Ukraine\u2019s national esports teams quit IESF WEC over Russia unban IESFThe Ukrainian national CS:GO and Dota 2 teams have withdrawn from the IESF World Esports Championship 2023 after the organization lifted the ban on Russian teams. The decision comes after members of the International Esports Federation (IESF) voted in favor of letting Russian players compete under their country\u2019s name again following a ban imposed in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine. According to a statement issued by the Russian Esports Federation (RESF), 32 delegates voted in favor of Russia\u2019s reinstatement, 13 voted against, and 25 abstained. A proposal put forward by the Ukrainian Esports Federation (UESF) to suspend RESF from the IESF was rejected by the congress, the Russian Federation added. Ukraine\u2019s Dota 2 team was the first to announce that it was withdrawing from the event, forfeiting the lower bracket match against Indonesia. \u201cAfter the news and the fact that this decision to unban Russia is final, [there is] no desire to compete anymore,\u201d Ukraine support Ivan \u2018Kidaro\u2019 Bondarev is quoted by Cybersport.ru as saying. On X\/Twitter, Ukrainian esports organization IKLA, whose CS:GO team was due to play Serbia on September 1 in the quarter-finals of the IESF CS:GO competition, announced that the squad is pulling out of the event. The IESF has not yet issued a statement on the lifting of Russia\u2019s ban. The UESF vowed to challenge this decision in court and accused delegates of taking bribes. \u201cThe international federation is already mired in corruption scandals,\u201d the UESF said on Telegram, seemingly referencing a July report by Romanian media outlet ReporterIS detailing the organization\u2019s murky finances. The 2023 IESF WEC is taking place in Ia\u0219i, Romania, and features tournaments in CS:GO, Dota 2, FIFA, Tekken 7, Mobile Legends, and PUBG Mobile. It is the 15th world championship organized by the IESF, which brings together 140 esports federations from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ukraine\u2019s national esports teams quit IESF WEC over Russia unban IESFThe Ukrainian national CS:GO and Dota 2 teams have withdrawn from the IESF World Esports Championship 2023 after the organization lifted the ban on Russian teams. The decision comes after members of the International Esports Federation (IESF) voted in favor of letting Russian players compete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}