Serious Concerns About Fairness in Higher-Prize Tournaments, and Unjust Suspension and No Appeal Transparency - Extremely Disappointing as a long-time user
I was a devoted Repeat.gg user for over a year, regularly competing in Fortnite tournaments and, more recently, Madden 26 tournaments when I found out that Repeat started hosting tournaments for Madden Online H2H Ranked games. During this time, I participated in over 200+ tournaments, invited friends to join the platform, and even shared my results on social media. While I consider myself an average Fortnite player and only earned small amounts there, I was excited to compete in Madden 26, where I currently rank in the Top 100 online and felt I had a real opportunity to earn more meaningful rewards. I put in many hours grinding Madden games, as Repeat allows players to submit their best scores within a tournament window. After placing 1st in a daily tournament and winning $8, I started performing well in the weekly “Defense Demon” tournament, where 1st place paid $75—more than I had earned in my entire time on the platform. I worked my way up the leaderboard and eventually took the #1 spot with about a day remaining, holding roughly 972 points compared to 954 for 2nd place and 906 for 3rd/4th. On the final day, while continuing to play and checking for scoring updates, I received a notification at 1:45 PM that my account had been suspended and placed under investigation. Then at the same time a few seconds later at 1:45 PM, I received another message stating that I was suspended for three days due to “scoring manipulation.” This came as a complete surprise, as I had simply been playing games normally and submitting results as allowed by the tournament rules. I contacted Player Support seeking clarification on what rule I had violated and how to avoid similar issues in the future. I was told that they do not disclose specifics of their investigations. The decision appeared to have been made extremely quickly (given by the time-lapsed between the emails), and no evidence or explanation was provided. As someone with an extensive tournament history on the platform—including many losses and low-scoring games—I found this response frustrating and disappointing. The timing of the suspension effectively removed my submissions from both the weekly tournament and the launch cup, nullifying the progress I had worked hard to achieve. Without any clear reasoning or appeal process, I am left unsure how to prevent this from happening again. In some of my matches, my opponents chose not to quit during blowouts and continued attempting risky plays, which led me to scoring a few lopsided games - something that is a normal part of competitive gameplay and not unique to my submissions. Like was I supposed to let my opponents score when down 40+ so that the scoring didn't seem so fair? Which doesn't even seem to be the case as I saw afterwards the 2nd place finisher (who got 1st since I was removed from the leaderboard) had a 45-0 win with 8 interceptions, which is not a usual score and game flow in Ranked H2H. I supported Repeat.gg for a long time and genuinely enjoyed competing on the platform, which is why this experience was so discouraging. The lack of transparency, explanation, or meaningful recourse has made me question the fairness of the enforcement process, especially in higher-prize tournaments. At this point, this is less about reversing my suspension and more about ensuring that players who invest significant time and effort can trust the system to treat them consistently and transparently. I hope Repeat.gg can improve its communication, clarify its policies, and provide players with a fair and understandable review process so situations like this do not happen to others in the future. I am honestly just sad, disappointed, and confused to have my efforts wiped away and dubious about future tournaments because this really felt like a gaming accomplishment for me to earn $75 (and at least $20 from the Launch cup as I was sitting at 8th place) but I got accused of something I did not do.