Someone Is Altering the Odds

"The noncompete can't stop you from playing here, but Solarion controls the commercial rights to your old pro account. The moment you log in, they can report it again." "Not that account. The first one." He entered the credentials to an account created twelve years ago. It owned no skins and displayed no professional verification. Its ID consisted of one word: **Zhou.** Most names on its friends list had last logged in years ago. Before an academy had ever noticed him, he had used this account to climb from a smoky internet café to number one on the national ladder, one game at a time. Verification passed. The chat recognized the account's archived rank history and erupted. With twenty seconds remaining, officials added it to the whitelist.