Fans Give Support to Jacko and Other PH Players, Petitions Raised
Following Valve’s banning announcement for several players in the Southeast Asian scene, fans took to social media to raise a petition for reconsideration against Valve’s verdict.
Jellal “AAAlgorithm” Fernandez, a player currently coaching in SEA, started the petition saying that Valve should have given different levels of punishment for the players involved. He said that Mark Anthony “Jacko” Soriano, a minor at the time of the massive match-fixing scandal of 2014, was still under-aged and did not know any better for having participated.
The petition also noted that the case for banning Jacko and the other 8 Filipino players was markedly different from Malaysian team, Team Redemption (formerly Arrow Gaming), arguing that their case was already solved and punishments have been meted out by local Philippine organizers.
“If we have to make eSports to be match up to [the] and accepted as a sport like other traditional sports then we have to follow [the] kind of ban system like traditional sports do,” he stated.
If you want to know more about the AAAlgorithm’s case or you want to sign the petition go to change.org
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