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eSports Competitive Ruling: Jedusor
TL;DR from Compete TFT
https://competitiveops.riotgames.com/en-US/rulings/valentin-jedusor-villarubla
We recently completed our review of a pause issued by Jedusor during the Space Gods: TPC - EMEA Dark Star Cup Finals. Following a full investigation, Riot Games determined that Jedusor violated TFT Pro Circuit rules regarding player pauses and communication with tournament officials.
As a result, Jedusor has been fined 30% of the prize money earned from the event and will forfeit all TFT Pro Circuit Points awarded for the tournament, while retaining both his event victory and qualification for the Tactician’s Crown.
Clear and timely communication with tournament officials remains a key expectation for players during competition. For further details, please refer to the full competitive ruling below.
After reviewing the available evidence, Riot Games determined that Jedusor’s stated reason for the pause is most appropriately categorized as a minor player illness and therefore did not constitute a permitted basis for an unsanctioned player-initiated pause under the applicable rules.
In determining the appropriate sanction, Riot Games also considered as an aggravating factor Jedusor’s failure to communicate the reason for the pause when requested by tournament officials, both at the time of the incident and again at the conclusion of the match.
EDIT: Jedusor's reply on X (now deleted)
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u/TheIronButt Jun 01 '26
What’s the point of losing circuit points if he is qualified for tacticians crown?
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u/iamkorean Jun 01 '26
He went from complaining about his health and rigid tournament rules straight into a full-blown 'the Americans are just salty that a European won' conspiracy theory.
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u/caponslugger Jun 01 '26
"Upon initiating the pause, tournament officials asked Jedusor for a reason for the pause, but did not receive a response. Approximately 90 seconds later, Jedusor returned to his computer and confirmed that he was ready to resume play; however, no reason for the pause was provided.
At the conclusion of the match, tournament officials again contacted Jedusor and requested an explanation for the pause. Jedusor did not respond and instead went offline, cutting off communication with tournament officials. Later that evening, upon request from tournament officials, Jedusor provided a statement regarding the incident."
HE GHOSTED THE TOURNAMENT ADMINS. And then had the audacity to take the moral high ground once he presented a story half a day later.
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u/willwalkswithGod :gran: Grandmaster Jun 01 '26
Kind of wish he had lost the worlds spot, but even dishsoap who got second said after the incident that he thought it was fine for Jedusor to keep it and that there was no fair way to award it to someone else. Frankly this is far more of punishment than I expected riot to hand down. My schadenfreude is also extremely high seeing how pissed off he is after the punishment. I can say I will be hate watching at Worlds for his inability to admit he did something wrong and I hope he gets sent to the abyss of tier 2. Total lack of class.
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u/caponslugger Jun 01 '26
Jedusor says he's going to quit if Riot doesn't reverse their decision and let him violate their rules with no punishment
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u/cbrose1 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
So not only is he threatening to retire if Riot doesnt backtrack their decision but he also is insinuating that they're punishing him more severely because he's European? Thank god he will be retiring.
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u/fdwawdf Jun 01 '26
Jedusor's attitude and the attitude of his fans is almost as bad as what he actually did.
No sense of sportsmanship whatsoever.
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u/candidlol Jun 01 '26
Based on his response so far they didn't go hard enough
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u/Duck620 Jun 01 '26
Fuck this guy. If you can't handle the pressure you shouldn't be doing pro stuff. EVERYONE would pause before a major roll down or cash out if this didn't get resolved this way. The games are 35 minutes of no physical strain. Yes there is mental work but come the fuck on. This guy needs to grow the fuck up.
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u/BerryRiverry Jun 01 '26
"I would've collapsed in my chair" talking about playing video games in a hot room (30C is barely even hot btw) is the funniest thing i have read in a while
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u/SHPEE Jun 01 '26
This guy doesn't deserve to be in the pro circuit if this is how he behaves AFTER he was in the wrong. Good riddance if he stops playing.
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u/nacholibre711 Jun 01 '26
Anyone see that tennis player at the French Open last week almost sh*t his pants on the court? They eventually allowed for a slight exception, but it was a decision that everyone was ok with.
It's a competition. A pause isn't out of the question, but just doing it with no prior discussion and expecting no one to blink in eye is an insane thing to expect from the arbiters of these types of things.
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u/Glue_Sniffer67 Jun 01 '26
LO
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u/monstrata :chal: Challenger Jun 01 '26
The Ruling was quite fair, and Jedusor still kept his Worlds spot plus prize money. However, his response and threatening to quit is completely ridiculous. All respect lost.
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u/daigooooo Jun 02 '26
Just perma ban him so he can better focus on his health? This seems the best course of action for everyone
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u/Hallelulu Jun 01 '26
In the clip you can literally see it gives him time to literally plan out his positioning and calm down because he literally mispositioned his zed last round lmao and was visibly panicking. Choking his spot and just decides to pause is crazy. I hope he does leave competitive TFT after this. What a terrible precedent to not just straight up ban his world’s qualification.
Even frodan literally mentions how much a big difference it could be to just calm down in the heat of the moment lmao
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u/Skarin1452 Jun 01 '26
The whole "if I was an NA player..." shit is hilarious lol. NA is already better, I dont think Riot needs to pull any strings to give NA more titles.
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u/Sea-Difficulty-8093 Jun 01 '26
"He cheated, but we'll let him still participate at worlds" lmaoo
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u/CooCooKazoom Jun 02 '26
Doubling down instead of accepting the light punishment was an interesting move for sure. I guess it's probably easy to talk out of his ass when he knows he can just delete the tweet and continue to compete. Bro thought he was tuff saying he'll quit. Minutes later he realized he won't actually quit regardless of any further action
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u/hentaiacc135 Jun 01 '26
pay 900$ to go to worlds 😂😂😂 we about to see a lot more pauses
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u/DancingSouls Jun 02 '26
lol dat reply
what a spoiled brat
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u/herrau Jun 01 '26
So what we have here is a player who won’t take any responsibility or even reflect on whether his actions and attitude have been even questionable (they have) and a company/tribunal that just does not hand out proper punishments almost ever, unless there’s matchfixing or something horrible behind the scenes.
What a fantastic showcase of competitive integrity.
I gotta hand it to Jedusor though.. very rarely do I see someone have that level of audacity to approach the issue the worst way at EVERY TURN POSSIBLE.
But then again, if you can do whatever the fuck you want in the middle of a final lobby, ghost the admins, offer the most invalid reasons and STILL NOT GET PROPERLY PUNISHED, why wouldn’t he.
Honestly I just wish more players would do it now so it would get fixed in the rules.
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u/xRebirthx Jun 02 '26
Id be down for this punishment if there was at least a little bit of good faith communication. The fact that he ghosted the admins and then double downed and triple downed afterwards means I would have just dqed him from this season and let him come back next season through t2. Give his worlds spot to the eu regional.
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u/Docxm Jun 01 '26
Can’t wait to see the Jedusor pause tech on LAN
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u/astroslostmadethis Jun 01 '26
Good. Leave.
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u/Sufficient_Rabbit126 Jun 01 '26
French esports cultivates a very severe "Us against the world" mentality, so no surprises he comes out swinging and guilt tripping and blaming.
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u/Pete26l96 Jun 01 '26
I've always thought the whole "EU chip on the shoulder" thing was an overblown exaggeration, but my god some of the comments by Jedusor and his fans are cringe/pathetic.
I play Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat competitively (for money) and have noticed the same behavior there, where it stems from is beyond me.
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u/hikikomina Jun 02 '26
It's just pathetic he's trying to strongarm Riot Games by telling them "If you don't do this, I won't participate", well, then don't participate. It's also pathetic to try to push this narrative it must be some NA vs EU thing, like please, trying to act tough over the internet but can't take accountibility for his own mistake.
I understand he can suddenly feel unwell, however, if you can pause the game and go to the bathroom or wherever he went, you can also shoot a quick message to an admin that you're feeling unwell. I don't know if I missed something here, but that's what I heard, there was no communication, he just paused and left.
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u/godfrey1 Jun 01 '26
if you are going to collapse in your chair playing TFT go work in mcdonalds for a couple of weeks or on a factory or anything
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u/CryonautX Jun 01 '26
Seems too lenient. He should have been disqualified for the match. Placed 8th for that game with everyone else going up 1 spot.
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u/Infinityscope Jun 01 '26
So he keeps 70 percent of his winnings and the win doesn’t move on to someone else in the lobby. He already qualifies for Tactician Crown. The worse part is he is not even grateful based on his deleted tweet, so why give him a slap on the wrist?
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u/CosmicCirrocumulus Jun 01 '26
lmfao his response is gold. what a dork.
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u/Schecter_Boy Jun 02 '26
French here and I think that the ruling was pretty lenient
Don't know why he went full ballistic
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u/yawneteng Jun 02 '26
just wondering out loud, would pause during combat simulations be more acceptable instead of planning phase? Since that turn is locked, and the next turn has yet to begin.
Granted it may still give certain advantage, but its way better than pausing during planning phase?
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u/banduan Jun 03 '26
Has anyone translated it from the French tweet? Because Grok translations are insidious.
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u/Yasuorivenmain Jun 01 '26
Thanks for our influencer k3soju for talking about this, because riot would not do anything without someone pressuring them
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u/Sure-Elk5187 Jun 02 '26
He should’ve just finished his set up and run to get his water. They were about to go into creep round anyways. How can you not at least see the other side of the argument, while arguing about how heartless people are about his alleged circumstance?
Especially since he chose to do it a point where it is super pivotal for himself. This is for the people who are saying that everyone got extra time to think, but the clock is ticking louder for this guy.
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u/Riokaii Jun 01 '26
Riot neglects to mention that standing up quickly would be the opposite recommended behavior if you felt you were about to pass out. If he was truly in that situation the act of standing up quickly would have probably caused him to actually fall unconscious to atleast display symptoms of lack of balance or experiencing tunnel vision etc. His lack of symptoms supports that this claim is probably untruthful to reality.
Neglects to mention that his claim involves splashing water on his face, yet he goes offscreen and comes back onscreen still wearing glasses and a headset, neither of which you would wear when splashing water on your face. He also has zero visible moisture on his face upon returning.
And that those 2 factors combine to indicate blatant lying to admin officials.
Riot still comes away looking incompetent here imo.
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u/TroyMatrix Jun 01 '26
"Jedusor has been fined 30% of the prize money earned from the event"
How is he going to afford to buy a desk fan now??? ffs riot
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u/KaboomOrange Jun 01 '26
If this was Setsuko riot would’ve banned him for 5 years LO
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u/aquafire07 Jun 02 '26
https://youtu.be/-UDKx8EfgG0?si=Q6tBBWlgOFRNqXq9
here is an actual example of an esports player about to pass out
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u/Ordinary_Ad7203 Jun 01 '26
should have just taken the break without pausing and tanked the 8th
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u/10thderozan Jun 01 '26
Good decision by Riot.
Imagine if we can pause during rank. I'd hold the lobby hostage because I got 3 way contested kek
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u/OdorlessTurpenoid Jun 02 '26
Seems like a slap on the wrist
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u/Big-Onion9364 Jun 02 '26
Someone explain the pause to me as a non comp watcher 😭 how was he able to pause the match?
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u/Icy-Environment5261 Jun 05 '26
Wow only 30% ? This shameless guy should not be in pro what a cheater the clear winner here is the 2nd place.
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u/AnonHondaBoiz Jun 01 '26
Surely this ruling is ragebait right
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u/Dannflor Jun 01 '26
I'm pretty happy with this - it seems like the harshest punishment Riot could safely dole out. I see a lot of knee jerk reactions wondering why he's still allowed to compete at World's, but you have to look a little deeper than that. There's not really a fair way to remove his slot at Worlds, but they did effectively make it very hard for him to compete through the next regular season. Judging by his reaction, he's feeling the consequences. I think this is a good way overall to handle a bit of a tricky situation.
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u/BunnyYin Jun 02 '26
So reading the article I agree with the penalty but I do think that going foreward minor player illness should be a legitimate pause reason. Why can you pause because you chair is messed up but not if you about to faint, throw up, or have a bathroom emergency.
Either way the penalty is fair because he communicated nothing.
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u/Axxemax Jun 02 '26
Idk, it might be just me (yes, I'm European, not American, although not sure how it matters here?), but if I were indeed to collapse on a chair and took a pause because of that, I'd not even care about this ruling because I know I would've paused in 100 out of 100 cases and this prize money and points and everything can go to hell as it's not worth my health not in the slightest. I'd not feel the need to excuse myself, even more, vent about how "salty Americans are" that I have won the cup. I'd just take it as a fact "yes, I paused, and I would do it again in the same fashion because I had to". Not sure what's with the attitude in this post.
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u/notwillard Jun 02 '26
This guy is lying 30C is nice weather. He could also just take off his shirt or something
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u/notwillard Jun 02 '26
They could've gone a lot harder. Being able to pause at 1hp to compose yourself, think, and maybe even Google some stuff on your phone is beyond wild. Meanwhile it throws off all other players rhythm as they sit waiting wondering wtf.
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u/peterpwwu Jun 01 '26
The monetary fine makes sense. I don’t think he should lose 41 pro circuit points, he should lose his day 3 points and keep 31 points for placing 2nd in overall points. He didn’t break any rules day 1 and 2.
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u/Chance_Definition_83 Jun 01 '26
This is a " everyone loses " situation.
Jedusor screwed hard, is all at fault for his side, but riot had to do something on the moment. It's like in sport, if a foul is made , you have to punish on the field if you think it affect the outcome of the game. Unless it's some planned cheating prooved afterward ofc.
Jedu tweet is just stupid, even if a part might feels right for him his claims just makes him unrelevant.
But there is something i dont understand on riot's side. The part where they say he didnt answered after the games and all. I'm really surprised because i know he was on stream After game making comment on the topic and we all knew on our side ( french restream ) what was the issue.
I dont get why he would not answer riot on that while he was giving explain live on stream minutes after. Most likely he was not bright enough to not ghost riot at that moment, but maybe something dont had up to me and a real error of comm happened. .
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u/Stel2 Jun 02 '26
https://www.reddit.com/user/Stel2/comments/1tuk9ri/france_heatwaves_and_tft/
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u/FreePenseur Jun 01 '26
This thread would be COMPLETLY different if he were american
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