Players of HC Circus have been proven to have made several infractions against the rules of the tournament, as outlined below.
A. The assistant captain of the team, Pair4You has deliberately manipulated the statistics of his team's matches mainly to his own benefit by adding points and moving penalties to other players. This action continued for the whole of the regular season. By doing so Pair4You has breached the following rules:
8. Match report
All stats reported must correspond with the figures in game.
3. Code of conduct
Members are not allowed to try circumventing the rules.
B. The captain of the team, oGBioLan, as well as the other assistant captain of HC Circus, Filariou, have been ruled to have broken the rules concerning the responsibilities of the captains of a team.
4. Responsibilities
All managers (C and A) are the representatives of their entire team, as such they are responsible for:
• Ensuring their team complies with the tournament rules at all times
C. One of the players of HC Circus, Jesse, recently contacted the NHLGamer staff and made claims that one of the administrators had been spreading confidential information of the case to the public. After a thorough investigation to the issue it was determined that these claims were false. Thus, Jesse has committed a major offense in the Code of Conduct.
3. Code of conduct
Members are not allowed to try circumventing the rules.
Members are not allowed to deceive or give NHL Gamer staff false information.
Disciplinary actions:
HC Circus has been disqualified from the tournament. Their remaining games will be given as walkovers to their opponents, as outlined in the rules when a team is disqualified while having completed at least 80% of the games.
Due the systemic nature of infractions committed by Pair4You, and the fact that he is also an assistant captain of the team, he will be suspended from NHLGamer tournaments for this and the next season. His statistics for this season will be nullified and replaced by a bot.
Jesse will be suspended from the ongoing tournament and 12 games of the next tournament. He is also forbidden to act as a captain or an assistant captain in the next tournament.
oGBioLan and Filariou are given a serious warning due to major neglect of their responsibilities as team captains.
Final words:
We understand that the penalties handed out are quite hard. However, the offenses committed were so severe and numerous, that no other option was seen viable.