ZETA DIVISION remove Valorant player flappy over \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d ZETA DIVISIONJapanese esports giants ZETA DIVISION have announced that transgender Valorant player \u2018flappy\u2019 has been removed from their Game Changers division. The decision comes after an internal investigation into flappy\u2019s past behavior revealed that the player had been involved in \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d prior to joining the team. ZETA DIVISION concluded that flappy had \u201cviolated community ethics, such as smurfing,\u201d and engaged in actions that \u201cviolate moral principles.\u201d The latter includes \u201cracism and other forms of socially unethical behavior,\u201d \u201ctrolling,\u201d and account sharing. \u201cIn light of the above, it appears that flappy\u2019s involvement in these acts was habitual, and in light of the degree and type of involvement, we have determined that the maliciousness of the acts was high,\u201d a statement read. \u201cZETA DIVISION takes this matter very seriously.\u201d The Japanese organization expressed their \u201cdeepest apologies\u201d for this matter, which has \u201ccaused great concern to our fans and other parties, and has undermined trust in ZETA DIVISION.\u201d They also vowed to improve the scope of their investigations into the past conduct and friendships of prospective new players and content creators. flappy joined ZETA DIVISION on July 27 as part of the organization\u2019s Game Changers division. Days later, a Japanese gossip account verified on Twitter questioned flappy\u2019s gender, prompting ZETA DIVISION to say that flappy \u201cis a transgender woman who has been going to the hospital and taking hormones.\u201d ZETA DIVISION explained that they did not disclose this information at first to protect the player, who is also a minor. This is not the first time that ZETA DIVISION have taken disciplinary action against a player for inappropriate behavior. In December 2021, they suspended Shogo \u2018takej\u2019 Takemori, who at the time played for their men\u2019s Valorant team, for three months for boosting another player\u2019s account. As a result of the investigation and flappy\u2019s removal from the team, ZETA DIVISION have announced that their women\u2019s team have withdrawn from VCT Game Changers Japan. Reignite Lily will take the vacant spot in the four-team tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ZETA DIVISION remove Valorant player flappy over \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d ZETA DIVISIONJapanese esports giants ZETA DIVISION have announced that transgender Valorant player \u2018flappy\u2019 has been removed from their Game Changers division. The decision comes after an internal investigation into flappy\u2019s past behavior revealed that the player had been involved in \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d prior to joining the […]<\/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-67113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67113","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=67113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}