Azure Ray Official Statement about Bali Major incidents

About Nouns' incident

The premise is, almost every pro player knew the watcher bug before major, and also used it in major.

Then, the night before AR vs Nouns, Nouns reported this bug to organizer by recording Chalice's POV. After further reporting to Valve, it was determined as a bug. Our team was told this announcement during the first game vs Nouns and be told using this bug will be def loss from next game. However, after the second game, organizer still got a report that we used this bug that Chalice and 天命 moved their camera and left-click-and-drag the watcher area. When we were wating for tiebreaker game, organizer asked our manager to their office and announced the def loss decision that the game would be 1-1. After our manager appealed and watched the evidence, he told organizer the left-click-and-drag does not trigger that bug at all, but organizer still wanted to maintain the penalty:

1. organizer said there was no reason for players to do that other than using bug. Our manager retorted that without a reason or not, it still doesn't proc any bug.
   
   
2. organizer thought players were using quick attack. Our manager asked them to check players settings and if organizer thought they did some last minute change, organizer could watch them play a pug game to see if players shows any weird move. organizer refused to do that.
   
   
3. organizer did not check replay to see if other team also used this bug.
   

In the end, after organizer's 1.5 hr close meeting, they withdrew the penalty and explained the misunderstanding to us.

About the LB game with Betboom

The premise is, Pure tabbed out to stream. At that night, Tundra said they dont care if organizer make any penalty to pure or not, and organizer just made an announcement in late night only claim that no tabbing out to any software any more, no penalty to BB , AR still vs Tundra.

Then, the next day after LGD vs TS second game, we suddenly realized organizer changed the schedule to AR vs BB without any notice. We asked organizer to follow the old schedule cuz we studied Tundra's strat for two days and it should not be wasted due to BB's mistake. but the organizer refused to do that and emphasized that "according to the rulebook, BB must be def loss". However, organizer ignored chapter 5.2 in rulebook, the cheated player must be banned. After we showed the rulebook, the organizer asked us if we accept Pure be banned AFTER the games vs us, we rejected. We clearly told the organizer, either just revoke the penalty to let us play against Tundra, or just follow the rulebook strictly to ban Pure immediately. We had no intention to target Betboom or Pure at all, and fully respect them, but still we have the right to say no to any unfair treatment.

In the end, the organizer decided to ban Pure after communicated with Betboom. However, during the communication, our appeal was tempered to "AR only agree to play with Betboom without Pure, otherwise they will abandon the game.", which droped their responsibility and led us to be that bad guy.