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Native Gaming White to replace Team Fallacy at Astral Clash

Team Fallacy’s VALORANT female line-up has been accused of cheating in the Astral Clash Last Chance Qualifiers. Following the allegations... Fragster | 1. August 2022

Team Fallacy’s VALORANT female line-up has been accused of cheating in the Astral Clash Last Chance Qualifiers. Following the allegations that surfaced last week, Astral Clash’s tournament administrators have now made a decision.

According to the official statement by Gen.G Esports — the organizers of the event — the team will be suspended pending an investigation by Riot.

Team Fallacy player MarsArxa is said to have shared her account during the tournament and let their friend play instead. While Riot games will investigate the player and her team, Native Gaming White will take Team Fallacy’s place in Astral Clash. 

Google document with allegations

The allegations against Team Fallacy were collected in a Google document and in the process, Team Fallacy’s player MarsArxa was accused of letting her boyfriend, former TSM Academy player Nate “payen” Lopez, play on her account throughout the Astral Clash tournament instead of her. However, it is unclear who wrote the document. Payen was spotted in the queue with the team the day before and there were also other inconsistencies that seem quite suspicious.

For example, earlier in September 2021, female professional Valorant player Sophia “Slaze” Ramirez was suspended from VCT Game Changers by Riot Games for account boosting. Soon after the official verdict, she was let go of her team Polaris.

While it is known that women endure an increased amount of harassment and toxicity in the gaming environment, which can be incredibly toxic by itself, incidents like this only deepen the problem and make it worse for exceptional female players who are being wrongly accused of cheating and harassed. Needless to say that cheating has no place in professional play.

Header: Gen.G