Competitive Ruling: Tainted Minds

A lot of people seem to be only reading the ruling when there's a bit more.

Some highlights:

  • Tainted Minds offered to move the players, coach and manager to different housing (of their choice) as early as January 13, but the team declined the offer.

  • As the house was a rental, many of the failings were on the part of the landlord. We reviewed emails from representatives of Tainted Minds to its landlord’s representatives throughout December, January and February, including multiple emails seeking permission for improvements made to the house at the team’s expense.

Paints the picture that TM at least made some strides to improve the living conditions, which is likely why the ruling isn't as harsh as many want it to be.

  • It’s also important to state that breaking non-disclosure agreements and releasing personal information publicly, including unredacted email addresses, often has serious legal implications and consequences. Even where the trust between players, coaches, managers and organizations break down, the violation of NDAs and the release of personal and/or confidential information should never be the answer to the problem. In the future, we’ll be taking NDA violations into consideration within rulings—whether from the player or the org side.

  • ...With that in mind, we will be introducing a new dedicated email address for any pro player in any league worldwide to reach senior central leadership and be guaranteed a response within 24 hours.

  • Additionally, we are going to create and maintain a more robust investigative process to be used by all regions. This new process will require a visit to a team’s gaming house when there are complaints about the condition of the house.

Riot is also making it easier for players to bring up issues, rather than having to create Twitter drama and rallying the Hive Mind.

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