The recent roll out of Legacy of the Void Beta, and the firmer WCS region locking has motivated many retired or inactive pro-players return to the fray. Among these returning players would appear to be Tyler “NonY” Wasieleski.

Nony competing at MLG Image Credit David Zhou

Despite being absent from the brackets in last night's penultimate US CA qualifier NonY Tweeted.

me after playing WCS qualifiers http://i.imgur.com/nomCenk.jpg 

The linked image contains the text “Whatever” superimposed over a medieval style graphic of a man with a blade in his skull and stomach. This suggests Wasieleski both played in the qualifier and had a rather rough go at it. A short investigation uncovered a tip that the ESL account “Enoenwai” was actually a smurf account created by NonY to compete in the WCS qualifiers. The Enoenwai account was created earlier this month and has the same name as this Battle.net account.

The linked account is in masters league and has two GM finishes as well as Protoss as the favorite race. The Aligulac page for Enoenwai has very few matches, with the earliest one being April 12^th 2015. We also reached out to “Enoenwai's” opponent Michael “Moosegills” Wolff, who confirmed that it was in fact NonY playing on a smurf account.

The WCS qualifier rules explicitly state that

“The player's BattleTag must match those of their public persona and be pre-approved by the tournament administrators before each respective WCS Qualifier.”

Under these rules NonY would be expected to be named NonY or perhaps Tyler in the brackets. ESL's ThePharSide was able to confirm that NonY did not receive special permission to use a smurf account, and was therefore clearly in violation of this rule. The rulebook does not specify the consequences if a player enters the brackets using a smurf name, and it will be up to Blizzard what punishment if any is necessary.  

Update: NonY has responded to our request for comment and stated he was not smurfing as Enoenwai is simply an alternate spelling of NonY (when the letters are seperated it spells en (N) oe (O) en (N) wai (Y) his exact respone below

Enoenwai is just another riff on NonY, like I've used NoonY and Knewknee, since almost no one pronounces it correctly. If I actually was a public persona, like streaming and tweeting and posting a lot like I used to, this would be common knowledge. Spelling your name differently is not smurfing :o.

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