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Something I hadn't realized, the majors are hosted by other tournament organizers rather than Valve. ESL is doing this one hence RedEye & Frankfurt.
I guess this was done to keep the other organizers happy, but I wonder what this means for future majors. Will they all be hosted in the same locations as their existing tournaments (which seems a little pointless to me) or will the hosts try new locations.
I guess this was done to keep the other organizers happy, but I wonder what this means for future majors. Will they all be hosted in the same locations as their existing tournaments (which seems a little pointless to me) or will the hosts try new locations.
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Well assuming they want to split, they could do one in europe, one in russia and one in china, with TI being in the US. You'd most likely have at least one a year in europe and one in asia, and depending on where you live that puts it at shitty hours, but can't really do much about that.
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Yeah, the timezone stuff just is the nature of having a globally competitive environment. No real way around it and I'm fine with them keeping it local. The game is huge world wide and I would probably bet that NA doesn't represent the largest proportion of players (or maybe it is by numbers, but not competitiveness?).
As to location consistency I think all these are a big plus in favor of the stability the major system brings. It allows for more steady relationships with individual hosts, cities, countries, and payouts, etc... If, and I mean -if- eSports continues to grow and become what it probably could be, I could eventually see a sort of rotating schedule of majors or even The International itself. But those are big ifs. It also motivates the companies and hosts to stay engaged and invest in dota to remain a Major sponsor. If ESL starts slacking and runs a shitty event or drops off, maybe Dreamhack becomes the Major, or FaceIT, or IreLAN! Haha...
Anyways, hopefully this year works out well and things seem good to start off.
As to location consistency I think all these are a big plus in favor of the stability the major system brings. It allows for more steady relationships with individual hosts, cities, countries, and payouts, etc... If, and I mean -if- eSports continues to grow and become what it probably could be, I could eventually see a sort of rotating schedule of majors or even The International itself. But those are big ifs. It also motivates the companies and hosts to stay engaged and invest in dota to remain a Major sponsor. If ESL starts slacking and runs a shitty event or drops off, maybe Dreamhack becomes the Major, or FaceIT, or IreLAN! Haha...
Anyways, hopefully this year works out well and things seem good to start off.
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IIRC around TI2 Gaben said USA has less players than Ukraine.
Complaining about timezones is a bit silly, I used to watch Korean Starcraft after all, but really, the only bad timezone for EU is west coast, since that makes the games start really bloody early.
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Because it's monday, in the middle of the day? It's not even super important games, it'd be more surprising if there were a lot of people.
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Its not that. They showed the inside of the arena and I didnt even see 1 person in the stands.
It looked 100% empty.
Ok I just heard like 10 people clap...just weird looking. I think those people were all part of Valve or on the panel
Screenshotted. Literally 0 people, EU hates Dota.
Purge looks like the painter kid who tried to rape Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
It looked 100% empty.
Ok I just heard like 10 people clap...just weird looking. I think those people were all part of Valve or on the panel
Screenshotted. Literally 0 people, EU hates Dota.
Purge looks like the painter kid who tried to rape Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
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Apparently since they made entry free apart from saturday, many people felt like they couldn't guarantee their seat, could be another explanation. Personally I feel like there is zero hype currently and you can get better spectating experience at home, unless you really need to visit the Secret Shop. They could have given like +10 compendium levels or something for live spectators.
I dunno, if you could go today it might be a personalized experience haha. It is also a week long event, I can't imagine too many people taking a week off for it.
Apparently Unknown has had fewer kills @ Frankfurt than Roshan?
Apparently Unknown has had fewer kills @ Frankfurt than Roshan?