Riot Games is taking further action against bots and suspicious accounts in the Riftbound T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition drawing. After winner emails went out and players immediately began sharing evidence of apparent bot victories, the company reviewed the selected accounts and is now voiding orders tied to those entries.
The official Riftbound account confirmed that the Player Security team examined screenshots circulating on social media and identified additional suspicious or bot accounts both among the day’s winners and in the overall entry pool. Orders placed by the flagged winners will be canceled, and the corresponding Signature Edition bundles will return to the available pool for another drawing round. Suspicious accounts that were not selected are also being removed from the remaining pool.
This step follows an earlier anti-bot measures that Riot said had already filtered more than 60 percent of total entries before the first round of winners was chosen. The company had also imposed a household limit of two entrants sharing the same mailing address and continued to block multiple registrations linked to the same individual. Despite those filters, enough questionable accounts still made it through the initial selection that community backlash was immediate and widespread.
The T1 Signature Edition is a limited collector product priced at $360, with only 10,125 English-language copies produced. Each set contains special Champion cards chosen by members of T1’s 2025 Worlds roster, unique art, and one gold-stamped serialized signature card. Demand was always expected to far exceed supply, which is why Riot used a registration-and-drawing system instead of an open sale.
Even with the additional removals, availability remains extremely limited. Returning a portion of the bundles to the pool gives some fans another chance, but the overall number of legitimate copies is still small. Riot has framed the ongoing adjustments as part of a continuous effort, noting that scalpers and bot operators constantly change tactics while the company tries to avoid mistakenly punishing real players.
The situation shows the persistent difficulty of running fair limited drops in the TCG space. Lottery systems, household caps, and post-selection reviews can reduce the advantage of pure speed and volume, yet determined operations continue to find ways through. For many collectors, seeing obvious bot patterns appear among the first wave of winners reinforced the sense that even layered protections are not yet enough.
Riot has stated it will keep refining its security approach for future drawings. In the short term, the voided orders and second-chance pool represent a direct response to the evidence players brought forward. Whether those steps meaningfully improve the outcome for actual fans will become clear once the next round of selection emails goes out.
The T1 Signature Edition was meant to celebrate a championship team and give collectors a premium keepsake. Instead, the release has once again centered on the same fight against automated entries and resale networks that has frustrated TCG communities for years. Riot is still trying to push back. The latest voiding of bot wins shows the company is willing to act after the fact, even if the underlying problem remains unsolved.
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