SuperMassive Blaze forfeits map one of 2022 EMEA VCT Challengers Promotion Tournament series due to a player showing up late

SuperMassive Blaze forfeited the first map of their best-of-three series against FOKUS in the upper bracket of the EMEA VCT Challengers Promotion Tournament today due to a player on SMB not arriving to the match on time.

On stream, the match’s start time was pushed back by 10 minutes before EMEA VCT officials announced on Twitter that SMB had violated rule 7.2.2 of the VCT rulebook. After 10 minutes of waiting, SMB were officially forced to forfeit the first map, which would have been Ascent. The VALORANT series moved straight into Haven with SMB down 0-1, a map that FOKUS ended up winning 13-8 after a monster Jett performance from former Astralis CS:GO AWPer Jakob “JUGi” Hansen.