Conflict of interest in Team SoloMid – club president accused of lack of professionalism

President of the eSports Club Team solomid Lina Leena Xu was at the center of a conflict of interest dispute. This happened after her talk about transferring a roster player to League of Legends Joshua Dardoch Hartnett accidentally became public.

The incident occurred on the stream Ilyana Doublelift Pan Is a Team SoloMid player who is also a Xu guy. When he was broadcasting ladder matches, Leena in the next room was discussing with someone the problems with the transfer of Dardoch. In particular, she complained that the TSM forester “no one wants to take.” The gaming community was outraged that Xu was discussing such confidential issues in the presence of another player in the roster, and journalist Richard Lewis pointed out conflict of interest in this incident.

Many fans of Team SoloMid considered it wrong that the club president is meeting with one of the players, which means that he may be biased against some work processes. Lewis urged Riot Games to intervene in the situation, since this state of affairs contradicts the generally accepted code of league rules. In particular, a journalist proposed remove TSM from LCS until Leena resigns.

Whether the organizers of the league will somehow solve this issue is unknown. Judging by Xu’s reaction, she sees no problems in what happened. In a topic on reddit, the TSM president replied that she had previously discussed working issues in the presence of Doublelift, and now it became public only because he had OBS configured incorrectly on the new computer and some extraneous sounds were broadcast.

From the conversation of Leena it follows that in the summer split Team SoloMid will have a new forester. If Dardoch resigns, then the Chinese player is a likely candidate for his replacement. Mingyu Spica Luwho performs at the club academy.


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Ilyan Doublelift Peng

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Joshua Dardoch Hartnett (?)

Mingyu Spica Lu (?)