{"id":777005718,"date":"2023-05-29T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777005718"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:33:29","slug":"2-singaporean-valorant-players-jailed-for-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/2-singaporean-valorant-players-jailed-for-match-fixing","title":{"rendered":"2 Singaporean Valorant players jailed for match-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two esports players bet against their own team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.- Two professional <strong>Valorant <\/strong>gamers from the Singaporean esports team <strong>Resurgence <\/strong>have been sentenced for their involvement in a match-fixing and illegal gambling scandal. Team captain <strong>Malcolm Chung &#8220;Germsg&#8221; Wai Kiat<\/strong> has received a four-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to corruptly receiving illicit benefits. Teammate <strong>Ryan \u201cDreamycsgo\u201d Tan Shern<\/strong> was sentenced to at least six months of reformative training for bribing Chung to throw a match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incidents took place during the EPULZE Royal Southeast Asia Cup Tournament in September 2020, which was a part of the Valorant Ignition Series organized by Riot Games. Team Resurgence faced challenges in their matches against Team Paper Rex and Team Vision Strikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tan suggested betting against their own team and intentionally losing in order to repay debts of S$1,000 he owed to Chung and was unable to repay. Chung underperformed during the match and instructed his teammates to do the same. As a result, Team Resurgence lost 0-2, allowing Chung<strong> to win more than S$7,000 from the illegal bets<\/strong>. However, the team&#8217;s managing company lodged a police report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valorant is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-89-arrested-in-connection-with-illegal-horse-betting\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore: 89 arrested in connection with illegal horse betting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two esports players bet against their own team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Two professional Valorant esports players from Singapore's Team Resurgence have been sentenced for match-fixing and illegal gambling. Team captain Malcolm Chung \"Germsg\" Wai Kiat received a four-month jail sentence for corruptly receiving illicit benefits, while teammate Ryan \"Dreamycsgo\" Tan Shern was sentenced to reformative training for bribing Chung to intentionally lose a match during the EPULZE Royal Southeast Asia Cup Tournament in 2020.","focusai_entities":"Resurgence, Malcolm Chung \"Germsg\" Wai Kiat, Ryan \"Dreamycsgo\" Tan Shern, EPULZE Royal Southeast Asia Cup Tournament, Valorant Ignition Series, Riot Games, Team Paper Rex, Team Vision Strikers","focusai_location":"Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Esports Betting Licensing Impact?","query":"What are the broader implications for B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks in jurisdictions where esports betting is regulated, given this match-fixing precedent?"},{"label":"Tournament Integrity Protocols?","query":"How will this incident influence the development and implementation of enhanced integrity protocols by tournament organizers and game publishers like Riot Games?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-777005718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777005718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005740,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005718\/revisions\/777005740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777005718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777005718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777005718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}