Valve changed the Major Supplemental Rulebook ahead of the PGL Major Singapore 2026 VRS cutoff — rewriting who can switch regions and when.
The rule
A roster is eligible for a Regional Assignment only if it "did not appear in any other region's VRS list in the preceding three calendar months."
- Scope: Major invitations only (non-Major VRS events are unaffected)
- Timing: measured from the Major invitation issuance, not tournament start
Timeline
- September: BC.Game signed asap, pairing him with Senzu and mzinho in an Asian-majority core
- October 5: Sashi announced TjP and Hatz as temporary additions, with Anlelele's Vietnamese citizenship intended to qualify the roster for an Asian assignment; MistR and Cabbi were to sit out one month
- October 7 (two days later): Valve announced the rule change, with affected teams "currently disqualified from the Major run" unless they reached out
- Also October 7: Valve granted BC.Game an exception. The asap/Magisk/mzinho/s1mple/Senzu lineup was assigned to Asia and kept its VRS points
- November 2: VRS invite cutoff
- November 25 - December 13: Major at Kallang
Who was affected
- BC.Game: 1,191 points, 39th in Europe but would have ranked 4th in Asia. Exception keeps them eligible — now sit No. 1 in Asian VRS, still have to earn invite through rankings
- Sashi: no resolution with Valve as of publication
- WW: no resolution with Valve as of publication
Quotes
Ali "Ako" Muhanned (BC.Game CEO): "Start us from zero. Let us play. Let the server decide." (proposing a zero-VRS reset)
Tom J. Lemke (BIG co-founder): described Sashi's reliance on Anlelele's citizenship as the "straw that broke the camel's back," citing a direct conversation with Valve.
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač: publicly called on Valve to intervene (specific wording not reproduced in the source article).
Who benefits, who loses
Benefits: teams that stayed in their region all season; Asian teams that built their rankings there. Asia's five Major slots are especially sensitive to outside entrants.
Loses: teams that engineered late region switches — Sashi and WW most visibly. BC.Game's position is secured only by the exception.
Valve's own text includes no public statement beyond the rule. The ruling demonstrates the three-month rule "is not absolute" — exceptions remain available.
Source: e4equip analysis citing Valve's Major Supplemental Rulebook.
