Melonik handed suspension after Forsaken and Bushido Wildcats drama

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 09/10/2025

Riot Games has announced it has finished its investigations after an online altercation between Team Forsaken and Bushido Wildcats.

The CEO of MISA Esports has also been mentioned in the sanctions after various social media arguments.

All three League of Legends teams have been competing in the EMEA Masters Summer finals, which could have LEC implications next year.

Bushido Wildcats publicly criticised the behaviour of Forsaken’s players, which has now led to warnings and a suspension.

Riot had released an earlier statement saying they were investigating a video involving Team Forsaken’s players, but the team could still compete.

Now the investigation has concluded and has mostly resulted in warnings rather than punishments.

Both Polish org Team Forsaken and Turkish org Bushido Wildcasts have received warnings.

As has the CEO of Turkish org MISA Esports, Ziyad Apaydın.

However, Forsaken toplaner Dawid ‘Melonik’ Ślęczka has been given a warning and an immediate two-game suspension.

This means Melonik will miss most of Forsaken’s crucial upcoming EMEA Masters best-of-five versus MISA.

All parties were found to have broken at least two of Riot Games’ Esports Global Code of Conduct.

They all broke 4.1 (General Obligations), which states competitors “must at all times observe the highest standards of personal integrity and sporting conduct.”

As well as 4.9 (Vulgar or Provocative), which states:

“Esports Professionals may not use words, gestures, digital or physical objects, or any other means to transmit, allow or facilitate messages or actions that are obscene, vulgar, provocative, hateful, racist, insulting, threatening, abusive, libellous, slanderous, defamatory, or otherwise offensive or objectionable.”

What happened between Team Forsaken and Bushido Wildcats?

What prompted this investigation was a tweet from Bushido Wildcats, which called out the behaviour of Team Forsaken.

Wildcats posted a video from Team Forsaken’s stream, which showed the players pulling down their shorts and rubbing their genitals.

This incident occurred after Forsaken defeated NLC team Rich Gang in the EMEA Masters Last Chance Qualifier.

Wildcats claimed they wanted Forsaken, their upcoming opponents, to be suspended from competing at the tournament.

They also alleged that Forsaken’s players had made racist comments and verbally attacked Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of Türkiye.

This prompted MISA Esports’ CEO to get himself into trouble too, tweeting:

“Today, we stand with Bushido against the Poles. Let’s not lose to these disgusting, low-class scumbags.”

Team Forsaken ended up eliminating Bushido Wildcats from EMEA Masters Summer and now face MISA Esports next.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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