It was a very tense game, and we were successfully defending the base too. Despite that aegis void. But then all of a sudden I see this message pop up saying, I have abandoned. Everyone goes ape sh*t rofls seeing that. I'm raging and laughing at the same time. I seriously wanted to report this to Valve.
Read a little more and saw something: If you do not gain any experience for 5mins in game then you will be assessed as an abandon
But to be honest I was pretty active the whole time, warding and dewarding, thats all I did for like 10-15mins, without even moving beyond the tier 2 towers, so never interacted with creeps for the fear of losing my gem. I feel it's unfair to have someone abandon, just coz they haven't killed a few creeps.
The worst part was realizing that the abandon was legit.