A scandal is happening in eSports today, as Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, announced that two professional League of Legends teams are banned from future Riot-sanctioned competitions.
Badawi has been banned for life from Riot-sanctioned competitions and teams, while MonteCristo is banned for a year from holding any official team position.
Renegades and TDK have been given until May 18th to sell their teams’ slots in their respective leagues to other team owners.
Another team, Team Impulse, was just banned for allegedly failing to pay its players tens of thousands of dollars in salaries.