Australian handed 12-month ban after falsifying ID
Tyson “asap” Paterson from the Australian team Rooster has been handed a 12-month ban for submitting falsified ID documents to ESL in order to circumvent an age restriction.
ESL annouced today, that the Organization have banned the 17-year-old Tyson “asap” Paterson from the Australian team Rooster.
The ban has been issued after the youngster admitted, that he had had sent in a false ID to try and get around the 18+ restriction, that were present at an event.
In November, ESL Australia held a 2-versus-2 tournament with an 18+ age restriction, Tyson “asap” Paterson signed up to compete, but due to previously having competed in tournaments where his age was submitted as 17, a age-verification process was initiated. In this process a date-of-birth was requested and a false date-of-birth was provided.
Prior to the start of DreamHack Masters Winter, it was on December 1 announced that Rooster had been replaced by Chiefs in the Oceania portion of the tournament. This was based on the recommendation from ESIC as an investigation was active for one of the players, which meant that the team lost a third member from the qualifying lineup and thus was no longer eligible for the spot.
Rooster played their last match on the 29th of October losing to AVANT.
