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A Third Announcement on the JEDI Ringing Incident in CSL Competitions
Original article by Zhu Pao · "Starcraft Jiayou PLU Sanpao" — 17 September 2026, 11:48 · Guangdong
Link to the second announcement: Announcement Regarding the JEDI Ringing Incident in CSL Competitions
CSL · Competition Announcement
Third Announcement / 2026.09.17
Announcement by the CSL Organizing Committee
Third Announcement on the JEDI Ringing Incident
On 8 August 2025, this channel published the Second Announcement on the JEDI Ringing Incident, which stated that the player JEDI (Jiang Jiang) had long engaged in ringing — having another person play in his place and under his own identity — in the StarCraft CSL series of competitions. Over the course of several years he deceived the event organizers, the audience and the sponsors who supported him, and made enormous gains in the process.
That announcement imposed a lifetime ban on JEDI and required him to return his illicit gains, and made clear that legal action would be taken. We now inform our viewers of the subsequent judgment and the related details.
Judgment Result · Return of the Money
RMB 82,748 — application for enforcement by the court has been filed
The court ordered JEDI to return RMB 82,748 and to pay liquidated damages according to the standards set out in the judgment. If he continues to refuse to repay, the court may, in accordance with the law, take enforcement measures such as freezing his bank accounts and seizing his property and, where the statutory conditions are met, restrict his high-end consumption and place him on the list of dishonest judgment debtors.
Images of the judgment are attached at the end of this document; the way the liquidated damages are calculated is set out in detail in the record of the proceedings and in the operative part of the judgment.
01 The Course of the Proceedings and the Judgment
2 July 2025 — Investigation launched
After JEDI's ringing in CSL matches was first discovered on 2 July 2025, Mr. Gan and Zhu Pao immediately set up an investigation team for the JEDI ringing incident. Subsequently, with the joint assistance of "Dog King" JXSA_Zergling and comrade 911, the team analysed roughly 300 of JEDI's match recordings — as many as could be collected. After verifying a large body of evidence of ringing, the team produced a report and, on 8 August 2025, published the Second Announcement on the JEDI Ringing Incident.
After the second announcement — Litigation team formed
Starting from the second announcement, Attorney Chen Hongyi, Mr. Gan and Coach Zhu formed a litigation team against JEDI. Taking the video analysis report issued by JXSA_Zergling as the core evidence, and with Attorney Chen's professional legal support, the process of suing JEDI began.
30 March 2026 — Lawsuit filed
On 30 March 2026, with Coach Zhu — the party that pays out the competition prize money — as the plaintiff, and with Attorney Chen Hongyi retained to organise the complete set of evidence (competition rules, match recordings, prize-money transfer records and the professional analysis report), we formally filed suit with the Yunyan District People's Court of Guiyang City, demanding that JEDI return RMB 82,748 in prize money and bear liability for breach of contract.
17 July 2026 — Hearing held
On 17 July 2026 the case formally went to hearing. Coach Zhu attended the proceedings in person, but although the court lawfully summoned JEDI, he refused to appear without justified reason, and the court tried the case by default in accordance with the law. Following the presentation and cross-examination of evidence and the verification of facts, our evidence was accepted by the court, and the court found as fact that JEDI had engaged in ringing in competition and made illicit gains in violation of the rules.
7 August 2026 — First-instance judgment
On 7 August 2026 the court delivered its first-instance judgment. It upheld the return of RMB 82,748 and ordered that liquidated damages be calculated on a base of RMB 82,748 at the one-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR) from 9 May 2026 until the date the sum is paid in full; the other claims were dismissed. After the judgment was delivered, JEDI did not appeal within the statutory period, and the judgment has now formally taken effect.
11 September 2026 — Application for enforcement
On 11 September 2026, because JEDI refused to return the gains he had obtained in violation of the rules, we applied to the court for enforcement in accordance with the law. If he continues to refuse to repay, the court may lawfully take enforcement measures such as freezing his accounts and seizing his property and, where the statutory conditions are met, restrict his high-end consumption and place him on the list of dishonest judgment debtors, holding him legally accountable to the full extent of the law.
Throughout the process above, Mr. Gan followed and guided the work from beginning to end and provided financial support, including for the video analysis, the legal fees and the litigation costs.
02 Why Only RMB 82,748 Was Claimed
Competition prize money Tips and side bets
RMB 59,160 RMB 23,588
The Organizing Committee had previously calculated that between 2021 and 2025 JEDI's cumulative illicit gains from ringing amounted to RMB 106,276, comprising RMB 60,160 in competition prize money and RMB 46,116 in tips from the audience. During the evidence-verification stage of this case, while going through all the bank statements, Attorney Chen Hongyi discovered that part of the prize money had been paid directly by sponsors; because those sums date back many years, the relevant payment vouchers were hard to obtain in full. This litigation therefore asserted rights only over the portion where the video evidence of cheating was clear, the transfer vouchers were complete and a closed evidentiary chain could be formed. The amount finally claimed was set at RMB 82,748 (comprising RMB 59,160 in competition prize money and RMB 23,588 in tips and side bets). In addition, the sums Mr. Gan had privately sponsored JEDI — including red-envelope payments for the Si Qu Xiong Di on-demand sessions — and the cost of hiring a nanny to look after JEDI's child were not included in the scope of the claim.
03 What the Case Means for the Industry, and a Summary of the Rights-Protection Effort
This case may be the first in China in which an event organizer pursued a rule-breaking player through litigation over ringing and cheating, and it is of great significance to the domestic esports field. According to the Organizing Committee's search of public court documents, no comparable civil precedent had previously been found in which a prize-money payer sued a competing player over ringing and cheating in competition and won, with professional post-match video analysis serving as the core evidence on which the decision was based. In the past, the industry's handling of ringing and competition cheating generally went no further than internal event sanctions, annulment of results and bans — the level of industry self-discipline — and it was extremely rare for anyone to pursue prize money already paid out from a rule-breaking player through civil litigation.
Video analysis of esports matches and the determination that a player's operations were abnormal are specialised esports work, and how to convert the industry's professional review conclusions into lawful, valid evidence recognised by the courts had no mature judicial precedent within the scope of the Organizing Committee's search; the demands of preparing the evidence were very high. Throughout this rights-protection effort the Organizing Committee consistently held to the principle of seeking truth from facts and, with the utmost rigour, perfected the entire evidentiary system, and in the end it succeeded in having the court accept the conclusions of the professional match-video analysis, find as fact that JEDI had made illicit gains through ringing in violation of the rules, and uphold the return of RMB 82,748 together with liquidated damages calculated according to the standards in the judgment.
This victory establishes that, in this case, sums obtained by an esports player through cheating and ringing in competition must be returned in accordance with the law, and it gives domestic esports event organizers and prize-money payers a judicial precedent they can refer to when holding players to account for cheating and recovering illicit gains. It has important demonstrative value for regulating a fair competitive environment in the esports industry.
04 Special Thanks
Our heartfelt thanks go to "Dog King" JXSA_Zergling and comrade 911. The professional report issued by JXSA_Zergling, mentioned in the second announcement, analysed roughly 300 recordings and contained about 12,000 words of text and 120 images. It became the key evidence for identifying JEDI's ringing, and it showed us exactly which matches JEDI had used a ringer in. This report was also the central factor in pinning down the facts of JEDI's ringing in violation of the rules and in building a complete evidentiary chain. It laid an indispensable factual foundation for winning the case, and safeguarded the fairness and justice of StarCraft competition with a thoroughly professional attitude.
Our thanks also go to Attorney Chen Hongyi for his professional assistance. When the JEDI ringing incident broke in July 2025, Attorney Chen posted a video on Douyin entitled Is Hiring a Ringer and Throwing Matches in Esports Competition Illegal?, speaking up in support of us. Over the following year and more he worked tirelessly on the case — from researching the direction of the rights-protection effort in the early stage, to sorting through a large volume of evidentiary material and drafting the litigation documents in the middle stage, to the professional advocacy at the hearing. He was conscientious and dedicated throughout and, with solid professional ability and a strong sense of justice, provided firm legal protection for this victory.
05 How the Returned Prize Money Will Be Distributed
Although we won the judgment, recovering this RMB 82,748 may still require enforcement proceedings, and it could take quite a long time.
If the sums above are ever actually received, they will be used in the following order of priority:
1. First priority — to pay the litigation costs of the case.
2. Second priority — to repay the sponsors who supported JEDI.
3. Third priority — to compensate the players who were eliminated in fixed matches.
06 Some Final Words
The money may never come back, and the amount claimed is also lower than JEDI's total actual gains over the period after he began hiring players. But the most important thing is that the court's ruling has let justice be done, and this matter can now be regarded as having reached a satisfactory outcome. I think this also counts as giving a proper accounting to the CSL Organizing Committee, to Mr. Gan, to the StarCraft players and to the wider community of StarCraft fans.
The person JEDI's behaviour wronged most is undoubtedly Mr. Gan, who quietly supported him all along; yet in Mr. Gan's own heart, the person he has always felt he wronged most is Mihui. Mihui took every championship from CSL1 to CSL6, yet was eliminated by JEDI in CSL7 and CSL8 in succession. Although the recordings of the Mihui–JEDI matches in those two seasons have both been lost, JEDI's ringing in his other matches in those two seasons is fully substantiated. We therefore believe Mihui may have been affected by JEDI's ringing; but with the recordings of the relevant games missing, it cannot be confirmed whether a ringer was used in those two games, nor can the ownership of those two championships be determined. Whether in terms of mindset, fan support or prize income, Mihui may have been quite seriously affected. For this reason, Mr. Gan laid JEDI's wrongdoing at his own door as the man who had sponsored him, and has long felt a deep sense of guilt towards Mihui.
In the end, the JEDI incident directly led to Mr. Gan's departure from the scene, and I think this may be the greatest loss StarCraft in China has suffered.
After the incident, however, Mr. Gan in fact followed up at the very first opportunity. He did not want JEDI to return the sponsorship money; he wanted to give himself a proper accounting. During this litigation Mr. Gan gave financial support to everyone who contributed, including the costs of filing suit. This too is what enabled us to reach this just judgment so quickly in the end.
Whenever I think of this, I still want to say thank you to Mr. Gan once more. I hope that now that the judgment is settled, Mr. Gan can put an end to the mental turmoil and stop attributing JEDI's wrongdoing to himself. The Great Emperor Mihui has now emerged from the shadow of CSL7–8 and returned to the top. And our channel will keep working hard to uphold fairness and justice in CSL and other StarCraft competitions, and to guard our last homeland for the players and the audience.
May we always be together!
17 September 2026 — Zhu Pao
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01 Chat Record
5 July 2025
Daniel — 5 July 2025, 00:20 — [voice message, 45 seconds]
If he had come clean with me — even if it was someone else playing during that period, not him — then I'd just treat it as having been cheated, right? It wouldn't be the first time I've been cheated, and there's no way I could get the money back anyway. Even if I wanted to get it back, I have no means to, and he wouldn't give it to me either. He doesn't have the money to give me right now, I reckon, right? So it's just a question of whether there should be a proper accounting. If he gives me a proper accounting, then for me this whole thing is settled in my heart and I'll let it go. But if he doesn't, then of course I hope the investigation continues — that is, at the very least, I myself want to know how this matter turns out.
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02 Civil Judgment
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Yunyan District People's Court, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province
Civil Judgment
(2026) Qian 0103 Min Chu No. 13314
Plaintiff: Hao Ziguang aka Coach Zhu, male, born [ ], Han nationality, residing in Guangdong [ ], Citizen ID No. [ ].
Authorized litigation agent: Chen Hongyi, lawyer at Fujian Zihui Law Firm.
Authorized litigation agent: Weng Cuoqi, lawyer at Fujian Zihui Law Firm.
Defendant: Jiang Jiang aka 姜江 aka Jedi, male, born [ ], Han nationality, residing in Guizhou Province [ ], Citizen ID No. [ ].
In the case of the contract dispute in which the plaintiff Hao Ziguang sued the defendant Jiang Jiang, this Court accepted the case for filing on 9 May 2026 and, applying the summary procedure in accordance with the law, held a public hearing on 17 July 2026. Chen Hongyi and Weng Cuoqi, the authorized litigation agents of the plaintiff Hao Ziguang, attended the proceedings; the defendant Jiang Jiang was lawfully summoned by this Court but refused to appear without justified reason, and this Court tried the case by default in accordance with the law. The case has now been concluded.
The plaintiff Hao Ziguang submitted the following claims to this Court: 1. To order the defendant to return to the plaintiff the competition prize money paid out, in the amount of RMB 82,748; 2. To order the defendant to pay the plaintiff liquidated damages of RMB 16,549.
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The facts set out above are corroborated by evidence on the file — the plaintiff's statements and the identity information material, platform screenshots, Baidu Baike screenshots, photographs taken at the competition, news-report screenshots, the apology video, WeChat chat records, the analysis report, the competition summary table, the profit summary table, the prize-money statistics table, the transfer records and the marriage certificate submitted by the plaintiff — and this Court confirms them.
This Court holds that the core issues in dispute in this case are: (1) whether a lawful competition-participation contractual relationship was established between the plaintiff and the defendant; (2) whether the defendant's ringing and cheating constituted a breach of contract and whether the prize money won should be returned; and (3) whether the plaintiff's claim for liquidated damages should be upheld.
On the legal relationship between the parties. A civil contract is concluded by way of offer and acceptance. In this case, the event organizer's publication of the competition registration announcement and its public notice of the competition rules constituted an offer, and a player's voluntarily registering to compete and accepting the constraints of the competition constituted acceptance, so that the parties formed a paid competition-services contractual relationship. Esports has been listed by the General Administration of Sport as a formal competitive sports discipline; the holding of competitions, the participation of players and the payment of prize money are all lawful civil and commercial acts, and the fairness rules of a competition are core terms of the contract and are legally binding on all participating players. The plaintiff has long held official StarCraft esports competitions publicly, and the defendant Jiang Jiang, having been invited, voluntarily and continuously registered to compete from 2021 onwards and collected place prize money, thereby accepted all the terms of the competition by his actual conduct. The parties reached a complete agreement on paid participation; the contract is lawful and valid, and the defendant bore the core contractual obligations to compete in good faith, to play in person and not to cheat.
On the finding of fact that the defendant arranged for another person to play on his behalf, and on the assessment of that conduct. The defendant Jiang Jiang, as a player, concealed his identity and entrusted another person to play on his behalf in the competition, in breach of the core fairness terms of the competition; this constitutes a fundamental breach of contract. The defendant recorded an apology video himself, and in WeChat chat records he voluntarily admitted to hiring the Korean player "iatgirl" to play in his place and to paying the ringer. The plaintiff submitted a professional report comparing the operation trajectories in the original recordings of numerous games, which — from the underlying operation timing, the formation logic and the play-style habits of the game — corroborates that the defendant was not the person operating in numerous competitions. The facts he admitted and the objective technical data corroborate each other, and the fact that another person played on his behalf is firmly established. The defendant obtained competition placings and collected prize money by relying on ringing; the contractual consideration was premised on the player's genuine competitive results, and the ringing caused the contractual purpose of competition fairness to be completely defeated. The prize money and tips the plaintiff actually paid to the defendant constitute the plaintiff's actual losses under the contract, and the defendant should compensate them. The transfer records compiled by the plaintiff are all corroborated by corresponding WeChat chat records showing that ringing occurred in the relevant competitions; accordingly, this Court grants the plaintiff's claim that the defendant return RMB 82,748.
On the plaintiff's claim for liquidated damages. Although the parties did not agree on liquidated damages, the defendant's ringing severely damaged the brand value of the competition and consumed the organizer's manpower and funding in holding it, causing the plaintiff a double loss in terms of the competition's credibility and its commercial returns. Accordingly, as to the liquidated damages claimed by the plaintiff, this Court determines, in its discretion, that they be calculated on a base of RMB 82,748 at the one-year LPR from the date this case was filed, that is 9 May 2026, until the date the sum is paid in full. This case arose from the defendant's serious breach of contract, and the case acceptance fee shall be borne by the defendant.
The defendant Jiang Jiang was served with the summons for the hearing by this Court in accordance with the law, but refused to appear without justified reason and is deemed to have automatically waived all of his litigation rights, including the rights to answer, to adduce evidence, to cross-examine, to conduct court debate and to make statements; this Court, on the basis of the complete evidentiary chain submitted by the plaintiff, enters judgment by default in accordance with the law. Pursuant to Articles 469, 509, 577, 585 and 985 of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China and Articles 67 and 147 of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, the judgment is as follows:
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1. The defendant Jiang Jiang shall, within ten days from the date this judgment takes effect, return to the plaintiff Hao Ziguang competition prize money of RMB 82,748 and pay liquidated damages (calculated on a base of RMB 82,748 at the one-year Loan Prime Rate published by the National Interbank Funding Center, from 9 May 2026 until the date the sum is paid in full).
2. The plaintiff Hao Ziguang's other claims are dismissed.
If the obligation to pay money is not performed within the period specified in this judgment, interest on the debt for the period of delayed performance shall be paid at double the rate in accordance with Article 264 of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China.
The case acceptance fee is RMB 2,282, halved to RMB 1,141, to be borne by the defendant Jiang Jiang.
If dissatisfied with this judgment, a party may, within fifteen days from the date of service of the judgment, submit a notice of appeal to this Court, with as many copies as there are opposing parties or their representatives, and appeal to the Intermediate People's Court of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province.
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Judge: Liu Chuanping
This copy has been checked against the original and is identical.
Clerk: Deng Shan
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