According to the rules in effect before the tournament:
“Participants conducting personal broadcasts are encouraged to use a stream delay to prevent cheating.”
“Participants are solely responsible for any disadvantage arising from personal streaming.”
The Korean streamer could have taken a countermeasure by enabling stream delay, but she chose not to. The rules explicitly stated that participants were responsible for any disadvantages arising from their own personal streaming.
So why is the responsibility now being shifted onto the Vietnamese players? Why is the streamer being treated as the victim of a risk that the rules explicitly placed on the broadcaster?
Even more concerning, after the incident, the organizers updated the rules to require a 5-minute stream delay and explicitly prohibit checking stream chat, viewing participants' streams from other regions, and using information obtained from outside the game.
Why were these restrictions not clearly stated before the incident?
Krafton, PUBG — can you explain how this is supposed to be fair and consistent?
To add to my previous post, I am not defending the two Vietnamese pro players—unfair gameplay should be punished. However, the issue here is that there are loopholes within the rules.
The PUBG Vietnam official posted an apology to the Vietnamese players for the miscommunication and then quickly deleted it, and the organizer only updated the rules after the incident! This means the Vietnamese players had actually asked for permission. If they knew it was cheating, why would they do it without hesitation and just for fun? One of them is a world champion, after all; would they cheat at that level? If they had a cheating mindset, would they still have followers and be allowed to join the All-Star tournament? They got permission. If the rulebooks had been clear, they wouldn't have done it, especially since they have been in professional tournaments before.
What disgusts me here is that the Korean streamer, instead of handling this without triggering and unnecessarily escalating the issue, posted a video accusing the two players without any investigation. Furthermore, Krafton has shown no accountability, choosing instead to shift the blame entirely onto the Vietnamese players. As a result, Korean netizens just assume that all Vietnamese players cheat and look down on others, instead of looking into the actual circumstances. Honestly, who cheats so openly? It's frustrating when Koreans immediately assume the worst and look down on others. Disgusting.
#KRAFTON #PUBG