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SportsGamers, As you might have noticed over the past few days, some discussion regarding suspensions of community members Filip @Faze91- Azri and Kian @Kian7702 Rahmanian has surfaced and there seems to be a lot of hearsay and misinformation out there regarding the case and the decision made by League Administration. We have not released a statement like this regarding a LA case in quite a while, however we felt that we could not go any longer without clearing up the circumstances regarding decisions made. What we know: Faze had gained knowledge about a Discord server on which multiple community members had spoken about him in a ridiculing manner for an extended period of time. Faze gained knowledge, that Kian was one of the instigators of the discussion, and the two got in contact over Discord private messages. After a particularly heated conversation, Faze looked up Kian’s address and made Kian aware that he would be showing up at his door shortly, to which Kian responded tauntingly. Faze arrived at the house with two other friends at midnight and let Kian know that he'd arrived. At that point, it appears that Kian was surprised Faze followed through. The meeting ended up happening outside of Kian's house. Both parties have been heard by League Administration, and according to their statements disagree on how they spoke after this point. Faze left the house with his friends shortly after. League Administration has decided to suspend Kian for the duration of the eHSM and the SCL as the instigator of a bullying situation, where several community members ridiculed Faze on a private discord server for an extended period of time without his knowledge. The bullying continued after Faze was made aware of the situation. League Administration has decided to suspend Faze for the duration of the eHSM and the SCL because arriving at someone’s house (who you have never met), after getting into a heated discussion is, in our opinion, an action where the threat of violence is suggested by Faze simply being there. If you ever look up someone’s address after an argument to visit them, regardless of whether you bring friends or not, you will get suspended. It is irrelevant what Faze’s motivations were leading up to or after the event, simply being there with the backing of friends was a clear and present threat to the other member. League Administration continues looking into the matter and will be issuing suspensions to other community members included in the situation. Bullying is something League Administration looks down upon and will continue to be strict with in the future. While our mission is not to be the internet police in situations like this, we are always doing our best to remove any type of bullying within our community. It goes without saying, but people should not hurl insults at people and bully them. It also should go without saying that threatening physical violence, whether implicitly or explicitly should never be resorted to. We hope that this will be enough to clarify details related to these suspensions and that LA will be trusted to handle the remaining suspensions as further information is uncovered.

SportsGamers, We're rolling on with the 2022 eHockey Finnish championships and it's now time for the second playoff round to kick off. Thus far, we've seen several interesting matchups and while most of the higher seeds have been able to secure their spot in the second round, some highly surprising results also came out of the first round. Most notably, 57th seed Ace Hockey took the playoffs by storm by overcoming #8 seed Masin Maansiirto in a thrilling game 5 overtime finish. Another surprising finish to a series was the 3-0 sweep that Hartsport United was able to conduct in their matchup against Hawaii Hockey. These two teams have another big challenge ahead of them in the second round for sure! Some rather exciting mathcups are in store for us in the second round, as the likes of YMCA Esports and JYP Jyväskylä will be clashing already early into the postseason. One of the big names will be out early, it seems. Setelit On Ice will be facing Big Mistake in a series that could go either way and will certainly depend on the form of the night.  Lastly, Reality Check vs Hotbox is going to be a series you'll want to follow along with. There's a lot of familiarity between these two squads and the matchup is a great rivalry for bragging rights going further. The second round of the playoffs (BO5) is to be played between Wednesday, 7th of September and Sunday, 11th of September. Head over to the league page for the playoff matchups!