Riot suspends Chet from VALORANT for sharing VODs: “[I] wasn’t able to accept any team offers”

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Chet unsurprisingly disagrees with Riot’s ruling.

Riot Games handed over a five-month suspension to VALORANT head coach Chet “Chet” Singh on Monday, Oct. 14, which will force the coach to stay on the sidelines until Aug 06, 2025.

The former NRG coach violated Riot’s Global Esports Code of Conduct for distributing unauthorized VODs on August 11, 2025. According to Riot, Chet didn’t secure permission from Riot, NRG, and the other teams involved, and that constitutes a breach of “proprietary information.”

These VODs were from older NRG matches in VCT Americas, and Chet streamed them on Twitch with full comms such as the clip below.

What were the breaches?

“The VoDs in question are considered confidential and only made available to players and organizations for competitive use and as approved by Riot Games,” Riot’s ruling reads. “This content of earlier NRG matches included team communications (e.g., communication between players, coaches and referees during the matches), all of which are considered confidential.”

By doing that, Chet breached Articles 3.2.1 and 4.10 of Riot’s Global Esports Code of Conduct:

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Chet comments on his VALORANT suspension: ‘I will be streaming in the meantime’

Minutes after Riot made the suspension public, Chet commented on the decision that will keep him banned from VALORANT until March 2025.

“I disagree with their ruling as no damages were done to either party but I can no longer compete until March so until then I will be streaming in the meantime,” Chet wrote on X. “I wasn’t able to accept any team offers due to this ongoing sadly, sorry guys,“Chet wrote on another tweet.

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VALORANT fans claim NRG “snitched” on Chet, organization denies

After the news dropped, some VALORANT fans started saying on X and Reddit that NRG “snitched” on Chet. What caused this conspiracy theory is the fact that Chet and NRG’s current head coachMalkolm “bonkar” Renchrecently started a beef online.

Chet mocked bonkar in NRG’s announcement on X four days ago, prompting a response from the man who replaced him. Bonkar told Andrej “babybay” Francisty that he “actually understands the game” and is going to do better than Chet.

However, NRG straight-up denied snitching on Chet, thus dismissing the community gossip.

“For the record, NRG had no involvement in this process,” NRG Chief Gaming Officer Jaime Cohenca wrote on X. “Please stop pushing the narrative that we snitched on Chet.”

While the suspension will only last until March 2025, it’ll likely hurt Chet’s chances of landing a job in VALORANT as he’d lose VCT Masters Bangkök.

Though it doesn’t seem much, this means he can’t help an organization to build their roster for next season.

Chet has been afree agentsince July 2024 and is one of the most popular coaches in the scene, mostly because of his victorious time with Envy andOpTic Gamingbetween 2021 and 2022.

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