The Scandal Around Regal Reserve

The storm of controversy surrounding the org centers on the team’s owner and founder, Andrew Arbini. The 22-year-old created the team to “further the booming industry of eSports and entertainment,” according to the team’s website.

Not much is known about the org’s teams beyond that. Liquidpedia and Gamepedia have no information on their rosters or history. This is something also suspiciously absent from their website.

According to a collaborative report from SidAlpha, Pescator and several other YouTubers, problems began months ago when Arbini and one of his associates released a video claiming Regal Reserve bought a mansion for the org. In the video, they stated they were hosting a contest in which the winner would get to move in rent-free.

Investigations uncovered that shots from the video were pictures from a rental page for a mansion found online that was still up for rent. It became a peculiar situation since Arbini claimed Regal Reserve bought it.

To this day, no word has come out about a winner or the team’s move-in to the mansion. Arbini claimed the group of streamers and players moving in had to wait until December to save up enough money for their $1,000 a month rent. We’ve yet to see anyone move in as of the time of this writing. However, the mansion sold to someone.

The announcement video for the contest was subsequently deleted from the team’s YouTube channel. Other suspicious activity abounds on social media still. Arbini has done cash giveaways on Twitter for a while now. He claimed he would stop because he wasn’t looking for “clout.” However, he continued to do them, much like MrBeast’s giveaways.

No one has come forward yet claiming to have won these giveaways. Alos, Arbini hasn’t congratulated any winners on his Twitter page, suggesting he’s just using them to build a following.

The Worst of Social Media Stereotypes

Speaking of social media, the org’s Twitter account is highly suspicious. The team has a history of getting their account banned and suddenly reappearing again, often with suspicious follower counts. The org currently has 133,000 followers on Twitter, about half as many as CS:GO world-beater Astralis. Before May, the account appeared to belong to a man from the Philippines with no connection to esports, where most of the followers came from.

There’s also the clip referenced in the videos mentioned earlier of Arbini discussing on Twitch how he lied and manipulated one of his players before firing him to build buzz about the org.

A player who had been told not to hit on female members (something Arbini also is accused of doing) did so anyway. Instead of firing him, Arbini lead him on with talk of a potential gaming house.

Arbini knew the player would talk about it on social media and boost discussion about the org. He waited for the hype for the new house to hit a peak before firing the player.

It’s a rabbit hole of lies and deceit going on and has been confirmed to us by several sources close to the org, solidifying the validity of the allegations.