In what appears to be the latest development in an ongoing dispute between Riot Games’ esports division and OGN caster Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, MonteCristo claims that he was deliberately excluded from the LoL World Championship casting team, which was announced Friday morning. In an interview with ESPN’s Jacob Wolf, MonteCristo said he was notified on Aug. 9 that he would not receive an invitation to the event. According to ESPN, both of MonteCristo’s casting partners, Erik “DoA” Lonnquist and Chris “PapaSmithy” Smith, were invited by Riot to cast the event. PapaSmithy will attend to represent the South Korea region, but DoA said in the interview that he declined due to conflicting obligations in South Korea. “Riot decided not to invite me to this year’s League of Legends World Championship,” MonteCristo told Wolf. “I’m sorry to my fans that I will miss this opportunity, but pleased to say that I have upcoming casting projects that I am very excited about for the remainder of 2016.” This will be the first time MonteCristo has not been involved with Riot’s Worlds broadcast since he first appeared there in 2013. It will also be the second Riot-hosted event that he sits out this year, after he and his fellow OGN casters boycotted the Mid-Season Invitational in March. At the time, Monte, DoA and PapaSmithy issued a joint statement claiming that Riot offered sub-standard wages to cast the event. Riot, which announced its casting lineup for Worlds on Friday morning, has not officially commented on MonteCristo’s exclusion from the list. In his ESPN interview, MonteCristo gave no details about how he was notified about the decision or the motivation behind it. However, the caster and ex-team owner has been vocally critical of Riot’s esports policies since he and his former team, Renegades, were banned from the NA LCS in May. In a tweet following the ESPN report Friday, he implied that his exclusion from Worlds was related to his past conflicts with Riot’s esports team.In social media and in the press, MonteCristo has argued that Riot’s decision to ban Renegades was unfair and non-transparent, claiming that the publisher did not give him an adequate opportunity to present a defense before issuing its ruling. Riot banned Renegades over its alleged connections with banned former team owner Chris Badawi, as well as alleged mistreatment of players and collusion with Team Dragon Knights. MonteCristo, as the team’s owner, was banned for one year from owning a team that participates in any Riot-sanctioned league, though the ruling stated it would not affect his casting career with OGN, which is not owned by Riot. In August, MonteCristo sold Renegades, which still operates CS:GO and Call of Duty teams, to Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko. In his most recent comments about Riot — which were published after MonteCristo claims Riot notified him he was not invited to Worlds — the caster vehemently criticized the company and its co-founder, Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill, over the way it controls sponsorship in the LCS. Among other criticisms, he accused Riot of playing favorites with league teams and owners, comparing the company to a “f**cked up tyrant Santa Claus” that doles out rewards and punishments to teams it considers “good” or “bad.” In a tweet Friday following ESPN’s report, MonteCristo said that further criticism would be forthcoming. “Now that I have zero business ties to Riot, I will be releasing many vlogs on my experiences with the company when I get back from vacation,” he said. Though MonteCristo and DoA’s fans will not get a chance to see them at Worlds, the two are set to cast OGN’s new $170,000 Overwatch league, Overwatch APEX, beginning in October. They will also continue to broadcast OGN’s coverage of League Champions Korea in 2017.