Almost NONE of the Systemic Issues Have Been Addressed ft. Zfreek & Nahaz

Almost NONE of the Systemic Issues Have Been Addressed ft. Zfreek & Nahaz

Take a breather, refresh, and join us on the Rivalry Cooldown, where we give you the current topics in esports from the experts.

On this episode, we take a look at TI, OG as repeat champions, and try to understand what exactly will happen with the DPC moving forward. We usually spend a lot of time talking about what players want, so we thought we would have Zak (Zfreek) come on and give us ACTUAL insights about what pros want!

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Timestamps:

• 1:20 - OG did not know how good they were going to be before TI started
• 6:00 - The differences with having in TI vs Seattle/Vancouver
• 7:40 - Loser interviews
• 12:40 - Player run orgs & what does it take to be a well run org
• 20:00 - Zak "If Kuro finds people to help him... and dota team plays dota, it could work'
• 25:00 - How does Valve determine where tournaments are being held?
• 29:00 - The Valve pendulum effect - points determining qualifier invites
• 31:00 - Zak on his hate for strict solo queue matchmaking
• 32:00 - Internal inhouse/client league system
• 33:00 - Zak to Valve 'Hey, can I use this free ward bug?" "Uhh.. no." And then it was fixed
• 38:30 - Rainbow 6 was originally designed as a hybrid of MMOs and FPS
• 40:00 - How do you fix the matchmaking system?
• 43:45 - Minor vs Major broadcast rights under the new DPC system
• 44:50 - Upcoming tournament formats are ALL identical
• 49:00 - Poor seeding / can we please have clear seeding rules!?!
• 58:00 - Dota is NOT CSGO "People act like we know a lot more about Dota than we do"
• 1:01:00 - We need to know where the Majors/Minors are, especially for subs, coaches, practicing for visa reasons
• 1:07:00 - What happens with points and players moving around this year?
• 1:11:00 - The income gap between TI and everything else is still too ridiculous
• 1:16:30 - Zak - Is there a way, outside of Valve, that players could make this happen?
• 1:20:30 - Anyone who has any power has it because Valve says they have it
• 1:29:30 - Does China have pull with Valve?
• 1:35:00 - What are we looking forward to? Dota debt, rosters, and matchmaking!

Read more: Would the DPC 2018/19 hold up as a TV show?

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👉 ZFreek - https://twitter.com/Col_Zfreek

👉 Nahaz - https://twitter.com/NahazDota

👉Reinessa - https://twitter.com/ReinessaGaming