In recent days, the Vietnamese community of TFT has been eagerly following the SEA regional qualifiers for the TFT Season 10: Remix Rumble tournament. This is a familiar annual tournament held to select representatives for the TFT region of Southeast Asia. Players from Hong Kong and Taiwan are also included in the SEA regional qualifiers. After the final match on February 25 (Vietnam time), the two names that will represent TFT Vietnam at this game’s World Championship were confirmed to be Lê Chuyên and Ngọc 6 Múi.
However, this season, as the Remix Rumble SEA qualifiers gained more attention, several issues have emerged. Firstly, on the forums of the Vietnamese TFT community, numerous individuals have directly accused Vietnamese players of “camping” opponents. Specifically, some opinions suggest that Vietnamese players “check” their opponents’ compositions and take certain units they don’t use so that their opponents cannot upgrade their champions.
The situation escalated recently when Tristan, a player from Taiwan, directly accused Vietnamese players of engaging in gambling during matches. Tristan’s post stated: “Vietnamese players are involved in something called TFT gambling. It’s a practice where players bet a certain amount of money, and whoever wins gets it all (or sometimes 75%). To win easily, they often have a team of ‘griefers’ who do not play and collect money after the match.”
In addition, Tristan bluntly stated: “It would be perfect if Riot organized the SEA regional finals with 8 players not from Vietnam. But surely they won’t do that; instead, they let 2 players from a cheating region participate in the World Championship.”
The incident continues to attract the attention of the audience in the LoL community in Vietnam. Although the TFT game mode has a large community, Riot has not shown much concern about the tournament formats. Therefore, as of now, the publisher has yet to comment on the incident.