The Dota Pro Circuit | Official Blog Post (TL;DR: No more DPC)
We started the Dota Pro Circuit in 2017 to answer a question that was coming up more and more frequently: How do you earn an invite to The International? Up until then, invitations were driven by a handful of regional qualifiers and “golden ticket” invites from Valve. Distribution of these invitatio...
TL;DR: No more DPC
Is this what Sunsfan warned us about???
Hmm, on one hand DPC gives steady high level tournaments. On the other hand, like the article said, there's almost no notable third party tournaments anymore. But I think this is partly because orgs can't sell tickets anymore
It's mainly going to be interesting what the DPC will be replaced with. There's little doubt whatever was written in the blog is true, but the question is, what is a better system? Guess we'll see after TI :)
If this happened just a little bit earlier, then maybe Beyond the Summit would still be with us...
Seeing someone qualify for TI through the next Midas Mode tournament would be cool