Riot says Trainwreck’s Valorant ban came from account swapping, not just a five-stack
Riot said one player in the group was using lower-rank smurf accounts and had prior boosting-related infractions, which led to the 31-day suspension.
Valorant players spent the weekend arguing over Trainwreck’s 31-day ban, but Riot said the punishment centered on one teammate who was cycling through lower-ranked accounts and borrowing smurfs to manipulate matchmaking.
The studio said full five-stacks are allowed under Valorant’s Competitive Mode FAQ, so the issue was not Trainwreck queueing with higher-ranked streamers such as Jay “Sinatraa” Won and coach Michael “Dapr” Gulino. Riot’s anti-cheat team said one player in that group had a history of boosting-related infractions and was later hit with a hardware ban.
Riot’s Mohamed “GamerDoc” Al-Sharifi added that the stack posted roughly an 80% win rate across about 50 games. He said the behavior fell under Riot’s terms of service, which bar playing on another person’s account or taking part in rank-boosting activity in section 15a of the company’s terms of service.
Trainwreck pushed back and said most of the players in his stacks were on their own main accounts, while asking why Riot did not warn him privately before the suspension. Phillip Koskinas later said the violation was tied to the borrowed lower-rank accounts, not to an over-ranked teammate.
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