“Honkai: Star Rail Players Disqualified from Valorant Challengers Tournament for Being Too Engrossed in New RPG Game”

Riot Games imports this year“Special Heroes Challenge”(Valorant Challengers Tournament 2023; VCT), planning a set of e-sports competition system to expand each competition area to discover up-and-coming rookies. Although it is still in its infancy, the news of a game last week has attracted players from other game clubs outside the venue. Group – Attention Honkai: Star Rail players.

Hong Kong/Taiwan Challengers Unexpected Bye Loss, Players Enthusiastic in the New RPG “Collapse: Starrail” Couldn’t Install the Tournament Client in Time

— VALORANT News (@ValorantNews_jp) May 4, 2023

On May 2, the VCT Taiwan-Hong Kong Division progressed to Day 1 of the sixth week of the regular season.Ghost CommandoS“Played in “S2 eSport”, but the live broadcast entered for nearly an hour and the game did not start. In the end, the judges received the news and announced that the GCS team was disqualified.

according to Twitch LiveThe chat room administrator issued an announcement: “Because GCS did not log in to the server and enter the competition hall within the time limit, and failed to complete the preparations for the competition after the time given by the competition team, it was judged that S2 won 2-0.”

However, this disqualification incident was made public by overseas reporter Seulgi on Twitter, saying that this may be the most interesting disqualification incident he has heard in the VCT series, because the real reason for the disqualification is that the players of the GSC team played “Honkai: Interstellar Railway” Play until you forget the time, and it is too late to download the main program of the VCT game server before the game time.

According to the Twitch live chat room that day, when the administrator announced the news of GSC’s disqualification, the audience discussed that GSC player “Keynes” did joke in the chat channel that it was because “Honkai: Star Railway” was too fun.

Although it is not sure whether it is a joke, but after the news sparked heated discussions, whether it is Twitter or overseas forums, it has aroused resonance among players of “Honkai: Star Railway”.

In fact, since its launch at the end of April, “Honkai: Interstellar Railway” developed by MiHoYo has formed a huge community discussion in Japan and North America. Also relevant people in the e-sports circle of “Heroes of Special Warfare” also left a message jokingly explaining that it is understandable.

Understandable pic.twitter.com/a1HiWpoQZU

— Fayde (@FaydeVLR) May 4, 2023

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by u/Shubhaaaaaam from discussion [Seulgi] The match between S2 Esports and Ghost CommandoS in Challengers HK/TW has been forfeited by the latter team because “one of their players was too busy playing honkai star rail to install the VCT client in time for their match”.
in ValorantCompetitive

That’s me ROFL

— Keynes🧊｜楚冰 (@KeynesICE) May 4, 2023

Although it caused heated discussions outside the court, the GSC team did not perform well in the regular season, and its current record ranks last in the Taiwan-Hong Kong division.