is right, because we were afraid and terrified of what would happen to us. Gaming is our life and we were afraid that we would lose everything because of our greed and desperation.
But no matter what it is, we accept 100% the punishment and consequences that is to be made to us, and we give our word and our promise that this will never happen again. It was an extremely stupid mistake, and we made it worse by doing something we knew was wrong instead of admitting it straight away. We have finally found the courage to admit it and to confess because we know that lies will only lead to more lies and we will never find peace of mind. We believe that telling people the truth and admitting our mistakes, even if it may be too late, is the right thing to do.
We are also very sorry that we were too stupid to realize how unethical it was… we are sorry for everything that we have done. We have betrayed our fans’ trust and faith in us, and we will never forgive ourselves. We hope that you can forgive us even after all we’ve done. Thank you. - Kok Yi "ddz" Liong”
As DDZ’s post exposed Arrow’s organization and the manager Jaren Gan, the manager threatened to sue Lance and DDZ for $8000 dollar for breach of contract if they don’t take back their confession. Arrow Gaming ended up releasing the entire roster. But that was not the end, on March 28th, 2015 Valve stepped in handing a permanent ban to all former members of Arrow Gaming including xianzai, MtR, MoZuN.
