From the responses in all forums to date, Virtus Pro’s (VP) departure from Pride 10 seems to be raising much more attention than MYM’s loss to Kingsurf (KS). For me, the level attention is the other way around but that’s not the point of my post here. Below are my thoughts for both incidents.
Before we look into both cases, its might be worthwhile to understand the background of MYM tourneys. As Pride gets more popular with each edition, sponsors starts pouring in for a pot in the advertisement that Pride generates. With the title of the “largest Dota tournament in the world” more sponsors means higher prize pool which could only be great for pushing Dota into the realms of professionalism. However, the trade off for this is the sacrifice of the “fun” part in competitive Dota for the purist.
At my time as an admin of Pride, S1rro once mentioned the “goal” of our work is to make 1 Pride per month. As a purist myself, my first thought is of anger and confusion of what is the motive of pushing the teams and admins to its limits to reach such a goal. As a an admin who prefer to talk to participating teams rather than my bosses at MYM, its not really that hard to understand the stress facing the teams especially those who only has 5 in it while playing in Pride tourneys with its already tight 1.5 month per Pride deadline. This unrealistic goal for the current scene has 2 major problems:
1. The admins will not have time to properly review EVERY case of injustice and rule violations resulting in embarrassing decisions for the tournament. Ks being banned for map hack (and if it was not overturned, online competitive Dota) was a decision made within 3-4 days. And to the team, it is already considered a slow decision (I do not even want to begin with the details which I hope I can cover in posts to come). With such a huge case at hand, it is already considered slow by using 3-4 days due to the super tight schedule the admins themselves imposed on the tourney. One should wonder, how detail can future investigations goes if time itself is already an issue to ensure a fair judgement..
2. Teams unable to show up with full strength resulting in inferior players taking their place or worse, fake nicking to fulfill the tough demands of Pride. This second point can be illustrated in MYM and VP cases as bellows:
Vp seems unable to deny the fact that they smurfed 3 players in the recent match against x6. While I 100% agree on the punishment, the above factor comes to mind immediately when I first heard of the news. VP is no longer the team they once were at their peak with 6 players rotating without much effect on performance. With 2 new additions making it 5 players ONLY in the team, it is really ridiculous to expect all 5 will be free to play all Pride games with its super tight schedule. With only 5 players in the team, VP is an accident bound to happen.
For all we know, similar stunts could have been pulled off in the past with ease as the Russian scene is stacked with incredible talents of the game. Vp just “got caught” this time partly due to the obvious skill drop in the players they ask to smurf and partly due to the tighter control Pride has this time around.
With the insistence of having 5 players in a professional team now showing its limitations in this era, we shall take a look at how “the best managed team” MYM solve it at the next edition.
Underminer
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