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HLC Pro. Update post about ranked tournament, whose “open” LAN qualifiers turned out to be qualifiers exclusively for 1xbet and Aurora employees. I have already written about the LAN qualifiers for this tournament, where all the players knew each other and consistently played at the same hub called BeReddy Club. This hub is part of the BeReddy.gg tournament platform of the same name. This platform is available only to a limited number of players, and registration on the platform takes place via corporate messenger Reddy.team, which is also available only to a limited number of people and appears to be the corporate messenger in 1xbet and Aurora. BeReddy is also directly linked to the HLC esports club, where a Relog tournament was supposed to take place: together they hosted CS2 and Dota 2 tournaments, and the description of HLC’s Twitch channel includes link to BeReddy page. 1xbet, Aurora, BeReddy, and HLC. All of them are linked by 1xbet’s corporate esports news portal: digestesports.tilda.ws. This site is run by the same people who run the BeReddy platform, as stated on the site itself. And it is filled with internal corporate news of 1xbet, Aurora, BeReddy, HLC, and their partners. As a result, we have the following connection: all players who qualified for the tournament through LAN qualifiers, which were not covered anywhere, are part of the BeReddy gaming community and are being employees of 1xbet / Aurora. HLC Pro is a tournament organized by 1xbet and Aurora, and the LAN qualifiers are internal qualifiers among employees of the those companies. And for me it seems that this is why the tournament operator placed the other teams in a separate online qualifier for one slot so that the other three slots can be filled by teams of 1xbet employees.