Valorant Player Diverts Toward Honkai Star Rail Resulting in a Team Forfeit From Match
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The developers of Genshin Impact, miHoYo, just released their new game project, Honkai: Star Rail. This fourth installment in the Honkai series is taking the world by storm. The proof of the success is the stellar number of downloads on the launch day. Honkai: Star Rail surpassed Genshin Impact when it got over 20 million downloads in just one day.
But this addicting gacha title has caused a debacle in an FPS title’s world. Recently a VCT team had to forfeit, and Honkai: Star Rail was at the center of it.
Honkai: Star Rail leads to the funniest forfeit in Valorant Champions Tour history
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The incident occurred in the Valorant Challengers League Taiwan/Hong Kong. The match between S2 Esports and Ghost CommandoS (GCS) was scheduled on May 2. But GCS forfeited the match to much surprise from fans. Later, the reason for this action was revealed to a player on GCS playing miHoYo’s new title.
Just read about the funniest forfeit possibly in VCT history in VCL HKTW
The team in question (GCS) had to forfeit because one of their players was too busy playing honkai star rail to install the VCT client in time for their match 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/JmdCLZYM3J
— KZ Seulgi (@SeulgiVLR) May 4, 2023
Due to the player being busy with Star Rail, he could not download and install the VCT client on time. This was most certainly the most unusual way for a forfeit. But this has also gotten VCT a lot of criticism for making players download clients in the middle of the season.
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A player in the Valorant Challengers League Taiwan/Hong Kong gave an explanation for this. He said, “I play in this VCT, and they use 3 different clients, swapping between them weekly, this week there was an update to the first one we used to include Bind and the new skin set basically making it close to the latest release, and the update was basically the size of a normal client.”
The internet was in laughter after finding out the reason for forfeit
The fans also had some funny reactions to the unfortunate forfeit. They believed that 3D virtual waifus are taking over the world.
can't blame them sorry
— Omen (@_deeponh) May 4, 2023
The coach after we got back to the players room pic.twitter.com/dJ7QYWwGnV
— JollyPyro (@pyro_jolly) May 4, 2023
Too busy simping on virtual waifus 😂 pic.twitter.com/ckG0aqtEa7
— Rahul_7 (@BokenBeni) May 4, 2023
He knows his priorities all too well. ♥️
— KimKantAim (@KimKantAim) May 5, 2023
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happens to the best of us
— WowMit (@WowMit) May 5, 2023
Both S2 Esports and Ghost CommandoS finished sixth and eighth in this league season respectively. Following this incident, it looks like players in VCT will stay aware moving forward.
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What are your thoughts on this funny incident that forced Ghost CommandoS to forfeit their match against S2 Esports in Valorant Challengers League Taiwan/Hong Kong? Let us know in the comment section below.
Edited by:
Jito Tenson