The Rainbow Six Siege esports community has criticised Ubisoft for its handling of eUnited pulling out of the North America League, which has left its former players unable to compete even as free agents.
Despite only entering the Siege scene at the turn of the year, eUnited announced on October 30 that it would be pulling out and dropping its roster. However, that roster has now learned that due to NAL rules it cannot continue to compete in the league as free agents as spots in the competition are tied to organisations, rather than players. That means that without an NAL organisation backing them, they cannot continue to play in the league.
While this news is devastating enough, they officially learned this at the same time as everyone else when Ubisoft posted a short blog post to Twitter clarifying the situation. This has drawn substantial criticism from the community for both the timing and method of communication, and the rule itself that means the players can't continue to compete.
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