SSOF Gaming (Brazil team) has been disqualified from COD Champs – UPDATE

MLG_Brazil has tweeted out that SSOF Gaming, a Brazilian team that qualified for COD Champs, has now been disqualified from Champs due to breaking a rule on GameBattles.

Here’s the statement MLG_Brazil released:

Team SSOF Gaming (We Are Brazil) was disqualified from the Call of Duty ® World Championship Tournament. Based on recent investigations, it was discovered that the team broke the Next Rule Classifier Day 23: “Users are prohibited from sharing information about their accounts created on GameBattles with another person for any reason. This includes, but is not limited to, User Names, Passwords, Gamertags, Emails, etc.. If someone else access your account, you may be disqualified and removed from GameBattles. This includes also give your password to others can recover your account from Xbox Live Gamertag. If an account is stolen, the creator of the account is responsible for any lost credit / damage that account. ” During the final, someone else has accessed the account from XBL one of the players of the team and played in his place. happened was the last Activision, organizer of the championship, which examined the case and at no time there until the CoD Champs (Top 03/28) decided that there would be how to replace the vacancy. Therefore, the Champs will be held in this 2014 edition with only 31 teams.

UPDATE: MLG has confirmed the news, and confirmed that only 31 teams will be competing in the Call of Duty Championship 2014 event, instead of 32.

SOURCE: MLG Brazil via eSportsNation