Story time. I have been contemplating posting about this and have finally decided to due to the rising popularity of collusion and bribing I’ve read about at LA for best of’s. With the RC coming up, this will surely get much, much worse. I have some information I’d like to make public about collusion for the Best of Rumble. This will be a long one, so buckle up. I met a very cool kid, age 14 at the pre-RQ on Friday. His gamer name was Hashee. We had a good match but I ended up winning. Said hi to his Dad and told him he has a great, smart kid and he reminded me of my son. He told me he would be going for Best of Rumble in the main event, so I told him best of luck and hope he gets it. He kept popping up and telling me how he was doing, he was killing it all day beating some very good players. Towards the end of day 1, the second to last round (round 7), I found out he beat my friend and fellow @TCG_Triad sponsored player and went over to tell him how proud I was because my friend is a very good player and won Best of Draven at Hartford. Hashee was very excited because he was in the lead for best of, contending with a player named Maxx C, and if he won his next match not only was he locked for day 2, but he also would win best of Rumble. I wished him the best of luck in his next round. During my last round, I was in the middle of a very intense win-and-in match vs Kennen and he came by and told me he lost. I unfortunately wasn’t able to really talk, so I had to go talk to him after the match. After the match, I found him and his Dad and was told that Maxx C 2-0’d a Master Yi named ChineseStud. But this is not what actually happened, as his Dad watched the end of Maxx C’s match. He witnessed Maxx C lose the match 0-2 versus ChineseStud. Both players got up and walked to the side and looked at their phones for a while, having a discussion out of earshot. Then Maxx C reported the win 2-0. I am unsure what the agreement was, but concessions / intentional draws are supposed to happen before play. This was clearly collusion. They waited to see if Hashee lost before making their deal. An upsetting part of this is that Hashee’s Dad pleaded this case to the judges/staff and nothing was done initially when he brought it to their attention. I just heard now that he was DQ’d from it. I just checked standings and it doesn’t look like Hashee was 2nd anyway, but it might have been different before day 2? Unsure of that. But the principle is what I am mainly going on about here: Best of Rumble was essentially stolen away from either a 14 year old kid who worked so hard to win this best of and make a name for himself in the Riftbound community, or a different honest player. I am not sure how standings work for in a situation like this This is heartbreaking to me because as a father if this happened to my son I’m pretty sure I would quickly become the first permanently banned Riftbound player. Be honorable. Earn your best of. This is not the way.

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