messioso urges Valve to take action against CAC: "Your complete inaction is concerning"

Graham "messioso" Pitt, Complexity's CS General Manager, has publicly asked Valve to intervene in the upcoming CS Asia Championship 2025.

This comes after Perfect World, the organizer of CAC 2025, have updated the tournament's Additional Information for the second time. China went from having two qualifier slots to none, and Perfect World announced that MIBR will take one of these spots, with the other going to an Asian qualifier featuring China, East Asia, Oceania, and Others sub-regions.

messioso can't understand how CAC 2025 is being allowed to repeatedly break the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) rules.

This makes absolutely no sense - how a TO can continually make changes to their slot allocation without being required to change their VRS date??

Surely after their first infringement the only two options were to:

• revert the slot allocation back to how it was initially

• use the updated slot allocation but on the August VRS not July

With more slot changes they should now be on the September VRS.....

Your complete inaction is concerning. The precedent being set is even more so.

Valve's Tournament Operating Requirements rulebook states that the Invite Date for tier-two events "must follow the announcement of Additional Information by no fewer than 30 days."

CAC 2025 has been under scrutiny since August 1st, when Perfect World announced the nine teams invited to the event, based on the July VRS.

FaZe were ineligible for an invite, but Valve exempted Perfect World, allowing FaZe to receive a Wildcard invite due to being a former CAC champion.

The $1 million CAC 2025 will run from October 14th to 19th in Shanghai.