"This should not happen": Professeur on Lynn Vision's controversial Yuqilin POB S3 playoffs

A new episode of HLTV Confirmed is here and HLTV's Professeur and Striker along with Counter-Strike caster SPUNJ dig their claws into recent happenings around the game's most competitive stages. The podcast went around various topics like FaZe missing out on the Major, BC.Game's roster moves, and other stuff before eventually arriving at the Asian VRS.

SPUNJ brought up Lynn Vision's bizarre run at Yuqilin Pinnacle of Battle Season 3, which Professeur called out as "quite egregious" and condemned the whole incident. To recap, the Asian VRS race was getting tighter by the minute, before Chinese teams Lynn Vision and TYLOO pulled off a last second heist. A month before the Cologne Major's invite date, the Asian top five had three Oceanic teams who gathered a significant amount of VRS from local LANs like DFRAG Wildcard LAN and ANZC Locals.

Things started getting crazier on the Asian side, with a new LAN nearly every week across Mongolia and China. Fast forward to a week before the Major invitations date- a couple of LANs were scheduled to take place in Shanghai, China, featuring teams like Lynn Vision and TYLOO who were right outside the Major invites range at the time. While Lynn Vision decided to put their full attention into Yuqilin Pinnacle of Battle Season 3 and pull out of XSE GangKui Cup Season 2 due to scheduling conflicts, their fellow countrymen at TYLOO decided to take the scenic route.

TYLOO confirmed both their LAN slots and played both of them simultaneously. The Chinese side were having a blast at XSE GangKui Cup Season 2, while forfeiting their games at Yuqilin Pinnacle of Battle Season 3, sending Lynn Vision deeper into the playoffs bracket. TYLOO did show up for their lower bracket game in Yuqilin Pinnacle of Battle Season 3 but abandoned the grand-final, giving Lynn Vision a LAN win without playing a single map in the playoffs.

The panel continued to speak about the incident, pointing out how addressing such a situation through the rulebook can be challenging, given the oddity of the course of events. Professeur went deeper and stressed on how such incidents just should not happen and dug deep into the tournament organizer alleging that the TO did not care much about the tournament but just wanted to push Chinese teams across the cut-off, into the invites range. He then draws comparison to European tournaments, pointing out how organizers critically delay and reschedule fixtures just make matches happen, in stark contrast to how Yuqilin were contempt with handing Lynn Vision forfeit wins.

Its one of those things where you can't write a rule about something that is so bizarre; there is no reason for people to think about like "What if we have a team getting 3 forfeit wins in a row on different days for different reasons."
Professeur

The topic then shifted towards the multiple-LANs angle. Professeur bluntly stated that it was bizarre to have two LANs running simultaneously and more so with a team shuffling back and forth between both.

It (Lynn Vision's triple forfeit playoff at Yuqilin POB) should not happen, it can not happen. I just cannot believe in any normal tournament where people want the tournament to be played, that you would end up in a scenario where you have three forfeit wins in a row. I have no proof, I didn't speak to people but this makes no sense. For me it just implies that they (T.O) really didn't care about the tournament being played, they just wanted a Chinese team to get points and I am not saying this specific Chinese team. I am just saying people behind this tournament did not care to make this tournament be a tournament of competition. Look at any online tournament in Europe- how many reschedules, delays they go through just to make the match happen. This happens all the time, people figure it out. Its also bizarre to have two LAN tournaments at once, that's also kind of a first, I don't know why that's being allowed in anyway.
Professeur points out regular fixture changes in other events to make matches happen