The Vietnamese version of "Audition" almost underwent a publisher change back in 2009 due to a mistake from VTC Online, who failed to renew the contract with T3 Entertainment as of Sep 26 2009. Four days later, VinaGame (a competitor of VTC Online and publisher of "Hot Step") announced that they have acquired the right to publish "Audition" in Vietnam, and will soon open a portal to allow players to transfer their accounts to VinaGame Service. Even though VTC kept denying the claim, they eventually announced that it was indeed their fault and the three companies have worked behind the scene to solve this issue together. In the end, VinaGame agreed to back out of their contract and allowed VTC Online to retain publisher right for "Audition" and T3 Entertainment agreed to keep on their contract with VTC Online.